Music & books
Upload your songs and e-books once. Then listen and read in the browser, or in free apps on your phone, your e-reader and your computer — your whole library is in each of them, and only you can open it.
On every plan, Free included.
MP3, FLAC or M4A songs; EPUB, PDF and comic books. Albums, artists and covers come from the files.
A player that keeps going while you browse, and a reader that remembers your page.
Music apps that connect to a Subsonic server and reading apps that open an OPDS catalog sign in with an app password.
No public links and nothing in Explore. It uses your storage: 128 MB on Free, 10 GB on Pro.
Recommended apps
Any music app that connects to a Subsonic server, and any reading app that opens an OPDS catalog, can sign in. These are free and well looked after — pick the one for your device.
When the app asks what kind of server, pick Subsonic.
Works on older iPhones too, and on Android. Downloads for offline listening.
Get itApp StoreGoogle Play
substreamer.org ↗How to connect ↓Downloads for offline listening and plays in CarPlay. Needs iOS 26.
Get itApp Store
github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy ↗How to connect ↓Downloads, and keeps playlists synced for offline listening. From F-Droid or GitHub, not Google Play.
eddyizm.github.io/tempus ↗How to connect ↓Light and simple; on Google Play and F-Droid.
Get itGoogle PlayF-Droid
ultrasonic.gitlab.io ↗How to connect ↓A full desktop player with lyrics and a play queue.
github.com/jeffvli/feishin ↗How to connect ↓Small and fast, with gapless playback.
github.com/supersonic-app/supersonic ↗How to connect ↓None of these run on that device — pick another one above.
Prefer a paid app? Symfonium (Android) and play:Sub (iPhone & iPad) are popular too.
Add an OPDS catalog. Most apps take your email and app password in the same form as the address; a few ask when you first open it.
Made for e-ink readers; downloads books straight from your shelf. On a Kindle it needs a jailbreak.
Get itF-DroidKoboPocketBookKindle
github.com/koreader/koreader ↗How to connect ↓The same reader on iPhone, Android and your computer. Paid plans only add cloud storage and AI.
Get itApp StoreGoogle PlayDownload page
readest.com ↗How to connect ↓A desktop reader made for EPUB; asks for your password when you open the catalog.
Get itMicrosoft StoreDownload page
thorium.edrlab.org ↗How to connect ↓A long-standing Android reader; the free version shows ads.
Get itGoogle Play
moondownload.com ↗How to connect ↓None of these run on that device — pick another one above.
Reading comics on iPhone or iPad? Panels opens catalogs with its paid Premium upgrade.
These apps are made by other people, not by PageWell. Any other app that speaks Subsonic or OPDS works the same way.
Set up
Every app asks for the same three things: an address, your username and a password. Here’s what to type — then the steps for each app.
Open Music or Books in your console and drop the files in. Covers, albums and authors come from the files.
On the Apps page, create one password per app — name it after the app and the device.
Music apps: add a Subsonic server https://pagewell.ai. Reading apps: add the OPDS catalog https://pagewell.ai/opds. Username is your email.
Get itApp StoreGoogle Play
https://pagewell.ai. Username: your email. Password: an app password. Leave the legacy sign-in option off.Get itApp Store
https://pagewell.ai as the server, then your email and an app password.On GitHub, open Assets and take the file for your system: mac (arm64 for Apple M chips, x64 for Intel), win or windows, linux — or the .apk for Android.
https://pagewell.ai as the address, your email and an app password. Leave the plain-text password option off.Get itGoogle PlayF-Droid
https://pagewell.ai as the server address, your email as the username and an app password as the password. Leave the plain-text password option off.On GitHub, open Assets and take the file for your system: mac (arm64 for Apple M chips, x64 for Intel), win or windows, linux — or the .apk for Android.
https://pagewell.ai as the URL, your email and an app password. Leave legacy authentication off.On GitHub, open Assets and take the file for your system: mac (arm64 for Apple M chips, x64 for Intel), win or windows, linux — or the .apk for Android.
https://pagewell.ai as the URL, your email and an app password.https://pagewell.ai/opds. Username: your email. Password: an app password. Save.https://pagewell.ai/opds. Username: your email. Password: an app password. Fill in both even though they say optional — Readest won’t ask for them later.https://pagewell.ai/opds as the link.Get itGoogle Play
https://pagewell.ai/opds as the address. If the form has username and password fields, fill in your email and an app password.https://pagewell.ai. Books: add the OPDS catalog https://pagewell.ai/opds.Subsonic — some apps call it OpenSubsonic. Don’t pick Navidrome, Jellyfin, Plex or Emby: those connect in other ways and won’t sign in.
The username is the email you sign in to PageWell with (if your account has no email, the Apps page shows what to use). The password is an app password you create on the Apps page of your console, one for each app. Your PageWell password doesn’t work in apps.
Type the address exactly as shown, with nothing added at the end. Copy the app password again from the Apps page — dashes and capital letters don’t matter. After many wrong tries from one place, sign-in pauses for a few minutes.
Yes, in apps that download. Most music apps can keep songs on your phone, and reading apps download a book when you open it — then they work without a connection.
PageWell sends each song exactly as you uploaded it, without converting it. If an app can’t play a format, upload that song as MP3, M4A or FLAC, or try another app from the list.
Songs: MP3, FLAC, M4A, OGG, Opus and WAV. Books: EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, CBZ comics and TXT. Albums, artists, covers and authors are read from the files.
No. Music and books are on every plan, Free included, and use your storage: 128 MB on Free, 10 GB on Pro. One file can be up to 25 MB on Free and 500 MB on Pro.
No one. There are no public links and nothing shows up in Explore. An app password opens only your music and books, and revoking it on the Apps page signs that app out on its next request.
Yes, with the PageWell skill. Ask it to put a folder of songs or e-books in your library: it checks there’s room before sending anything, uploads several files at once and picks up where a dropped upload stopped. It can add to your library but can’t list or open it; what it uploaded shows up in your library and in your apps.