Premium reader for EPUBs and PDFs with Focus Mode, real typography, and instant mode switching
Recipe box for organizing recipes from links, photos and cookbooks
Stage
Not given
Startup
Founded
Not given
2026
Based in
US
EE
Pricing model
Freemium
Freemium
Pricing
Free tier with 3 personal books and unlimited classics. Velo Pro Annual: $69.99 USD per year. Velo Pro Monthly: $8.99 USD per month. Additional Enhanced Processing credits: 10 for $4.99 USD, 50 for $19.99 USD. 7-day free trial available.
Free plan with 15 recipe imports to start, then 3 in any 30 days, and 6 recipe chat changes. Scappi Pro: €5.99 per month or €39.99 per year (US$5.99 and US$39.99 in the US) with 2-week free trial; raises imports to 100 in any 30 days, includes recipe chat and collection sharing for up to five family
Key features
Focus Mode displaying one word at a time at 50-1,000 WPM
Three reading modes with instant switching at same position
Intelligent PDF processing with chapter detection and OCR
Read-aloud with word-by-word tracking and voice picker
Cloud sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac
Velobrary with unlimited free public-domain classics
Catch Me Up on-device Apple Intelligence recap
Offline library with no internet required
Highlights in multiple colors, notes and dictionary lookup
Enhanced Processing for academic and scanned PDFs
Save recipes from links, screenshots, cookbooks and handwritten cards
Automatic recipe extraction without ads or life stories
Step diagram showing parallel cooking tasks
Recipe scaling with ingredient amounts adjustment
Integrated timers in recipe steps
Offline cooking access
Multi-recipe combined view for one meal
Recipe adaptation via AI chat
Support for 8 languages with automatic translation
Recipe collections and sharing with family or friends
What makes it different
Three intelligent reading modes with one synced position instead of switching contexts
Transforms difficult PDFs into readable books through automatic structure detection and OCR
Real typography and faithful rendering preserving code blocks and diagrams in technical content
Complete privacy with books stored on-device and optional encrypted cloud sync
Fully offline reading with no account required for the free tier
One clear recipe from any source—links, cookbooks, photos and handwritten cards all become the same format
Step diagram view shows what cooks in parallel instead of only a numbered list
Free plan with unlimited cooking, timers and saved recipes—no paywall to cook
No ads and user data not sold
Automatic translation and unit conversion between languages and measurement systems
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