The app is live! Wooo!
::waits to se if something explodes::
We have a handy, dandy app install guide for you.
If you are experiencing troubles or see something weird on there, quit the app and restart it. The turn it off and turn it back on solution is still, apparently, the best, because it forces the app to update itself.
I am deliriously happy, because someone already used the More feature to request a letter for their book club. This will streamline things. Yes.
FAQ Courtesy of Mod R
Will it work on *insert Apple device that isn’t iPhone but can get to the App Store*
It will definitely work on iPad. It will also work on MacBooks that have Apple Silicon.
Is it available in *UK, Canada, Australia etc etc* ?
Yes, but it might be down lower in the search results. If you can’t see the app, scroll down, it might just be buried.
Will it be on Android?
We are converting the files and build to Android. It will probably take about 6 weeks.
What app is this?
It is the Ilona Andrews app. Modr R, was that really a question? Update: Mod R assures me that this is an actual question. Here is a graphic.
We are missing conteeeeeeeeeeeeent!
Open and close the app. If there is no content still, it is coming in the future updates.
Future updates:
Once we crawl out of the backlog cave, we will be adding more content.
We are considering Vault feature. This feature would permit you to save specific free fiction posts so they are yours to keep even if they come off the blog. We are on the fence about it.
The next update will include additional maps for This Kingdom.
If you want to see additional features, drop them in the comments. Please +1 suggestions you like so we can gauge the popularity.
Android version: give us a couple of weeks to see how the Apple app does.
Yay!
Holy moly! I can’t believe I got first, even after reading the post. 😄
As an android user, I’ll be very fluffy while I wait our turn, but I’m super excited about this! 🥳
+1, as an android user very excited to stay fluffy
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+1 another android user, staying fluffy
+1 fuwa fuwa
Also +1 for Android. Getting super excited but staying chalant!!
+1 Android user!
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+1 and 3 cheers for android!
+1 as another android user
Android user here. I absolutely am not pacing the floor waiting for my turn.
I am rereading The Inheritance .
+1. Looking forward to the Android app version. I am postponing my reread of TKWNKM till I have the app map.
+1 Android. Would be awesome!
+1 android and for the first time unhappy about it 😉
staying fluffy till its out turn.
Thank you for this great new House Andrew feature😍
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Another +1 for Android.
Excited for you to have something you worked on become a part of our world too (as always). Looking forward to the Android version when you have time. Thank you for being the talented and versatile beings that you are!
Please take care!
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+1 Android user here and what awesomeness, HA!
+1 for Android. This is so exciting!
Right. I am NOT contemplating going out to buy the iPhone I said I would never buy. 😬🤣I am chalant.
We have heard you and Android is coming. 🙂
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+1 Waiting for Android version 🙏
+1 Android user. Thank you!
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certified first 🙂
+1 Android tablet user YIPEE
Question, do I have to be connected all the time to wifi Internet to have access to use the app once you port it to Android?
I got it and loved it. It is Ilona Andrews from soup to nuts. What a great idea. Thank you!
I would like a bit more build out on the badges. Like a tooltip on what they are, and some sort of action/confetti that happens when you obtain one.
I would also like this – I definitely haven’t been frantically clicking on things trying to figure out what is what. 🙂
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There is a company that provides stats for a mobile game (Rise of Kingdoms for you gamers), that had badges that members could earn. They also had a feature where your kingdom could create your own badges for things and assign them. Some of the created badges were really high quality and cool.
Maybe, just maybe if could be something added later. Maybe a certain spot to add badges you created and others could view/comment on them. 🙂
Loving the app. Started playing with it earlier today. Cannot believe how much free fiction I have missed in some of the series that I love! I’m going to have fun filling in all the gaps of my reading.
I think this was a truly awesome idea and it is going to add so much fun to the reading of your book series!
Patiently w*iting for Android version. Patiently may be an exaggeration…
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Android for the win!
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Wow – Why take this on when you are so deep in editing? You two are gluttons for punishment! The horde is amazed!
This was in the works for several months. 🙂 We have very little to do with the development itself. Our contribution was writing a letter to Apple proving that we are who we are.
i love the idea of a vault where all your free content lives forever.
thank you for making it easy to access all this info 💕
wheeeee!! (off to play)
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+1 on the Vault! I would love it.
I am excited to get the Android version soon.
