BookOwl
BookOwl treats reading as something you do, not just something you log. Start a timed sitting, jot a thought without stopping the clock, and come back to a library that reads like a real shelf, with a featured-books carousel and a Contents view that brings shelves, filters, and sort into one place.
Make time to sit with a book
Start a sitting with a book or without one, and let the timer hold the space. Jot a thought, a mood, or a line you loved without stopping the clock. When you finish, a wrap-up card logs your pages and asks how the sit felt. Forgot to start the timer? Quick Log catches the sessions you read off the clock.
Capture the moment, not just the page
As you read, save the moods and scenes that land, with chips you can extend to fit how you talk about books. Speak a note when typing breaks the spell. Pin the moments worth keeping and find them again on the book's page. Your words stay yours: the app never sends your notes into its analytics.
Find your next read
Browse Explore for recommendations that follow your taste rather than the bestseller list, read into reviews and details, and add anything that catches you with a quick scan or a tap.
Your reading record, in your hands
Update progress, status, and dates from one editor instead of three screens. Fix a wrong date or delete a read you logged by mistake, and the change sticks, even across devices. The stats that follow, your streaks, your pace, the shape of your year, come from a record you actually control.
Twelve themes, all hand-tuned
Twelve themes, each recolored and contrast-checked so text stays easy on the eyes in any light. New readers open in Quiet Warmth, a soft sepia made for long sittings. The Theme Lab adds a rebuilt Coffee Shop and a new Reading Room in banker's-lamp green and brass.
Crafted with care
Built as a passion project for fellow book lovers. Because I wanted an app I'd actually love using, and couldn't find one that existed.
Start Reading Today
Download BookOwl on iOS or try it on the web. Your reading life, beautifully organized.