Ebook readers and book trackers
Apps for reading ebooks, comics and manga (often with TTS narration, AI Q&A or speed reading) and for tracking, organizing and discovering books read, aimed at avid and digital readers.
Built for: Avid readers and ebook/manga fans
Projects since May 04
294
Different builders
275
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-10%
AI is the core
17%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (44%), mobile app (36%), browser extension (7.1%) · from r/SideProject, r/IMadeThis, r/chrome_extensions, r/vibecoding
Latest
- Bookplate — Tracks books a person owns or reads and lets them manage their personal library online.“My open source book tracking website now offered as hosted service too”
- OpenBookshelf — Organizes a personal book library with barcode scanning and custom shelves, with in-browser semantic search over a prebuilt embedding index.“OpenBookshelf”
- ComiCollector — Catalogs a comic book collection on a mobile device, tracking raw and graded books with value and market information.“I built ComiCollector — an AI-assisted comic collection app for cataloging, valuing, and managing a comic collection”
- Folarin Bookstore — Provides a catalog of over 23,000 free books to read in an Android app.“I just launched Folarin Bookstore on Android — a digital library with 23,000+ free books”
- Buki — Identifies books in clicked images using a vision model checked against OpenLibrary and saves them to a local shelf.“Buki, a Chrome extension that catches books in any picture”
- tractated — Hosts public domain classic books alongside LLM-generated simplifications, annotations, and structural outlines to make them easier to read.“I built a site that renders difficult old philosophy and literature easier to read”
- Lire — Finds manga series by name, searches torrent indexers for volumes, picks the smallest set of releases covering missing volumes, and sends them to qBittorrent and a Kavita library.“I got tired of reading torrent titles to complete manga series, so I built a Sonarr for manga volumes”
- vibed-audiobook — Plays audiobooks with an AI assistant that answers questions about the content and is controlled by voice while eyes are closed.“A fully vibe-coded, CC0 AI audiobook app to support asking questions and controlling with eyes closed”
- Presents a book to readers on a personal website.“I am 16 and I made a website for my book”
- bookplate — Manages a personal book library on a self-hosted server.“Self-hosted library app”
- Audibound — Provides tools that help authors turn written manuscripts into audiobooks in one workflow.“We built a platform for authors who want to bring their books into audio”
- Bookidoro — Shows a short reading overlay of one to five pages from the user's book queue when a work break starts, instead of phone scrolling.“I built a native Mac app to stop my phone doomscrolling habit during work breaks. 2 months in, I’ve read 4 books & just added iCloud sync.”
- HushBook — Plays audiobooks with synchronized read-along text from linked ebooks and tracks listening progress.“I made an audiobook app that reads along with any audiobook you throw at it”
- Kites — Translates manga and comic images directly on webpages through a Chrome extension, handling text detection, OCR, inpainting and typesetting.“[Kites] - Open-source manga/image translator that runs the whole AI pipeline inside Chrome”
- Widdle Reader — Plays audiobook files from local storage and opens matching EPUB or PDF files alongside the narration.“I built an Android audiobook player where you can swipe from the audiobook to its ebook, and the audio keeps playing”
- Perch — Reads PDF books aloud and answers questions about them, with page citations and spoiler-limited summaries and analysis.“Perch: a reading companion for Mac.It reads your PDFs aloud, answers questions with page references, and recaps, maps, and explains the book up to your page, without spoilers.”
- Calibre Zen — Provides a modern, themed user interface for the Calibre ebook manager while using Calibre as its underlying engine.“Calibre Zen: A modern Calibre for people who love ebooks. It supports all the features of Calibre and plugins.”
- Episteme Reader — Opens and annotates PDFs, e-books, comics and plain text files offline, with sync of reading positions via local folder tools.“[OSS] Episteme: PDF & eBook Reader (Android + iOS)”
- Jotsky — Presents short reading excerpts in a swipeable feed so people can read in bite-sized sessions.“made a “tik tok for reading” app”
- Obook — Converts PDFs and ebooks into narrated audiobooks with cleaned-up sections and word-by-word highlighting.“Solo dev here: I spent 8 months building a PDF-to-audiobook app, and I even run my own GPU server for the voices”
Most discussed
- Lumabook — Shows animated scenes alongside book text as the reader progresses through a story.“I’m building a reading app where books come alive as you read”
- Shelfie — Lets users build a customizable virtual wooden bookshelf to track and arrange their books with decorations and lighting.“Built my girlfriend a cozy book tracker app, now it's bringing in paying users :)”
- bookplate — Manages a personal book library on a self-hosted server.“Self-hosted library app”
- Project Gutentag — Generates free audiobooks from public-domain texts by spending contributors' leftover text-to-speech credits.“I am generating 70,000 free audiobooks, funded by leftover TTS credits”
- OraReader — Imports PDFs, detects chapters, and reads them aloud with word-by-word highlighting and offline download.“Got tired of all the freemium TTS apps and made a better one completely free”
- Koby — Converts uploaded ebook files into read-aloud audio in the browser, highlighting each line as it is spoken.“I built a free web app that turns any ebook into an audiobook, right in your browser”
- Alexandria Audiobook — Converts EPUB or text files into full audiobooks using local or API-based text-to-speech.“I vibe-coded an audiobook generator and people are actually using it”
- Biblio.ink — Catalogs a personal book collection on a 3D shelf showing each book's cover, spine, and back, with in-app ebook reading and reading tracking.“From a discontinued Mac app I used for 13 years to a 3D bookshelf I built for myself. 70 people used it in the last 7 days.”
- Folio — Lets users read books in the browser while asking AI to explain passages, annotating text, and saving vocabulary for quizzes.“Built a reading platform that keeps AI, notes, and vocabulary in one place”
- Ovid — Lets users import EPUB books into a browser-based 3D bookshelf and read them with paragraph-level toggling between original and translated text.“Ovid — a bilingual reader with 3D bookshelf”