Plate I
A page, properly set
Web articles, EPUB books, and PDFs each get a reader built for the format — with the same calm typography, the same highlights, the same ink. Line lengths the eye can track, and chrome that holds still.
The colophon is the page at the back of a book that says how it was made — the type it was set in, the paper it was printed on. This app is named for it, because how a thing is read matters nearly as much as what it says. Colophon takes everything you mean to get to — articles saved from the web, books, PDFs — and gives each one the page it deserves: measured lines, quiet margins, a serif kept for the words.
Plate II
A library that keeps itself
Inbox, folders, feeds, and collections — with every article arriving already extracted, filed, and indexed to the word. Feeds sync themselves, both ways, through your own Miniflux server if you run one.
At the bottom of the shelf: a reading streak and a words-read count that mind their own business.
Plate III
Intelligence that stays home
An abstract of every article. Key points, suggested tags, and answers drawn from your whole library — with citations back to the page. All of it written on the device, by Apple Intelligence.
There is no cloud model, no account, and no server. Nothing you read is sent anywhere.
Plate IV
Right to left, done right
خواندن به فارسی، همانطور که باید.
Farsi and Arabic articles are detected on arrival and set the way they should be — correct direction, correct typography, mirrored controls. Not translated interface strings bolted onto a left-to-right page; a reader that genuinely reads both ways.
Plate V
The reading room, after dark
A true night setting — ink on slate, not white on black — for the hour when the house has gone quiet.
Plate V · Library and reader, at night
Plate VI
Reading starts anywhere
Share from Safari — or any app — and it’s on the shelf by the time you sit down: extracted, filed, indexed, and summarized. Drop in an EPUB or a PDF and it’s simply there.
Index
An index of everything else
- Highlights
- five inks, anchored to the words themselves — they survive reflow, resizing, and export
- Apple Pencil
- write in the margins; your ink follows the text and becomes searchable, like everything else
- Ask your library
- questions answered from what you’ve actually read, with citations — entirely offline
- Read aloud
- whole articles, with lock-screen controls and your place kept
- Daily review
- your best highlights, resurfaced each morning
- Widgets
- continue reading and your streak, on the Home Screen and Lock Screen
- Knowledge graph
- a map of what connects your reading — shared themes, your tags, even your handwritten notes
- Search
- full-text, instant, offline — across articles, books, PDFs, notes, and ink
- Obsidian
- every highlight and note exported to your vault, automatically, in clean Markdown
- Miniflux
- two-way feed sync with your own server — read states and stars travel both directions
- Offline archive
- pages saved whole, readable on a plane, immune to link rot
- Translation
- select a passage — or a whole article — to read it in your language, translated on the device
- Scanned PDFs
- OCR makes even scans searchable — and visible to the intelligence
- Year in review
- what you read, handsomely accounted
- Backup
- one file, everything in it, yours to keep
Privacy
Your reading is nobody’s business
- No accounts, no analytics, no tracking of any kind — the app doesn’t know who you are, and neither do we.
- The intelligence is Apple Intelligence, running on the device. There is no server your reading could be sent to.
- Sync travels through your own iCloud; exports land in your own Obsidian vault. Your library was never ours to hold.
Coming soon to the App Store
Colophon is in the final stretch before release. Leave your address and you’ll get one email — the day it ships.