Also, thank you so much for all you do to stay engaged with the Horde. I can practically hear the stress in Ilonas’ voice when she talks about reader engagement and doing more for us. Please rest assured that in my experience you do it much better and more often than other authors do. We’re lucky as readers to hear from some of the authors once a month or even once a year. You guys are the best!
@Cheryl +1 House Andrews is the best!
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I’ll understand if you guys don’t put the Vault in, but it would be amazing to have it.
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+1 for the Vault idea. But I will happily accept anything you give us. I am also patiently waiting for the app for Android. I was worried it would be months away so I was happy to hear only maybe a month and a half!
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Can’t wait for Android!
Will the Maggie encyclopedia cast list include name pronunciations?
Oooo! +1 for sure!
+1 for name pronunciation
Can’t figure out how to “register” the books I have read…..
Click on Series on the bottom menu, then choose whichever series you wish to mark.
You can either use the “Mark all read” button on the right, or click on each book you have read and use the big “Mark as Read” button in yellow.
Loving the app and appreciate the pointers for things like how to indicate how many of the series I’ve read. Thanks!
Will you please make the character list from This Kingdom available on the App?
Also, the profile images from which we can select are oddly formatted and don’t show the entire picture.
The list of characters from This Kingdom is already available on the app, under Explore- Encyclopaedia – Maggie the Undying.
The profile images can be adjusted to show whatever crop you want to see 🙂 . Since they are circular pfps of the square illustrations, they cannot show all the pixels.
Just downloaded the app. I wasn’t going to, but the possibility of more things to read while House Andrews is feverishly engaged in polishing Maggie 2 to a perfect shine… how could I resist?
One vote for the Vault, please. I still remember fondly the How To Write lesson using Little Red Riding Hood. And the shopping list, about the same time, if I recall correctly — you do rise beautifully to a challenge, Ilona! And (Puffles), which is far, far down the list, so I don’t even add the pressure of dreaming about it, and… The kinds of thing that, like Jane Austen’s Juvenalia, are prized by English lit. doctoral candidates and really serious fans.
#17 in Books already — heartiest congratulations! The Book Devouring Horde is fearsome indeed, so giving us something to play with while we wait makes everyone safer. <3
P*tiently w*iting for the android version (slaps hand over eye twitch)….I’m fluffy and chalant….❤️
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Wow! I just downloaded the app and it looks great!
Thanks so much!
Now have some tea, don’t worry about the BDH and continue with the edits. We got you….
This is great. Thank you!
New info about Maggie on the app.
New locations on interactive map – most interested in Rasmur – “place where the dangerous human (Solentine) stays.”
New great families, new Knight orders…
Yes! Yes! Yes! Can’t wait for book 2!
I thought the dangerous human is Everard. Seems that I remember Rasmur being mentioned in conversation by some of his entourage.
Yep the dangerous human is Everard! after the joedurar—
A third Selvan knight ran into the courtyard. “My lord, our absence was noticed. Crown Prince Kiel is on his way to Razmur. He’s accompanied by Silveren and the Redeemers—”
The falling snow graphic that appears when I open the Hidden Legacy series threw me off. I thought my screen was dirty and tried to wipe it off, haha.
I would love a map of Houston for the Hidden Legacy series with approximate plot points to where certain landmarks are located. Something similar for the Kate Daniels series would be awesome too.
I second TX maps for HL. They do so much traveling around the Houston area (or try to with all those pesky traffic jams). Directions needed for this East Coast/Midwest gal.
+1 on this idea too! Everyone loves a map! It’s the first thing I look for if I’m travelling somewhere new to me. I love it when a book has a map in front!
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In readiness for the android app, you can never have enough maps, especially when you don’t live in/near the place and really want to know the area because you’re crazy ocd autistic and your brain pecks at you to check it out but google is a pain to go back and forth with and doesn’t understand what you want to know. So yes please maps.
+1 for all series maps!
+1 for maps for all series!
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Banner HA week!! App is up and running. And vellum arrived in the mail yesterday!! Delighted.
Loved it : ) it works on ipad and in Turkey 👍 i will looking for the android app too for my phone, thank you ❤️
Vault! Vault! Vault! Android! Android! Android! *incoherent screaming *
Any clues on how to unlock the Midnight Reader badge or do I have to wait until midnight EST? Only one I’m missing ^^;
Play bingo after midnight and before 4am
I tried to download the app on my mini iPad, but it didn’t download. It kept asking me for my Hotmail e-mail password, but it wouldn’t go through. That’s ok since I am looking forward to the eventual Android app. 😊
Will you continue to update here as well? My phone is a potato and I can’t update now.
