Show the visual novel you're reading on Discord
Shiori RPC is a small tray app. It reads the title of the VN's window and puts the game's name, your current chapter or route, the time read and its cover on your Discord profile. Most engines work with no setup.
What it does
- Finds the VN by itself: Ren'Py, KiriKiri, SiglusEngine, BGI and more, and games on emulators. You can also pick the window by hand.
- Shows where you are: prologue, chapter, route or ending, read from the window title (English, French and Japanese).
- Tracks time read for each VN, with a day-by-day history, a reading calendar with streaks, and your progress against the average length on VNDB.
- Adds the cover from VNDB or an image link.
- Lets you choose what friends see, game by game: everything, no chapter, just "Visual Novel", or nothing.
Same app, new name, starting with version 2.2.0. The update is offered in the app as usual, and your settings, Library, time read and covers are copied over on the first launch (details).
The app was rewritten in Rust with Tauri: a much lighter .exe and a snappier window, with the same features. Coming from 1.x? The update is offered in the app as usual, and your settings, Library, time read and covers are picked up on the first launch (details). Settings now save as soon as you change them: there's no Save button anymore.
Join the community
Questions, bug reports, ideas, and soon translations of the app into more languages: it all happens on the Discord server.
Where to go next
Install
Download, set up Discord, and see your first status in two minutes.
Discord status & privacy
What shows on your profile, and how to hide some or all of it.
Library
Every VN you've read, with time read, status and a Play button.
Screenshots
Press Print Screen in game; each VN gets its own folder.
Share card
"My week in visual novels", as an image to paste on Discord.
Troubleshooting
Nothing on Discord? Wrong game found? Start here.