Gerty - eBook reader for epub, journal, notes, photos and maps Reviews

by Bonebox

The dev doesn't seem interested in adding real ePub 3.0 support when there are free alternatives that handle it just fine. Sure the UI is nice, but who really cares when 95% of your time in Gerty is spent actually reading a book. There was no reason for the dev to release Gerty when he already had the superior app Marvin, other than just to double-dip his customer base. His time would have been better spent on improving Marvin, but instead we ended up with 2 sub-par apps that rarely get updated, neither of which truly support ePub 3.0.

by Wonda1968

One question. Did someone forget to place a highlighter in Gerty ? A vast number of us need to highlight our ebooks. Tried it extensively with the same review I'm sure that they know by now that users are requesting a highlighter, margin control, background & font selections and page turn selections but it appears without these Gerty is destined to the mediocre status that it deserve, I'm personally sticking with real epub and epub 3 readers.

by Daaav75

Came here for auto scroll but disappointed by how the note taking is handled. Gerty could use serious update:
Sharing/Copy/pasting text only results in pasting the cover image of the book in your text document/email.
If you stay within Gerty , it works alright but then it gets hard/impossible to organize your notes when you’re a writer doing research etc and need to move your text around.
If you dont need anything else than reading, maybe that app is for you.

by MaryDay

I was so excited to find this program but I am unable to get it to run on my iPad pro. After starting imports from either iCloud, iTunes, or dropbox it minimizes and never comes back. If i uninstall in and reinstall it will start up and show me the program start screen but then just crashes again if i try to import even a single book.

by Capedape

There are a lot of things in Gerty that are good ideas, though the implementation is cumbersome.

It definitely needs highlighting and easy export to Evernote of just the highlights without metadata and without book cover pics attached to each highlight.

I was a user of Marvin previous to this and still find that app better for EPub. Actually, I'm finding I want to convert ePub files to word or PDF just to use the liquidtext iOS app, that app is massively innovative and seamless in its note taking and overall reading experience. I do still like Gerty for autoscrollso I'll keep it on the iPad to see if it gets updates.

by Laser Claw

Update: after an app update I does not keep track of my current position and in stead start me at the beginning of the current chapter. So any time you leave Gerty or start another book it loses your place. There does not seem to be a way to navigate to manual bookmark positions

I used to use iBooks with the scrolling view but after a terrible update iBooks scroll became unusable(super janky and constantly loosing your page). I tried many reader alternatives and this is by far the best experience. It's UI is a little weird but it stays out of the way for the most part. Much better then iBooks ever was

by (#)grannie(#)

this app, would be an excellent ereader if it had a very nice top of the line highlighter. I use my ereader to study the watchtower and other publications, so I'm looking for an ereader that downloads ePub, PDFs, audio, and highlights and I'm finding it hard to find that combination.

by Marcoandsabrina

I accidentally deleted my great this app library and would like to retrieve it out of the Cloud or Dropbox. There are no instructions in Help or anywhere.
This is why I took one star off of the great this app. How do I retrieve this library in instructions I can understand?

by Really Voracious Reader

Truly marvelous app for serious readers, but how com there is no way to highlight or underline text? This lacking feature should be a must in the next update that should be very soon.

by Marincik

Plecase add the feature to edit the cover of the books. Overall a good app for reading.

by Tomfurball

I like Gerty but I couldn't seem to find out how to change the cover of the ebook. May I suggest that you give an overview of the hows and whats in Gerty ? But other than that, it's a good and simple app that I would be using for a long time, possibly my go -to ebook reader (:

by Heartist

Wish it had ability to add other formats such as .mobi and .djvu, and I'd switch to it exclusively as my reading App!

The ability to add notes is so simply elegant...and then to export as ePub is priceless. Would be nice to add ability to export journal notes to PDF or to One Note would be nice too.

by Scottjl

It took a while but grew on me. It's a toss up between this and Marvin. But since I own both I don't have to choose just one. Not for the traditional book reader but a lot of interesting features if you play around.

by Becca-saurus

Gerry is beautiful, easy to use, and had lots of fantastic customisation options. I wish I could use this to read my iBooks and Kindle purchases.

by JMorales15

I use this daily, I'm always reading and this is the perfect way to store all the books and fictions I find that are not from the iBook store.

by Bananawitz

Being putting up with Kindle's incompetence for a while, Gerty came as a savior. The auto vertical scroll is a killer feature for me. And UI is ten times better than Kindle's. Hope the developer can keeping improving Gerty . Good job!

by Sandimacd

I was looking for a reader that can handle Gutenberg Project books by verticals scrolling. I read on my iPad, have had cataract surgery and require 3.5 readers. I have problems with only the center of my glasses being in focus- the rest of my screen is not a clear- so I prefer verticals scrolling. I can keep my eye focused in one place and move the text rapidly into that field of vision. It's especially useful in portrait mode if I am reading in bed on my side before falling asleep.

I like the ability to size the font and space the lines and adjust the color of the page and brightness. Combined, these features very much improve my reading enjoyment.

It's very easy to find an epub format of free online books and then "open" it in Gerty. Nice library of icon-images of the books. I don't really use any other features. I am a fast reader, often finishing it in a couple of days.

by Jonathan Morgan

It isn't perfect, but it can find my calibre library in Dropbox and let's me get at my books on iOS. It doesn't read metadata, etc., but I'm just happy I can filter and search, and I've had no problems with stability or crashes.

by Bethdarleen

Gerty has everything I could hope for reading on my phone. Auto-scroll, dropbox linked, & an option to add photos! (and more) So happy to find this & really worth what I paid for the full version :) Thanks for putting so much thought into what users want!

by Arnav Garde

For a while there my only go to app for reading ePub format ebooks was iBooks but each time I changed devices I had to resort all my books, I'm kinda the obsessive compulsive book sorter. With the excellent UI of this app I no longer have to spend my time in sorting my collection simply syncing it and reading. Making my reading sessions pure bliss.