Guten
Android ereader for Project Gutenberg's 70k+ free books
Details
- External ID
- 48036797
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Guten
- Website domain
- google.com
- Launched
- May 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1147011308562197
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi, HN. I read about 60-100 books a year and wanted a frictionless ereader for Project Gutenberg books, so I built Guten.Users can search the PG catalog within the app or Share a book's page from their browser to Guten for import. The app includes the usual ereader features like search, highlight, bookmarks, and notes. I like my apps privacy-focused: Guten doesn't require an account, and there are no ads or tracking.The reading experience is totally free, but there's also a one-time premium upgrade available for extra features like TTS read-aloud and note/highlight exports.Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bhunt.gute...Would love feedback while it's still in open testing.
Enrichment
- Theme
- meal planning and food discovery
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ereader for public domain books
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The app queries Project Gutenberg's public catalog/OPDS feeds and renders EPUB files using standard open-source Android reader libraries.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Audible
Concerns raised: Users may not know how to change TTS settings to improve voice quality
Feature requests: Add text to speech functionality, Make app work as audiobook hub for Project Gutenberg
Competitors
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Attention rank: #48 of 51 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 128 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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