The blog and website aren’t going anywhere and will continue to be active and updated 🙂.
The app is in addition to, not instead of all the other platforms.
Please, Apple User, you are my only hope!
(Channeling Princess Leia, for those that didn’t get the reference.)
We Androids are depending on you.
Marvin wants in on the jokes too 😉
My husband just did a little ‘name the book from the quote’ game with me after I made him download the app as well. It would be cool to have some kind of mini game in app with that kind of thing – character who said it, series, and book all being worth a point a piece. I am sad to say I did very poorly so ought to reread everything again.🤣😇 How in the world did I forget where the ‘leather and lace’ came from?!?
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I LOVE LOVE LOVE the app. I have looked at all the things. It is amazing. I am excited for future content.
However, I noticed that in the map you have Darog Olgren tagged as associated to Sava Island. I do not believe that is correct.
Thanks for your hard work in releasing this. It is awesome
A link to the free fiction on the series pages so it’s easier to find would be nice
+1 then if you’re in the series and there is associated free fiction you tap and go to it
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I’m Android so I can’t see anything yet but can’t wait to be able to access it when it is live. One thing I might like to see and I don’t think it is there yet is a “Recipe” section.
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Omg yes. Recipes!! This would be so great! I cook dinner for my husband and young children pretty much everyday, a recipe collection would be magical.
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Loving the app! So fun to explore and accidentally earn badges. 😂
I hope it’s alright to mention here that the quote from Sapphire Flames needs to be corrected: “My ability TO even has been severely compromised.” If I find something else, how should I let you know?
I was able to load it on my ipad and looks good so far! Thanks for indulging the Horde. 🙂
I think I might be breaking the quiz. Keep taking it with different answers. Any chance there could be a “chose all” for each question? It’s too much like having to tell my three kids which is my favorite when they are all in front of me
Bonjour, je suis en France et j’ai l’application est-il prévu de l’avoir en français ?
Merci et j’apprécie de decouvrir des livres non édités en France.
L’application est bien disponible en France, mais elle est actuellement uniquement en anglais. Je n’ai pas encore d’informations à partager concernant une éventuelle version française.
Merci du retour. J’en profite quand même
Would love it, if commenting was available on the app! Also, the vault feature sounds great!
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This would be awesome. I only comment very rarely but being able to do it on the app might encourage me more…
Last night I was reading Magic Clams I mean Claims AGAIN. I fell asleep and dreamed about those magical contracts from Kair Toren and in the dream I wondered if those contracts are how authors (and songwriters) feel when they sign with a big publisher.
Downloaded the APP, sorry but I am busy rn now playing! 😂
Will come up for air after my playing with the APP, and listening to Magic Tides(2nd time). So much good stuff.
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Got the app: squee. Am very chalant. What a great idea.
does this mean that the website will no longer be usable and relevant? Will we lose the free reads and all that information
No, it doesn’t mean that at all 🙂.
The app is in addition to all the other platforms.
The free fiction, quizzes, series order, character lists, BDH bingo, glossary is all content already available here on the blog and the website, and has been for years. The app simply makes it easier to find for some people 🙂
Waiting in Android 🫡
Love the app! Would also enjoy the Vault!
Please for the vault!!!
Love it!
Omg love this app!!! U should have an option to mark how many times each book get re-read while waiting for more 😜🥰🤣
The Horde would break the app. 🤣🤣🤣
+1. This. For real! I would love to be able to keep track of re-reads and different formats I’ve acquired.
+1 on tracking rereads!
Nothing may have exploded where you are, but I am sure something, somewhere, exploded. Computers.
Silly Ilona. You two will never be done with your backlog. You should realy, realy try though. I’m rooting for you because that means we get ALL the things.😁❤️
I’ve spent way more time on my phone than usual, and it’s all thanks to Ilona Andrews app!!
I’ve really enjoyed navigating through everything
I do dream of electric sheep and I am paranoid so I guess I’ll just have to wait since I’m currently bound by the three laws of Ilona Andrews to be fluffy, chalant and patient. Sigh.
PS – I’ll be back. . . for the android app (did I miss any good ones?)
It would be great to be able to have a consistent profile and comment from the app itself. Also perhaps a forum/discussion area away from posts? Though we already have a subreddit so I don’t mind not having it in the specific app, I’m just tossing out suggestions that I would totally use
+1 to have a consistent profile and comment from the app itself.
