Hi Product Hunt, I’m Ryan.

I start a lot of books. For years I finished very few of them. So in December 2023 I started building a reader for myself, and it went on the App Store in February 2024. Last year I finished 26 books. This year I’m at 35 (my shelf is public). I’ve kept working on it the whole time, and now that it’s on Android and the web too, it finally feels ready to show you.

Book2Life is an ebook reader built to get you to the last page. Underneath, it feels like a book: pages that turn, your fonts, two facing pages on a tablet. I wanted the feel of Apple Books, plus the help I needed to actually finish. That help comes in three kinds:

Hear it. A voice reads along while each word lights up, so your eyes and ears stay on the same line. It runs on your device and it’s free.
See it. A face for every character, a picture of every place, and scenes as you reach them. The Silmarillion would have been impossible for me without a face for every name. I finished it.
Understand it. Ask the Book answers from the pages you’ve read and never the ones ahead. Highlight a passage to have it explained, and come back after a break to a recap.

The pictures are made with AI. Their job is to keep the cast and the places straight, not to replace an illustrator, and one switch turns them off for any book. Authors can opt a book out at book2.life/authors, and everything AI does in the app is listed at book2.life/ai.

What’s free: a new classic every day, the read-along voice, and pictures in every chapter. Pro ($3 a month) adds every scene, Ask the Book and unlimited books of your own.

The fastest way to see it: open book2.life and tap Alice. No account, no install.

Which book did you never finish? I’ll be here all day.

P.S. The first write-up, from 2024.