Chapterly | iOS App eBook and Audiobook Platform

Chapterly iOS is a native iOS application, written in Swift with SwiftUI, for reading serialised web novels, e-books and audiobooks. Built for the fast-growing digital reading market, it pairs a fully native mobile UI with a production-ready Laravel admin panel that owns the catalogue, the chapter prose, the coin economy and the subscription entitlements.

The app is organized around five main tabs — Discover, For You, Rewards, Library, and Profile — giving users a complete journey from finding a book to binge-reading it chapter by chapter. The catalog browses in three sections — Novels, eBooks and Audiobooks — so a reader after a serialised web novel, a reader after a finished ebook, and a listener who wants to be read to each land on their own shelf. Books open in the reader their format calls for: a distraction-free prose reader with themes and typography controls, a native PDF page view on PDFKit, a reflowable EPUB reader that keeps the reader’s own font and theme, or an audiobook player built on AVFoundation with background playback and lock-screen controls. A built-in coin economy, daily check-ins, rewarded ads, and a VIP subscription unlock premium chapters and remove ads.

Backend included

The package ships the Laravel admin panel and mobile API (novel-ebook-admin-panel): a PHP/Laravel application with an admin dashboard, database migrations and seeders, a demo catalogue, and the REST API the app talks to. It also ships a multi-language reading website with web checkout and a self-publishing author portal. If you already run on classic PHP/MySQL hosting, everything you need is in the box — the documentation covers local setup, the environment variables, the seeders and the production deploy.

Key Value Propositions

• For End Users: Discover trending novels and comics across 12 genres, read free preview chapters, unlock more with coins earned from daily check-ins and rewarded ads or with a VIP subscription, save books to Library, and pick up right where you left off with Continue Reading.
• For Readers: A distraction-free chapter reader with five page themes, adjustable typeface / size / spacing, resume positions synced to the server, and volume / chapter navigation — plus native PDF and reflowable EPUB readers for books that ship as documents.
• For Listeners: A full audiobook player with background playback that survives the lock screen, lock-screen and Control Centre transport controls, a chapter queue, 15s / 30s skip, variable speed, a sleep timer, and offline chapter downloads. Listening position writes to the same reading history as the text, so a book you listened to in the car opens on the right chapter on the train.
• For Authors: A self-publishing portal — apply to become an author, create books and chapters, submit them for review, then track earnings from coin unlocks and the VIP pool on an append-only statement, export it as CSV, and request a payout. Authors see a live earnings summary on their phone too.
• For App Owners / Developers: A complete, monetizable reading product with VIP subscriptions, a coin/rewards economy, rewarded & banner ads, 7 colour presets, 5 onboarding layouts, 7 paywall variants, push notifications, analytics, and remote configuration — plus the Laravel admin panel so you can manage the catalog, chapter prose, coin packages, and site content your way.

Content Disclosure

Chapterly ships as a complete reading platform with a demo catalog so you can run it end-to-end out of the box:

• Demo book artwork uses placeholder / generated covers that you replace with your own key-art.
• Demo chapters use machine-generated placeholder prose so reading works during testing — you replace these with your own licensed novel or comic content.
• Demo audiobooks use placeholder narration audio so the player, the sleep timer and offline downloads can be tested end-to-end — you replace these with your own licensed or commissioned recordings.
• Demo PDF and EPUB titles are sample documents, included so both readers open out of the box.
• The full catalog (genres, books, volumes, chapters, and home shelves) is managed entirely by you in the admin panel.

You are responsible for the books you distribute. Chapterly provides the app, backend, and catalog tooling; sourcing and licensing the actual novels, comics, e-book files and narration recordings is up to you. If you open the author portal to outside writers, you are also responsible for moderating what they submit — every author-created book goes through a submit-and-review step before it can appear in the catalog.

Third-Party Services & Ongoing Costs — Please Read Before Buying

This app is built to work with the included Laravel web API / admin panel (MySQL), plus third-party services: Firebase (Auth, Remote Config, Analytics, Crashlytics, APNs), RevenueCat (VIP subscriptions), OneSignal (push), optional AdMob ads (banner & rewarded), and Stripe / Razorpay for web checkout. You will need to create your own accounts for these services, configure the API keys, and manage usage yourself.

