Athena Reader
A free, offline-first EPUB & PDF reader for your own files.
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Athena Reader is a free ebook and document reader for files you already own — EPUB, PDF, Word, TXT and more, with no built-in bookstore. Read offline, listen with system TTS, highlight and export notes to Markdown, and ask AI about one book, a shelf, or your whole library with citations you can open. Core reading, sync, notes and export are free with no ads. Available on iPhone, iPad, Android, web and Windows.
PH · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: ebook and reading apps · 190 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Books
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More like this: all 190 launches in ebook and reading apps →
Could you build this?
Yes Mature open-source libraries handle EPUB and PDF rendering, and a library-wide AI Q&A with citations is a standard retrieval-augmented generation setup.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 508 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #208 of 509 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
- e-Reader · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Common Reader · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Opal Reader · ph · 2026-11-10 · 184 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Reader — PDF & Notes · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Opal Reader · ph · 2026-11-03 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Certyneo Reader · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Audory: PDF to Audiobook · ph · 2026-11-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Rhea · ph · 2026-10-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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