Daily Canon

Discover great literature.

Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

A lifetime of literature, one day at a time. 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.

  • 5.0
    out of 5
    2 Ratings

Less friction, more (offline mode) fiction.

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Seller
  • HENRY NICHOLAS WALL
Size
  • 51.2 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.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 26.1 or later.
Languages
  • English
Age Rating
13+
  • 13+
  • Infrequent
    Profanity or Crude Humor
    Horror/ Fear Themes
    Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
    Sexual Content or Nudity
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • Daily Canon Premium $34.99
  • Gift: Folio for Life $149.99
  • Gift: One Year of Folio $34.99
  • Folio Lifetime $149.99
  • Daily Canon Premium $6.99
Copyright
  • © 2026 Hal Wall