Find
Browse a site with its own filters, search several sites at once, or paste a link. You can paste a whole list of links too.
The application
One shelf for serials and books
Fiction Reader finds, downloads and reads web fiction and your own ebooks. You host it yourself, for your own library.
The reading loop
From a site to your shelf
Choose
Subscribing doesn't download everything. You decide which stories are downloaded and where to start.
Archive
Chapters are fetched at a polite pace, cleaned up and stored with their pictures. Edits are kept as versions.
Read
A plain reading view with your choice of fonts and colours, highlights and notes, and offline copies in the desktop and Android apps.
Keep current
Stories are checked on a schedule. An unread queue, an inbox and optional notifications tell you what's new, and you can search everything you've downloaded.
Carry state
If you want, sync your place, notes and your own books between devices through a synced folder or Google Drive.
Three ways to use it
Three ways to run it
Private server
A server on your home network that every device reads from. Reach it over a VPN when you're away.
Desktop
An app for Windows and Linux that keeps its own library, or connects to your server.
Android
An app that connects to your server, or keeps a library on the phone and syncs through Drive.
Data boundaries
What the developer does not operate
There is no developer-hosted Fiction Reader account, library database, sync relay or content store. The public site you are reading explains the product and its policies; it is not the application backend.
Your copy communicates with your own storage, your chosen story sources and, only if you opt in, your Google Drive app-data folder. Read the privacy policy for the complete data flow.