What's new in Kenosis AI

Reading is now distraction-free: the toolbars are gone, replaced by one floating bar, and eBooks is a proper library.

• One floating bar for Contents, display, Listen and AI Chat, plus a back arrow, bookmark and pages-left count.
• Contents follows your place; footnotes open in a popup; links inside a book are tappable; the book's own illustrations are shown.
• Ragged or Justified text, Slide, Curl or Fade page turns, five margin steps, and a font from your phone or one you upload.
• The library shows recently opened books, a Yet to Read grid, authors, sorting and one-tap Play on every cover.
• Now Playing has the cover, highlighted sentence, scrubber, speed and a narrator picker; books and topics can be pinned to the drawer.

The whole interface — every screen, menu and message — now speaks your language.

• English, German and French, chosen with the flag beside the dark-mode switch; the app remembers your choice.
• About → Help translate opens the community translation page.
• Legal documents remain in English.

Ask about a character and the assistant answers from the scene that tells you, not just the chapter's opening.

• On lighter on-device models, book chat now retrieves the part of the chapter where the answer actually lives.
• If a model starts repeating itself, the answer stops at the first repeat and keeps the clean result.
• Fact-checking is more reliable too.

Import an audiobook and the book follows the voice — fully offline.

• Import MP3, AAC or ZIP, or transcribe audio already in Files with a tap.
• The narrated sentence is highlighted line by line, in plays and poetry too, and play starts at the page you are reading.
• Long books go chapter by chapter: finished chapters are playable while the rest transcribes in the background; the first chapter is ready in about a minute.
• Stopping is only a pause — playback resumes exactly where it left off, even after a restart.
• Everything stays on your device; LibriVox.org has thousands of free audiobooks to try.

One read-aloud engine for the whole app, with the page following the voice.

• Pick the AI voice or your device's native system speech in Settings; native adds word karaoke.
• The choice applies everywhere — chat answers included — and three sample books (Moby Dick, Pride & Prejudice, Romeo & Juliet) ship in eBooks.
• Read-aloud keeps the spoken sentence in view: when the reader goes full-screen, the page follows the voice instead of drifting.
• Previous and next sentence controls follow both ways.

Long-press a word and the reader becomes a study tool.

• Copy it, share it, highlight it in five colours, attach a note, or look it up.
• Look-up downloads an offline English dictionary once, then works with no internet at all.
• Ask the on-device model what the word means in the sentence you are reading; dictionary meanings appear under the answer.
• Highlights, notes and bookmarks are saved per book, and bookmarks sit next to the chapter list.
• Double-tap a word to act on it directly; long-press the speaker to pick the read-aloud voice.

Export a video re-voiced with an AI voice, in the language you choose.

• Correct the transcript in the built-in editor first; the dub, burned-in subtitles and .srt all speak the corrected text.
• Pick a voice in another language and the dub is translated.
• Burn subtitles into the picture, or keep the original untouched — no quality loss when not burning.
• The original video is remembered, so a repeat export starts right away; progress is shown and the save step says what was done.

Talk to the app and it answers out loud — all on-device.

• Voice assistant (Beta): tap the mic and talk; transcription, the answer and the spoken reply all run on your device; choose the model and Short, Normal or Detailed answers.
• Dictation in chat: each spoken pause is transcribed offline and appended to your message; the mic rings pulse with your voice and it works in airplane mode.
• Translate mode: pick the language you speak and the target; each turn shows the transcript above the translation; tap either to replay the recording.
• Edit a transcript inline to re-translate; hands-free auto-listen can be set separately for answer and translate.

Optional abilities live in separate apps — the host itself keeps no network access.

• Web search runs in a visible browser tab, so you see the search and the pages it reads; answers draw from up to three result pages.
• By default you approve each search — Approve, Edit or Skip, including spoken yes/no in voice; automatic approval is optional.
• Pages that don't need a browser are fetched directly; settings cover images, JavaScript and wipe-on-close.
• Features → Plugins switches Internet Search and LiveCast on per plugin; an entry point appears only while the plugin is on.
• The host still has no INTERNET permission — only the plugin apps hold network access.

A new 1B model brings on-device AI to phones that cannot run the larger Gemma models.

• Faster, more responsive answers and a bigger context window than the previous 1B.
• Delivered as a 793 MB on-demand pack; a 4 GB phone runs chat, transcription, read-aloud and document chat.
• The voice assistant is hidden at 4 GB or less — it needs more than 4 GB and a Gemma 4 model.
• On phones with 6 GB or more, the app no longer suggests the 1B.