adreeeyan / baruch

A mobile app where you can read and download light novels.

Baruch

Baruch is a light novel reader and downloader mobile app. Currently it runs in android only but with some tweaks, it can run on iOS and windows phone.

Download

• Not on google play, so just download the apk here.
• Latest release
• Latest release with crosswalk: Use this if your android version is 4.1 ~ 4.4

Features

• Search novels
• View novel details
• Mark as favorite
• Save recently viewed novels
• Download novels offline
• Download novel as epub
• Read novels
• Customize (a bit) reading settings (change font size, color, reading direction, stuffs...)
• Auto scrolling
• No ADS! (let's hope server cost will not spike to keep this one)
• No registration needed!

Upcoming features

• See notifications for updated novels

Want to request a feature? Submit a request.

Found some bugs? Report it here.

Screenshot

Contributors

Contributors on GitHub

• Contributors

License

• see LICENSE file

Contact

Your dev

• e-mail: [email protected]

Support your dev

Disclaimer

The novel and translations are not mine and are just crawled from other aggregators, this will be changed in the future when I finish the must have features. I will get the data from actual translation sites after I'm done with some pending tasks in order to give them proper credits.

baruch's Issues

Convert the app to local instead.

Hi, It would have been really good if you could only have it without any server and have a local file.db in the phone instead.

You could use SqlLite or NoSql db file.

This way you wont need a server and also it would be way faster to load the content.

Now I dont know if you own a novel server or you only script the html from some other website out there.

If its the latter then it would be really great to have a local db file instead of a server.

I already did an app but im really not good with Java so I used Xamarin, which I really regret.

Its slow and buggy.

Here you could have a look if you want.
https://github.com/AlenToma/App.Comic.Viewer

Notifications for updated novels

Be able to see notifications from updated novels.

Some info:

• Put badge on top right novel cover indicating how many chapters have been updated
• Updated novels timespan is 1 week
• A page for all updated novels

Novel card is not rectangular in some tablets

Steps

1. Use a 16:10 device
2. Navigate to All novels page

Output: Novel card is square

Expected results: It should be rectangular in shape with its height bigger than its width.

User can navigate chapter 0 or more than the current chapter

Steps:

1. Open any novel
2. Open chapter 1

Reader is shown

3. Navigate to previous chapter (e.g. tap screen and tap previous button)

Endless loading screen

Expected result: No previous button should be shown

Other steps:

1. Open any novel
2. Open last chapter

Reader is shown

3. Navigate to next chapter (e.g. tap screen and tap next button)

Endless loading screen

Expected result: App should tell the user that there is no more next chapter available

Chapter list page hangs up on load

While getting the read chapters, UI hangs up.

[Enhancement] Use volume keys to navigate chapter or page.

• If horizontal scrolling is enabled, volume keys should navigate to next/previous page
• If horizontal scrolling is disabled, volume keys should navigate to next/previous chapter
• Should be able to disable/enable "Use volume key" option in app Settings.

Auto update the app

Utilize code push for html/css/js assets fixes and additions.

If ever there are changes that will touch the native code like adding new plugin or updating cordova versions, then the apk needs to be reinstalled.
I think github releases can be checked here if there are updated apks...

Add local pdf/epub novels

Be able to add local novels pdf/epub and read it through the app.

This needs more info:

• Will it be added in the novels list?
• If its a pdf, how will the chapters be chopped?

Adding new sources

Hi, I would like to ask if it's possible to add new sources aside from lightnovels? I'm hoping that Wattpad (www.wattpad.com) will be included, if possible. Thank you.

Dark mode for reading/theme?

I tried to find the dark mode for reading that's shown in the photos but I couldn't see it in the settings. Is it not available yet?

New update

Hi... its been some time since i used this app... i will like to know if theres an update or upgrade?, and if its a yes, where can i get it?

Downloaded novels cannot be deleted

Add feature to delete downloaded novels and epubs.

App doesn't work

No connections

Download as epub

Be able to download a novel as an epub.
Nuff said!

Loading

Hello,
I wanted to know why when I arrive on the all novel page, the loading is extremely long and after I obtain a "no Connection."
And It's a bit same with the chapter of the light novel that i download but here it just continue to load but nothing appears.

stack

stack/ white screen.

"Continue reading" lags in offline view

When clicking the button "Read" in novel details page, the app lags.
Steps to reproduce:

1. Turn off internet connection
2. Open any downloaded novel
3. Tap "Read"

Text inversion not working?

I've downloaded the latest version and even made sure the chapter was downloaded before trying it. I'm making sure I click apply but everytime I enable and disable color inversion so that I don't have a white background, nothing changes. Anyone else seeing this happen?

Autoscroll on vertical reading

Add autoscroll feature.
Scrolling speed must be adjustable.

Internet Issue

The app can't connect to internet even though i am connected to internet and my other apps requiring a internet connection do work

"Read" should open last opened chapter

Additionally, it should also scroll or slide to the last read position.

Modal is not closed via back button

Steps

1. Open all novels
2. Tap "filter" button
3. Click back button (hardware key)

Toast for exit confirmation shows up

Expected results: Filter modal should be closed.

F-Droid support

Since this app can't legally be on Google Play Store, have you thought about submitting it to F-Droid? As long as it doesn't use a set of specific things and works in a way similar to Tachiyomi (websites are plugins you need to download), it will be accepted :)

Questions regarding supported sites

The ReadME does not have a list of supported sites, would like to see what it can support.

Set the first screen to be opened

Be able to set the first screen to be shown after opening the app.

Doesnt seem to update

I might be wrong but the novels dont seem to be updated or updating.
For example dungeon defense(2 new chapters are out but the app is still behind)
Is there a problem or a bugg?

Chapter tab - No content Yet

Hi, i saw that you updated the app so i downloaded the latest version.

This is my first time using this app and I saw many interested novel out there I could read.

But the chapter tab view No Content Yet for some reason. I tested few and you could test it with CRAZY LEVELING SYSTEM

Search bar keyboard closes suddenly

Steps

1. Navigate All novels page
2. Click "Search" button
3. Type something but don't type it fully (e.g. "pan" if you are searching "panlong")

Output > Keyboard closes and search started

Expected:
Search only starts if "Search" button in keyboard is tapped.