Designed for Performance. Built for Freedom.
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One Architecture. Infinite Sources.
Chouten is a modular, cross-platform media platform built with Kotlin Multiplatform.
It is not tied to a single provider.
It is not locked to a single media type.
It is not architected as a monolith.
Chouten separates:
- 📊 Metadata & Tracking
- 🎞 Media Delivery
- 🧠 Core Platform Logic
- 🎨 UI & Experience
This separation enables flexibility, extensibility, and long-term scalability.
Most media apps are:
- Provider-locked
- Hard to extend
- Inconsistent across platforms
- Architecturally rigid
Chouten is designed differently.
- Modular by default
- Cross-platform by design
- UI-first experience
- Clean architecture
- Source abstraction
- Performance-conscious
The goal is simple:
A smooth, immersive media experience — without sacrificing architectural integrity.
Chouten embraces a cinematic, immersive UI:
- Full-bleed artwork backgrounds
- Layered glass-style surfaces
- Elevated rounded cards
- Strong visual hierarchy
- Minimal clutter
- Content-focused layout
The interface prioritizes:
- Fluid navigation
- Visual clarity
- Responsiveness
- User satisfaction
Design is not decoration — it is structure.
Chouten is built with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and structured into modular components.
- Shared business logic
- Source abstraction layer
- Feature-based modules
- Compose UI layer
- Platform-specific targets (Android, iOS, Desktop JVM)
Sources are divided into two clear categories.
Provides:
- Metadata
- User progress tracking
- Ratings
- Lists
Examples:
- AniList
- TMDB
- Kitsu
TrackerSources do not provide media files.
Provides:
- Episode streams
- Chapter images
- Audio streams
- Video files
MediaSources focus purely on content delivery.
This separation allows:
- Mixing trackers with different media providers
- Independent source development
- Plugin-based extensibility (planned)
- Cleaner long-term maintainability
- A true platform, not just an app
- 🏠 Home
- 🔍 Discover
- 📦 Repo Management
- ℹ️ Media Info
- ⚙️ Settings
- 📖 EPUB / Book Reader
- 🖼 Comic Reader
- 🎵 Music Player
- 🎬 Video Player
- 👤 Profile
- Kotlin Multiplatform foundation
- Compose-based UI system
- Cross-platform targets
- Multi-screen navigation
- Media detail & episode layouts
- Modular feature structure
- TrackerSource abstraction foundation
- Clean separation of UI and logic
- Plugin system for MediaSources
- Dynamic source loading
- Source sandboxing
- Background sync engine
- Offline library support
- Cloud synchronization
- Account system
- AniList OAuth
- TMDB integration
- Multi-tracker support
- Automatic progress sync
- Statistics dashboard
- Custom EPUB rendering engine
- Custom comic layout engine
- Infinite chapter scrolling
- Multiple reading modes
- Adaptive video streaming
- Music background playback
- Chromecast support
- Theme engine
- Advanced animation system
- Tablet-optimized layouts
- Desktop window modes
- Performance profiling tools
- Accessibility improvements
- Public module API
- Source development documentation
- Mockable source interfaces
- Testing harness
- CI pipeline
- Contributor guidelines
- Android
- iOS
- Desktop (JVM)
- Future expansion possible
Chouten is under active development.
The architecture is being built carefully to support long-term extensibility and performance.
Because users deserve:
- A smooth experience
- A clean interface
- Freedom of sources
- Cross-platform consistency
And developers deserve:
- Modular architecture
- Clear abstraction boundaries
- Extensibility
- Scalability
Chouten is a foundation.
Readers, players, trackers, sources — these are components of something larger.
The goal is not to build another media app.
The goal is to build a platform.