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Dev tools · June 30, 2026

Chronicle

Break the fourth wall with Chronicle - the AI novel reader

Chronicle launched on June 30, 2026 with 3 votes, #6,658 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

What it does

A self-hosted novel reader that turns a plaintxt,epub, orpdf into a rich, interactive experience. Turn your favourite book into reality. Reads it in a clean, distraction-free reader with progress, bookmarks, and auto-scroll. Extract characters, attributing every line of dialogue, tagging emotions, and assigning each character a voice. Narrates it with per-character and emotionally aware text-to-speech engine. Talk with your favourite characters directly!

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