Atode lets you bookmark and save news, blog or other text based content for reading later. The reader’s design is carefully crafted with custom styles for better readability and distraction-free reading.

The app doesn’t simply save links to those pages you want to return to, it also downloads their content and converts it to a minimal format. Read anything you saved later with just the essential text and images, without any headers, ads or clutter to get in the way.

1. Navigate back
2. Search inside article
3. Change reading preferences
4. View article information
5. Goto next / previous article
6. Article options (favor, tag, delete, …)

You can navigate the same way as in any browser. Scroll down/up to read, tap on links or images and long press to select text.

Tap the top or center to show/hide reader navigation and toolbar controls. Or enable the settings option to automatically dismiss them when reading.

The reader uses custom styles for better readability. Choose presets for preferences like font size, line height or margins or adjust them to your individual needs.

To open the preferences, tap the corresponding Aa button on top right.

The app has no unnecessary preferences. Depending on your device and chosen styles, the fluid layout dynamically adjusts all corresponding properties and margins, giving you an optimal reading experience.

Reader themes adjust according to light/dark mode. The day/sepia/grey themes will be dark when your device is in dark mode. You can choose a dark theme or disable automatic system dark mode for the reader from the preferences.

It’s also possible to always use a custom light/dark mode for the app. Open the sidebar from the library and select the corresponding light, dark or system app theme from the bottom toolbar (moon icon).

While reading an article, you can add notes or highlight favorite sections.

1. Select some text
2. Choose Note or Highlight
3. Enter your note
4. Press Done to save

Tap or click an existing annotation to either edit, delete or change its color and style. All annotations also appear in the article’s information view and can be directly selected.

Built-in text selection options like Copy, Define or Share are supported as well. In addition, you can also Search for selected text inside the book or use the Lookup menu entry to lookup selected text on Wikipedia, translate it with Google Translate and DeepL or to query any other service.

On your Mac, handling selected text works differently than when using touch gestures. You will need to first select some text using the cursor and then either right click or use the Note (⇧ ⌘ N) or Highlight (⇧ ⌘ H) Toolbar button or their corresponding keyboard shortcuts.

As an alternative, Atode also integrates with Apple Quick Note to add links to articles or annotations. Refer to the Notes FAQ for more details.

All your bookmarked articles are available in your local library on the device. In case the Cloud Library is enabled, Atode keeps your articles and annotations stored securely in Apple’s iCloud as well.

1. Open the sidebar
2. Switch to edit mode
3. Add a bookmark to your list
4. Search articles by title, website or abstract
5. Article information (overview, abstract, annotations)
6. Context actions (view website, save or export in text/markdown/json format, …)
7. Filter current articles by tags or reading time
8. Additional library options
   • Sort order (date, unread, title, longest, shortest)
   • Layout options (grid, list)

Tap an entry to open the corresponding article. As an alternative, your recent articles are also available directly from the Widgets or as 3D Touch quick actions on the app icon.

You can also long press an entry in the library to open the context menu. This lets you directly favor, tag, change folder or delete an article as well as show the contents or access the context options actions.

When you bookmark a website, the corresponding page is saved to your device. But before an article appears in your library, it must be processed to extract its plain content. This happens automatically when the app is already running in the background, otherwise only at the next launch.

You can organize your library with custom tags or put articles in folders, favor, change reading state and delete articles.

Tap the top right edit icon (pencil) in your library to switch to batch edit mode. Select one or more articles and choose an action from the toolbar at the bottom.

Alternatively, you can edit an individual article by using its context menu. Long press on iOS to show the corresponding menu.

Browse your library by folder, tags or a collection (unread, website, …) from the sidebar.

Either tap the Library button on top left or drag right to access the sidebar. You can edit as well as customize the displayed sections.

1. Switch to editing mode
2. Select folder, tag or collection
3. Expand or collapse a section
4. Access application settings
5. Shortcut to change app theme
6. Sidebar options to show/hide sections

Tap on a folder, tag or collection to browse the corresponding articles in your library. Your current choice will also be restored on app restart.

The Settings toolbar at the bottom left lets you change app-wide preferences, access support resources or buy and restore in-app purchases.

Custom folders allow to organise all your articles in your library.

Open the left sidebar and tap on edit to switch to editing mode. You can create or delete folders, update their name and change their order.

1. Create a new folder or tag
2. Change folder or tag name
3. Drag & drop to change sort order
4. Delete folder and move articles to root

Afterwards, tap on a folder to view the contained articles. To move an article to a different folder, long press on an article in the library and select the context menu action or assign a different folder in batch editing mode.

Similar to folders, tags can be edited directly in the sidebar as well. But you can also create new tags or manage them when tagging an article.

Organize your library by assigning custom tags. Articles can be filtered by individual or combined tags.

Select one or multiple articles when in batch edit mode and choose tag to open the editor or directly tag an individual article from the context menu.

To create or assign a tag:

1. Enter a new tag and tap Create tag: name
2. Select an already existing tag from the list
3. Remove assigned tags by clicking on delete (x)

Existing tags can be renamed or deleted by long-press on an entry in the tag list or you can manage them in the sidebar. You can filter articles by tags with the library filter. The filter options (bottom right 3 dots) also allow to select either all tags, any tag or not tagged.

Atode allows you to change certain app-wide settings in addition to the reading preferences. Open the sidebar to access the Settings screen.

On the settings screen, you can enable/disable the cloud library as well as adjust notification, location or other preferences. App privacy settings are listed and can be changed. Settings lets you also export all article meta data in csv or json format, purge the app’s cache, delete downloaded website resources (images) or reset your reading preferences.