Die Chronik

Die Chronik is a thoughtfully crafted reading companion and personal library manager for Android. Keep track of every book you are currently reading, want to read, or have completed. Monitor your annual reading goals and daily page pace, quickly log reading sessions with interactive sliders or quick-add page buttons, rate and review finished books, and automatically fetch book metadata via Open Library.

Core Capabilities:

📚 Annual Reading Goals & Pace Analytics

Set yearly book targets and automatically track total pages read alongside your daily reading pace.

📖 Quick-Log Reading Sessions

Update your current page in seconds using an interactive progress slider or one-tap +5, +10, +25, and +50 page buttons.

🔍 Open Library Instant Search

Search by title, author, or ISBN to automatically populate book descriptions, page counts, and release years.

🎨 Custom Book Formatting & Cover Themes

Organize entries by Hardcover, Paperback, E-Book, or Audiobook with customizable cover color themes and genre tags.

⭐ Personal Reviews & Star Ratings

Capture your personal reflections, notes, and 5-star ratings for every book in your chronicle.

Playstore Story:

How long has it been? Was it years or already decades? The pillars out of paper and the mountains of used pens tell a story of unimaginable dimensions. It started temporary with pen and paper. Also bookmarks played a role to preserve the current state. It worked. At least for a short period of time the chaos was under control. But then things went missing or they were forgotten. Although the lists piled up to the ceiling. A short while ago a paper avalanche came down and buried an innocent cat named Schnuffi. When it gets dark and it's late into the night one can still hear it meow very silently. It seems to be alright but it is not possible to free the cat out of its miserable situation. The all to present danger of a very painful and potentially lethal paper cut is significant and because of the paper avalanche even higher then usual. There was a very emotional farewell service. Wonderful and very touching. Many tears were shed.

Many of the invited guests never came. Most of them cancelled their invitation but some just never replied. Considering the circumstances it was understandable. Noone would expose oneself deliberately to the risk of a paper avalanche. But despite all the hardships this solution was without alternative, until now. A collection must be cataloged and managed. The current reading state of each single book must be preserved. Pen and Paper. That's the logical choice, that's the natural choice.

But now, after such a long time, an alternate solution opened up. If used appropriately it is able to finally replace pen and paper for good. A new era has begun. The rescue expedition can set off..

Schnuffi, hang in there.