Features in detail

The home screen is tailored to you: favourites, recently opened and recently updated pages sit at the top instead of making you click through the hierarchy every time. Star what matters and it shows up in the Favourites widget on your home screen.

Shelves, books, chapters and pages are all represented, including a dedicated Books overview for everything not assigned to a shelf. The breadcrumb bar always shows where you are — every path segment is tappable.

Internal wiki links open the target page inside the app instead of throwing you into a browser. An activity feed from the BookStack audit log shows what changed recently.

Take your pick: the visual editor works WYSIWYG with bold, headings, lists and tables, no syntax required. If you prefer Markdown, stay in the classic editor — switch between Write, Visual and Preview whenever you like.

Apple Intelligence is built right in: the sparkles button in the editor toolbar summarizes, translates, rephrases, shortens or proofreads text without leaving the page.

Code blocks render with syntax highlighting and a copy button, and task checkboxes can be ticked straight from the Reader — the change lands on the server immediately.

Download entire books and shelves with a single tap. The pages stay readable afterwards, even when the server is out of reach — on a plane, in a basement, or anywhere without signal.

Full-text search works offline too, covering your downloaded content including match previews. Pages saved offline also appear in iOS search and open straight into the app from there.

Settings show you what’s stored and how much space it takes, and let you remove individual items again.

BookStax isn’t a read-only client: create shelves, books and chapters on the phone, rename them and move them around. Tag books and shelves with coloured chips, and edit or delete those tags when things change.

Attachments can be viewed, downloaded and uploaded. The export sheet shares pages, chapters and whole books as PDF, Markdown, plain text or HTML.

Deleted something by accident? Restore it from the recycle bin — item by item, or empty the bin in one go.

Pages appear in Spotlight search and open directly in the app from there — your wiki feels like part of the system rather than a separate island.

Via Siri and App Intents you open and search pages by voice or build your own Shortcuts workflows. The home screen widget shows shelves, books, pages and words at a glance, with a 30-day history in the large size.

The share extension accepts text and images from any other app and files them into BookStack, without opening BookStax first.

BookStax connects exclusively to the BookStack server you enter yourself. There’s no intermediary service and no extra user account — the API token inherits exactly the permissions of your BookStack user.

For sensitive content the app can be locked biometrically, with Face ID or Touch ID and a configurable grace period. The token lives exclusively in the iOS Keychain on your device.

No analytics, tracking or advertising services are built in, and crash reports don’t go to third parties. If you want to try BookStax before setting up your own installation, you can connect to the official BookStack demo server.