docs: showcase official iPhone and Apple Watch apps

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## What is BookOrbit?
**[BookOrbit](https://bookorbit.app)** organizes your books and reads them back to you anywhere: the web reader, a Kobo, or KOReader. Progress, highlights, and reading status move between all three, so you can start a chapter in one place and finish it in another.
**[BookOrbit](https://bookorbit.app)** organizes your books and lets you enjoy them anywhere: on iPhone, Apple Watch, the web, Kobo, or KOReader. Your reading progress, highlights, and status stay synchronized, so you can start a chapter in one place and continue in another.
Around that core sit 14 metadata providers, reading statistics and achievements, OPDS and Send-to-Kindle delivery, multi-user accounts with OIDC/SSO, and automatic sync out to Hardcover, Readwise, and StoryGraph. All of it runs on infrastructure you control.
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## BookOrbit for iPhone and Apple Watch
Take your library anywhere with the official native BookOrbit app. Read ebooks, PDFs, and comics; stream or download audiobooks; use text to speech; and keep reading offline. The app connects directly to your self-hosted BookOrbit server, while Apple Watch brings downloaded audiobooks and synchronized playback progress to your wrist.
![BookOrbit on iPhone showing the home screen, Read Along, and audiobook playback alongside the Apple Watch library](docs/images/ios-app-hero.webp)
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<a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bookorbit-the-official-app/id6811807346"><img src="https://toolbox.marketingtools.apple.com/api/badges/download-on-the-app-store/black/en-us?size=250x83" alt="Download BookOrbit on the App Store" height="54"></a>
<sub>Requires iOS 26 or later. Apple Watch features require watchOS 26 or later.</sub>
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<details>
<summary><strong>Explore all 14 screenshots</strong></summary>
### iPhone
![Ten BookOrbit iPhone screens showing the home experience, Read Along, audiobook playback, book requests, appearance customization, text to speech, reading activity, achievements, shelves, and offline downloads](docs/images/ios-app-gallery.webp)
### Apple Watch
![Four BookOrbit Apple Watch screens showing the offline library, the app menu, audiobook playback, and playback settings](docs/images/apple-watch-showcase.webp)
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## Live Demo
Try the live instance before you install. No account required.
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### Reading Experience & Sync
- **Built-in Web Readers**: Ebooks (EPUB, KEPUB, MOBI, AZW3, AZW, FB2), PDFs, comics (CBZ, CBR, CB7), and audiobooks (M4B, MP3, M4A, OPUS, OGG, FLAC), with no extra plugins required.
- **Native iPhone & Apple Watch Apps**: Read, listen, download, upload, and synchronize with your BookOrbit server from a native, offline-capable iPhone app. Send audiobooks to Apple Watch for independent offline playback and later progress reconciliation.
- **Three-Way Sync (Kobo + KOReader + BookOrbit)**: Progress and annotations flow bidirectionally between Kobo devices, KOReader, and the BookOrbit web reader. Pick up on any surface where you left off on another, including highlights and deletions.
- **KOReader Plugin**: An on-device catalog browser with search, download, and status and rating management, alongside full progress and annotation sync.
- **Annotations & Highlights**: Highlights from the web reader, KOReader, and Kobo merge into one searchable hub. Filter by color, style, and source; export as Markdown, CSV, or JSON.
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