Plotgraph shows you the characters, relationships and events of the novel you're reading, revealing only what you've already read. Not a single spoiler. Ever.
You are on page 272 of The Count of Monte Cristo. Press the graph icon (top-right of the reader)Tap the graph icon (bottom-left of the reader) to see the character map you know so far.
You know how it goes. You got lost in Game of Thrones. In Dune. In One Hundred Years of Solitude. You google a name, swallow the ending. You close the book and never open it again.
They tell you everything, without asking. One search and the ending of the book is revealed in the very first sentence.
"Who was this again?", three chapters of searching, frustration, book abandoned.
Only if you're a superhero. Most readers don't. Those who do, lose them.
One single idea: the app knows exactly what you know about the book, not a page more.
Choose a book from the Plotgraph library. We start with public-domain masterpieces (Dumas, Stoker, Shelley, Wells, Hugo) and keep adding curated titles.
"I'm on page 237." The Plotgraph slider sits exactly there. Not a hint further.
The graph of characters and relationships appears, exactly as you know them up to that point. Family, friends, enemies, traitors, if you already know.
Close the map, go back to the text. And when a new revelation arrives, the graph will change with you. Naturally.
Seven public-domain masterpieces from East and West, in three different atmospheres: warm and classical, gothic and fantastical, cold and science-fiction. Every interface is the interface of the book you're reading.
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X-Ray is the closest thing out there, but it's plain text, it doesn't show relationships that change over time, it's locked into the Kindle ecosystem and it has no page slider that controls the state. Plotgraph is visual, temporal, multiplatform and built around the reader.
Every fact in the book carries a "reveal point", the page on which that fact is first learned. The app never shows a fact whose reveal point is past your progress. Critical facts appear blurred until you choose to see them.
A mix: an initial pass assisted by AI, then human editorial review. For production, every book goes through a literary editor before publishing. The anti-spoiler promise is our biggest responsibility.
Two reasons: zero rights conflict, and because works like Monte Cristo or Dracula are the hardest possible proof of the idea (hidden identities, betrayals, late revelations). If it works there, it works anywhere.
Yes. The demo is responsive web: read it on your laptop, open it on your phone, same thing.