XKCD Reader — the entire archive on your wrist.
Over 3,000 XKCDs, pulled on demand. The app streams today’s comic when you launch it. Press SELECT to roll a random strip from the full archive. UP / DOWN scroll the comic panel-by-panel — hold either button for smooth scrolling through tall strips (Climate Timeline, Timeghost…) or wide multi-panel ones (Regex Golf, Life Goals). Long-press SELECT or shake your wrist to reveal the alt-text — the hover-text joke Randall hides behind every comic. BACK exits.
Your phone handles the heavy lifting: it fetches the XKCD JSON metadata and PNG, bilinear-resizes to match your Pebble’s resolution, Floyd-Steinberg dithers into crisp monochrome line art, then streams the bitmap over AppMessage. Wide comics auto-scroll horizontally, tall ones vertically, so text stays legible instead of getting squished into 200 pixels.
Go check it out in the App Store!
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version 1.1 of XKCD Reader !
Go check it out!
Fix the scroll
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