Opal Reader
PDF and EPUB reader built for the first iPhone Duo
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Unfold your next chapter. Read PDFs and EPUBs, keep a notebook beside the page, and continue in a compact view on iPhone Duo. Also available on iPhone and iPad.
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PH · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 6%)
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Books
- Apple
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Yes A PDF and EPUB reader with notes is standard iOS work using PDFKit and an EPUB rendering library. The main effort is native Swift UI and App Store polish, which AI-assisted coding handles well.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #46 of 653 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 305 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pagefold: PDF Scanner OCR · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- MarkRead – Markdown Reader · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- ScanItFast · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Every PDF: Scanner & Editor · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- PDF Scanner: Scan & Convert AI · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- PDFz · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- ScanChat PDF · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- DocSetu · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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