Common Reader
Your ebooks, notes, and AI—connected across every device
Details
- External ID
- 1249195
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Common Reader
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- eBook Reader, Artificial Intelligence, Books
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:17 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:17 a.m.
Description
Common Reader is a private, low-distraction ebook reader for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. Desktop apps are built with Tauri; mobile apps are native. Read EPUB, AZW3, MOBI, TXT, Markdown, and PDF (limited support); highlight and take notes; ask AI about any passage; and jump from a conversation back to the original text. Sync your library, progress, notes, highlights, and settings with iCloud, OneDrive, or WebDAV. No ads, social feed, or data collection by us.
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ebook reader and note taker with integrated ai
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building cross-platform apps with native iOS/Android and Tauri desktop apps supporting complex multi-format document parsing (EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, PDF) and multi-device sync is beyond standard vibe coding.
What it would actually take: Requires an architecture spanning Tauri (Rust + React/Vue frontend) on desktop and native Swift/Kotlin on mobile, backed by an end-to-end encrypted sync engine. The primary technical hurdle is robustly parsing, rendering, and anchoring annotations across legacy binary and DRM-free ebook formats (AZW3, MOBI, PDF) while maintaining cross-device state.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 143 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #30 of 144 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 259 days after the earliest competitor.
- klibrary · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- AI Reader · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Basic Reader — RSS With No Subscription · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- reader-source · github · 2026-09-19 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Scroll+ · ph · 2026-09-23 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- nook · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- SnowReader · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Heard for iOS: ePub reader with on-device text to speech · hn · 2026-07-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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