ReadStats - A free Flutter mobile app for tracking books
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ReadStats is a free, local-first reading tracker — no account, no ads, no subscriptions. Your library and stats never leave your device.
What's different: a built-in stopwatch makes reading sessions the core unit, not just finished books. You get deep stats (speed, streaks, calendar history), achievements, and shareable stat cards — all free, where other trackers paywall them.
Built solo over 3 years because Goodreads is an ad farm and my data is mine.
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Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Tyler, a solo dev, and this is my first launch here. ReadStats started 3 years ago as a prototype because I wanted to track my reading without handing my data to Amazon or paying a subscription for basic stats. 500+ hours later, here it is.
The idea: most trackers treat finished books as the unit of reading. ReadStats is built around sessions — there's a built-in stopwatch, so you time your reading live, and the app turns that into stats: reading speed, streaks, time-of-day patterns, calendar history. It makes the habit visible, not just the outcome.
The principles:
📱 Local-first — everything lives on your device. No account, no cloud, no data collection.
🚫 No ads, no subscriptions, no paywalled stats. Free, and staying that way.
💾 Your data is portable — one-tap backup/export whenever you want.
Other stuff: achievements, shareable stat cards, a reading planner, book search via Open Library, and a mascot named Carl the Caterpillar 🐛
It's on the iOS App Store now, and Android is in beta (happy to add testers — just ask!).
I built every part of this myself — the code, the screenshots, the support inbox — so I'd genuinely love your feedback, feature ideas, or bug reports. I'll be here all day answering everything.
What's the one feature you wish your reading tracker had?
Finally a reading tracker that doesn't try to sell me something. The stopwatch idea is simple but it actually changed how I think about sessions vs books finished.
finally a tracker that treats reading sessions like the main event, not a footnote. the stopwatch approach actually makes me want to log every page instead of just finishing books for the count.
Honestly love that the stopwatch is the core unit instead of just marking books as finished. Basically turns it into a real habit tracker. Three years of solo work for a free local-first tool is seriously respectable.
finally tried it and the stopwatch-first approach actually changed how i think about tracking progress, not just counting books. dark mode calendar view is clean.