Important: your purchase here is a one-time payment for the source code only. Several of the third-party services this app relies on can charge you money on an ongoing, recurring basis. Each of them has a free tier, but those tiers are limited — once your app’s usage grows past them, the provider bills you directly, every month, for as long as you run the app:

• Firebase (Auth, Remote Config, Analytics, Crashlytics) — ongoing charges may apply. The free plan covers small usage only. Once you exceed the free-tier limits — active users and authentication volume, Remote Config fetches, Cloud Messaging / APNs volume, Crashlytics and Analytics data (including BigQuery export) — the project must move to Google’s pay-as-you-go plan and you are billed monthly. Phone / SMS sign-in is charged per verification from the very first message. These costs scale with the size of your user base.
• RevenueCat — ongoing charges may apply, and they grow with your revenue. RevenueCat is free only up to a monthly tracked revenue threshold. Above that threshold it charges a percentage of the monthly tracked revenue that passes through it (or a fixed higher-tier fee). This means the better your app performs, the larger this bill becomes — treat it as a permanent, recurring cut of your subscription income, not a one-off cost.
• OneSignal — ongoing charges may apply. The free tier limits subscriber count, message volume and features. Higher notification volumes, larger audiences and features such as advanced segmentation, A/B testing, journeys and priority support all require paid monthly plans, and the price increases as your subscriber count grows.
• Stripe / Razorpay (web checkout) — per-transaction fees. Both payment processors deduct a percentage plus a fixed fee from every payment taken on the web store, for every transaction.
• Apple App Store — commission and membership fee. An Apple Developer Program membership is required to publish to the App Store and is billed annually (currently USD 99/year). Apple also takes its standard commission on in-app purchases and subscriptions.
• Hosting, domain, database, CDN and media storage — ongoing charges. The Laravel backend, book files and audiobook audio have to be hosted and served by you. None of this is included in the purchase, and bandwidth-heavy content such as audiobook downloads can raise these costs significantly.
• AdMob costs you nothing to run — it pays you a share of ad revenue — but it is optional and earns nothing until your app has traffic.

We do not control, resell, or receive any share of these third-party fees, and every provider can change its pricing and free-tier limits at any time. Please review each provider’s current pricing page and estimate your own running costs before purchasing — the figures and thresholds above are indicative only.

Disclaimer

Basic familiarity with Xcode, Firebase, PHP/MySQL hosting and App Store Connect is recommended before launching.

Try the live web demo:

Laravel web + admin

https://novelebook.laravelbeginner.net/en
https://novelebook.laravelbeginner.net/en/dashboard

Example login:

• Email: admin@novelnest.test
• Password: password123456

Open the admin dashboard link above, enter the email and password exactly as listed, and sign in to browse the full catalogue, chapter editor, coin economy and subscription settings.

Built for iOS

• SwiftUI throughout — no UIKit screens, no storyboards. The settings screen is a real inset-grouped list, so row heights, separators and Dynamic Type match every other app on the device.
• Each format in its own native surface — prose is drawn in SwiftUI, PDF chapters open in a real PDFKit page view, and EPUB chapters are unpacked and reflowed so they keep the reader’s chosen font, size, theme and margins instead of being handed to a web view.
• Audio that behaves like an audio app — narration keeps playing with the screen off, with cover art and elapsed time on the lock screen, and transport controls that work from the lock screen, headset buttons and CarPlay alike. A phone call pauses it and it resumes where it stopped, rather than restarting the chapter.
• Sign in with Apple alongside Google and e-mail, as Guideline 4.8 requires, with in-app account deletion (5.1.1(v)) and Restore Purchases (3.1.1) already wired.
• App Tracking Transparency asked once, after onboarding — never at launch — with ads falling back to non-personalised on a refusal.
• A privacy manifest declaring tracking, collected data types and required-reason APIs.
• StoreKit’s own management sheet for subscriptions, presented in place rather than opening a web page.
• Runs on a free developer team. The entitlements file ships empty on purpose, so you can build to your own iPhone the day you buy it; Sign in with Apple and push return automatically once you restore the entitlements on a paid team.
• Twelve languages, generated by script and switchable in-app without a relaunch — including Arabic, with the layout mirrored, not just the text.
• Swift Package Manager only — open the Xcode project and build. No workspace, no Podfile, nothing to install first.

