Get credit for everything you read.
You read a lot. Hundreds of thousands of words a year, in fics no Goodreads shelf will ever count. WIP Inbox tracks every chapter — what you're following, where you left off, what's waiting — and turns it into the reading stats, year-in-review, and shareable library you'd have if fanfic counted like "real" books. (It does to us.)
The reading you're doing already, finally on the record.
Most readers can't tell you how many chapters they read last month. Not because they didn't read — because no one was counting. AO3 doesn't. Goodreads can't. StoryGraph doesn't know your WIPs exist.
WIP Inbox does. Every chapter you mark caught up is a chapter on your record: in your live stats page, in Stacked (your year-in-review), and in a clean export you can drop straight into StoryGraph alongside your published-book reads.
Your live reading stats
A real stats page — not a static badge. Pulls from every catch-up you log and updates as you read:
- • Chapters and words read by week, month, year, or all time
- • Stories finished start to finish — the ones you actually saw through
- • WIPs you're following right now, at a glance
- • Your favorite fandom (the one you keep coming back to, whether you'd admit it or not)
- • Longest catching-up streak — consecutive days you showed up for your fics
One-tap share card for the group chat, the timeline, or the friend who keeps asking what you've been doing all week.
Stacked — your reading year in stats live now
Stacked is your reading retrospective from WIP Inbox — a look at the fics, fandoms, and feelings shaping your year. Top fandoms, total word count (it's going to be shocking), longest fic finished, the WIP that's defining your year, superlatives, milestones, streaks you didn't know you had.
The half-year preview is live right now. The full year-in-review lands in December, built from every catch-up you log between now and then. The earlier you start tracking, the richer your Stacked gets.
Export to StoryGraph (and anywhere else)
Your reading history is yours. Anything you've finished can be exported as a clean CSV — formatted for StoryGraph import, so your fic reads sit on the same shelf as your published-book reads. Title, author, word count, date finished, fandom, the works.
One file. Two clicks. Your years of fic reading, on the record wherever you keep score.
And yes — it keeps you on top of what you're reading
AO3 sends you an email every time a chapter drops. Forward those to your private WIP Inbox address (one Gmail filter, ~2 minutes) and we parse out title, author, fandom, chapter, tags, word count — and add it to your dashboard. The email gets discarded after parsing. No AI reads your fics. No AO3 traffic gets diverted.
- • Know where you left off in every fic, at a glance
- • See what actually updated while you were busy — no more opening chapter 17 thinking it's fresh
- • Automatic shelving for fics that go quiet at 90 days, with instant resurfacing when a new chapter lands
- • Weekly digest showing your whole stack in one email
What makes this different from a spreadsheet
| Spreadsheet | WIP Inbox | |
|---|---|---|
| Updates automatically | ✗ | ✓ |
| Tracks reading progress | Manual | Automatic |
| Live stats | Current window | Full history + streaks over time |
| Year-in-review (Stacked) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Export to StoryGraph | ✗ | ✓ |
| Resurfaces fics when they update | ✗ | ✓ |
| No data entry required | ✗ | ✓ |
Pricing
Track up to 10 stories actively. Unlimited "On Deck" stories tracked in the background and ready when you are. Automatic shelving, fic recommending, weekly digest, live stats, monthly recap cards + your Year in Fic, and StoryGraph export. No credit card.
Unlimited stories. Full stats history — all-time streak comparisons and top-fandom breakdowns for any window — plus custom shelves, personal notes, cover art, and custom resurfacing triggers (wait for a few chapters to stack up, or until the whole thing is finished). 10% of net revenue goes to the OTW once infrastructure costs are covered — because this community is worth supporting.
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Values, briefly
No AI reads your fic. No AO3 content is reproduced or scraped. No ads, ever. No data sold. Your reading history is yours.
WIP Inbox is built by a reader, for readers. It exists because I needed it and nothing else did what I wanted.
— KT