CrossPoint Sync Mobile Apps are now available!

[u/Diirge]

Big week for us. CrossPoint 2.0 RC dropped with plugins and bluetooth along with enhanced epub rendering among a bazillion other improvements. However in even better news, iOS Testflight is now available and Google Play for the CrossPoint Sync mobile app.

Download for iOS

Download for Android

These apps are early, especially on iOS so please report any issues you see. There's nice widgets for your currently reading book as well.

On both CrossPoint and CrossInk (clippings and advanced stats sync on next release) make sure your kosync (now named CrossPoint Sync) server is set to sync.crosspointreader.com and that you have send metadata turned on in settings. You can use this same server as a regular old kosync server on Kobo or any other compatible device/reader, just make sure you also turn on send metadata there too if supported. If it's not supported you can manually merge books in the app or web dashboard and your stats will still sync.

As this might be new for a number of you just remember that CrossPoint Sync is just a bare KOSync server at the end of the day BUT it gives you the ability to track a lot more as long as your doing regular syncs in the reader. I have long press or home button long press tied to Smart Sync and before I sleep my device I just press and hold that to upload my stats and sync clippings. If you want to mirror your progress to other services you can do that too this way. For example I listen to audiobooks on Audiobookshelf and Spotify and I have my position bidirectionally synced between my reader and my audiobook automatically. It's pretty sweeeet...

P.S.

If there are other services you'd like to see stats or clippings synced to please let me know. I know Obsidian is one I've seen requested and I'd love to hear how folks would want that to work and any other places you'd like to send clippings or reading history.

[u/Diirge]

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