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Does ReadEra Allow Syncing Progress Across Devices?

For anyone using the ReadEra app for ebooks, is there a way to keep your reading position in sync between a phone and a tablet without a manual bookmark?
2025-10-09 06:57:33
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Rzkyn
Rzkyn
ReadEra doesn't seem to offer a built-in sync feature. Those kinds of features are generally offered by apps that offer an account within the app itself for reading. So, for now, I read on a variety of apps (including this site!) and share links on Twitter. For a story like ‘Shared Obsession: A Dark MMM Romance’ by Nazarea Andrews I tend to keep it open in one of my browsers on different devices. The story is so intense (three slightly moralambiguous characters and a very dangerous, obsessive relationship) that I wouldn’t want to lose my place anyway.
2026-08-01
Finn
Finn
Currently ReadEra does not offer automatic cloud syncing between devices. This means all of your progress, bookmarks and notes are stored locally on the device that you are currently using. If you were to switch to another phone or tablet for example you would need to manually transfer your library and reading progress. However the app does have a backup and restore feature that you can use to save a copy of your data. We have tried to keep user privacy at the forefront of the app and so no personal data or reading activity is uploaded to any servers.
2025-10-11
Xavier
Xavier
While many reading apps rely on cloud servers to sync user data (with all the security and privacy implications this brings), ReadEra’s lack of cross-device syncing is a deliberate design choice to protect user data. By storing all reading progress locally on the user’s device, users of ReadEra can be certain that all their data is theirs alone, and that they have complete control over it. This approach enables ReadEra to offer a lightweight, private and ad-free reading experience, rather than compromising on these principles in order to make reading easier to manage across multiple devices.
2025-10-14
Yara
Yara
I really like ReadEra. It has only one serious problem for me: no syncing between devices. So I have to read on my tablet and my phone separately. But within a device it works like a charm and always remembers where I left off, even if I close the app and don’t open it again for days or so. I’ve started using the backup-functionality to manually transfer eBooks between my devices, which so far was only a bit of a hassle a few times. But still, true cloud-syncing would be a great update for ReadEra.
2025-10-14
patrick serrano
patrick serrano
There has been a lot of confusion over this on various forums that I have frequented. I thought I’d share my 2-year experience with syncing. I’m going to say yes, but only conditionally. Syncing is actually a backup-and-restore system. In order to enable syncing for an ebook, you go into the book’s Settings > Backup and select your cloud account from the list of accounts that you have added. For me, this would mean Google Drive. Later, when I am finished reading, I will go into the book’s Settings > Backup and click on “Backup now” to ensure that the latest changes have been backed up. On my other device, I will go into the book’s Settings > Backup and click on “Restore” to have the latest changes re-synced to my current device. The way that this app has handled syncing of all of my personal ebooks is not quite as seamless as, for example, Apple Books, but it is free with no ads, so I really have no complaints. The biggest piece of advice that I can offer is to make sure that you create a backup of your book before you switch to reading another ebook. If you fail to do this, you will have to flip back and forth between books in order to find your current place. This adds only a few seconds to the switching process between books, and is well worth it to ensure that all of your ebooks are always synced.
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