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I binge your books now I am binging the app… goal: all the badges in one day!
I enjoyed playing with the app. Thank you!
I especially love all the links to the free fiction.
Desired feature? How about covers for all your books (and stories) that we can click on to mark them as read? Not everyone is a completist!
The Mark As Read function is already available for individual titles in the Series meu 🙂
And just to say for everyone, the Free Fiction page has always been available on the website https://ilona-andrews.com/free-fiction/
Love the app. Looking forward to seeing it flesh out. I would love to be able to favorite and mark as read all of the free fiction too.
Oooh, shiny!
+1 on more maps, even though I won’t see them until the Android app appears!
It was at the top of my search in the iOS store (UK)! I’ve been loving it so far, the series tracker/status overview is amazing
Absolutely obsessed with this app and down the rabbit hole I went 🤣🖤
My favourite is the encyclopaedia and the interactive map so far. And can’t wait for more 🤩
Is there a way to have our quiz results saved on our profile?
In case it helps with the fence sitting. Looove the idea of saving free fiction. Not the serials obvi but some of the short stories or snippets I’ve read and loved and would like an easy way to come back to or make sure I didn’t hallucinate.
But understand the concerns if you end up using them down the line like with Blood Heir and want to remove ahead of publishing or because they changed or no longer meet your standards.
I will not be mad if you decide to not let us save. Just having all the free fiction in one place in the app is already making me really happy and that probably meets my needs too! So maybe I DON’T need that feature.
Look how helpful my comment was, super clear and distinct with no waffling. You’re welcome.
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And now I have to reread everything just to unlock all of those badges! ;D
I’m am being very chalant and so looking forward to the Android version!
It worked fine in the uk,
I love the vault! Would you be putting up any of the aged content? *cough Lawnmower Orphans 1&2 cough*
Those two posts made me laugh SO hard I had to revisit several times to read with family. I mourn that I did not memorialize them because I had no idea they could disappear forever.
This looks amazing. I can’t wait until the app will become available on Android.
Android BDH are sweet and fluffy. We will use the app daily and tell all our Android friends about is.
So many great features on the app. LOVE. IT!
(Could we also have a way to track re-reads? Sometimes it’s hard to track which are my favorite comfort reads.)
Thank you thank you!! I downloaded it yesterday and it’s working perfectly (I’m in Switzerland) and I love it. 🥰
Congrats on the app! As an IA fan (sorry, BDH member) downloading the app was a given, but it has been a far better experience than I expected. (Especially for v1.1!) Thank you!
The vault sounds like a great idea. It would save me having to copy and paste a story into a Word document! 🙂
can’t wait for Android app. thanks so much!!!
Yay, the app is also in Germany availlable for iPhone!
Loaded and love it!
works fine on my ipad, got it per the German apple app-store in case someone wants to know that
It’s so exciting! The app was easy. I love it!
I am amazed at how much you care for your readers. I am almost 74 years old, and I started reading when I was about 7 years old. I am an avid reader and read constantly. I say all that because I have never had an author go to such lengths to ensure that their readers are happy, content, and satisfied. It feels almost like we are family, and I treasure that feeling. Thank you Ilona Andrews for all you do for the BDH.
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I mention the blog & website all the time when I talk about IA books to friends.
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unhappy about Apple being first but I’ll patiently wait for Android.
Ilona Andrews app-> Crossover Guide:
“The remaining Innkeeper and Breach Wars books are expected to further intertwine.”
YES!! (Happy dance!)
Where where? I don’t see a crossover guide on either the app or the webpage …
Is this maybe a setup thing?
There is a Crossover Guide in the app in the Explore menu 🙂
Waiting eagerly as an android user. Grouching softly as apple users get the content first . .
The App is great! I’m having fun with it! Thanks HA!
The app sounds great and I’ll probably get it but it needs my Apple password which annoys me so much I’m avoiding the whole issue. I’ll eventually do the “I forgot” process but it’s such a PIMA.
Glad things are progressing and you got a few hours of downtime.
How’s Batty??????
Downloaded app — will be using next week while my 93yr old mom undergoes an angioplasty on her right leg removing blockages for pain free walking. This app will keep me company during the wait! Thanks
What a treat. Thank you💕
Patiently taps foot waiting for Android option…..well maybe feeling just a little bit stabby. It will pass.
