Familiar v1.0.0

The first release of Familiar: a reading tracker with a pixel-art familiar that feeds on stories.

• Eight familiars in rich pixel art painted on the phone: the mimic, kitsune and slime (the three you can hatch first), and the dragon, phoenix, griffin, owlbear and moon moth (found by reading). Five stages from egg to ancient, each familiar with its own favourite kind of reading. About one egg in sixteen hatches shining, in a rare colouring.
• They show what you read: the kitsune grows a tail for every genre, the dragon sits on a hoard of finished books, the moth's wings fill with a star for every night, the slime keeps what you named inside. Moods follow the last genre read.
• The spell of forgetting: two quiet days and the familiar starts turning to stone from the paws up; the phoenix burns to ash instead. A few pages break the spell.
• The den: a pixel room furnished with sparks (one for every mana ever eaten), sixteen pieces from a moonlit window to a bubbling cauldron. Stroke the familiar to make it purr, toss it yarn once a day; it sleeps after midnight.
• The ritual: a candle that burns while you read, a page counter with a rustle or the page at the end, a synthesised fireplace or rain, and a stillness bonus while the phone lies face down. Audiobooks count minutes with a gramophone. Or log pages read elsewhere.
• Find a book in Open Library (Google Books as a fallback): title, author, pages and the real cover, kept on the phone. Or a cover drawn in the genre's colour.
• Cycles of books with a reward for reading them all, the tree of stories, a goal for the year with pace, three monthly guild errands and the saga of your year with a square for every day.
• An evening reminder told by the familiar, a home-screen widget, JSON backup, English and Russian, parchment and candlelight themes.