A lifetime of literature, one day at a time.
The whole canon, open and waiting. Hundreds of complete works to read cover to cover inside the app: novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, philosophy. Four millennia of great writing in dozens of languages, all in one place, all yours to read whenever the mood takes you.
Most reading apps hand you a shop and leave. This one hands you a library and a reason to come back to it. You can 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.
And every day, one work arrives, chosen for the day. Hamlet on Shakespeare's birthday. Ulysses on Bloomsday. Frankenstein 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 consumed with the moments between things. The calendar reaches beyond the Western tradition too, with works placed on Diwali, Nowruz, Vesak, and the lunar new year. Where no occasion fits, a work sits in the season that suits it. It's a way of keeping your line in the water across the whole stretch of the river. You can't know in advance which writer will reach you. The point is to keep enough of them in front of you that some will.
THE LIBRARY
Hundreds of complete works, readable in full, right inside the app. The reason to stay.
TODAY'S WORK
Each day, a new work, with a blurb that gives you the context without spoiling what's ahead, a key extract from the opening pages, and the date it falls on and why. Star it to your reading list. Mark it done. Come back tomorrow.
BLOOMY
A literary companion who has read everything and forgotten nothing. Bloomy knows what you love, what left you cold, and how you like to read, and will tell you what to read next. Not an algorithm. The most well-read friend you'll ever have.
READING PATHS
Guided journeys through the canon, each tracing a theme or tradition. Follow The Russian Soul through Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Stare into existentialism with The Abyss Looks Back. Trace the development of the novel or the history of ideas. 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, and this is your side of it.
DYNAMIC THEMES
Over 50 bespoke visual themes, each built for a specific work. Moby Dick gets the ocean. Frankenstein gets the storm. Gatsby gets the green light.
TOLSTOY'S CALENDAR
Daily aphorisms from Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom, matched to each day of the year.
AUTHORS
Every author has a profile, with portraits, biographies, and complete works lists.
ALSO INCLUDES
Home Screen Widgets · Dark Mode · Daily Notifications · Pathfinder Quiz · Badges · Offline Mode · Spotlight Search · Share Cards · Year in Review
This app is fantastic! I can’t remember how I happened upon it, but I’m so glad I did. The organization and attention to detail is remarkable - from notable quotes from each work, to visual representations of their length, to digestible biographies (with pictures!) of each author, to the Tolstoy calendar - and all that in just the free version! I love how it allows me to save books I want to read (and, with the premium version, read them right in the app) or have already read. I love the titles of the Reading Paths and the well-written summaries. I love the premium features I’ve used so far. And my jaw dropped when I submitted feedback (super-easily, right from within the app) and not only did I receive a thoughtful reply (seemingly from a real person!) within 24 hours, but they even revised the app right away to address my concern! This app is clearly made by people who care about the product rather than by people just trying to make a buck. (I also love that there’s not constant pressure to pay for the premium version, as there is with so many other apps.) Everything about it brightens my day. ❤️
Developer Response
This one floored us a bit, thank you. There is a real person behind the replies, and reviews like this are exactly why he keeps showing up to write them. The app is built by people who genuinely love this stuff, and the quiet hope is always that it shows. Glad it does. Happy reading, and welcome properly to the canon!
Best apps for readers and best team ever!
Bashayer157
Daily Canon feels like it was made by someone who genuinely loves reading, not just tracking books. The app is beautiful, calm, and thoughtfully designed in a way that makes reading feel personal again.What impressed me most is how responsive the developer is to feedback. I suggested adding the ability to delete or reactivate abandoned reading plans, and they replied quickly and actually implemented it. That level of care is rare.In a world of noisy productivity apps, Daily Canon feels quiet in the best way.
Developer Response
Thank you Bashayer. Suggestions like yours genuinely shape the app. one of the advantages of being small is that we can listen carefully and move quickly when readers point out ways to make things better.
Lost me during the orientation tour
Allston-Tollcross
This app lost me as a user during its orientation tour. The tour featured a famous quote from Fitzgerald’s *The Great Gatsby*. Which was fine, but then the commentary blurb about the novel was clearly something written with generative AI. (Granted it wasn’t the worst AI writing I’ve ever seen, but then I read a lot of stuff by sophomores, and in this case we are referring to classic works of literature.) It was sort of crazy when you think of it that the blurb didn’t really try to put human editing into the commentary; its last sentence managed to do that thing where it generates a sentence or statement that might sound smart *if you’ve never looked at the text*, but does not actually say anything interesting about the reading. (And this is inside an application that is supposedly all about *reading*.)
Developer Response
Hi there, I wrote that blurb (last sentence and all) so the flatness is mine to answer for, not a machine's. But you're right, a closing line that sounds clever and says nothing about the text has no business in an app about reading!! and if that's what this one did, it's getting rewritten rather than defended. Sorry that it cost you the app before the rest could make its case.
Beautiful opportunity
Toombloom
Imagine…. Every day you are blessed to get to enjoy a new piece of work. Works that are crafted by humans and shared to humans. This app is just that. It is a chance to enjoy human experiences. I am so grateful to the folks that made this app and for both versions. The free version is fantastic. The paid version is worth it for the library alone but the other tools are fantastic. Thank you for this beautiful opportunity to enjoy works done by fellow humans. And for helping me broaden my horizons.
Developer Response
Plenty more horizons where those came from! Thank you so much for your kind review, thanks for being here and happy reading.
More fiction, less friction.
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Seller
HENRY NICHOLAS WALL
Size
19.5 MB
Category
Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.3 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.