Familiar: Reading Tracker

Thoughtkraken

About this app

You are a reading mage, and every mage needs a familiar. Yours lives on mana, and mana comes from pages.

Familiar is a reading tracker with a pixel-art pet. Read, and it hatches from an egg, grows through five stages and changes with what you read. Forget about books and it slowly turns to stone, until a few pages break the spell. Free, no ads, no account.

🥚 FOURTEEN FAMILIARS
• Mimic, kitsune, slime, dragon, phoenix, griffin, owlbear, moon moth, tanuki, sprout, ghost, bookworm, chimera and magpie
• Each loves its own kind of reading: long books, night reading, streaks, audiobooks, horror, a new genre after the last
• Three can hatch at the start; the rest are found by reading
• A grown familiar takes one of five forms after the books it was fed on: astral, shadow, bloom, sage or wild
• Every egg hatches with a nature of its own, and one in sixteen hatches shining, in a rare colouring

🕯 THE RITUAL
• A candle that burns down while you read, a big "turn the page" button, a fireplace or rain
• Lay the phone face down and the familiar dozes on your lap: quiet time feeds a bonus
• Read or listen: switch any book to its audio version, sitting by sitting
• Read on the train? Log the page you reached, or just the minutes
• After each sitting, a feast: pages, candlelight, stillness, its favourite, a finished book

🏠 THE DEN
• Every mana leaves a spark, and sparks buy furniture: a window with the real day or night, a bookshelf in the colours of your finished books, a cauldron, a telescope, fairy lights
• Stroke your familiar and it purrs; after midnight it sleeps
• Finds from the stories, dreams after evening reading, seasonal holidays

📚 YOUR LIBRARY
• Find books in Fantlab and Open Library with real covers, or type them in and pick your own picture
• Shelves, cycles with volumes, your own genres and subgenres
• Search, filter and sort the whole library
• The familiar's draw when you can't choose what to read next

📊 THE LEDGER AND THE SAGA
• Your pace in pages an hour, overall and by genre
• When you read most, and your best day of the week
• Six months side by side, and the day you'll finish your current book
• A goal for the year with your pace against it
• The tree of stories: every finished book grows a glowing fruit
• The saga: your year told as a legend, with a square for every day of reading

ALSO
• Monthly guild errands, guardian candles that keep a streak on a quiet day
• Visits: show a QR code and your familiar stays in a friend's den for a day, phone to phone
• A postcard of your familiar to share, an evening reminder, a home-screen widget
• Backup to a file
• English and Russian
• Free and open source (MIT)

Your reading stays on your phone. The app goes online only when you search for a book.

What’s new

New in 1.5:
• Share cards for stories and posts: the book you're reading with its cover and progress, your month in books, your year in numbers, and your den. Night or parchment, 9:16 or 4:5.
• Import from LiveLib and Goodreads: shelves, ratings, dates, cycles and covers.
• The tree shows this year's books or all of them.
• A clearer den: your book and the candle right under the familiar, the streak beside its name.
• Guild rewards are small buttons beside their errands.