A better way to read.
A reading experience designed for people who work with documents every day. Not another PDF viewer — a place to think through papers, figures, tables, and references.
Most readers exist to render a file correctly. You open a document to do something else: follow a method, check a figure, chase a citation, jump to another paper, and come back. Displaying pages is not the job.
Built around files, pages, and zoom. Fine for preview. Thin for the work of reading.
Built around attention, structure, and the paths you actually take through a document.
Rectoly focuses on the experience that matters most: reading. Library tools keep your collection. We keep you inside the document — moving through information, not just flipping pages.
Papers were not designed for screens. We are changing the surface: layout, focus, comparison, and navigation that come from a single idea — help you stay in the work.
A paper is sections, figures, tables, and references. Treating it as a stack of images is why reading still feels like work. We are building toward structure — so the document can meet you halfway.
Research reading is closer to an IDE than a slideshow. Citation to paper, figure to method, method to supplement. We're building a new kind of reading environment — without calling it an IDE on the door.
Process as much as possible on the iPad you already own. Structure, search, and future intelligence stay close to the file. Powerful reading without sending everything to the cloud — and a buy-once model that does not rent your attention.
The brand is the reading environment. Each product is a door into it.
The first door. A professional iPad reader for researchers who lost the official mobile app — and still live in Mendeley.
The same reading environment, native to the open library you already trust. True Apple Pencil. Workflow intact.
From PDF readers to intelligent reading environments. Displaying a document is table stakes. Re-designing the act of reading is the work. Designed around your documents, not your subscription.
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