Plans
The base tracker is free. Pro is $4.99 per month and adds the recommendation engine plus the analytics that come with logging sessions. Patron is $9.99 per month and adds profile customization, list analytics, and reading-history export.
Founding rates · locked through May 31, 2027
Free is real
Track, review, follow other readers. None of that hits a paywall.
2% to preservation
Pledged. Disbursed quarterly once the first quarter of subscriptions closes. Public ledger.
No ads
Subscriptions are how the site stays up.
Money never touches editorial
Publisher sponsorships sit on a labeled page, not in reviews or recs.
Free
$0 forever
A real tracker. Not a trial.
Steins;Gate
common route · 12%
The first eight hours play it as comedy. A phone microwave that exists to be ridiculous, a self-styled mad scientist, banter that never lands too heavy.
Mayuri's route
After ep. 12
True ending
Steins;Gate
WishlistWishlist · Reading · Finished · On hold · Dropped. Half-star ratings + private notes layer on top.
blocked tag
horror@kana · review excerpt
The first ending recasts everything. I had to sit with it for a day before I could write this up.
Also free
Pro
$5.99 / month · $59.99 / year
Pretend you finished · picks recompute, reasons rewrite
Higurashi · Kai
because companion piece in the same universe
Subarashiki Hibi
because Umineko's metafiction primed you for unreliable narrators
Sayonara wo Oshiete
because you finish dense psychological work · this is the original
Drag to your pace · estimates update live
Umineko no Naku Koro ni
catalog 71h
~71h
Steins;Gate
catalog 37h
~37h
Saya no Uta
catalog 12h
~12h
Once you log a few sessions on finished VNs, this calibrates automatically · no slider needed.
@yui·finished
Subarashiki Hibi
@kiki·rated9/10
White Album 2
@ren·started reading
Umineko · Episode 4
@kana·published a review of
Cross†Channel
Live activity from the readers you follow, no follow cap, all the editorial signal of a feed without the engagement-rank sludge.
12 weeks · last 84 days
0.0
VNs finished · 90d
0.0
Avg pace
0.0
Longest streak
Velocity dashboard tracks the rhythm of your reading. Streaks, median session length, finish-rate per quarter.
Search filters
Filter on tags, length buckets, release windows, translation status, and curator-cleared shelves. Bookmark the URL · the full filter set serializes into the query string.
Also in Pro
Patron
$12.99 / month · $129.99 / year
Multi-select your library, batch-mark finished, batch-add to a list, batch-tag. Sweep through fifty entries in one pass.
0
Stars · 30d
0
Followers
0
Visits
Per-list dashboard · stars, followers, visits, top referrers. Curators use it to learn what's working.
eligible for editorial features
Your list · Quiet sci-fi finales
· surfaces on /discover editorial shelves
· quoted in curator highlights when you’re picked
· admin can pin to /home for site-wide visibility
Patron lists are eligible for editorial pickup. Yumefumi staff review them as part of the regular curator-highlight cycle.
// reading-history.json
{
"vns_finished": 142,
"sessions_logged": 1837,
"reviews_published": 28,
"lists_owned": 6,
"first_logged_at": "2024-03-11",
"export_version": 4,
}
Every session, review, list, and rating in one JSON file. Versioned, portable, yours to keep.
@reader
accent · amber
Hover state, link underline, follow-button border, badge fill · all derive from your accent.
Custom profile banners · upload a 3:1 image or pick from the editorial gradient set. Surfaces above your bio on /u/[handle].
Also in Patron
The demos above walk through each feature. This is the side-by-side.
| Feature | Free | Pro | Patron |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalog browsing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Status, ratings, private notes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Spoiler-aware reviews | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Public lists | 1 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Recommendation engine | · | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live activity feed | · | ✓ | ✓ |
| Session timers + heatmap | · | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bulk VNDB import | · | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reading-history export | · | · | ✓ |
| Custom banner + accent | · | · | ✓ |
| List analytics + custom covers | · | · | ✓ |
Billed through Stripe. Cancel any time from /settings/billing. Your tier stays active through the end of the period you’ve already paid for.
$59.88 $49.99 / yr
Personalized recommendations, session tracking, the live activity feed, and the things heavier readers actually use.
$119.88 $99.99 / yr
Everything in Pro, plus profile customization, list analytics, bulk actions, history export, and a direct hand in funding VN preservation.
VNDB and MAL exist and they’re free. You don’t need Yumefumi to track a backlog. The Free tier covers the same ground: catalog browsing, status logging, reviews, lists, follows. The paid tiers fund what costs real server time or third-party API budget: the recommendation engine ranking every VN against your reading history, sessions and the live activity feed, bulk VNDB import that can fan out hundreds of API calls per run. Subscriptions are how those pay for themselves.
Once the first quarter of subscriptions closes, two cents of every subscription dollar will be set aside as preservation grants. Recipients will be nominated by the community and the disbursement will be published as a public ledger so the accounting is checkable. None of this has happened yet, and the page only makes sense once it has. Until then this is a commitment in writing, not a track record.
The remaining ninety-eight cents covers what the site costs to run: engineer time, recommendation-engine compute, hosting, email, observability, backups, the small overhead of operating a Delaware LLC.
No ads. The site doesn’t sell your reading history. Publishers can sponsor titles on a labeled Publisher Picks page and a partner block on individual VN pages, but never inside reviews, recommendations, or organic search results. That separation is enforced in the codebase, not in a policy.