Produce Great Quality Work In Less Time With Zenreader

A New Way to Collect and Extract Knowledge is Here

Founded in 2015, the vision behind Zenreader was to create a suite of productivity tools that enable users to capture, extract, organize, and make use of knowledge effectively in order to streamline their daily work. Currently, Zenreader’s main function is note-taking from digital documents, but the ultimate goal is to expand on its capabilities, as well as make it a more collaborative tool, used by teams as well as individuals.

What sets Zenreader apart is that it is an all-in-one software that brings together a variety of productivity-increasing features and elements. The aim is to help users produce higher quality work, faster.

The next big step for the team is to introduce cloud functionality which will allow users to sync their data across all their devices, as well as share their work with their team. When everyone on the team has an up-to-date document to refer to, many of the most common frustrations can be eradicated, and the process streamlined.

Whilst Zenreader was only released fairly recently due to its extensive R&D efforts, it has already amassed over a thousand active users, with the number growing every month.

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The Qt-est Choice

The Zenreader team decided to use Qt for their project to benefit from its cross-platform functionality within one codebase. Knowing that with Qt they could develop their software further and take it to other operating systems made it the easy choice.

The C++ backend meant that they could use a lot of C++ libraries in the development. The QML frontend meant being able to build attractive UIs quickly that were backed by the power and logic of C++, as well as being able to integrate JavaScript libraries to it as well.

Whilst they considered other frameworks for the build, Qt’s framework offers unrivalled and out-of-the-box functionality. Using it enabled them to achieve most of their UI/UX and functionality objectives quickly, whilst creating efficient cross-platform programs.

Currently, the team is using Qt Linguist and Qt Creator with the Qt build system, as well as QML for building the user interface. They love it for the easy integration between C++, JavaScript, and QML, giving a special thanks to the Layouting / Anchoring engine.

“Our favourite thing about Qt, besides the name, is QML and the documentation", says Carlo Minciacchi, Co-founder and Director at Leapian and Zenreader.

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