Unwritten · Stillcraft

What's inside

Everything Unwritten does.

A customer a day

420 handwritten notes in Russian and English. Some come with a wish: the whole book in six words, only its contents, no letter «e», only how it ends. The brass bell calls up to three a day.

Three lines are a book

A title, a first line and a blurb, step by step, each step on one screen. A pen name, an epigraph, the contents, a page from the middle and the last line if you like.

Covers drawn in code

A framed classic series, a three-band paperback, pulp with a halftone and a price tag, typed samizdat with staples. Your own imprint on every one.

Inside the book

Turn its pages one at a time: the epigraph, a drop cap, the contents with dot leaders, a page from the middle with pencil in the margin. A library card gets a violet stamp for every day you open it.

Critics and readers

A grumpy critic, a professor, a reading circle, the bookseller's cat: a review a day. And a quiet book with empty margins comes back from a reader, for you to read as someone else's.

Editions and the bargain box

After a week a book can come out in a second edition, revised, with a new preface and one more chapter. Books that didn't work out aren't deleted: they go in the box by the door at ten kopecks.

Print it as a zine

Any book becomes an eight-page zine on one A4 sheet: print, fold, one cut, no glue. Give someone a book that doesn't exist.

The window

The real time of day with the sun where it is, the moon in tonight's phase, lit windows across the street at night. Pick a town and the rain or snow is real too.

Screens

Captured in Unwritten.

Unwritten: The shop — **The shop**Two shelves, a lamp, today's customer.

Unwritten: Finding the book — **Finding the book**What kind, and its title.

Unwritten: The cover — **The cover**Found for an old lady in a wet coat.

Unwritten: The back — **The back**The blurb and a barcode.

Unwritten: Inside — **Inside**A preface to the second edition.

Unwritten: The library card — **The library card**A stamp for every day it was opened.

Unwritten: Snow in Prague — **Snow in Prague**The weather outside is real.

Unwritten: Welcome — **Welcome**Name your imprint.

Four covers

Style	Looks like	Lettering
Series	Bookcloth, a double frame, a series name and a little device	Forum
Three bands	A coloured paperback with a cream band and a pen-nib mark	Inter
Pulp	A halftone, a sphere, a price tag, a slanted yellow title	PT Sans Narrow
Samizdat	Typed twice on grey paper, staples, copy 3 of 5	PT Mono

Get it

Get Unwritten.

Install

Version: v1.0.0
File: Unwritten.apk
Requires: Android 9.0 (API 28) or newer. No Google services needed.
Permissions: Internet, only for the weather outside the window once you pick a town. No account, no ads, no analytics.
License: MIT · fonts Lora, Caveat, Forum, Inter, PT Sans Narrow, PT Mono (SIL OFL)

Download the APK on your phone.
Open it and allow installs from this source when Android asks.
Name your imprint, read today's note and find the book on the shelf.

Nobody writes the books themselves here, and that's the point: a whole book in three lines, a few minutes a day.

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Build from source

JDK 17+ (Android Studio's bundled JBR works) and the Android SDK. Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Room, DataStore; the shop, the window and every cover are drawn in code, and the customers' notes are one TSV.

git clone https://github.com/bigdevwhale/unwritten.git
cd unwritten
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest assembleDebug
./gradlew assembleDebug -Pdemo              # app.unwritten.demo: two months of books, critics and stamps
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest -Prender --tests '*RenderArtScreens*'   # every screen to PNG, EN and RU

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