[Android] I built an reader for Calibre-Web's OPDS feed (dev here), feedback requested!
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[Android] I built an reader for Calibre-Web's OPDS feed (dev here), feedback requested!

Disclosure: I'm the developer. OPDSy is an Android reader, one-time £3.49, no ads or subscriptions and no tracking whatsoever!

I used to read my books on my phone with Kuboo. It's been dead for years and nothing properly replaced it, so I built the reader I wanted and made it work whether your books sit on a server or just in a folder on the device. It all gets combined into one reader.

I use this personally on a daily basis to read books, comics and pdfs so i'm continually evolving the app. Any feedback or feature request will be highly appreciated and put on my roadmap!

What it does right now:

  • Any folder on your device is a library — covers, titles and authors, nothing imported or converted. Or open a single file straight from another app.
  • Add OPDS servers if you run them — Komga, Kavita, Ubooquity, Calibre-Web, BookOrbit or any OPDS 1.2/2.0 server — and browse everything as one library with a colour badge per source. Each source loads independently, so one slow or offline server never breaks the rest.
  • Comics: paged or continuous webtoon scrolling, LTR/RTL for manga, fit-to-screen or fit-to-width, dual-page spreads in landscape, pinch and double-tap zoom, and page prefetch so the next page is ready before you swipe.
  • Ebooks: adjustable fonts and line spacing, light/sepia/OLED-dark themes, plus a built-in PDF reader and Markdown with Mermaid diagrams.
  • Highlights in five colours with your own notes, and bookmarks in any book or PDF all in one list.
  • Text-to-speech sentence by sentence, auto-continuing between chapters, with speed and pitch control and offline or online voices.
  • Offline downloads, favourites for books and folders, and Continue Reading that remembers your place across every source.
  • E-ink friendly: independent toggles for a high-contrast black-on-white theme and for switching animations off, to avoid ghosting on slow-refresh screens.
  • No account, no ads, no tracking. Credentials stay in the device keychain, and optional cross-device sync runs through your own Google Drive, end-to-end encrypted.
  • Formats: EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, PDF, Markdown, CBZ, CBR, CB7, CBT.

Does anyone here serve OPDS from Calibre's own content server rather than Calibre-Web? I've only tested against Calibre-Web and I'd like to fix whatever differs.

binarymeadow.com
u/MajorDifficulty — 13 hours ago
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I built a free prayer-tracking app that grows a little garden of Jannah as you pray — would love the community's thoughts

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah

I built a salah tracker but with a twist, and I'd love to share it with this community and hear your honest feedback.

It's called Jannah Builder. The idea is simple: you log your five daily prayers, and over time your consistency grows into a calm, pixel-art landscape inspired by Jannah, trees, flowers, rivers, and little animals that appear as you keep going. The idea was you get to somewhat picture what your efforts are achieving and what the real goal is.

A few things I tried hard to get right:

• Gentle, not gamified. Growth is earned slowly through consistency. Missing a day only causes small, gradual change — never a big punishing reset.

• No shame, no pressure, no comparison. There are no scores, no social feeds, and nothing that pits you against other people.

• Rest days. If you're ill, travelling, or just need to step back, you can pause decay so time away never costs you progress. Your streak simply bridges the gap.

• Supportive practices. You can also log Qur'an reading and dhikr, which add gentle beauty to your garden (glowing flowers, light particles) without ever being the "point".

• Local and private. Everything is stored on your device. No account, no tracking, no ads.

Things don't spring up immediately in this app, it takes time a patience. Almost a year for a fully covered map. The thought was by the end of the journey when you have a established Jannah your in a routine and no longer need it.

The app is kid friendly, and i hope its a means to encourage them when starting out.

I want to be upfront and respectful of the sub's rules, I'm not selling anything and there's no monetization. It's completely free and available on Android, from my perspective I was building something to encourage prayer in others.

Jazakallah, and may it be a small means of drawing closer to Allah (SWT) for anyone who finds it useful.

binarymeadow.com
u/MajorDifficulty — 14 days ago

Spinely — Bookshelf Organiser (scan spines, sort y

Developer: Yes, I'm the developer.
Category: Books & Reference / home-library organiser
Price: One-time £2.39. No ads, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no tracking at all.

What it is: Spinely turns your real, physical bookshelves into a catalogue on your phone. Scan a book's ISBN barcode (or search by title, or add it by hand), photograph its spine, build your bookcases and shelves, then reorder any shelf however you like. I built it because im always buying and sometimes selling books, and I wanted my bookshelves to have some organisation without me having to think about it and I wanted to see what that would actually look like with the actual spines of the books I own.

Features:

  • Scan an ISBN barcode for instant title/author/cover/series/category/year (Open Library + Google Books); manual search or hand-entry fallback
  • Photograph and crop each book's spine, and tag its dominant colour
  • Add unlimited bookcases, each with its own shelves, your room, mapped to the wall
  • Organise any shelf instantly by author (first or last name), title, series, spine colour, category or publication year
  • Stack multiple sort orders — e.g. Category, then Author — and it sorts by each in turn
  • The overflow pin: drag a shelf's cut-off so extra books grey out and flow to the next shelf, you define your shelfs capacity.
  • Browse your whole library grouped by author, series or category

Privacy: No account, no ads, no analytics/tracking. Bookcases, shelves, photos and notes stay on your device; the only network calls are book-detail lookups when you scan or search.

Feedback and feature requests very welcome.

play.google.com
u/MajorDifficulty — 23 days ago
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OPDSy — OPDS Comic & Ebook Reader -Paid

Developer: Yes, I'm the developer.

Category: Books & Reference / Comics reader

Price: One-time £3.49. No ads, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no tracking.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opdsy

What it is: OPDSy is a comic & ebook reader for Android that connects to your own self-hosted OPDS servers — Ubooquity, Komga, Kavita and Calibre-Web and merges them into a single library with per-source colour badges. I built it because Kuboo (the client I used to rely on) died and nothing reliable replaced it.

Features:

  • Add multiple OPDS servers, browse them as one library; each source loads independently so one broken server never takes the whole library down
  • Comics stream page-by-page (OPDS-PSE) with smart prefetch — paged/continuous/webtoon, LTR/RTL, dual-page spreads, fit-width/screen, pinch-zoom
  • Ebook reader with adjustable fonts/themes (incl. sepia) and text-to-speech
  • Offline downloads and continue-reading that follows you across sources
  • Optional cross-device sync of library/favourites/reading progress to your own Google Drive, end-to-end encrypted — I never see your data
  • File support: comics CBZ, CBR (also CB7, CBT); ebooks EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, FB2; plus PDF

Privacy: No account, no ads, no analytics or tracking at all. Server credentials stay in Android's secure storage.

Coming soon: a local reader mode, open books and comics stored directly on the device, not just from a server so it works standalone too.

I use this personally on a daily basis so im always iterating on it and adding features.

u/MajorDifficulty — 14 days ago
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I built GridWatch to become more efficient with copilot tokens

Hi, I’m the creator of GridWatch, a small free desktop tool for visualising Copilot CLI sessions. I created a post here a while back with version v0.28.0 after hitting a milestone with features, its now on v0.37.0.

I originally built it for myself and I have been continually expanding it with new features. I think there are some genuine benefits for copilot users in terms of token efficiency and I wanted to share how I use it to achieve this.

You can download and try it out for free here: https://github.com/faesel/gridwatch

I use this tool on a daily basis for work (am an engineer). I would appreciate any feedback you have, and if your a user hope you gain some benefit for it.

faesel.com
u/MajorDifficulty — 2 months ago