Fan Reader vs AO3X

Fan Reader is a clean reading app for web fiction fans. If you read stories on SpaceBattles, Sufficient Velocity, Archive of Our Own, Royal Road, FanFiction.Net, or Wildbow's serials, Fan Reader strips away the forum clutter and gives you a focused, book-like reading experience. WHAT IT DOES - Unified library — Add stories from SB, SV, Royal Road, AO3, and FFN to one bookshelf - Beautiful reading — Dark, Light, and Eye Care themes with adjustable font, size, and line spacing - Smart search — Find stories across SB, SV, RR, and AO3 with one search, or browse AO3's full catalog with filters - Full FFN support — Paste any FanFiction.Net URL for a clean, ad-free reading experience on the platform's worst-designed mobile site - Chapter navigation — Quick chapter list, next/prev buttons, reading progress tracking - Paste any URL — Drop a story link from any supported platform and start reading instantly - Chapter preloading — Faster page turns on all platforms - No account required — Everything stored locally on your device Fan Reader doesn't store or cache story content on any server. Stories load directly from their original platforms through your device.

Block a tag once and it stays blocked — in Discover, in Search, and on every tag page you open after that. AO3X is an independent reader for Archive of Our Own. Same archive you already read on, in an app that's actually built for reading it. Follow authors and series in one place. Browse author catalogs and read each series in its original order. Save chapters or complete works for offline reading. When AO3 offers an original EPUB download, save it and share it with other reading apps. Follow fandoms as Interests for a balanced Discover feed. When a search is worth keeping — one fandom, complete works only, 50k and up, sorted by kudos — save it as a Custom Feed and return in one tap. Connect your AO3 account to read works available to signed-in users and access your AO3 History, Bookmarks, Marked for Later, and Collections. This connection is separate from your AO3X account. Imported AO3 lists stay separate from your local library, and AO3X does not write changes back to AO3. Read across languages with chapter translation. Switch between original text, translation, and bilingual reading. Translation requires an AO3X account and uses translation credits; additional credits are available through in-app purchases. Chapter text is sent to the translation service only when you request a translation. A reader worth spending three hours in. The font catalog adapts its recommendations to the script you are reading and can use fonts already on your device. Verified Chinese font packs are available on demand and stay on this device. Choose from four themes, then tune size, line spacing, and page margins. Close the app mid-chapter, come back next week, land on the same paragraph. Before you commit to a 200k WIP, the Reader's work menu shows the rating, every archive warning, the full tag list, the summary and the stats — so nothing catches you off guard on chapter 14. Read public works without an account. Your library, history and progress stay on this device by default. No ads and no cross-app tracking. Reading on more than one phone? Sign in to AO3X and choose whether to back up your library and progress for restoration on another device. Cloud backup is off by default on each device. Signing in alone does not turn it on or upload your reading data. Downloaded chapter text is excluded from cloud backup, and imported AO3 lists stay on this device. AO3X is unofficial. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Archive of Our Own or the Organization for Transformative Works. Works remain subject to AO3's own policies.