Close reading, offline

Read closely.
Build the reading yourself.

NarraDive is a private workspace for literary analysis. Bring your own text, state a hypothesis, pin your evidence — the app never tells you what a passage means.

Coming soon to the App Store See how it works

The icy setting stands in for the isolation running through the whole book.

Confidence 68%
What it does

Four ways to sit with a text

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Bring your own text

Type or paste a title, author and passage. Nothing is bundled, nothing is downloaded — the library is entirely what you put into it.

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Readings, not verdicts

Write a hypothesis, set a confidence level, and attach the evidence lines that back it up. NarraDive holds your interpretation — it doesn't grade it.

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Tensions, Echoes, Silences

Structural counts pulled straight from the words on the page: long, charged sentences, repeated language, and paragraphs that go quiet.

Character web & timeline

Names surface as chips with mention counts, and every paragraph lines up on a running timeline — a shape for the story, drawn from the text itself.

Getting started

From blank page to close reading

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Add a book

Title, author, and the passage itself — pasted or typed.

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Open Insights

See tensions, echoes and silences the app found in your text.

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Write a reading

State your hypothesis and set how confident you actually are.

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Pin the evidence

Attach the lines that support it, so the reading can defend itself.

Your texts never leave your device

NarraDive makes no network calls. No accounts, no analytics, no syncing. Every book, reading and note stays in local storage on your iPhone, for as long as you keep it there.

Fully offline