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I built an EPUB reader that helps you keep track of characters while reading

I've been working on an EPUB reader called Lore, mainly because I kept running into the same problem with books that have large casts: forgetting who a character is, what they've done before, or whether two different names actually refer to the same person.

The idea is that you can import an EPUB and, while you read, Lore builds a companion for that book.

Some of the main features:

  • Character tracking — see the characters in the book, their descriptions, aliases, relationships, and role in the story.
  • Character timelines — follow what has happened to a specific character in chronological order.
  • Character portraits — characters get visual representations based on how they're described in the book.
  • Talk to characters — you can have conversations with characters or ask questions about the book.
  • Spoiler protection — information is limited to the part of the book you've already reached, so character pages and answers don't reveal things that happen later.
  • Quick character lookup — if a name appears while you're reading, you can quickly check who that person is instead of searching through previous chapters.

I also made a couple of web demos so you can see the core idea without downloading anything:

A Game of Thrones:
https://lore-demo.web.app/?book=a-game-of-thrones

The Count of Monte Cristo:
https://lore-demo.web.app/?book=the-count-of-monte-cristo

And here's the app itself:

Lore:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lore-dive-into-book-worlds/id6757860326

I'm still actively working on it, especially on making the character extraction and spoiler protection as reliable as possible.

I'd genuinely be interested in hearing what people who read EPUBs think about the idea — particularly whether character tracking is something you'd actually use while reading, and what you'd want an EPUB reader like this to do differently.

u/Prudent_Aerie_1688 — 6 days ago

A Character Tracking System for The Count of Monte Cristo

When I read long books with a lot of characters, I often start mixing people up or forgetting who someone was and what they had done earlier in the story.

That’s why I’ve been working on an EPUB reader that tries to make this easier. It lists the characters in the book, and while reading you can tap on a character’s name to quickly see who they are and what they’ve done so far. You can also talk to the characters and ask questions about the book.

Everything is based only on the part of the book you’ve already read, so information from later chapters isn’t shown.

I thought The Count of Monte Cristo would be a good book to test this with because I know it’s very long and has a large cast of characters, although I haven’t read it yet.

I also made a free web version so it’s easy to try without downloading anything.

You can try the free web version here: https://lore-demo.web.app/?book=the-count-of-monte-cristo

If you try it, I’d really appreciate any feedback, especially from people who know the book well.

If you notice any missing characters, incorrect information, events assigned to the wrong character, or anything else that seems off, please let me know. I’d also love to hear if there’s anything you think would make this more useful while actually reading the book.

u/Prudent_Aerie_1688 — 8 days ago

Böyle bir EPUB okuma uygulaması ilginizi çeker mi?

Selam arkadaşlar,

Özellikle Rus romanları gibi çok fazla karakterin bulunduğu ve aynı karakterin farklı isimlerle anıldığı kitapları okurken karakterleri takip etmekte zorlanıyorum. Bu sorunu çözmeye yönelik bir EPUB okuma uygulaması fikri üzerine düşünüyorum.

Uygulamada:

  • Kitapta adı geçen bütün karakterler bir panelde gösterilecek.
  • Karakterlerin görselleri, yazarın kitaptaki tasvirlerine göre oluşturulacak.
  • Her karakterin olaylarını gösteren bir zaman çizelgesi olacak.
  • Karakterin adına tıklayarak kim olduğunu, hikâyedeki yerini ve farklı isimlerini görebileceksiniz.
  • Karakterlerle konuşabilecek ve kitap hakkında sorular sorabileceksiniz.
  • Bütün bilgiler yalnızca okuduğunuz sayfaya kadar olan olayları kapsayacak. İlerleyen bölümlerle ilgili spoiler gösterilmeyecek.

Bunu burada sormamın sebebi, uygulamanın henüz istediğim seviyede olmaması ve geliştirmesinin oldukça uğraştırıcı olması. Gerçek EPUB okurlarının böyle bir uygulama ilgisini çeker mi anlamaya çalışıyorum. Buradaki kişilerin ilgisini çekmeyecek bir fikirse projeyi bir süreliğine dondurmayı düşünüyorum.

