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24 alternatives to Novel Reader
Free Novel and Fiction Stories
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Novel Reader launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I quit my job last year and worked mostly on this full SwiftUI rewrite of my Japanese reading app, Manabi Reader. The rewrite gave me the opportunity to expand to macOS (and without Catalyst so it feels extra native) and redo the data layer to be offline-first via Realm with iCloud sync. The biggest differentiators compared with other language study apps are that it tracks every word/kanji you read so that you can see how much of a given webpage/article you're already familiar with and other features/analytics built on that foundation; it automatically builds a personal corpus…
2023 · reader.manabi.io · its alternatives →
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Novel is a Notion-style WYSIWYG editor with AI-powered autocompletions. Built with Tiptap, OpenAI, and Vercel AI SDK.
2023 · novel.sh · its alternatives →
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Novel Effect▲83Music and sounds follow along as you read aloud together.
2018 · noveleffect.com · its alternatives →
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Readwise Reader▲380The all-in-one reading app for power readers
2022 · readwise.io · its alternatives →
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BookRead▲415AI-powered E-Reader that makes reading effortless
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, cofounder of Readwise here. We've been working on this cross-platform reader app for about 2 years, excited to finally share it in public beta. Probably the most notable thing that makes Reader unique is that it supports almost any content type you could want to save/read/highlight: * web pages * emails/newsletters * PDFs * ePubs * twitter threads * youtube videos (with transcripts) * RSS feeds With all of your knowledge content in one place, we built powerful reading and highlighting, as well as a bunch of novel triage/organization features, so you can actually…
2022 · readwise.io · its alternatives →
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Toku Reader▲111Read & listen to native Japanese and Chinese, tap any word
Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Novelo▲71Write online with your friends and read exciting stories
2023 · novelo.com · its alternatives →
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Readstack▲145Zero-stress app to save the articles you want to read later
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Bookov▲126A platform for book lovers who value their collections
2025 · bookov.app · its alternatives →
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A free reading app for kids who just learned their phonics sounds: every word in a story can be sounded out, tap a word for its sounds. Bring your own agent (MCP). Cloudflare Workers. - finereli/yarareads
8d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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Read articles + text blocks (any app) distraction free.
2022 · quietreader.app · its alternatives →
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Novelzy▲1Read free novels online — Romance, Fantasy, Thriller & more
Apr 2026 · novelzy.com · its alternatives →
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NovelAI▲85AI-assisted authorship, storytelling & virtual companionship
2022 · novelai.net · its alternatives →
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2013 · kouio.com · its alternatives →
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Novellic▲91App for discovering, joining, and managing book clubs
2018 · novellic.com · its alternatives →
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A modern cross-platform web novel reader in browser
2025 · webnovel.win · its alternatives →
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