Every book you've read. And the ones you haven't.

Your whole library, standing on a shelf you arrange yourself. Bring it over from Goodreads, scan a barcode, or photograph the spine of your own copy.

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10,000+ libraries built

110M+ books to search

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You photograph your shelf. Your reading app is a spreadsheet.

Rows, checkboxes, a progress bar. Everything that makes a library worth having — the colours, the uneven heights, the one with the sprayed edges — gone the second you log it.

So put the real book on the shelf.

Photograph the spine of your own copy and it goes up the way it looks in your hands: the special edition, the painted fore-edge, the paperback that's falling apart. Not a stock cover pulled from a database.

An object, not a chart.

Papered walls, brass ledges, fairy lights, a candle, a cat, ivy trailing over the edge. Things to stand between the books, moved whenever the mood changes.

Sort by colour, by height, by author, or by nothing at all. Keep one shelf for the romantasy and another for the ones you lend out. Most people open it when they are not reading.

A SlowRead shelf of real books, with fairy lights, a cat, a plant and autumn leaves — A real shelf, exported straight from the app

The shelf is why you open it. It is not all there is.

A camera that knows what a spine looks like, a year that counts itself, and a room you redecorate whenever the mood changes.

The camera knows what a spine is.

Hold your copy up to it and SlowRead finds the spine inside the frame — its edges, its top, its bottom — and cuts it out for you.

A barcode works. Typing two words of the title works. But only one of the three puts your own copy on the shelf.

A year that counts itself.

Every session lands on the calendar as the cover of whatever you were reading, so a month looks like a month of books instead of a bar chart.

At the end of it all of that folds into a Wrapped — what you finished, how long it took, the one you could not put down.

SlowRead's monthly stats: a calendar where every day carries the cover of what was read that day

A reading challenge at 5 of 17 books, with the chunkiest read, the time of day you read most and your first finish of the year

The theme picker open over a shelf, offering Cozy Autumn, Velaris Library, Night Court, War College and Fae Dungeon

Make the room yours

Change the paper on the wall, change the wood under the books, move the whole shelf somewhere darker. There is more of it every update.

An iPhone home screen with two SlowRead widgets, each showing a shelf of book spines

On your home screen

A shelf-shaped widget that lives among your apps and quietly holds what you are reading.

Collections

Group them the way you already think of them — the series, the abandoned, the ones you keep buying twice — and each one wears its own covers.

The Goodreads import screen, explaining how to export the CSV before choosing the file

Bring your Goodreads

Export the CSV, hand it over, and the covers arrive on their own — with your ratings, your reviews and the dates you finished.

And when you do want to read, the blocking is real.

Start a session and the apps you named stop opening — at the system level, through Apple's own Screen Time controls. Not a nudge you can swipe away.

It starts in three steps.

Bring the library you already have

Import a Goodreads CSV and the covers arrive on their own. Or scan a barcode. Or type two words of the title — the search reaches 110 million books.
Make it look like yours

Photograph your own spines and fore-edges, sort by colour, light a candle, start a second shelf for the series you keep rereading.
Then keep coming back

Sessions on the days you want to read, stats when you're curious, and a shelf worth opening on the days you don't.

Right now your shelf is empty.

Bring over everything you've already read and watch it fill in an afternoon.