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. ❤️

A little literature to start the day just feels good, at the end of every day you get to be exposed to something new and worthwhile which is nice. The subscription is great value too, super reasonably priced for how much you get out of it.Also I had a little glitch happen with the font size not aligning with something behind the scenes which led to chapters cutting off some text at the end and I sent a chat about it and it got handled surprisingly quickly along with a really thorough response (shoutout Charlie and Hal) that I appreciated a lot. Bug reports usually disappear into the void so having a personal touch to it was really cool and it’s just gratifying to know you’ve been heard. Overall would recommend this to literally anyone in a heartbeat, give it a shot.

This is such a wonderful app that has so many beautiful, clever touches that make it clear this was made by people passionate about literature and reading! I’m a busy mom and I often find myself without adequate time (or mental bandwidth) to read the way I wish I could. This is an amazing “bite sized” bit of reading that makes me feel like I accomplished something, and even though each day only takes less than 5 minutes to read, I always learn something new about a book or author. I’m recommending this to anyone that has even the slightest interest in reading!

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*.)