Bu özelliklere sahip bir uygulama ilginizi çeker miydi? EPUB okurken gerçekten kullanır mıydınız?

u/Prudent_Aerie_1688 — 23 days ago

Aradıgınız memeyi nasıl buluyorsunuz?

Telefon galerisinde ya da arşivinde çok fazla meme biriktirenlere bir şey sormak istiyorum.

Eski bir memeyi tekrar bulmanız gerektiğinde nasıl buluyorsunuz? Klasör mü yapıyorsunuz, favorilere mi atıyorsunuz, yoksa galeride uzun uzun scroll mu yapıyorsunuz?

Ben de bu problem için küçük bir uygulama geliştiriyorum. Mantığı şu: Bir memeyi kaydettiğinizde uygulama o meme için otomatik etiketler ve tanımlayıcılar ekliyor. Böylece daha sonra binlerce meme arasından aradığınız şeyi kelimeyle çok daha kolay bulabiliyorsunuz.

Eğer telefonunda gerçekten meme arşivi olan ve bunu denemek isteyen biri varsa, birkaç kişiye test ettirmek ve geri bildirim almak isterim.

u/Prudent_Aerie_1688 — 2 months ago

[iOS] [$59.99/year -> Free 1 Year] Mimfold - Save, Auto-Tag & Search Memes from Reddit, X & Pinterest

I built Mimfold because I kept saving memes, reaction images, screenshots, and funny posts from Reddit, X/Twitter, Pinterest, and my gallery — but whenever I needed one specific meme later, I could never find it.

The main idea: Save your memes in one place, auto-tag them, organize them, and find them later in seconds.

Useful for:

- saving memes from Reddit, X/Twitter, and Pinterest

- organizing reaction images

- keeping your favorite memes in collections

- finding a meme you saved weeks or months ago

- people with large meme archives

- anyone tired of endlessly scrolling through their gallery

- saving funny screenshots and social media posts

- quickly finding the right meme when you need it

Main features:

- Save memes, reaction images, screenshots, and funny media

- Save from Reddit, X/Twitter, Pinterest, or your own gallery

- Auto-generated tags for saved memes

- Search your archive later with keywords

- Organize memes into collections

- Browser extension support for saving from desktop

How to Claim:

  1. Download Mimfold from the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mimfold-meme-saver/id6764534917

  2. Try the app

  3. Upvote

  4. Comment: Mimfold + your feedback

I’m giving free 1-year Mimfold Premium access to a limited number of users in exchange for honest feedback.

Every bit of feedback means a lot to me as a solo indie developer. Thanks for helping me improve Mimfold! 🙏

u/Prudent_Aerie_1688 — 3 months ago

[iOS] [$59.99/year -> Free 1 Year] Mimfold - Personal meme archive

I’m giving free 1-year Mimfold Premium access to a limited number of users who want to try the app and give honest feedback.

Mimfold is a personal meme and media archive app. I built it because I kept saving memes, reaction images, screenshots, and funny posts, but when I needed a specific one later, I could never find it.

With Mimfold, you can keep your saved media in one place, add automatic tags, and search your archive more easily when you need something.

Main features:

  • Save memes, reaction images, screenshots, and funny media
  • Keep everything in a personal archive
  • Automatic tags based on the content
  • Search your saved media by topic, mood, reaction, or meaning
  • Find the right meme faster when you need it

I also built a Chrome extension for Mimfold.

The extension lets you save memes and media directly from your desktop browser. Anything you save with the extension is added to your Mimfold archive, so you can find it later from your phone.

You can download both the iOS app and the Chrome extension from the website:

https://mimfold.com

How to claim:

Download the app from the website and leave a comment if you want to try Premium. I’ll reply with activation details.

