# Book Conqueror

Book Conqueror is a PDF reader for Mac built for people who read whole books, not just documents. It's designed for an immerse reading experince. It remembers where you are, lets you highlight and export those highlights to Obsidian, Logseq, Readwise or as image cards, and includes Book Pal, an optional AI companion that answers questions about the page you’re reading. There is no account.

Make reading immersive.

Book Conqueror makes reading more focused and engaging to you.

Open a PDF and you are put back exactly where you stopped — page, scroll position and zoom. Listen to a passage aloud while the words light up on the page. Look a word up without leaving the book. Keep a quotation with its citation already attached. It is all in one window, and none of it sends you somewhere else.

READ WITHOUT LOSING YOUR PLACE
• Once you open your book, it will show only the book you are reading. Nothing distracts your attention.
• Your last book reopens at the page, scroll and zoom you left it at
• Drag a PDF onto the window, or pick one from Open Recent
• Find any word in the book, or jump straight to a page
• Highlight what matters — highlights are written into the PDF itself, so they travel with the file
• Light, dark, or whatever your Mac is doing. Dark inverts the page, so you are not staring at a white sheet at midnight

LISTEN WHILE YOU READ
• Have any passage read aloud, in the voices your Mac already has
• The words being spoken are lit on the page, and the page follows along
• Pause, resume or stop from the bar over the page
• Set the reading speed to suit you

SEARCH WITHOUT LEAVING THE BOOK
• Select a word and send it to Google, Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Brave, Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Google Translate
• The page opens in a panel over your book. Press Escape, or click back into the page, and you are reading again
• Choose which of the eight you want in Settings. The rest stay out of the menu

KEEP WHAT YOU READ
• Copy Quote puts the passage on the clipboard in quotation marks, with the book, the author and the page attached
• Copy Quote as Image gives you the same quotation as a card, ready to paste into a message or a post
• No more closing a book to go and look up which page a sentence was on

WATCH THE HABIT BUILD
• Every minute in every book, counted day by day
• Seven badges, from three days running to a hundred
• A badge arrives the moment it is earned, on every tier

STAY IN THE CHAIR
• Gone still for a few minutes? A small sum appears over the book. Answer it and you are back where you were
• Set the wait, or set it long enough never to be asked

BOOK CONQUEROR PRO
Reading, highlighting, finding, Open Recent, appearance, the awake check and the badges themselves are free, and stay free.

Pro adds reading aloud, search and lookup, both quotation formats, the statistics window and your reading history:
• Monthly — $3.99 per month
• Yearly — $19.99 per year
• Lifetime — $59.99, once
Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled, and can be cancelled any time in App Store settings. Prices may vary by region.

PRIVACY
Your books never leave your Mac. Where you are in a book and how long you have read are kept on your device, and highlights go into the PDF. There is no account to create and nothing to sign in to.

Live with your books.

## Facts
- Category: Productivity
- Pricing: Freemium
- Platforms: macOS
- Built for: general
- Listed since: November 2026
- Approved tests: 0 (0 total)
- Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/book-conqueror/id6811663571?mt=12

## Key features
- Export highlights as Markdown to Obsidian, Logseq or Readwise
- Turn highlights into shareable PNG image cards
- Ask Book Pal, an AI reading companion that knows your current page and highlights, using your own free Gemini key
- A “Jump back” button when you click a link in a PDF by accident
- Background music while you read, with an awake check that pauses the reading timer if you doze off

## Use cases
- Reading nonfiction PDFs and sending your highlights straight into an Obsidian or Logseq vault
- Studying long PDFs such as textbooks and papers, asking an AI about a passage without leaving the page

## Alternative to
Preview, PDF Expert and Skim.

## FAQ
### Do I need an account?
No. There is nothing to sign up for. Your books, reading progress and highlights stay on your Mac, and highlights are saved inside the PDF itself.

### Does Book Pal send my book to a server?
Only when you ask it a question. It then talks directly to Google Gemini with your own free API key. Book Conqueror runs no servers of its own.

### Is my data safe with Book Conqueror?
yes. No account is needed. Your PDF is on you local device

### Is Book Conqueror legit?
Book Conqueror was listed on IndieAppCircle in November 2026 by Yusuf Said CANBAZ, who opened it to independent testers. No independent tester has reviewed it here yet. It is distributed through the Apple App Store. IndieAppCircle is a peer feedback exchange, not a paid-review site: testers earn credits only for feedback the maker accepts, and nobody is paid to be positive.

### What platforms does Book Conqueror run on?
Book Conqueror runs on macOS. The maker built it for a general audience.

### Is Book Conqueror free?
Book Conqueror uses a free plan with paid upgrades.

### What is Book Conqueror an alternative to?
Book Conqueror is built as an indie alternative to Preview, PDF Expert and Skim.

### Is Book Conqueror still looking for testers?
Yes. The maker pays 5 credits for each approved test on IndieAppCircle.

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