# Familiar: Reading Tracker > Track your reading and raise a pixel familiar on your pages. No ads, no account. Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/app.familiar](https://chrome-stats.com/d/app.familiar) ## Overview - **ID:** `app.familiar` - **Platform:** Android - **Type:** Android app - **Status:** Available - **Publisher:** Thoughtkraken - **Category:** BOOKS\_AND\_REFERENCE - **Downloads:** 388 - **Version:** 1.12.0 - **Last updated:** 2026-11-06 - **First published:** 2026-10-29 - **Publisher country:** EE - **Size:** 7.49 MB - **Data as of:** 2026-11-08 - **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.familiar) - **Website:** [https://bigdevwhale.github.io/stillcraft/apps/familiar/](https://bigdevwhale.github.io/stillcraft/apps/familiar/) - **Privacy policy:** [https://github.com/bigdevwhale/familiar/blob/main/PRIVACY.md](https://github.com/bigdevwhale/familiar/blob/main/PRIVACY.md) ## Description You are a reading mage, and every mage needs a familiar. Yours lives on mana, and mana comes from pages.

Familiar is a reading tracker with a pixel-art pet. Read, and it hatches from an egg, grows through five stages and changes with what you read. Forget about books and it slowly turns to stone, until a few pages break the spell. Free, no ads, no account.

πŸ₯š FOURTEEN FAMILIARS
β€’ Mimic, kitsune, slime, dragon, phoenix, griffin, owlbear, moon moth, tanuki, sprout, ghost, bookworm, chimera and magpie
β€’ Each loves its own kind of reading: long books, night reading, streaks, audiobooks, horror, a new genre after the last
β€’ Three can hatch at the start; the rest are found by reading
β€’ A grown familiar takes one of five forms after the books it was fed on: astral, shadow, bloom, sage or wild
β€’ Every egg hatches with a nature of its own, and one in sixteen hatches shining, in a rare colouring

πŸ•― THE RITUAL
β€’ A candle that burns down while you read, a big "turn the page" button, a fireplace or rain
β€’ Lay the phone face down and the familiar dozes on your lap: quiet time feeds a bonus
β€’ Read or listen: switch any book to its audio version, sitting by sitting
β€’ Read on the train? Log the page you reached, or just the minutes
β€’ After each sitting, a feast: pages, candlelight, stillness, its favourite, a finished book

🏠 THE DEN
β€’ Every mana leaves a spark, and sparks buy furniture: a window with the real day or night, a bookshelf in the colours of your finished books, a cauldron, a telescope, fairy lights
β€’ Stroke your familiar and it purrs; after midnight it sleeps
β€’ Finds from the stories, dreams after evening reading, seasonal holidays

πŸ“š YOUR LIBRARY
β€’ Find books in Fantlab and Open Library with real covers, or type them in and pick your own picture
β€’ Shelves, cycles with volumes, your own genres and subgenres
β€’ Search, filter and sort the whole library
β€’ The familiar's draw when you can't choose what to read next

πŸ“Š THE LEDGER AND THE SAGA
β€’ Your pace in pages an hour, overall and by genre
β€’ When you read most, and your best day of the week
β€’ Six months side by side, and the day you'll finish your current book
β€’ A goal for the year with your pace against it
β€’ The tree of stories: every finished book grows a glowing fruit
β€’ The saga: your year told as a legend, with a square for every day of reading

ALSO
β€’ Monthly guild errands, guardian candles that keep a streak on a quiet day
β€’ Visits: show a QR code and your familiar stays in a friend's den for a day, phone to phone
β€’ A postcard of your familiar to share, an evening reminder, a home-screen widget
β€’ Backup to a file
β€’ English and Russian
β€’ Free and open source (MIT)

Your reading stays on your phone. The app goes online only when you search for a book. ## Rankings - #1,432,056 β€” Overall ## Permissions and access ### Permissions - `android.permission.CAMERA` - `android.permission.INTERNET` - `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS` - `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED` - `android.permission.VIBRATE` - `app.familiar.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION` - `com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE` ## Similar extensions and apps - [Foliara: Leitura Gamificada](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.rafaelkasper.foliara) β€” 311 users - [λ…μ„œμΌμ§€](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.colabear.booktracker) β€” 11 users - [BookMark: The Reading Tracker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.mspk.mspk_reading_tracker) β€” 132 users - [epup: Reading Companion](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.hariesramdhani.epup) β€” 614 users - [Rubrica: Reading Tracker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.readrubrica.app) β€” 13 users - [Book Sage](https://chrome-stats.com/d/co.median.android.epjbob) β€” 13 users - [Grymora Codex](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.hollowvale.grymora) - [Fireside: Book Tracker & TBR](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.devbox.fireside) β€” 18 users - [ReadXP: Library & Book Tracker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.readxp.app) β€” 459 users - [Red Habit Tracker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.serinstudios.red) β€” 3 users - [Pageful: Reading Tracker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.onepage.readapp) β€” 42 users - [Panda ReadFlow](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.aistudio.readflow.qtrk) --- Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/app.familiar)