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
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GITHUB · launched Sep 19, 2026 · 57 upvotes (top 15%) · 1 view
Niche: ebook and reading apps · 190 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- B2C
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
- ai
- annotations
- books
- epub
- local-first
- macos
- +6 more
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More like this: all 190 launches in ebook and reading apps →
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 : 962 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #142 of 963 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.
- AI Reader · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.83
- Reader · hn · 2026-09-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- PDF to ePub Conversion Tool for Mac · hn · 2026-10-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- PaperSafeAI · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Context-Aware AI Assistant for macOS [Open Source] · hn · 2026-01-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- folio · github · 2026-10-26 · 129 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- read-pico-reader · github · 2026-10-03 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- AgentBridgeStudio · github · 2026-10-06 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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