Saga - I built a calm reading tracker because Goodreads felt like homework

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I read a lot and every app I tried made tracking feel like admin work. Goodreads is a bit bulky, StoryGraph is okay but never felt smooth to me, and none of them care much about the actual sitting-down-and-reading part. So I built Saga. It tracks reading sessions (the way Strava tracks runs), keeps your notes and the words you look up, and has a quiet social feed where you see what friends are reading. There's a book club mode where you read the same book together with friends. No ads, no leaderboards, free. iOS only for now, Android planned. App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sa

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痛点：主流阅读追踪工具（Goodreads、StoryGraph）界面臃肿、录入像做行政工作，没人真正关心「坐下来读书」这个过程本身。

目标用户：重度阅读者、习惯记录读书笔记与阅读时长的读书爱好者，以及有共读需求的读书小圈子。

证据：every app I tried made tracking feel like admin work. Goodreads is a bit bulky, StoryGraph is okay but never felt smooth to me, and none of them care much about the actual sitting-down-and-reading part. / No ads, no leaderboards, free.

变现：免费+内购：阅读统计洞察、云端同步与多端、生词本导出等高级功能订阅（$2.99-4.99/月）；或一次性买断解锁。书单/共读社群后续可做联盟分佣（图书电商返点）。

MVP：两周做一个 iOS 极简版：一键开始/结束阅读计时（Strava 式 session 记录）、读书笔记与查词收藏、本地统计图表（日均时长、连续天数），加上一个极轻的共读邀请链接（无需账号，链接分享进度）。全程本地存储+CloudKit，先不做社交推荐算法。

竞品：Goodreads、The StoryGraph、Fable、Bookly、Hardcover、Readwise Reader、Literal

摘要：开发者在 r/SideProject 发布 iOS 阅读追踪 App Saga，主打像 Strava 一样记录阅读 session、笔记与生词、安静的社交 feed 和共读模式，痛点是 Goodreads 臃肿、StoryGraph 不顺滑、现有工具都不关注阅读过程本身。目前完全免费无广告、仅 iOS，属个人 side project 发布，帖子中没有任何付费意愿或收入数据。阅读追踪赛道竞品密集（Goodreads/StoryGraph/Fable/Bookly 等），差异化空间有限但开发成本低。