Embertale
The ultimate reading app
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Embertale is the reading app that knows your taste. Track what you read, tame your TBR, and get recommendations that actually fit you. Free, no ads, and your data is never sold.
BUILT AROUND YOUR TASTE
Every book you log sharpens your reading profile. Embertale learns the genres, moods, and pacing you love, then recommends books with a clear reason for every pick.
MEET SPARK, YOUR READING ASSISTANT
Find personalized recommendations, sort out your TBR, or chat about any book without spoilers. Ask for "a cozy mystery under 300 pages", talk through an ending, let it reorganize your shelves for you or tell it how you want it organized. Anything you can do by tapping in the app, Spark can do in a sentence. (Don't like AI? It's easy to opt out!)
SEARCH LIKE YOU TALK
"Astronaut stranded on Mars." "Fantasy about an epic heist." "Easy reads under 250 pages." Describe the book you want and Embertale finds it. Turn any search into a smart collection that keeps itself up to date as your library grows. As people love calling it these days: search by vibes.
A TBR YOU CAN ACTUALLY MANAGE
Beautiful shelves and collections, smart collections that fill themselves from a simple description, and series tracking that knows every volume, even the ones not released yet. Want to select your own cover for a book? No problem!
DISCOVER YOUR TBR
Our discovery features allow you to find new and trending releases, or just browsing by genre (filtered by era if wanted), but we also allow you to uncover what's already there in your TBR. "If you are in the mood for more existential Sci-Fi, try this book from your TBR", "If you loved the plot twists at the end of X, try Y", 10 complete personalized recommendations from the depths of your TBR, based on what you already finished, refreshed daily.
YOUR READING LIFE VISUALIZED
Reading heatmaps, genre mix, pages per day, complexity breakdowns, and a timeline of every book you've read. These are just some of the graphs we have. Set goals at your own pace, keep your streak alive, and earn tiered achievements from bronze to platinum. We work on a reward basis, not punishment basis. Lost your streak? If you want, you can log a day retroactively and restore it, we won't judge!
LOVELY COMMUNITY, PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
No leaderboards, and no public profile unless you turn one on. Follow friends if you like, or keep your reading life entirely to yourself. If you do follow your friends, you can track their reading activity in a beautiful feed. Want to highlight (only) a number of selected shelves? Let's do it. Want to showcase your full library, or hide anything? Also possible! Embertale lets you take full control over what you share.
DEEP BOOK INSIGHTS
Sure, many of the other book apps do it, but not in the way we do. Moods, accolades, reviews, a 10-dimensional review (worldbuilding, prose, emotional depth, narration, character growth, plot twists, pacing, and 2 tailored dimensions per book!), how familiar you are with this genre, a "feel & match" panel that lets you know whether this book would suit your known tastes or not and what to look out for, thematic and linguistic complexity, how long we expect you will need for this book based on your average velocity, books similar to this one, the list goes on. You can tag books with your own custom made tags as well.
SWITCHING IS EASY
Import your Goodreads or StoryGraph library in minutes, and export everything back to CSV whenever you want. We don't lock in your data, if you want to move somewhere else, that's fine.
SO MUCH MORE
There is so much more going on at Embertale that is too much to describe. We're crazy feature complete and deliver new features daily.
Embertale is made by an indie team for the love of it. No ads, no data selling, no catch. We are not for profit and won't sell out to capitalism. Don't like AI? It's easy to opt out.
The developer, Xander Horjus, 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
- Search History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Xander Horjus
- Size
- 1.8 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Mature or Suggestive Themes
- Copyright
- © 2026 Horjus IT Solutions BV, Embertale brand