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EPUB Reader & Pencil Notebook

Read books. Take handwritten notes.

Keep everything in one place. The EPUB reader built for Apple Pencil lets you highlight passages and take handwritten notes in one beautiful, distraction-free app.

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Built for readers who think with a pencil in hand.

Import EPUBs Highlight passages Write by hand Sync your library

What Lumen Does

A quieter workspace for deep reading.

Reading that gets out of the way

Import EPUB books from anywhere, settle into light, sepia, or night themes, and adjust typography until the page feels right.

  • EPUB import
  • Adjustable typography
  • Chapter navigation

Highlights & annotations

Mark passages in five colors, attach handwritten notes to highlights, and review the ideas that mattered most later.

  • Five highlight colors
  • Linked handwritten notes
  • Per-book review

Handwritten notebooks

Create standalone notebooks for ideas, sketches, or study notes with smooth Apple Pencil ink and flexible page templates.

  • Blank, ruled, dotted, and grid pages
  • Infinite pages
  • Natural Apple Pencil drawing

Sync across devices

Reading progress, highlights, notes, and notebooks stay with you through Lumen Sync.

  • Progress sync
  • Highlight sync
  • Notebook sync

Library

All your books, all in one place.

A calm library keeps your EPUBs organized, tracks what is up next, and helps you pick up exactly where you left off.

Lumen iPad library screen showing book progress and reading shelves

Notebooks

Create notebooks for every idea.

Build companion notebooks for books or standalone notebooks for study notes, sketches, and reading journals.

Lumen iPad notebooks screen showing reading notebooks and standalone notebooks

Annotations

Keep notes beside the text.

Highlights and handwritten notes live together, so the passage, margin thought, and context never drift apart.

Lumen iPad split reading and notes view with highlighted Alice in Wonderland passage

Lumen Reader

Read deeply. Keep the thought.

Import your books, highlight what matters, and keep handwritten notes connected to the passages that sparked them.

Download on the App Store