Features

Everything booksense does, in one place

booksense helps you build a reading habit and share it with people who love books as much as you do. Here is the full tour: what it does, and how each piece keeps you reading.

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42 of 42 features

  • Reading sessions

    A built-in timer for every reading session, with your end page suggested from your own pace.

  • Reading streak

    A daily streak built from your sessions, with a week view and celebrations.

  • Streak freeze

    Elite

    Save your streak once a week when life gets in the way.

  • Vacation mode

    Elite

    Pause your streak while you are away so a holiday never resets it.

  • Manual sessions

    Elite

    Log reading after the fact, for the sessions that happened away from your phone.

  • Reading goals

    Targets for books, pages and reading days, tracked automatically per period.

  • Reading stats

    Pages, minutes, personal reading pace and a progress chart for every book.

  • Book finished celebration

    Finishing a book gets its own moment, with a rating prompt and goal check.

  • Updates

    One list of everything that happened to you: goals, streaks and promotions.

  • My books library

    All your reads with statuses and filters, from reading to finished.

  • Barcode scan

    Scan an ISBN barcode to add a book. A failed scan falls back to manual add with the ISBN kept.

  • Search & manual add

    Find any book by title or author, or add one by hand, cover photo included.

  • Rich book pages

    Covers, blurbs and details merged from multiple book databases and enriched automatically.

  • Discover & categories

    Browse the catalogue by category, popular books and suggestions.

  • Handpicked recommendations

    Recommendations for your next read, based on your own library.

  • Shelves

    Create custom shelves, assign books, and copy shelves from readers you admire.

  • Ratings & reviews

    Rate and review finished books, and read what other readers thought.

  • Book notes

    Capture notes with page numbers during or after a session, per book.

  • Note Review

    Past notes come back as a stack to flip through, so ideas stick.

  • Share a note as an image

    Turn a note into a picture with three templates and share it anywhere.

  • Home feed

    One feed of the readers you follow: posts, sessions, notes and achievements.

  • Posts

    Write posts with images to share with your followers.

  • Comments

    Threaded comments on notes, sessions, achievements, books and whispers.

  • Reactions

    Like the notes, sessions and posts you love.

  • Follow readers

    Follow readers, keep favorites, and find people through search and suggestions.

  • Reader profiles

    Every reader has a profile with shelves, stats and reading activity.

  • Private profile

    Elite

    Keep your activity visible only to followers you follow back.

  • Block & report

    Full control over who can see you and interact with you.

  • Invite friends

    Invite by email and watch invites turn into reading friends.

  • Referral code

    A personal code new readers can claim when they sign up.

  • Live library room

    Take a seat at a live table and read together with readers around the world.

  • Whispers

    Short messages to your table, with likes and per-table mutes.

  • Own seat

    Elite

    A fixed seat in the room, reserved with your name on it.

  • Reading tournaments

    Create or join tournaments with a timeframe, invites and live results.

  • Leaderboards & leagues

    Earn points for reading activity, climb the board and get promoted.

  • Reading journey

    70 levels across 7 ranks, unlocked by your real reading metrics.

  • Guided onboarding

    Ten quick steps from first open to your first book and goal.

  • Sign in with Apple or Google

    Email and password work too.

  • Notifications

    A notification center with per-type, per-person and per-table controls, plus push.

  • Light & dark mode

    Follows your device by default, or pin the look you prefer.

  • Support chat

    Chat with the team right inside the app, screenshots included.

  • Elite badge

    Elite

    A verified badge on your profile as an Elite member.

Readers are already putting in the pages

480K+ minutes read
16K+ notes taken
12K+ reading sessions finished

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