reader-source
Open-source native macOS AI reading workspace for PDF, EPUB, and TXT with highlights, notes, book chat, and local-first storage. Download: reader.marvy101.com/download
Details
- External ID
- 1377373919
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- reader-source
- Website domain
- marvy101.com
- Launched
- Sept. 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 57
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8490263899564437
- Tags
- ai, annotations, books, epub, local-first, macos, mit-license, open-source, pdf, reading, swift, swiftui
- Fetched at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document processing and generation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macos reading app with ai chat for ebooks and documents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A local document reader for macOS built with Swift/SwiftUI or Tauri that parses documents, stores data in SQLite, and sends context to an LLM API is a textbook solo vibe-coding project.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 300 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #52 of 301 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.
- AI Reader · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.83
- Reader · hn · 2026-09-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Context-Aware AI Assistant for macOS [Open Source] · hn · 2026-01-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS · hn · 2026-05-27 · 111 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Common Reader · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- ReadKinetic · hn · 2026-07-22 · 105 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- epub1t · github · 2026-09-29 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Heard for iOS: ePub reader with on-device text to speech · hn · 2026-07-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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