Athene is a reader for the books you already own.
Bring your EPUBs and PDFs — from Files, from Mail, from anywhere that can share a file — and they go on a shelf that looks like one. If you keep your library on a calibre server, Athene browses and fetches from that shelf too, over your own network.
THE PAGE
Open a book and the app steps back. Just the page, on white, sepia or night paper, in the typeface and size you read best. Highlight a passage, add a note, drop a bookmark, and find them all again under Marks. The shelf itself follows the time of day — Morning, Sunset, Night — or stays on the one you pick.
ASK THE PAGE
Tap the owl while you read and ask about what is in front of you. Who is she again? What did that word mean? What just happened? The Owl answers from the pages around where you are — this chapter at most, never the whole book, never your other books — and if the pages do not say, it tells you that instead of guessing. Three questions a day are free, on any model.
YOUR MODEL, YOUR CHOICE
On a device with Apple Intelligence, the Owl thinks on the device and nothing you ask is sent anywhere. Or point it at your own Ollama server on your own network. Or bring a key from Claude, OpenRouter or OpenAI. Athene asks before the first question leaves the device, names the address it would send to, and remembers your answer.
PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION
Athene has no account, no analytics and no servers of its own. Your books, your notes and your questions stay on your device or go only where you have pointed them. The privacy policy says the same, in plain words.
Athene requires iOS 26. The on-device Owl requires Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro and later, M-series iPad, iPad mini A17 Pro); on other devices the Owl works with your own Ollama server or an API key.