I am just so proud of the Horde. Ilona Andrews app is #20 in books by day 2. Hahaha
I’ve got the app!!!
+1. Love the quiz.
+2. Great to see all your books laid out.
**I noticed that The Edge series has a picture of George and Dina.
Funny that I haven’t read Aurelia Ryder… as that’s my name. Next read!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the app!! Thank you so much…the BDH is a blessed horde indeed!!! 🥰💕💕💕💕
If you are taking the only 998 or so comments about the inheritance snippet as a referendum on whether there is interest in a sequel. Don’t There were , according to your post , over 28,000 people who read it. I loved it But I don’t normally comment. Loved the original book. Would love a continuation. I’m sure I’m not alone
I am excited you are planning an Android version. FOMO is real!
You realize as soon as you mention you might give us a way to keep the free fiction, that if you don’t actually do it you will never hear the end of it? Did you forget who you are talking to? 🤣
I downloaded yesterday and explored. It’s great! I had zero problems doing anything. It’s an excellent addition to the HA world.
Enjoying the app! One suggestion: it would be nice if novellas that were published in any collections also included the name and maybe cover art of the all collections they are in on the book details page.
For example I originally purchased “Magic Steals” in the “Night Shift” collection. I first purchased “Grace of Small Magics” in “Under Her Skin”.
I also think the “Gunmetal Magic” book details page should list that it includes the novella “Magic Gifts”.
Yay! Congratulations on the app!🎉
I’m loving the map, especially Sushi’s comments😄
waiting for android!!! wooooo
I’ve got it! Can’t wait to explore. THANK YOU! AND THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR MAGGIE 2 I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Totally live it and total BDH potential app feature….live we can mark off what we have read but since so many have read everything a million times what about either or both a count for the next time you read it and/or all the versions! For example, I have read innkeeper in the blog serials, the kindle e-book, listened in regular audio book, graphic audio, the comic web site (can’t recall name) AND the graphic novel in hardcopy! And I know I am not alone ! 😅
Wow!!!!!!! Straight in on the iPad!!!!!!! Whooo hoooo!!!!!!
Hi – question: the app says there is a short in Kingsen called small blue key. I have the ebook and audio and it’s not in.m the table of contents. Is that the correct book it’s in? Or is in only in the print version? Thanks!
Here is A Small Blue Key https://ilona-andrews.com/a-small-blue-key/
It is not published in any book, and not part of the Kinsmen universe, 🙂 – on the app the full category is Kingsmen and Other Fiction (emphasis mine). This falls under “other fiction”.
This is so cool!
Proud GenX Luddite here.. I don’t APP. Also, Android User 🤣🤘
Will there be a dark mode / night color scheme option, or other visual accessibility features such as font size adjustment?
(I’ll wait and hope; myopic Android user with migraines here. White screens & bright lights are my kryptonite.)
These features already exist, under Profile – Accessibility Features and Settings (Theme-Dark) 🙂
Awesome, thank you! I don’t have any iOS devices at this time, but I look forward to trying it out someday.
Much like inheritance or really any serials or male POVs, can you also put a place we can store them? Can you do that with blog posts as well? like by topic? I really like the writing ones to us aspiring authors and I cant find some of the old ones. Mod R said they were archived- which I assume means they r still out there somewhere. Thank you!! I know this is a haul. Its like when we moved to electronic medical records but legally you have to keep atleast 10 years of records… It was o ur of control. OBV hospitals hired people and have a bigger budget than you do. My 2 year olds are teaching me patience. But pretty plz!!! I can hold for approx 2 years since I know this is a big ask. I will pay!!!
Y’all are so thoughtful about accessibility and so amazing about answering questions. Hordes of them.
Thank you!
Love it, Installation was easy-peasy. Spent hours on it yesterday
Nice. I’d like to be able to upload my own photo for my profile.
Love the App. Vault please!
Love the app! Is it wrong that I was secretly hoping to see “Magic Clams” under the Wilmington Series?
+another android from the UK
I’m totally considering stealing my mother’s iPhone to download the app.
Please keep me in mind if you need beta testers for the android app 🙏
I have to wait for Android but it looks good!
I got the app! Fun stuff I’m seeing so far. I’m definitely a badge person, and don’t understand how to mark which Ilona Andrews book I read first so I can get that badge. It would also be helpful to be able to click on the badge to see what you have to do to get it. So far, at least for me, they aren’t clickable. If anyone has any suggestions, please respond. Thanks!