diff --git a/.github/workflows/coverage.yml b/.github/workflows/coverage.yml
index 766941cbc..acd82445a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/coverage.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/coverage.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
           deactivate
       - uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v1
       - name: Generate code coverage
-        run: cargo llvm-cov --lcov --output-path lcov.info
+        run: cargo llvm-cov --features full --lcov --output-path lcov.info
       - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
         uses: codecov/codecov-action@v1
         with:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index aaaf5ca31..0ceb347eb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -23,9 +23,11 @@ jobs:
           python tests/write_pyarrow.py
           deactivate
       - name: Run
-        run: cargo test
+        run: |
+          cargo test --features full
+          cargo check # compiles without async
       - name: Run lz4-flex
-        run: cargo test --no-default-features --features lz4_flex,bloom_filter,snappy,brotli,zstd,gzip
+        run: cargo test --no-default-features --features lz4_flex,bloom_filter,snappy,brotli,zstd,gzip,async
 
   clippy:
     name: Clippy
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0c97ff424..3b59f2451 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ name = "parquet2"
 bench = false
 
 [dependencies]
-parquet-format-safe = "0.1"
+parquet-format-safe = "0.2"
 bitpacking = { version = "0.8.2", default-features = false, features = ["bitpacker1x"] }
 streaming-decompression = "0.1"
 
-async-stream = { version = "0.3.2" }
-futures = { version = "0.3" }
+async-stream = { version = "0.3.2", optional = true }
+futures = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
 
 snap = { version = "^1.0", optional = true }
 brotli = { version = "^3.3", optional = true }
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ rand = "0.8"
 
 [features]
 default = ["snappy", "gzip", "lz4", "zstd", "brotli", "bloom_filter"]
+full = ["snappy", "gzip", "lz4", "zstd", "brotli", "bloom_filter", "async"]
+async = [ "async-stream", "futures", "parquet-format-safe/async" ]
 snappy = ["snap"]
 gzip = ["flate2/rust_backend"]
 gzip_zlib_ng = ["flate2/zlib-ng"]
diff --git a/src/read/mod.rs b/src/read/mod.rs
index 24ce32269..95448f9a2 100644
--- a/src/read/mod.rs
+++ b/src/read/mod.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ mod indexes;
 pub mod levels;
 mod metadata;
 mod page;
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
 mod stream;
 
 use std::io::{Read, Seek, SeekFrom};
@@ -11,8 +12,13 @@ use std::vec::IntoIter;
 
 pub use compression::{decompress, BasicDecompressor, Decompressor};
 pub use metadata::{deserialize_metadata, read_metadata};
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+#[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "async")))]
 pub use page::{get_page_stream, get_page_stream_from_column_start};
 pub use page::{IndexedPageReader, PageFilter, PageIterator, PageMetaData, PageReader};
+
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+#[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "async")))]
 pub use stream::read_metadata as read_metadata_async;
 
 use crate::error::Error;
diff --git a/src/read/page/mod.rs b/src/read/page/mod.rs
index 13df8bb65..365172ec2 100644
--- a/src/read/page/mod.rs
+++ b/src/read/page/mod.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 mod indexed_reader;
 mod reader;
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
 mod stream;
 
 use crate::{error::Error, page::CompressedPage};
@@ -11,5 +12,6 @@ pub trait PageIterator: Iterator<Item = Result<CompressedPage, Error>> {
     fn swap_buffer(&mut self, buffer: &mut Vec<u8>);
 }
 
-pub use stream::get_page_stream;
-pub use stream::get_page_stream_from_column_start;
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+#[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "async")))]
+pub use stream::{get_page_stream, get_page_stream_from_column_start};
diff --git a/src/write/column_chunk.rs b/src/write/column_chunk.rs
index a2e888091..a88ba69b5 100644
--- a/src/write/column_chunk.rs
+++ b/src/write/column_chunk.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 use std::collections::HashSet;
 use std::io::Write;
 
-use futures::AsyncWrite;
-use parquet_format_safe::thrift::protocol::{
-    TCompactOutputProtocol, TCompactOutputStreamProtocol, TOutputProtocol, TOutputStreamProtocol,
-};
+use parquet_format_safe::thrift::protocol::{TCompactOutputProtocol, TOutputProtocol};
 use parquet_format_safe::{ColumnChunk, ColumnMetaData, Type};
 
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+use futures::AsyncWrite;
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+use parquet_format_safe::thrift::protocol::{TCompactOutputStreamProtocol, TOutputStreamProtocol};
+
 use crate::statistics::serialize_statistics;
 use crate::FallibleStreamingIterator;
 use crate::{
@@ -17,7 +19,10 @@ use crate::{
     page::{CompressedPage, PageType},
 };
 
