Discover great literature.
The whole canon, open and waiting. Novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, philosophy. Four millennia of great writing in dozens of languages, all in one place, yours whenever the mood takes you.
Lose an afternoon in Wuthering Heights. Read a Borges story over coffee. Sit with a single poem until it gives something up. When something calls to you, it's already here.
Every day, one work arrives, chosen for the day. Hamlet on Shakespeare's birthday. Ulysses on Bloomsday. Dracula at Halloween. Wuthering Heights on Valentine's, because love should always be a little unhinged. In Search of Lost Time on February 29th, because what better day for a book about the moments between things. The calendar reaches far beyond the Western tradition too, to Diwali, Nowruz, Vesak, and the lunar new year. You can't know which writer will reach you. The point is to keep enough of them in front of you that some will.
TODAY'S WORK
A new work each day, with a blurb that sets the scene without spoiling it, an extract from the work, and the reason it sits where it does.
THE LIBRARY
Hundreds of complete works, readable in full inside the app.
BLOOMY
A literary companion who has read everything and forgotten nothing. Bloomy knows what you love, what left you cold, and what to hand you next. Not an algorithm, the most well-read friend you'll ever have.
READING PATHS
Guided journeys through the canon. Follow The Russian Soul through Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Stare down existentialism with The Abyss Looks Back. Syllabi without the exam.
READING LIST
Three shelves for your intentions: The Nightstand for what's next; In the Wings for works circling your attention; The Bookshop List for future you.
MY CANON
Your personal ranking of every work you've read. Drag them into order. The canon is a conversation; this is your side of it.
LEXICOGRAPHY
One literary word a day, worth stealing for your own sentences.
READING EVENTS
Time-boxed cohorts you can join. Ten Chekhov stories in ten days. A slow immersion in Dickinson. Read alongside everyone else who signed up.
DYNAMIC THEMES
Hundreds of bespoke visual worlds, each built for a specific work. Moby-Dick gets the ocean. Frankenstein gets the storm. Gatsby gets the green light.
AUTHORS
Every author has a deep profile, with portraits, biographies, life events, stories and complete works lists.
TOLSTOY'S CALENDAR
Daily aphorisms from Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom, matched to the day of the year.
ALSO INCLUDES
Home Screen Widgets. Dark Mode. Reading Timer. Ex Libris, a living portrait of your reading. Badges and Laurels. Spotlight Search. Share Cards. Year in Review.
This app is fantastic! I can’t remember how I happened upon it, but I’m so glad I did. The organization and attention to detail is remarkable - from notable quotes from each work, to visual representations of their length, to digestible biographies (with pictures!) of each author, to the Tolstoy calendar - and all that in just the free version! I love how it allows me to save books I want to read (and, with the premium version, read them right in the app) or have already read. I love the titles of the Reading Paths and the well-written summaries. I love the premium features I’ve used so far. And my jaw dropped when I submitted feedback (super-easily, right from within the app) and not only did I receive a thoughtful reply (seemingly from a real person!) within 24 hours, but they even revised the app right away to address my concern! This app is clearly made by people who care about the product rather than by people just trying to make a buck. (I also love that there’s not constant pressure to pay for the premium version, as there is with so many other apps.) Everything about it brightens my day. ❤️
Developer Response
This one floored us a bit, thank you. There is a real person behind the replies, and reviews like this are exactly why he keeps showing up to write them. The app is built by people who genuinely love this stuff, and the quiet hope is always that it shows. Glad it does. Happy reading, and welcome properly to the canon!
Gets your mind going again
The Silly Wise Monkey
For all those who ever appreciated English class in American high school, this app will give you nostalgic fuzzies. I remember well reading books in high school that inspired me to explore more beyond class, beyond the few paragraphs of a literature textbook sample. I will definitely consider the subscription because this app makes reading an enjoyable experience again with all the insights and extra information pertaining to the author, their works, their era and the influences. I could write a novel about the greatness of this app but just want to say kudos for the work put into this and I look forward to the maintenance of this app. Maybe a modern book app is in the works, that connects these classics to the masterpieces of today’s great authors of the future?
Laurie
Me(/)
This app is so worth it. I quite literally and ironically don’t feel I have enough words to describe , in this spot , ALL OF THE THINGS THIS APP CAN DO! The team is right there for any and all communication you need. The ability to use Claude Bloomy to help explain the text you are reading, or to provide you some background or to just answer a question? Makes this app something not along the lines of any app.. ever before..they should have another category of a word than “app” or application to describe for lack of better words this “app”
Lost me during the orientation tour
Allston-Tollcross
This app lost me as a user during its orientation tour. The tour featured a famous quote from Fitzgerald’s *The Great Gatsby*. Which was fine, but then the commentary blurb about the novel was clearly something written with generative AI. (Granted it wasn’t the worst AI writing I’ve ever seen, but then I read a lot of stuff by sophomores, and in this case we are referring to classic works of literature.) It was sort of crazy when you think of it that the blurb didn’t really try to put human editing into the commentary; its last sentence managed to do that thing where it generates a sentence or statement that might sound smart *if you’ve never looked at the text*, but does not actually say anything interesting about the reading. (And this is inside an application that is supposedly all about *reading*.)
Developer Response
Hi there, I wrote that blurb (last sentence and all) so the flatness is mine to answer for, not a machine's. But you're right, a closing line that sounds clever and says nothing about the text has no business in an app about reading!! and if that's what this one did, it's getting rewritten rather than defended. Sorry that it cost you the app before the rest could make its case.
Less friction, more fiction.
Version 2.0.1
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Seller
HENRY NICHOLAS WALL
Size
74.5 MB
Category
Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 26.1 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 26.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 26.1 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.