Support
Athene for iPhone and iPad
Email [email protected]. It reaches the person who wrote the app. If you're reporting something broken, say which device and which iOS version, and what the book was — that's usually enough to find it.
Getting books in
Athene reads EPUB and PDF. Open a file from Files, iCloud Drive, Mail or any other app and choose Athene from the share sheet, or use the import control in the library. The book is copied into Athene, so it stays available whether or not the original does.
Athene has no store and never will. It reads books you already have.
Connecting a calibre server
Athene talks to calibre-web and to anything else that serves an OPDS
catalogue. In the calibre screen, enter the server's address — for example
http://192.168.1.20:8083 — with the username and password you use for that
server, and connect.
- It can't reach the server. Check that the device is on the same network, and that iOS has been allowed to find local devices: Settings → Athene → Local Network.
- It connects but the shelf is empty. calibre-web only exposes books over OPDS to accounts that have permission to download. Check that account in calibre-web's admin.
- Downloads stall or fail partway. calibre-web rate-limits OPDS requests. Athene waits and retries on its own — give it a moment before trying again.
You can connect and browse your library before buying Athene Pro, so you can confirm the connection works first. Downloading a book into your library is a Pro feature.
The Owl
The Owl answers questions about the passage you're reading. It can run three ways: on Apple Intelligence, where the device supports it and it has been turned on in Settings; on a language model you download inside Athene; or against an Ollama server you run yourself, by entering its address in the Owl's setup screen.
If the Owl says it isn't available, the usual cause is that Apple Intelligence is off or still preparing on that device, no model has been downloaded, and no server has been configured — one of the three has to be true.
Purchases
Athene Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription, and is shared through Family Sharing. If you've bought it and the app doesn't show it — on a new device, or after reinstalling — open the Pro screen and choose Restore Purchases. That asks the App Store directly and needs the same Apple Account the purchase was made with.
Refunds are handled by Apple, not by Athene, at reportaproblem.apple.com.
Your data
Everything Athene knows lives on your device. Deleting the app deletes all of it, including your library, so export or move anything you want to keep first. The privacy policy sets out exactly what is stored and what is sent.
Reporting a bug
Email [email protected] with:
- Your device and iOS version
- What you did, and what happened instead
- For a book that won't open or renders wrongly: where the book came from, and the file if you're able to share it
A book that fails is almost always a book with something unusual in it, and having the file is the difference between a fix and a guess.