What’s Included

• Full native iOS application source code (novel-ebook-ios) — Swift 5, SwiftUI, iOS 17+, Swift Package Manager (no CocoaPods)
• Laravel web platform + admin dashboard + mobile REST API (novel-ebook-admin-panel) — the backend for the app, with migrations and a demo-catalog seeder
• MySQL migrations (Laravel), demo seed (~44 books, ~1,750 chapters, 20 home shelves) — including demo PDF and EPUB titles and narrated audiobooks, so every reader and the player can be tested out of the box
• Chapter-prose generator and optional cover-art / media generation scripts
• 7 built-in app color themes and 5 onboarding layout variants
• 7 paywall layout variants
• 12-language localization (ar, de, en, es, fr, it, ja, ko, pt, ru, tr, zh) — complete in every locale
• Complete detailed documentation — Xcode setup, Firebase, Remote Config, Laravel web/API (including local setup and production deploy), RevenueCat, OneSignal, AdMob, App Tracking Transparency, the privacy manifest, and the App Store release checklist

Key Features

• Discover Feed: Featured hero banners, curated carousels, ranking lists, new releases, and a genre grid — ordered from the admin panel, no app release required.
• For You: A personalised spotlight stream of recommended books.
• Three Catalog Sections: Novels, eBooks and Audiobooks, switchable from a strip above every shelf. A narrated novel appears on both the Novels shelf and in Audiobooks, so listeners always find it.
• Chapter Reader: Distraction-free prose, five page themes, typeface / size / spacing controls, resume position, TOC, and chapter nav.
• PDF & EPUB Books: PDF chapters render in a native PDFKit page view; EPUB chapters reflow in the app’s own reader with the reader’s chosen font, size, theme and margins, and resume by position exactly like prose.
• Audiobook Player: AVFoundation background playback with lock-screen / Control Centre controls and headset buttons, a mini bar above the tab bar, chapter queue, 15s back / 30s forward, 0.75×–2× speed, a sleep timer (5–60 min or end of chapter), and offline chapter downloads for listening with no signal.
• Book Detail: Blurb, author, badges, volume selector, chapter list, and characters.
• Search & Categories: Search across the catalog and browse by any of 12 genres.
• Coins & Rewards: 7-day daily check-in, reward tasks, reading milestones, and rewarded ads to earn coins.
• Chapter Unlocking: Free preview chapters, coin-locked chapters, and VIP-only content — enforced server-side.
• Author Portal & Earnings: Readers apply to write, create books and chapters, and submit them for moderation. Earnings accrue per coin unlock and from a VIP revenue pool with a configurable revenue share, tracked on an append-only ledger with CSV statements and author-requested payouts — all administered from the admin panel.
• Library: Save books and continue reading across devices with synced progress.
• VIP Subscriptions: Weekly/monthly/yearly plans via RevenueCat that unlock all chapters and remove ads.
• User Accounts: Anonymous-first — a real account from the first launch, upgraded in place by Sign in with Apple, Google or e-mail without losing coins or history.
• Web Platform: Browser reading site, Stripe / Razorpay checkout, and full admin CMS for books & chapter text — in Laravel.
• Settings & Personalization: Light/dark theme, 7 color presets, 12 languages (including right-to-left Arabic), per-category privacy controls.
• Monetization Ready: VIP subscriptions, a coin economy, rewarded & banner AdMob ads, 7 paywall layouts, and conversion analytics built in.

We are actively improving this app to make it stand out in the novel & e-book reading space. Feel free to send feature requests through the CodeCanyon messaging system — together we can make an awesome product.

Important Notice to Our Valued Customers

We are committed to building a reliable and continuous business system, with your satisfaction and the success of this product as our top priorities. Your feedback is crucial, and we encourage you to share any bugs, suggestions, or new feature ideas. Your input directly supports our ongoing improvement and innovation. We’re here to help — send us a message anytime through the CodeCanyon messaging system.Thank you for being part of our journey.
Warm regards,
The Morningstarcode Team