About TrueFan

A personal collection of the stories you finish and remember.

What we're building

Finishing a great story often leaves people with nowhere to put the feeling. A bookshelf is a satisfying record of what you've read, but films, TV and podcasts have nothing like it, and an empty review box can feel more like homework than closure.

TrueFan is an iPhone app that gives every story you finish a place on your shelf. You collect the films, TV shows, books and podcasts you complete, relive them with a short optional quiz, and discover the stories connected to them. We call it Collect. Recall. Discover.

Where we are

• The TrueFan app is in a closed beta on iPhone, tested through Apple's TestFlight. You can request beta access to try it.
• The beta includes the library and Bookshelf, AI-generated recall quizzes, stats and personal goals, imports from Letterboxd and Goodreads, and sharing with friends. See what's in the app.
• Creator Studio is in early access at truefanofficial.com/creators. Authors claim their work and draft their own quiz, and we review both before anything is published. This is how Official quizzes will be made, starting with a small creator pilot.
• Friends and Circles are in the beta: follows and a feed, hand-offs, small Circles, quiz challenges, Taste Cards and shared profiles. You choose who sees each title. See how sharing works.

How it's made

TrueFan is a native SwiftUI app for iPhone. Accounts, sync and the services behind search and quiz generation run on Google Firebase and Google Cloud, in Europe where we can. Quizzes are generated by AI from public descriptions of each title and are always labelled AI-generated.

How TrueFan will earn

TrueFan is free to download and use, with no adverts. We're building two ways to earn:

• Supporter membership: an optional yearly subscription through the App Store that unlocks premium features, such as deeper stats about what you finish and enjoy. Collecting, quizzes and discovery stay free for everyone.
• Buy and watch links: each title page shows where to buy a book or stream a film or show. Book links go through Bookshop.org, which shares sales with independent bookshops, and we may earn a small commission. Nobody pays to be listed.

We never sell your data or share it for anyone else's marketing.

What we believe

• Quiet rewards. A beautiful collection and meaningful milestones, never timers, streaks, rankings or leaderboards.
• Your data is yours. Your library is private by default. You choose what to share, and we never sell your information.
• Honest credit. "Official quiz" means a named creator wrote or approved it. The label is never for sale.
• Everyone can use it. Larger text, VoiceOver, big tap targets and Reduce Motion are requirements, not extras.

Who we are

TrueFan was started in 2026 by two co-founders, Cameron and Emily, in the UK. We're a small, independent team building the app we wanted for ourselves: somewhere to keep the stories that stayed with us.

Contact us

We read every message and usually reply within two working days.

• General questions and feedback: hello@truefanofficial.com
• Creators, publishers and studios interested in Official quizzes: hello@truefanofficial.com
• Press and partnerships: hello@truefanofficial.com
• Privacy requests: see our privacy notice, or email hello@truefanofficial.com