ArchFic: AO3 Unofficial Reader
AO3 fanfiction offline + TTS
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Read a chapter's comments without leaving the reader, save favourite tags of any kind, and see authors' notes — kept with your downloads, so they are there offline.
Read AO3 fanfiction offline — translate and listen anywhere.
ArchFic is a fan-made fanfiction reader for Archive of Our Own (AO3). Read fanfiction offline, translate any fic on your device with AI, and listen hands-free with text-to-speech. Get alerted the moment the fics you follow update — the AO3 reader built for the way fans actually read.
CONTINUE WHERE YOU LEFT OFF
ArchFic remembers your chapter and exact scroll position across every work, so you can jump straight back in from a personalized Continue Reading list. Everything you've opened recently stays in your reading history.
FOLLOW AUTHORS & GET NEW-CHAPTER ALERTS
Follow your favorite AO3 authors from their profile. New Chapter Alerts notify you the moment a work you follow posts a new chapter, and New Work Alerts tell you when an author publishes something brand-new. The Updates feed gathers every recent update in one tab.
NEVER LOSE A FIC AGAIN
Download works for offline reading and keep them even if a fic is later deleted, orphaned, or locked on AO3. Save fanfiction to your Library and sort it into Collections you name yourself — Slow Burns, To Read, anything you like. Your AO3 bookmarks, recent reads, and offline downloads all live in one place.
SEARCH THE FULL AO3 CATALOG
Search works, authors, bookmarks, and tags from Archive of Our Own, or browse by genre: Anime & Manga, Books & Literature, Movies, TV Shows, and Video Games. Filter by rating, word count, completion status, date updated, relationships, and more to find exactly the fanfiction you want.
READ ON YOUR TERMS
Choose your font, adjust size and line height, and pick from four comfortable themes — White, Sepia, Dark, and Black — made for hours of reading.
TRANSLATE AS YOU READ
On-device AI translation lets you translate any fic into your language as you read. It works fully offline after a one-time model download, with no per-chapter fees — read fanfiction in any language.
LISTEN HANDS-FREE
Text-to-speech reads any chapter aloud, like an audiobook for fanfiction. Adjust the speed and voice, then follow along while commuting, cooking, or relaxing.
SIGN IN TO SYNC ACROSS DEVICES
Sign in to back up your library, collections, follows, and settings to the cloud, then switch phones or reinstall and pick up exactly where you left off. Connect your AO3 account to import your AO3 bookmarks and subscriptions automatically. Metadata only — your fanwork content is never uploaded or stored on our servers.
Whether you're binge-reading a slow-burn epic offline on a flight, keeping up with every new chapter from the authors you follow, or just want a faster AO3 reader than the mobile browser, ArchFic is the fanfiction reader made for fans of Archive of Our Own — and archives of our own alike.
Built by a fan, for fans who want a better mobile fanfiction reader.
ArchFic is an unofficial, fan-made app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Archive of Our Own (AO3) or the Organization for Transformative Works. ArchFic accesses publicly available content from AO3 and does not host, store, or redistribute any fanfiction; if you sign in, our servers store only your account metadata (library, follows, settings), never fanwork content. Fanfiction content remains the property of their respective authors. Use is subject to AO3's Terms of Service (archiveofourown.org/tos).
Ratings & Reviews
NEW
• Read a chapter's comments without leaving the reader. Tap the comment button in the bottom bar; replying and kudos open AO3 itself, where your AO3 sign-in applies.
• Save favourite tags — relationships, characters, fandoms, freeforms, any tag AO3 has. Tap the star on a tag, a search result or a fandom in Browse. Home's recommendations now follow the tags you saved instead of guessing at your most-read fandom.
• Authors' notes now show up: a story's own notes on its page, and a chapter's notes and end notes in the reader. Saved with downloads, so they are there offline.
• Translate a story's title, summary, notes and freeform tags on its page, with one tap. Tap again for the original.
• The reader now opens in a page colour that matches your theme, with a new Auto option to hand the choice back.
• Both chapter lists mark the chapters you already have downloaded, so you can see what will open offline before you tap it.
• Settings > Version now opens a page with every version's changes and the bigger features still to come.
FIXED
• A downloaded story opens with no connection — including one only part-downloaded, which opens to the chapters that are on your phone.
• A download interrupted part-way is no longer recorded as finished. It shows its progress with a resume button, and stories already recorded wrongly repair themselves.
• Update alerts no longer arrive for a story that does not exist, and an update you cannot open no longer lands on a "Page not found" screen.
• Read-aloud no longer goes quiet for the rest of a chapter when the phone's speech engine fails on one paragraph, and no longer says a stray word like "nbsp".
• Error messages now explain themselves in your own language instead of showing an internal name.
• Story summaries keep the author's paragraph breaks, on the story page and on every card.
• Tag search shows the most-used tags first, and tapping a tag opens its stories instead of an empty screen.
• Fixed the keyboard closing after every letter once a search grew longer than the search box.
• Your email now shows after signing in with Google or Apple, a failed sign-in explains itself, and backup & sync no longer switches itself off after a poor-connection launch.
• Opening a story loads it once instead of twice, so the reader appears sooner and uses about half the data.
• Chapter notes, the chapter list highlight, the Share panel on small phones, and pop-up panels running under the home bar are all fixed too.
The developer, Duong Hang, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Duong Hang
- Size
- 114.5 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.5 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.5 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Profanity or Crude Humor
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Horror/Fear Themes
Sexual Content or Nudity
Contains
Advertising
- Copyright
- © 2026
