Bookship is a social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with friends, family & co-workers. Chat, share thoughts and observations with your book club. Post photos of a favorite passage. Have Bookship extract a quote from a photo of a page you're reading. Create Groups & Calendars to manage your meetings. A mobile-first, camera-ready, emoji-friendly experience!
Whether it's reading a great novel with your best friend across the country or a neighborhood book club, or a business book with your co-workers, Bookship is your virtual book club companion. Build better relationships through books, and enrich your reading experience along the way.
Read classic books right inside the app. Browse classic books from Project Gutenberg, Standard eBooks, and other sources. Use our built-in eReader to read the book, sharing notes and comments with your friends RIGHT INSIDE THE book. Look for the "Read Free!" tag on the top left of the cover art for the book to see books you can read for free.
Bookship provides unique book discovery and recommendations, with a special emphasis on books that are topical and perfect for book clubs! Get great ideas for your next group reading or book club! Browse by genre, with books being talked about by the leading book tastemakers. Keep a Reading List by using our Saved Books feature, so you can come back to interesting books later and keep track of what you’ve read.
Key features:
* Browse unique book recommendations from leading tastemakers, book reviewers, best-seller and awards lists
* Invite friends, family, co-workers to read a book together
* Post & react to comments, photos, links, video
* Video chat with your group right from Bookship. No more scheduling, invites and waiting rooms. Completely secure, free and private by default - or open it up to anyone?
* Groups - keep your group member lists & Group-specific TBRs inside the app.
* Polls - run a vote to see which books your group should read.
* Calendars - schedule your Group meetings & automatically send reminders.
* Write reviews when you finish your books and share them with the world!
* Get alerts when your friends post; keep in sync by sharing your location in the book
* Tag your comments as spoilers - they're hidden from others until they open them
* Use the Virtual Highlighter to highlight passages (and extract quotes!) from physical books, and share them with friends.
* Keep & manage your To Be Read List (TBR) by saving interesting books you find in the app.
* Use our handy barcode scanner to remember books you find in a bookstore
* Read classic works for free right inside the app! Tens of thousands of classic works are available.
* Social Reading lets you highlight and comment right inside the book, and share with your group.
* Share readings on social media and websites to open them to the public!
Bookship Premium is a monthly subscription that helps you get the most out of your reading and your reading groups.
* Book Briefings provide curated content about your book - reading guides, author interviews & reviews. Great for getting ready for your book club meeting!
* Bookship Premium enables groups with 10+ members. (Groups with less than 10 members are free.)
* Ad-free experience. Bookship Premium is guaranteed ad-free, and helps us keep Bookship going!
Bookship Premium is $2.99 per month in the U.S. Prices will vary by your location. Get started with a 2-week free trial!
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A great way to keep thoughts together when reading with a friend! The spoiler feature is wonderful so you don’t accidentally see what happens before you get there!
Developer Response
❤️ Thank you!
A Wonderful Book Club App
VeraJ
Was looking for an app to have a “book club” with a few long distance friends. I tried a few different ones, but most were set up for in-person meetings, and I just wanted to discuss books long distance and have our chats separated by book. This app has been the perfect thing. It started out as a good structured way to recommend and talk about books with a few pals, but over the past year of using it it’s had tons of improvements and now offers supplemental readings about the books, has a nicer format, lets you invite people to read in different ways, and is really nice aesthetically. It is simple and easy to use, and fulfills the exact purpose I needed it for... sharing books I love with friends, and getting to hear what they think.
Love it
This Is Amanda, yay!
We’ve been using this app for our book club for a few years now and we love it! It works well across all platforms, gives alerts, lets us chat without having to exchange numbers, etc. There has only been one or two times that it hasn’t had the book we were reading but it wasn’t surprising since they were pretty obscure titles. Just get it! You won’t regret it!
Developer Response
Thank you, we appreciate the kind words!
Perfect for book clubs
IrmaCMD
Our friends have scattered far and wide but we still like to have Bookclub once a month. Bookship makes that so very easy. A great app that can be used on a desktop, iPad or mobile phone. It has so many aspects to it and has become a great part of our club. Highly recommend.
Developer Response
Thanks so much! We're glad you are enjoying it!
This version contains performance improvements and minor defect corrections. It also removes Facebook login for all users and removes App Tracking, which was previously required for Facebook login.
Version 10.7
The developer, The Hawaii Project, LLC, 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:
Contact Info
User Content
Browsing History
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Information
Seller
The Hawaii Project, LLC
Size
108.7 MB
Category
Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
