Marginal Notes
Reading journal and book log
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases
iPhone
The thoughts a book gives you deserve somewhere to live. Write in the margins, show one to a friend, or leave one in the Library. No feed, no followers, nothing counted.
You finish a book, you have something to say about it, and a week later it is gone.
Marginal is where it goes instead. Keep a shelf of what you are reading, have read, or mean to read. Write in the margins of the book in front of you, in five kinds of margin, each with a word limit, because margin space was always finite and every word had to earn its place.
Then do one of two things with what you wrote, or neither. Show a margin to a friend, the way you would hand someone a book with a passage marked. Or leave one in the Library, a members-only room organised by book, where readers find each other through what they wrote about the same book.
Months and years later, the book comes back to you. Six months after you finish one, then at two years, at five, and every five years after that, Marginal shows you what you wrote about it. You can add to it, or just read it and close the app.
There is no scoreboard. No follower counts, no likes, no view counts, nothing ranked by popularity. A published margin stands under your pen name, dated, beside what other members wrote about the same book, and nothing is counted underneath it.
Marginal is not a reading tracker and it is not a review platform. It is for anyone who has ever finished a book and had something to say about it.
Marginal Premium
Marginal Premium (Monthly): $4.99 per month
Marginal Premium (Annual): $43.99 per year
Reading the Library and publishing to it are free, deliberately. Premium adds all five kinds of margin, up to 50 connections, and Bookmarks for keeping the margins that stayed with you.
Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings at any time.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://getmarginal.app/privacy
Terms of Service: https://getmarginal.app/terms
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A Currently Reading widget for your home screen, so the book you are in is there before you open anything.
The Library, easier to move around: search, your own published margins, and the readers you know, each in its own place.
A new opening. Five pages that say what Marginal is before you make an account, and a cover that turns like a page when the app starts.
Also: a quieter Settings, clearer empty margins, "pen name" throughout, and fixes across the app.
The developer, EKOW OFORI ARTHUR, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- EKOW OFORI ARTHUR
- Size
- 52.1 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Realistic Violence
Profanity or Crude Humor
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Horror/Fear Themes
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Guns or Other Weapons
Contains
User-Generated Content
Social Media
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Marginal Premium $43.99
- Marginal Premium $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Ekow Arthur