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Documentation & Guides

Welcome to Torto Reader — a local-first, native cross-platform ebook reader built around Focus Mode for Windows, macOS, and Android.

Torto is dedicated to reimagining the PC reading experience: focusing on one meaningful reading unit at a time, Typst-inspired publication typography, keyboard-first navigation, and zero distractions. Desktop and Android share the same format-agnostic reading model and sync directly through your private cloud.

Core Capabilities

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  • Focus Mode: read one semantic unit at a time with a steady reading anchor; navigation, highlights, notes, footnotes and AI chat always follow the active content.
  • Native rendering: the desktop app parses, typesets, paginates and renders in Rust without a browser; the Android app uses a pure-Dart reading core.
  • AI-assisted layout (optional): recognizes section headings, sourced quotations and figure or table captions, folds inline citations into markers, and recognizes text and image formulas with LaTeX copying.
  • Context-bound AI chat (optional): conversations attach to the active unit; type / for reading skills and @ to add citations, with answers citing the source text.
  • Reading statistics: automatically tracks reading time, history and completion, with cross-device cloud sync.
  • Formats & scanned PDF: EPUB, MOBI, AZW/AZW3, FB2/FBZ, CBZ, CHM and PDF; scanned PDFs can be OCR’d into reflowable text.

Configuration & Guides

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  • Focus Mode Guide: paragraph navigation, centered baseline anchor, sentence splitting (3), folded footnotes (Left Alt), and hidden cursor immersion.
  • OCR Providers Guide: enable full-document OCR and reflow for scanned PDFs with PaddleOCR or MinerU.
  • Cloud Storage Providers Guide: sync books, progress, highlights, notes and reading statistics directly between devices using private WebDAV (with presets for InfiniCLOUD, Nutstore, and more).

Download Installers

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Visit the Download Page to get the latest 64-bit Windows MSI, macOS Apple Silicon / Intel DMG, or Android APK.

Desktop source and releases are hosted on Torto GitHub, and the Android app is hosted on Torto App GitHub.

Community & Feedback

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If you encounter issues or have suggestions, please open an issue on GitHub Issues.