# PagePulse > A reading-intelligence app for Android. Photograph any bookshelf, see the emotional fingerprint of every book on it, and watch what your library quietly says about you. PagePulse is a paid Android app by Affordance Design Studio. Single one-time purchase of ₹499 INR (approximately $5.99 USD). No subscription. No ads. No in-app purchases. Available exclusively through Google Play. This file contains the full inlined content of https://thepagepulse.com — the landing page plus the privacy policy. For a curated link map see [/llms.txt](https://thepagepulse.com/llms.txt). --- ## Hero **Know what a book will do to you. Before you open it.** A reading intelligence app for Android. Photograph any bookshelf. See the emotional fingerprint of every book on it. Watch what your library quietly says about you. --- ## A reading-intelligence positioning > Reading lists tell you what someone has read. PagePulse tells you what those books did to them. PagePulse positions itself against trackers like Goodreads and StoryGraph by focusing on the qualitative experience of reading — what a book emotionally does to the reader — rather than the social or logistical surface (ratings, lists, reviews, friends). --- ## What it does — Three pillars ### 01 · Shelfie — Photograph any bookshelf. Read the room. Point your camera at any shelf — your own, a friend's, a stranger's at a café. PagePulse reads every spine, looks each title up, and gives you back one composite Shelfie: a single artifact that says what this whole shelf *feels* like. - On-device camera capture - Server-managed Google Gemini computer vision (no AI keys in the client app) - Approximately 10 seconds end-to-end ### 02 · Analyse — Every book gets its own fingerprint. For any book in your library, PagePulse generates a chapter-by-chapter emotional map. Pulse, darkness, hope, complexity — the metrics a careful reader develops over a year of reading, surfaced before chapter one. - Chapter emotion chart (24 chapters worth of fear, sadness, joy, anger, hope) - Pulse score (overall intensity, 0-10) - Darkness / hope / complexity stat cards - Verdict card and character list ### 03 · Patterns — Your library, reading you back. Reading persona. Genre landscape. Abandonment patterns. The shape of your taste, surfaced in one screen — the kind of thing a careful reader takes years to notice about themselves. - Reading persona archetype (e.g., "Apprentice The Dark Romantic") - Genre landscape across the whole library - Abandonment patterns — books you start but don't finish - Discoveries surface as the library grows --- ## Adding books — Bring your library, however you keep it Already have a reading life on Goodreads, StoryGraph, or a spreadsheet you've kept for years? Drop the CSV in. PagePulse reads it, looks every title up against a live catalog of millions of books, and pulls in real covers, ISBNs, and metadata as it goes. - **Photograph it.** Point your camera at a shelf — Shelfie reads the spines and adds the books. - **Import from Goodreads.** Built-in export instructions; the file works as-is. - **Import from StoryGraph.** Same flow — your CSV, your books. - **Or any CSV.** Title and Author columns are enough — the app does the rest. Every imported book gets the full PagePulse treatment — fingerprint, pulse, persona signal — as if you'd added it by hand. --- ## Pricing — One price. Yours forever. A paid app. No subscription, no ads, no add-ons. Sign in once with Google — same shelf on every Android device, today and any future one. **₹499** — one-time, via Google Play. - Unlimited Shelfies - Unlimited book analyses - Reading persona + patterns - Cross-device library sync (via Google account) - Delete account & data, anytime --- ## Sign in — One tap. Same shelf on any device. Google Sign-In on first launch — no email/password, no anonymous trial, no "save your stuff before it fades" nag. The app you paid for is yours, your library is yours, and so is the off-switch. --- ## Privacy Policy (summary) Effective on first published release. PagePulse is a paid reading-intelligence app. When you sign in with Google, we store the books you add, the analyses we run for you, and your reading patterns. We use this data to run the app. We don't sell it. We don't share it with advertisers. If you delete your account, we delete the data. That's the whole story. ### What we collect - **Account identifiers** (from Google Sign-In): email, display name, profile photo URL, Firebase persistent user ID - **Library and reading data** (you create this): books, analyses, reading status, Shelfies - **Camera images** (Shelfie scans): processed in memory only, not stored - **Technical / device data**: app version, device model, OS version ### What we don't collect - IP address (beyond what's needed for the request) - Location - Advertising ID - Contacts ### How we use it - Run the app: show library, generate analyses, surface recommendations, compute patterns - Cross-device sync: same Google account = same library on a new device - Improve PagePulse: anonymous aggregate patterns may inform product decisions, never identified to individuals ### Who we share it with - **Google Firebase**: backend infrastructure (us-central1) - **Google Books API**: titles and authors from your scans / additions - **Anthropic Claude / Google Gemini APIs**: book content for analysis; never personal data ### Data retention - As long as your account exists - On delete: removed within seven days - Anonymised aggregates may be retained indefinitely (not linked to individuals) ### Your rights Access, delete, correct, withdraw consent. GDPR / CCPA / DPDP compliant. ### Contact Affordance Design Studio hello@affordancedesign.in Bengaluru, India --- ## Technical context - **Platform**: Android only at launch - **Stack**: Capacitor + React + TypeScript + Vite, Tailwind - **Backend**: Firebase Cloud Functions (Node 22, us-central1), Firestore, Auth - **AI providers**: Anthropic Claude (book analysis), Google Gemini (computer vision + character extraction) - **Auth**: Google Sign-In via @capacitor-firebase/authentication (native Android SDK, no WebView OAuth) - **iOS**: pending Apple Sign In integration --- ## Studio context Built by [Affordance Design Studio](https://affordance.design), led by Shandar Junaid, in Bengaluru. The studio focuses on Intelligent Experiences (IX) — the intersection of AI and UX. PagePulse is one product in its portfolio alongside TimeLineX (timeline visualization), CTRL+SURVIVE (career survival game), HAL 9000 (multimodal AI agent), VibeLens (CSS inspector), and others. Studio tagline: *Signal, not noise.* Studio framework: *Human-centered design, AI-powered outcomes.*