I’m mainly looking for feedback from people who save a lot of memes or reaction images. If something feels confusing, missing, or annoying, I’d really appreciate hearing it.

u/Prudent_Aerie_1688 — 3 months ago

I kept thinking of specific memes while chatting on WhatsApp, but could never find them — so I built an app for it

Hey everyone,

I built Mimfold because I kept running into the same problem:

I have thousands of memes, reaction images, screenshots, funny posts, and random media saved across my phone, Reddit, X/Twitter, downloads, and old chats. But whenever I’m chatting with someone on WhatsApp and the perfect meme comes to mind, I can almost never find it fast enough.

By the time I scroll through my gallery, folders, bookmarks, or downloads, the moment is usually gone.

So I made Mimfold as a personal meme/media archive.

You can save media directly from your phone, and you can also use the Share button from apps like Reddit or X/Twitter to send memes/posts into Mimfold. The app then stores them in your own archive and automatically adds tags based on the content, so they are easier to search and find later.

The idea is simple: instead of losing memes in your gallery or bookmarks, you keep them in one searchable place.

My main goal is to make it useful for people who constantly save memes “for later” but can never find the right one when they actually need it.

I’d really appreciate feedback from anyone who has a huge meme/reaction image collection or uses memes a lot in chats.

Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mimfold-right-meme-instantly/id6764534917

u/Prudent_Aerie_1688 — 3 months ago

Android kapalı test için kullanıcı arıyorum — Meme/media arşiv uygulamam Mimfold

Selamlar,

Daha önce burada geliştirdiğim uygulama Mimfold’u paylaşmıştım ve güzel geri bildirimler almıştım. Şimdi Play Store’da yayınlayabilmek için Android tarafında kapalı test kullanıcılarına ihtiyacım var.

Mimfold kısaca; internette gördüğünüz meme, reaction image, komik görsel/video veya daha sonra kullanmak istediğiniz medyaları tek bir kişisel kütüphanede toplamanızı sağlayan bir uygulama.

Uygulama şu şekilde çalışıyor:

X/Twitter veya Reddit’te bir görsel/video gördüğünüzde Share / Paylaş diyerek Mimfold’u seçiyorsunuz. Medya otomatik olarak kişisel kütüphanenize ekleniyor. Galeriden veya telefonunuzdaki dosyalardan da içerik ekleyebiliyorsunuz.

Binlerce görsel içinde kaybolmaması için eklenen medyalara otomatik etiketler ekliyoruz. Böylece daha sonra aradığınız meme’i veya reaction image’ı çok daha kolay bulabiliyorsunuz.

Ayrıca bulduğunuz medyayı tek tıkla WhatsApp gibi uygulamalarda paylaşabiliyorsunuz. Yani amaç sadece kaydetmek değil, doğru anda hızlıca bulup gönderebilmek.

Şu anda özellikle Android kapalı test süreci için kullanıcı arıyorum. Denemek isteyenler bana yorumdan veya DM’den ulaşırsa test grubuna ekleyebilirim.

iOS tarafını denemek isteyenler için uygulama App Store’da mevcut:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mimfold-right-meme-instantly/id6764534917

Geri bildirim verirseniz çok sevinirim. Özellikle uygulamada eksik gördüğünüz şeyler, akışta takıldığınız yerler veya “şu özellik olsa iyi olurdu” dediğiniz noktalar benim için çok değerli.

Teşekkürler.

u/Prudent_Aerie_1688 — 3 months ago
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I got tired of losing the perfect meme at the exact moment I needed it

I built Mimfold because I kept having the same annoying problem.

While chatting with someone, I’d suddenly remember the perfect meme or reaction image for that exact moment.

Then I’d search through my screenshots, downloads, bookmarks, Reddit saves, X/Twitter saves… and usually never find it fast enough.

By the time I found it, the moment was gone.

So I made a personal meme/media archive app that automatically tags what you save, so you can search your collection later.

The idea is that even if you had thousands of memes saved, you could still find the right one by searching what’s in it or what it represents.

For example:
“confused guy”
“crying reaction”
“this is fine”
“angry cat”
“perfect reply”

I know it’s a small problem, but for people who save a lot of memes, reaction images, screenshots, and funny posts, it actually feels like a real organization issue.

