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About PaperVN

PaperVN is a visual novel companion built for Apple devices. It helps you discover visual novels, learn more about titles and characters, and record every step of your play journey. Browse, explore, and search VNDB's public data without signing in. After signing in to your VNDB account, you can also read and edit your personal library. Coming Swiftly: Throughout its development, PaperVN has followed a “beauty first” principle. It is built entirely with SwiftUI, and every detail has been carefully considered. Today: Today presents a daily selection of visual novels worth your attention and recent events. PaperVN can also analyze your library and use machine learning to generate a “For You” list. Library: After signing in to your VNDB account, you can edit your library and update play status, played release, rating, and start or finish date. Preferences such as language, appearance, and content safety are customizable as well. Visual Novel / Character Details: PaperVN includes localizations for more than 6,000 VNDB visual novel tags and character traits, with support for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean. We are also working to localize the descriptions of more than 200,000 visual novels and characters on VNDB. Search: Search visual novels, characters, releases, staff, developers, and publishers, then narrow the results with matching filter criteria. LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT:https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

What’s new

Version 1.9.261007 · Updated October 10, 2026

1. Redesigned the Search page (iOS and iPadOS); 2. Improved the Liquid Glass appearance (iOS and iPadOS); 3. Improved how descriptions are displayed (iOS and iPadOS); 4. Added the ability to recommend visual novels (iOS and iPadOS); 5. Redesigned the app icon (iOS and iPadOS); 6. Fixed an issue where the style of the “More” button on the details page didn’t match the tags (iOS and iPadOS); 7. Fixed an issue where the text color changed abruptly when pulling down on the details page (iOS and iPadOS) (In-App Feedback FB 3); 8. Fixed an issue where text overflowed its border when a feedback attachment name was too long (iOS and iPadOS) (In-App Feedback FB 4); 9. Added the ability to contribute translations (iOS and iPadOS); 10. Fixed 503 strings that were mistranslated or didn’t follow Apple’s terminology (iOS and iPadOS); 11. Migrated the remaining UIKit-based UI to SwiftUI (iOS and iPadOS); 12. Removed unused code (iOS and iPadOS); 13. Retrained an all-new preference analysis model that’s smaller and runs faster (iOS and iPadOS); 14. Redesigned the prompt for viewing all comments (iOS and iPadOS).

App privacy

The developer, 训杰 潘, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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