Footnotes
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Footnotes splits the full text of books into one-minute episodes you swipe through like reels. Tap any word for its meaning, highlight lines, or have it read aloud. Start with the classics, or upload your own EPUB or PDF.
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PH · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 4 upvotes (top 7%)
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Books
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Yes Splitting EPUB/PDF text into timed chunks, swipe-style UI, dictionary lookup, and text-to-speech are all available through standard libraries and APIs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 520 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 521 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 350 days after the earliest competitor.
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