Vox Libri 1.16 is now available for MacOS!

By Jonathan Chacón, 24 July, 2026

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Hi everyone,

I’m happy to announce that Vox Libri 1.16 is now available on the App Store.

Vox Libri is an accessible ebook reader designed with VoiceOver users in mind, and it’s available for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.

What’s new in version 1.16

  • 📚 New supported formats: You can now read HTMLZ and RTFD books.
  • 📖 Improved EPUB import with better handling of malformed packages and internationalization issues. We had to give the letter “ñ” a little more love. 🙂
  • ⌚ Improvements to the Apple Watch app, including a better VoiceOver experience.
  • 🔤 New option to control the punctuation verbosity level while reading.
  • 🔄 You can now choose to skip syncing your reading position when opening a book.
  • ⚡ Performance improvements that:
    • Reduce battery usage on iPhone.
    • Make screen freezes less frequent on macOS.
    • Improve reading with the VoiceOver focus.
  • 🎧 Better management of connected headphones.
  • 🖼️ Improved importing of books that contain OCR text in images.
  • ⚙️ New capabilities for the Shortcuts app.
  • 🎵 Beta: Read while listening to your favorite music.

Vox Libri is currently available in:

  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Italian
  • Greek

You can download Vox Libri from the App Store

As always, I’d love to hear your feedback, feature requests, and bug reports. Thank you to everyone who has been testing the app and helping make it better!

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Comments

By Maldalain on Friday, July 24, 2026 - 12:17

when I press on chapter Navigation button, table of content of the book is announced when I navigate with the left arrow, with the right arrow for next content item in the table is announced as blank.
Reproduce following these steps:
1. Open a specific book.
2. Press on chapter Navigation button
3. Select Chapter.
4. Interact with the table, move to the next item with the right arrow (arrow quicknav should be on).
Voiceover will announce Blank, although there is already textual content to be announced. Left Arrow will behave normally.
A couple of suggestions:
1. Please consider that we need to read using the VoiceOver default reading commands, not speech only. Allow navigation through lines, sentences and paragraphs using VoiceOver rotor navigation.
2. Most of the time when I read I need to bookmark a word or a phrase or a sentence, not a whole paragraph. The app allows only bookmarking a paragraph.
I see a huge potential for this app, please do consider allowing more freedom for reading using screen reader commands not speech only.
Many thanks for this great app.

By Jonathan Chacón on Friday, July 24, 2026 - 12:48

Hello Maldalain,

Thank you for your feedback. I already have several improvements for VoiceOver users on Mac planned. Thanks for pointing this out—I wasn’t aware of the issue with the chapters table. It will be fixed in the next update.

Regards