An offline ebook and fanfiction reader for Android
Everything in Laiza lives on your phone. There is no account to make and nothing to sign in to — open the app and it works, with or without a connection.
PDFs and HTML files work too. PDFs keep their fixed pages, so typography and highlights are unavailable for them — everything else works as normal.
Tap a book to open it. Tap the middle of the screen for the menus; the outer thirds turn pages. You can also turn pages with the volume buttons.
| Where | What you get |
|---|---|
| Top bar | Back, search inside the book, bookmark this spot, rotation lock |
| Bottom bar | Progress slider, contents, Aa settings, page/scroll toggle |
| Aa sheet | Font, size, line spacing, margins, page colours, two-page spread |
| Screen edge | Slide up or down to change brightness |
The Aa sheet is half height on purpose, so you can see your changes land on the page behind it. Settings you change there apply to every book; to change just the one you’re reading, use the per-book override and its Reset to defaults.
Laiza always reopens a book exactly where you stopped. After a few sittings it learns your reading speed and starts showing how long is left in the chapter and in the book.
Start it from the reader’s menu. It keeps reading with the screen off, and you can pause, skip and stop from the notification shade. One thing to know: the sentence being spoken is not highlighted on the page.
Press and hold any text to select it, then pick a colour. Colours are yours to name — you might make yellow Favourite line, pink Ship moment, blue Foreshadowing. Any highlight can carry a note about why you kept it.
The Highlights tab gathers every highlight and note from every book in one place, filterable by colour or by book. From there you can share one as a quote card — a styled image crediting the work and its author.
Notes that aren’t attached to a highlight live on the book’s Notes tab. Write one from the reader and it remembers which chapter you were in; tap it later to jump back.
| Shelves | Your own groupings. A book can sit on as many as you like. Long-press to select several books and shelve them together. |
|---|---|
| Status | Want to read, Reading, Finished, Did not finish — updated as you read, and overridable any time. |
| Search and sort | By title, author, date added, last read, progress, rating or reaction. |
| Ratings | Stars including halves, a written review, and any emoji from your own keyboard as a reaction. |
| Rereads | Start a reread and the previous read stays in the book’s history rather than being overwritten. |
| Wishlist | Books you don’t have yet. If you later import one, Laiza notices and offers to clear it from the list. |
Deleted something by mistake? Laiza shows an Undo rather than asking you to confirm first. The one exception is restoring a backup, which replaces everything and so asks up front.
A downloaded work that isn’t finished is checked periodically for new chapters. When one appears you get a notification, and the book shows a New chapter badge with a button that jumps straight to it.
Your highlights survive updates. When an author edits earlier chapters, the text moves — so Laiza stores the words around each highlight, not just its position, and re-finds it in the new version.
If a highlight genuinely can’t be placed any more — because the passage was rewritten or the chapter deleted — it is kept and marked, never silently thrown away.
Mark a shelf hidden and the books on it disappear from the library, from search, from Continue reading and from your highlights until you unlock it with your fingerprint, face or PIN. The app itself still opens without a lock — only the hidden shelf is protected.
While a hidden shelf is open, the app’s preview in the recent-apps screen is blanked, and leaving the app locks it again.
From More, write a single backup file containing everything: books, covers, highlights, notes, bookmarks, reviews, shelves, your wishlist and your progress. It goes wherever you choose and is never uploaded anywhere.
Restoring replaces your whole library. It is not undoable, which is why it is the one action in Laiza that asks before it acts rather than offering an Undo afterwards.