Fictivity: AO3 Unofficial

Thank you! This app is amazing! To potential users: I did some investigating and I think this app is made by an individual developer or maybe a very small group who clearly care about the usability of the app. I’ve only been using it for a few weeks (and I happily subscribed to the payed version when the free trial was over) so here are my thoughts so far… Pros: - The pricing is reasonable - The privacy/data collection policy is not scummy! No seriously—I care about this immensely! Most other “free” apps of this sort are showing ads and collecting user data to resell! They are not really free - Backups are easy and available for the free version / iCloud is supported for payed users - The actual reader is fantastic! Seriously, developer, I’m dyslexic and I have a request—would you consider making an ereader app? I’m going to send you an email about this but tl;dr the reading experience is the most accessible I’ve ever had. Particularly, because you allow the adjustment of contrast. I (and many other dyslexics) do better with LOW contrast so it’s so refreshing to see that supported!

I was so excited to see a new version of the previous 3am app. It has several awesome features that I wish AO3 would implement. I love that it tracks stories you’ve already read or started, and when you open it, it picks up right where you left off—unlike AO3. I also love the talk-to-text feature, even though it can be a bit glitchy at times, with voices occasionally cutting out or reading from a previous fic and needing to be reset. I really appreciate that it connects directly to my AO3 account, so I can see my bookmarks, saved-for-later items, and locked fics without going back and forth between the two. The annual fee is very reasonable.

Fictivity is good, but it has this bug for when a story updates, the app doesn’t show the actual new chapter that was added, doesn’t matter the amount of times i refresh it or use the “check for updates” button, it just won’t update, i was told to delete the app and download it again for it to update but in reality, who wants to keep doing that? There is another bug with the writing itself, when reading, i realize some sentences are missing, so when i highlight it and leave the app, it pops up but doing this repeatedly does get annoying, i hope both of these bugs do get fixed ASAP, cause the app is good. (( App is way better now, updated my review))