Send yourself a book. Always right where you left it.
Everyone messages themselves things to read — contracts, chapters, articles, PDFs you swear you’ll get to. They vanish into inbox threads and downloads folders. Margina is the quiet shelf where those things go to wait — and to be read.
Free for your first 15 documents. No account, no sign-in, no inbox sweep.
You write me that you are anxious about the outcome of a lawsuit which the anger of an enemy threatens to bring against you.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. You should consider, before all things, whether your distress is well founded.
There are more things, Lucilius, which frighten us than which crush us, and we suffer more in apprehension than in reality. I say to you that I do not…
Margina is short for marginalia — the notes you write in the margins of a book. The oldest technology for reading with a text instead of past it.
Everyone messages themselves things to read.
Hardly anyone reads them.
A chapter you AirDropped to your phone. A contract you emailed yourself "to look at tonight." An article a friend sent you on a Tuesday. They land in threads, in downloads folders, in notification graveyards — and quietly disappear.
Margina is the place those things land. A library for the documents you meant to read — and only those. It opens them cleanly, holds your spot, keeps the lines you highlighted and the notes you scribbled in the margins. When you come back next month, it’s exactly where you left it.
Free for your first 15. Pay if you want the cap lifted and an encrypted copy in your own iCloud or Drive. We don’t run a server. We don’t want your library.
A quiet, dedicated home for what you read.
Share to save
Tap Share → Margina in Mail, Files, Drive, Safari, Messages. Anywhere your phone has a share sheet, the document lands in one place.
Your spot, kept
Reopen any document exactly where you stopped reading. Across sessions. Across reinstalls. Across phones, if you turn on backup.
Highlight, scribble
Drag across a sentence to highlight it. Attach a note. Bookmark a page. The annotations live with the book and follow it everywhere.
Every format you have
PDF, EPUB, Word, plain text, Markdown, images. If you have it, Margina can render it — and the reader gets out of the way.
Your cloud, not ours
Paid backup writes to your own iCloud or Google Drive. We never see a copy. We never store one. We have no servers to store one on.
No account, ever
Reading is local and private. The only time identity touches the app is the optional paid backup — handed off to your Apple or Google account. You never type a password.
Free to fall in love.
Paid to keep it safe.
All three paid tiers unlock the exact same thing — pick the cadence that fits how you read.
Free
Up to 15 documents. All reading, all annotation, all on-device.
- 15-document library
- PDF, EPUB, Word, Markdown, images
- Bookmarks, highlights, notes
- Folders, tags, search
- Auto-resume reading position
- Light & dark themes
Annual
Best value~$1.25/month, billed yearly. The best deal.
- Unlimited documents
- Backup to your own iCloud / Drive
- Cross-device resume
- Export highlights & notes
- Library restore on new phone
- Sepia & premium themes
Auto-renewing subscription. Cancel anytime in App Store / Play settings.
Monthly
Try the paid features short-term.
- Same paid features as Annual
- Higher per-month cost
Auto-renewing subscription. Cancel anytime in App Store / Play settings.
Lifetime
Pay once. Use it forever.
- Same paid features as Annual
- No subscription, no renewals
One-time, non-consumable purchase. No refunds outside store policy.
Purchases happen inside the app via your App Store or Google Play account. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your store account settings. Lifetime is a one-time purchase with no recurring charges. See Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
Honest answers.
- Do I really not need an account?
- Really. The free tier is fully local. The only time identity comes up is the optional paid backup, which uses Sign in with Apple or Google Sign-In — borrowed from the OS, not a password we ever see.
- Where does my stuff actually live?
- On your phone. Documents sit in the app sandbox, annotations in a local SQLite database. Turn on paid backup and an encrypted-in-transit copy goes to your own iCloud or Drive. We host nothing.
- Why a 15-document cap on the free tier?
- 15 is enough to load it up, actually use it, and decide whether it deserves a few dollars. Lower and you'd hit the wall before you noticed the app was good. Higher and we'd be running a free service.
- What do I actually get for paying?
- Unlimited documents, backup and restore to your own cloud, cross-device resume within the same ecosystem, Markdown / PDF export of your highlights and notes, and premium themes (including sepia, which is the only theme some people will use).
- iPhone ↔ Android sync?
- Not yet. iPhones back up to iCloud, Androids back up to Drive, and the two don't talk. Cross-platform sync is on the list; it needs a neutral hosted layer we haven't built.
- Can I get my notes back out?
- Yes. Paid users can export highlights and notes to Markdown or PDF. Documents stay in their original format. And the "Delete all data" button in Settings wipes everything (local + cloud) in one tap.
- How do subscriptions work?
- Through your App Store or Google Play account. Monthly and annual auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Lifetime is one-time. Manage everything in your store settings.