Archive Dive

Zack Song

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About this app

Doomscroll the Archive.

Archive Dive is a unique streaming experience that brings the vast and eccentric collection of the Internet Archive to your mobile device in a modern, vertical feed.

Privacy Focused: No tracking, no addictive psychological algorithms harvesting your data.

3 WAYS TO DIVE
Forget the algorithm updates and trending dances. Archive Dive connects you directly with a universe of media across three dedicated modes:

📺 Video Feed: Swipe through a bottomless pit of content. Watch classic childhood cartoons, forgotten TV shows, movies, indie films, bizarre ephemeral footage & more.
🎵 Audio Feed: Discover underground mixtapes, live concerts, old-time radio broadcasts, and vintage vinyls with a built-in audio player that keeps playing in the background.
📖 Documents Feed: Browse thousands of graphic novels, manga, instruction manuals, government documents, news articles and out-of-print books. Launch the immersive full-screen reader to view original scans page-by-page.

🚀 KEY FEATURES

🔍 Discovery & Personalization
• Build Your Algorithm: Choose from over 100 specific tags across Video, Audio, and Text directories (like Manga, Noir, Documentary, Hyperpop, Experimental, or Sci-Fi).
• "Variety Sort" Engine: Our custom randomizer mixes up your feed based on your tag choices, delivering a chaotic but tailored mix of media so you never get stuck browsing the same type of content twice.
• Smart Filters: Looking for something specific? Filter your current feed by Decade (1800s - 2020s) and Language.
• Turn On Weighted Tags: Looking to take full control of the content you see and make it less random? You can adjust each tag to change how often it's shown in the feed.
• Customize Your UI: You can either keep the Default color scheme or completely customize the colors of the UI to your liking.
🏛️ The Museum
• Save Your Favorites: Built-in bookmarking lets you save the weirdest and best media you surface.
• Create Exhibits: Organize your saved videos, albums, and books into custom folders, crafting your own personal curation.

🎥 Modern Player, Classic Content
• Vertical & Horizontal Swipe Navigation: The familiar, intuitive interface you already know, applied to the internet's largest digital library. Vertical scroll for new content, horizontal scroll to move through multi-part playlists and albums.
• Other Controls: Double tap sides to rewind (-10s) or fast forward (+30s) or use the video scrubbing bar.
• Source Intel & Reviews: Found something fascinating? Read the original Internet Archive reviews directly in-app, or tap the "Web" button to open the original source page for deeper research.

No accounts needed. Just launch the app, select your tags, pick your feed, and start diving.

What’s new

Release Notes:
- Added the ability to Link Account (and Unlink) with your Internet Archive account in a new Web Accounts section in settings. There are no passwords or account info saved by Archive Dive, the app only checks for the log in cookie to see if you've linked your account & it is solely for unlocking certain features like commenting or reading documents with a block.
- document museum exhibits now track pages read.
- added "write a review" button to the comment section.