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Introducing Libryva: one calm home for everything you read
Why we are building Libryva: a web clipper, one organised library, an ebook reader, and an audiobook player — with every read and listen resuming exactly where you stopped.
Long books rarely fit into one session. You pause an audiobook in the middle of a chapter, switch devices, come back days later, and lose time finding the exact place where the thought stopped. Reading has the same problem, spread across more apps: an article saved in one app, an ebook in another, a bookmark in a third.
Libryva is our answer: one app for everything you read. Clip articles and pages from the web, organise bookmarks, import your ebooks and audiobooks, and keep every session resumable — position, progress, chapters, and speed are durable local data, not fragile player state.
The product idea
Four principles drive the app:
- Resume is core behavior. If playback stops at a timestamp or a page, the next session should start from that saved position without hunting.
- Local-first comes before cloud. Your library and progress should work without an account, a subscription, or a network connection.
- Everything you read belongs together. Clipped articles, bookmarks, ebooks, and audiobooks live in one calm library instead of scattered apps.
- Cross-platform is not optional. Libryva targets iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, and the web from the same product foundation.
What ships first
The first release is the whole daily loop, not a single surface: the web clipper saving articles into one organised library, an ebook reader, and an audiobook player with exact resume, chapters, bookmarks, sleep timer, and playlists.
We started the build with the audiobook engine because it carries the hardest continuity promise — and because everything else inherits its persistence model. If the player can remember the second where you stopped, the reader and the clipper can too.
Where the build stands
As of September 2026 we are in the building phase, with a public launch targeted around the new year. The app’s library, player, reader, and saved-articles surfaces exist and are being polished, the browser clipper saves pages into the library, and the backend is deployed. The detailed status — including what is left before launch — is in the September build update.
What comes later
The roadmap includes cloud sync, backups, ebook-to-audiobook syncing, AI reading support, and curated reading queues. Automated news and article curation are intentionally later-stage work; they make sense after the app proves demand and crosses meaningful adoption, with 10,000 downloads as the public traction milestone.
What this blog is for
This build log documents the engineering and product decisions behind that roadmap: Drift and SQLite schema design, Riverpod state management, playback persistence, cross-platform UX, and the tradeoffs between local-first ownership and future cloud features.
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