Top 10 TXT Book Readers
Updated: March 17, 2026 | Editor: Maria Lin
TXT Book Readers allow to read plain text books. Most usually txt books are created when you copy online version of a book, published in the Internet. Or when you copy book text from PDF or Word book versions for reading on Android, iPhone or Kindle.
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Free e-book reader that supports multiple file formats, including ePub, fb2, mobi, HTML, RTF, HTML, plain text, doc, and more. FBReader uses its own page parsing and rendering engine - very lightweight, fast and customizable. It supports embedded images, footnotes, hyperlinks, text search, full-screen reading. It also automatically creates bookmarks so you don't lose track of where you left off after closing a book. It works on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Chrome OS. Books can be synced across devices or stored in Google Drive. For Android and iOS there are both free and paid versions. Free versions have some limitations.
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AlfaReader is a lightweight and fast ebook reader, ideal for reading electronic magazines, student textbooks, medical, scientific, technical books, illustrated books for kids. Allows to make bookmarks, save knowledge blocks, add comments, download books for OPDS. Includes built-in audiobook player. Integrates with popular ebook organizer Alfa Ebooks Manager.
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Cute and simple mobile app for reading books on iOS and Android. Provides bookmarks, 3-colors highlights, interactive links and notes, dark mode, customized settings (Fonts, Fields, Text size, screen Brightness, Page scrolling, ets). Suppots text formats: EPUB, MOBI, DOC, DOCX, TXT, FB2, PRC, RTF, ODT, HTML, AZW, AZW3. Completely AD-FREE. Syncs ebooks and reading progress between devices. Free web e-reader is also available. You can upload books via iTunes, import your files from the email, web browser, cloud storages (iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, Yandex.Disk etc).
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Popular Android app that lets read books offline or directly from online book sites and OPDS. It features a comfortable viewing mode with smooth scrolling, full set of visual settings: line spacing, font size, bold, italic, shadow, alpha channel, smooth edge transitions. Over 10 built-in themes, including a day/night mode switch. Various page navigation options: touchscreen, volume keys, even the camera, search, or back buttons. The free version is ad-supported, while the paid version offers TTS engine, PDF support, more beautiful backgrounds, fonts and reading themes, password protection on startup, annotation sharing, reading statistics.
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i2Reader is an innovative and award-winning eBook reader. Support of EPUB, PDF, RTF, HTML, FB2, DOC and plain text formats. One-way built-in Web server to upload books and dictionaries from your computer. Custom-made PDF rendering engine that reformats the text from PDFs for easier reading on the iPhone screen.
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Free open-source, XML/CSS-based e-book reader for Windows and Linux. There's also mobile version for Android and some eInk devices. Supported formats include FB2, TXT, RTF, DOC, TCR, HTML, EPUB, CHM, PDB, and MOBI. The program offers numerous settings for improved reading experience. It's arguably the best reader for Linux, but on Windows, it has some issues, such as linking e-book extensions to the program so it opens when clicking on a book file.
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Free Android reader that supports formats fb2, fbz, txt, epub, html, doc, odt, rtf, mobi, prc, archives. Its local library allows to sort books by author, series, title, year of publication, genre. The app provides such functions as converting text to speech, downloading from OPDS, setting file encoding, dictionaries, editing Fb2 and TXT files, profiles with independent settings of font, color, brightness, gamma correction and text indentation. You can choose one- and two-page reading mode with automatic switching to two-page mode in landscape orientation. Appearance adaptation for E-Ink screens, support for "fast" update for Sony T1/T2, Nook Simple Touch/Nook Simple Touch with Glow Light, Onyx Maxwel/Kopernik/Kepler, Texet 138.
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Free online service in which you can upload, preview and read your ebooks in EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, PDF, and CBR formats. Doesn't require downloading any software. Even large ebooks are rendered instantly. It provides easy book navigation thanks to a built-in thumbs pane and table of contents and full-text keyword search. It offers numerous customization options to enhance your reading experience. You can customize the font size, typeface, color scheme to make reading as comfortable as possible. You can also adjust the brightness to suit your surroundings and reduce eye strain.
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KOReader is a document viewer for E Ink devices. Supported file formats include EPUB, PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBT, CBZ, FB2, PDB, TXT, HTML, RTF, CHM, DOC, MOBI and ZIP files. It’s available for Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Android and desktop Linux.
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Multi-functional Android app for reading books. It features automatic folder scanning and adding books to the library, bookmarks, annotations, TOC, online catalog and dictionary support, syncing between Android devices via Google Drive (reading progress, bookmarks, etc.), day and night modes, custom CSS support, "Musician mode" with adjustable scrolling speed, TTS reading, built-in media player and online format conversion. The volume control functionality, background and fonts can be customized. All collections can be viewed in a list or grid view. Books are easily identified by thumbnail covers with adjustable size and style, as well as detailed descriptions. The free version contains ads.
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iOS e-reader unlike any other. The app supports FB2, EPUB, MOBI, PDF, DJVU, CBR, CBZ, and TXT formats, and offers customizable fonts, paragraph indents, paper type, and much more. iBouquiniste features include note-taking, emailing books, bookshelves by author, recently opened book view. Books can be downloaded via iTunes or any app that supports file transfer (such as Mail or Safari). OPDS catalogs are supported. The app also provides its own cloud storage for syncing books, reading positions, quotes, and bookmarks.
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Not only an eBooks, Comics reader but also a tons-of-free-ebook-downloader, with dictionary inside for you to studies languages.
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ReadEra is an Android application for reading books and viewing documents, free and without ads. Open and read book files in EPUB, FB2, PDF, DJVU, MOBI, DOC, RTF, TXT and CHM formats. Automatically detects and displays the list of all supported documents on your device, Identifies duplicate files. Support for a table of contents, bookmarks, visual styles. Automatically saves the current reading position, even if the files are moved or temporarily deleted.
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eReader Prestigio: Book Reader is a multi lingual, multi format text and audio books reading app. Intuitive interface in over 25 languages and an in app store library with over 50,000 text (for children and adults) books and Text-To-Speech (read along) functionality.
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GoodReader is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. With GoodReader on your iPad/iPhone, you can read virtually anything, anywhere: books, movies, maps, pictures. Use it once and you’ll be hooked. If you work with documents, soon you'll be wondering how you ever managed to use your iPad or iPhone without GoodReader. Besides reading, you can also sync your files with remote servers sync with Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync and any WebDAV, AFP, SMB, FTP or SFTP server
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Freda is a free program for reading electronic books (ebooks) on Windows and Android. On Windows, it's a Universal App, which means it runs equally well on your desktop PC or tablet PC, and on your Windows Mobile phone. On Android, it works on any phone or tablet running Jellybean, Kitkat or any more recent version of the operating system.