-use super::page::{write_page, write_page_async, PageWriteSpec};
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+use super::page::write_page_async;
+
+use super::page::{write_page, PageWriteSpec};
 use super::statistics::reduce;
 use super::DynStreamingIterator;
 
@@ -58,6 +63,8 @@ where
     Ok((column_chunk, specs, bytes_written))
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+#[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "async")))]
 pub async fn write_column_chunk_async<W, E>(
     writer: &mut W,
     mut offset: u64,
diff --git a/src/write/indexes/write.rs b/src/write/indexes/write.rs
index e913d322f..3bc3c6724 100644
--- a/src/write/indexes/write.rs
+++ b/src/write/indexes/write.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
-use futures::AsyncWrite;
 use std::io::Write;
 
-use parquet_format_safe::thrift::protocol::{TCompactOutputProtocol, TCompactOutputStreamProtocol};
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+use futures::AsyncWrite;
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+use parquet_format_safe::thrift::protocol::TCompactOutputStreamProtocol;
+
+use parquet_format_safe::thrift::protocol::TCompactOutputProtocol;
 
 use crate::error::Result;
 pub use crate::metadata::KeyValue;
@@ -16,6 +20,8 @@ pub fn write_column_index<W: Write>(writer: &mut W, pages: &[PageWriteSpec]) ->
     Ok(index.write_to_out_protocol(&mut protocol)? as u64)
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+#[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "async")))]
 pub async fn write_column_index_async<W: AsyncWrite + Unpin + Send>(
     writer: &mut W,
     pages: &[PageWriteSpec],
@@ -31,6 +37,8 @@ pub fn write_offset_index<W: Write>(writer: &mut W, pages: &[PageWriteSpec]) ->
     Ok(index.write_to_out_protocol(&mut protocol)? as u64)
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+#[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "async")))]
 pub async fn write_offset_index_async<W: AsyncWrite + Unpin + Send>(
     writer: &mut W,
     pages: &[PageWriteSpec],
diff --git a/src/write/mod.rs b/src/write/mod.rs
index 035f0c109..16ba7ca47 100644
--- a/src/write/mod.rs
+++ b/src/write/mod.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ pub(crate) mod page;
 mod row_group;
 pub(self) mod statistics;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
 mod stream;
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+#[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "async")))]
 pub use stream::FileStreamer;
 
 mod dyn_iter;
diff --git a/src/write/page.rs b/src/write/page.rs
index c6c6072f9..9b0a9c021 100644
--- a/src/write/page.rs
+++ b/src/write/page.rs
@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@ use std::convert::TryInto;
 use std::io::Write;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
 use futures::{AsyncWrite, AsyncWriteExt};
-use parquet_format_safe::thrift::protocol::{TCompactOutputProtocol, TCompactOutputStreamProtocol};
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+use parquet_format_safe::thrift::protocol::TCompactOutputStreamProtocol;
+
+use parquet_format_safe::thrift::protocol::TCompactOutputProtocol;
 use parquet_format_safe::{DictionaryPageHeader, Encoding, PageType};
 
 use crate::compression::Compression;
@@ -91,6 +95,8 @@ pub fn write_page<W: Write>(
     })
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+#[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "async")))]
 pub async fn write_page_async<W: AsyncWrite + Unpin + Send>(
     writer: &mut W,
     offset: u64,
@@ -197,6 +203,8 @@ fn write_page_header<W: Write>(mut writer: &mut W, header: &ParquetPageHeader) -
     Ok(header.write_to_out_protocol(&mut protocol)? as u64)
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+#[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "async")))]
 /// writes the page header into `writer`, returning the number of bytes used in the process.
 async fn write_page_header_async<W: AsyncWrite + Unpin + Send>(
     mut writer: &mut W,
diff --git a/src/write/row_group.rs b/src/write/row_group.rs
index 890d6c27d..94c7ef84c 100644
--- a/src/write/row_group.rs
+++ b/src/write/row_group.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 use std::io::Write;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
 use futures::AsyncWrite;
+
 use parquet_format_safe::{ColumnChunk, RowGroup};
 
 use crate::{
@@ -9,8 +11,11 @@ use crate::{
     page::CompressedPage,
 };
 
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+use super::column_chunk::write_column_chunk_async;
+
 use super::{
-    column_chunk::{write_column_chunk, write_column_chunk_async},
+    column_chunk::write_column_chunk,
     page::{is_data_page, PageWriteSpec},
     DynIter, DynStreamingIterator,
 };
@@ -137,6 +142,8 @@ where
     ))
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "async")]
+#[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "async")))]
 pub async fn write_row_group_async<
     'a,
     W,