Your bookcase, the way you dreamed it: scan your spines, decorate your shelves, track your TBR, join book clubs and fill your monthly bingo.
SlowRead is the book tracker with a bookshelf you will want to show off. Every book you read stands on your own shelf, with its real spine and cover.
Keep your TBR, your reading journal and your reading log in one place, and share your bookshelf on BookTok and Instagram.
YOUR BOOKSHELF
• Every book stands on the shelf as a spine or as a cover.
• Photograph your own copy to show its real spine, cover and sprayed edges, or use a photo another reader already shared.
• Arrange your books by hand, lay them flat in piles and keep a series together.
• Decorate with plants, candles, lights and more, and pick a theme for the wall and the wood.
• Share a picture of your bookcase to your Stories on TikTok or Instagram.
• Get a public profile at slowreadapp.com/@you with the bookcases you choose to show.
BOOK CLUBS
• Create a club or join one and read the same book together.
• Talk in a channel for each part of the book, so nobody spoils what comes next.
• Hide the parts of a message that are spoilers.
• Vote on the club's next book.
YOUR READING YEAR
• Monthly and yearly wrap ups: cards to swipe through and share.
• Your reader type, worked out from the books you finish.
• A yearly reading challenge, and your year next to the last one.
• Stats for pages, time and books, your reading speed and your top genres.
• A reading streak, with past days you can fill in by hand.
TRACKING WITHOUT EFFORT
• Search millions of books or scan the barcode to add one in seconds.
• Import your library from Goodreads, The StoryGraph, Bookmory, Fable or Libib.
• Paperback, ebook and audiobook, even for the same book.
• Track library loans with the due date and a reminder the day before.
• Series grouped together, with your progress through each one.
• Notes, quotes scanned from the page with your camera, and characters with a portrait and their relationships.
• Half star ratings, rereads and did not finish.
WIDGETS
• Your bookshelf, what you are reading, your streak, your challenge and a daily quote on your Home Screen and Lock Screen.
READING SESSIONS
• Start a timed session from any book and log the page where you stop.
• If you want, block the apps that distract you while you read, with Screen Time.
All features described above require a subscription. A free trial is included, so you can try everything before paying.
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I love this app so much. It’s been fun to explore new features when I log in. Being able arrange things and have more control over design per shelf has been so immersive and relaxing. I am a neurospicy person and I like how much control I get with design. Being able to see a physical representation of my books has been exciting and I like that it’s visually rewarding to see the books. Having different bookshelves is also really fun!! I have a different one for ARCs, my KU books, and my physical books. Sit back, enjoy the experience, there’s so much to find!!!
Developer Response
Thank you so much for this beautiful review! Hearing that arranging your shelves feels immersive and relaxing is exactly what we hoped for, and we love the idea of separate shelves for ARCs, KU and physical books. There's always something new coming with each update, so keep exploring and keep telling us what you'd love to see. Happy reading! 📚✨
Well Thought Out App!
MistyLights07
Okay, the amount of negative comments here is unfair for the amount of work that you can see is in this app once you get past the subscription screen (there are three options! Monthly, yearly, or one time payment for life) As a human with ADHD who LOVES reading but has had a hard time getting back into it due to life happening, this is already an amazing visual and organized in a way that I’ve always wanted. I’m going to try out the three day free trial and see how it feels after a few days once I’ve gotten used to it. Yes, you need to pay for it. But, it’s a small developing team on their first app, they need money to get it going, think of when a friend of yours starts a small business selling something, it’s essentially the same thing, just a little less visual. I will come back in a days and update my review.
Developer Response
Thank you for taking the time to write this — it genuinely made my day.One small correction: there's no team. SlowRead is just me. So having someone describe it as "organized in a way I've always wanted" is exactly why I keep building.Enjoy the three days, and when you come back to update, tell me what felt off as much as what worked. What you notice in your first week of actually living with the app is the most useful feedback I can get. If anything gets in the way of your reading, write to me directly at hello@slowreadapp.com — I read everything.Happy reading.
Question
Ionsaku
Hi, I’ve never tried the app before but it seems amazing and I love how u can customize and see the cover and side of the book unlike other apps that only have the words on the side. I was wondering if you search for a book and it’s not there can you request somewhere for the book to be added or something? I tried on the free part at the beginning that lets you look up one book and I couldn’t find the book I was looking for.
Developer Response
Hi! Thanks so much for the review! It’s strange because our database has 110M+ books. Could you send us the name of the book you searched for at hello@slowreadapp.com?
A great reading app
curiousbagel
I love the option to have a virtual library as a widget on my phone! The app has quite a few features that I enjoy, the timed reading that will block other apps and the ability to edit your library. The two things I wasn’t a fan of was that after my trial, the app automatically charged for the more expensive year plan instead of the offer I had received previously and I’ve had several glitches with the timed reading where it won’t end my session and just froze on that screen.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your detailed review! I’m really glad you’re enjoying the widget, the focused reading timer and customizing your library. Sorry about the timer freezing at the end of a session: we’ve found the cause and it will be fixed in the next update. Regarding the charge, the free trial automatically renews into the plan selected when it was started, and special offers apply only when they’re accepted at the moment they’re shown. If you have any questions about your subscription, feel free to write to us at hello@slowreadapp.com and we’ll be happy to help. Thanks again for your support, and happy reading! 📚
A monthly bingo with a sticker album.
- A monthly bingo: the books you finish fill its squares, and each square gives you a sticker.
- A sticker album for every month: place your stickers yourself, and tap one to turn it and see how you earned it.
- Win rewards for your shelf: a rose for your first line, falling leaves for three, a golden rose for the full card.
- Give other books the same size as this one, from the book's editor.
- In club chats, tap a name to see their profile and double-tap a message to like it.
- SlowRead in Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Polish.
- Create a saga from any book, with suggestions in Edit book, and keep sagas together when you sort by author.
- Change whose copy many books are at once.
- Goodreads imports read the series from the title and send Want to read to your Wishlist.
- Mark a book as read from the page pencil or the reading log when you reach the end.
- A timed session that ended with the app closed, or was paused after its time was up, now ends properly.
Version 1.0.27
The developer, Adrian Martinez Moreno, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
Adrian Martinez Moreno
Size
122.4 MB
Category
Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.