BookFusion Web 2025 Wrap-Up: Faster PDFs, Better Highlights, and a Big 2026 Roadmap
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2025 was a great year at BookFusion. We tightened the reading experience across formats, platforms , made your highlights easier to work with, and laid the groundwork for some of our biggest leaps yet, especially around realistic Text-to-Speech and article workflows.
Here’s what’s new, what’s improved, and what’s coming next.
New features and improvements
Better images, cleaner & smaller libraries
- AVIF support for comic books
Modern image compression that is especially helpful for large, image-heavy files like comics. - WebP support for book covers
Faster loading covers with great quality and smaller file sizes.
Improved Metadata
- Published Date: display + edit on the Book Details screen
You can now view and update a book’s published date directly from the details page.
Highlights that move with you
- Filter highlights by tags and colors (inside the reader)
Find what you need in seconds—whether you’re revising, researching, or building a knowledge base.
- Copy link to highlights
Share a specific highlight with context—perfect for copying to notes, emails to open the highlight immediately inside the book.
- Export index pages for lists to Obsidian
Bring structure into your vault with index exports that keep your notes organized and navigable.
PDFs that feel less like PDFs
Let’s be real, PDFs aren’t going anywhere. We put serious love into PDF reading this cycle:
- Paginated mode for PDFs
- Page curl for PDFs (Optional)
- Automatic zoom for two-column PDFs
(Especially helpful for papers, textbooks, and dense layouts.) - Text-to-Speech for native PDFs: You can now use TTS with both single column, double column(research papers) and other layouts. The audio will always be read in sync.
Smoother reading flow
- Autoscroll for Media Overlay in scroll mode
Keep pace with read-aloud content while scrolling naturally. - Native scroll in the “Currently Reading” section
For developers and institutions
- Loan / borrow book APIs
We added new API capabilities to better support lending workflows—especially important for libraries and institutional use cases.
Big wins for 2025 (and what we’re finishing in early 2026)
Smart Queries & Smart Shelves
We launched Smart Queries & Smart Shelves five months ago, and it’s already changing how readers organize their libraries—less manual sorting, more “your library just gets you.”
- Announcement: https://www.blog.bookfusion.com/introducing-smart-queries-smart-shelves-discover-organise-read-smarter/
- Documentation: https://docs.bookfusion.com/docs/smart-queries-&-smart-shelves/overview
Infrastructure Upgrades For Realistic Voices
We’re upgrading our infrastructure with inference-based servers so we can deliver unlimited realistic voices to Power readers at no additional cost. This is foundational work, unsexy on the surface, game-changing in practice.
Other updates
Besides the above many other updates were completed across iOS, Android that you can review at https://www.blog.bookfusion.com/category/product-updates/
In Progress and Landing in Q1–Q2 2026
A few initiatives grew bigger than we expected (because doing them right matters). Here’s what’s next:
- Realistic Text-to-Speech voices (iOS, Android, Web)
We’re rolling out realistic voices across all platforms. Power readers get early access on Web next week, with a full launch planned by the end of January 2026. This is a key milestone ahead of our article support release, since many readers rely on TTS to consume articles. - Article Support (capture + organize online articles)
This is now in beta across Web, Android, and iOS. Beta testers have shared a ton of positive feedback (thank you 💙). We’re finishing a few final pieces and targeting Q1 2026 for general availability. If you’re not in the beta, you’ll still get a preview soon.
- Social / Collaborative features
Social is complete on iOS and Web, but we had to prioritize Android refactors and stability work first. Additionally, we also took in new community feedback, and we’re implementing 2–3 key improvements before we roll it out broadly to make that experience more intuitive and seamless.
- Native Desktop App (Qt, Windows/Linux/macOS)
This is the real deal: a true native desktop app built with Qt. The Windows version is in beta with a few educational institutions now. We’ll open beta access to general readers later in 2026 once a few more Power-reader essentials have been implemented.
Coming in 2026: sneak peek
Here’s what we’re teeing up next:
- KOReader integration
We completed the analysis and research to build a seamless KOReader workflow. - Import highlights from Kindle & Kobo
Bring your notes and highlights into BookFusion and keep everything in one place. - Statistics (yes, it’s finally happening)
Stats ended up being three big pieces:- Infrastructure to store granular reading data
- APIs across platforms (done for Web + iOS, pending for Android due to refactors)
- UI that lets you explore and drill down into your reading
We build native apps (not one shared codebase), so this takes longer—but it also lets us deliver a better experience and unlock platform-specific magic later. #1 & #2 are now done and you will finally be able to see your reading stats in 2026.
- Developer APIs + a full developer portal
We’re building a proper portal so third-party developers can create apps, request permissions, and power custom workflows that help you get more value from what you read and save in BookFusion. - Surprise updates
More QoL improvements driven by the community—because the little things add up fast.
A quick holiday message 🎄
Thank you for riding with us through 2025. Your feedback, bug reports, feature requests, and “what if BookFusion could…” messages push us to keep raising the bar.
We’re building the reading experience of the future, delivered today and 2026 is going to feel like a leap.
Happy Reading
– BookFusion Team