Do you use any system for this, or do you just let everything disappear into your camera roll?

I’m looking for honest feedback from real users: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mimfold-right-meme-instantly/id6764534917

u/Prudent_Aerie_1688 — 3 months ago

I built Mimfold, a personal meme/media archive app — now with a Chrome extension

I started building it because I had saved thousands of memes, reaction images, funny posts, screenshots, and random media over time.

But at some point, saving more stuff made the problem worse.

Whenever I needed a specific meme, I almost never found it. It was buried somewhere in my camera roll, downloads, bookmarks, Reddit saves, or X/Twitter saves.

So I made Mimfold to keep saved media in one searchable place.

You can import/save media from your phone, and I recently added a Chrome extension too.

Now the flow is simple:

  1. Find a meme/media on desktop
  2. Save it with the Mimfold Chrome extension
  3. Open Mimfold on your iPhone
  4. Search and find it whenever you need it

Right now, Mimfold is available on iPhone, and I’m planning to bring it to the Play Store soon.

I’d really appreciate feedback from people who use Chrome extensions.
Does this desktop-to-phone saving flow feel useful?
What would you expect from an extension like this?

Link : https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mimfold-saver/ppegejhbccjiihdjadeggidkalebilca

u/Prudent_Aerie_1688 — 3 months ago

DAE save memes or funny posts for later and then never find them again?

I do this constantly.

I’ll see a meme, reaction image, or funny post and save it because I know it would be perfect to send in some future conversation.

Then when that exact moment comes, I can never find it.

Bookmarks are messy, screenshots disappear in the camera roll, and downloads are basically impossible to search properly.

How do you organize stuff like this? Do you use bookmarks, folders, notes, screenshots, or some other system?

I got annoyed enough that I started building a small personal meme library that automatically tags saved memes/posts, so I can search for them later instead of endlessly scrolling. I’m curious if this is a real problem for other people too, or if I’m just overthinking my meme-hoarding habits.

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u/Prudent_Aerie_1688 — 3 months ago
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I made an app for a problem I was having

Hi everyone,

While scrolling on Twitter, I bookmark memes that I find funny so I can send them later while talking to someone. But after a while, finding that meme again becomes almost impossible.

When I’m chatting with my friends on WhatsApp, sometimes a very specific meme comes to my mind, but I can’t find it anymore. So I developed an app for this problem.

When you choose the app from the share menu on Twitter, and Reddit too in the next update, it saves the media into your personal library and writes a description for the media if you want.

Let’s say you have an archive with ten thousand media files. You can search something like “Jesse ” and find the meme Pinkman holding his head you were looking for.

App Store link:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mimfold-right-meme-instantly/id6764534917

I’d be happy if you try it and give feedback.

u/Prudent_Aerie_1688 — 3 months ago
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Kendi yaşadıgım bir soruna yonelik uygulama yaptım

Selamlar , twitterda gezinirken komik buldugum memeleri birileriyle konusurken gonderirim diye bookmarklıyorum fakat sonra onu tekrar bulmam imkansızlasıyor , arkadaslarımla whatsappta konusurken aklıma spesik bir meme geliyor fakat daha onu bulamıyorum ben de buna yonelik bir uygulama gelistirdim. Twitterdan ve redditten(sonraki guncellemede gelecek) share diyerek uygulamayı sectiginizde medyayı kişisel kutuphanenize cekiyor ve medyaya açıklama yazıyor(isterseniz).on bin tane medya olan arsiviniz oldugunu varsayalım. "babacum" yazarak fatih terim aradıgınız fatih terim memesini bulabilirsiniz.

Appstore link : https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mimfold-right-meme-instantly/id6764534917

Deneyip geri bildirim yaparsanız sevinirim.

https://preview.redd.it/wkzvdc9nuj0h1.jpg?width=921&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=070837845126e467f6b29ee834a4319ea3cd06cd

https://preview.redd.it/z4q19mpnuj0h1.jpg?width=921&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7b546091ae747d93880c520a9a64b9274700e2d

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u/Prudent_Aerie_1688 — 3 months ago