ReadingRate · What’s new
What's new in ReadingRate
A running record of what the app can do, newest first. Each entry says plainly what the feature does, which platforms have it, and where it falls short — the last part being the one most product notes leave out.
2026-08-13 · web
The 100 best books, ranked — with difficulty scores
ReadingRate's 100 best books is ranked on literary-regard data — canonical standing, critical acclaim and influence — rather than user star ratings, and every entry carries a difficulty score so you can pick a great book you'll actually finish. Filtering by country, author gender, era or difficulty now returns a full hundred drawn from the whole catalogue rather than the leftovers of the curated list.
2026-08-13 · web
Honest comparisons with other reading apps
ReadingRate publishes comparisons against Goodreads, StoryGraph, Fable, Kindle, BookTok and Bookly that state plainly where each of them is better and where we are — including that we have no Android app. They're written to be useful to someone deciding, not to win, and they say outright that this isn't an either/or: most readers run more than one tool.
2026-08-12 · web and iOS
Scan your bookshelf to fill your library
You can now photograph a bookshelf and have the spines read into your ReadingRate library. A vision model transcribes each title and author it can see and matches them against the catalogue; confident matches arrive pre-checked and uncertain ones wait for you to approve them. It is free for everyone, capped at three scans a day, and available during onboarding or any time from your library.
2026-08-12 · web and iOS
See when you'll finish the book you're reading
ReadingRate projects the date you'll finish your current book by dividing the pages you have left by the pace you have actually been reading at, across real calendar days. It updates every time you log a session, so a long evening pulls the date closer and a week away pushes it out. It's free and needs no membership.
2026-08-12 · web and iOS
See which subjects you're actually well read in
ReadingRate maps your finished books onto subjects and gives each one a mastery stage, so instead of a list of titles you get a picture of where you've read deeply and where you've only dabbled. Import a Goodreads library and the whole history is enriched and mapped at once.
2026-08-12 · web
Share a card that says what kind of reader you are
ReadingRate can draw you a reader card: an image carrying your name, how many books you have finished, up to three subjects you have read deeply enough to have earned a stage in, and which of Northrop Frye's four seasons your reading leans towards — spring for comedy, summer for romance, autumn for tragedy, winter for irony and myth. It is free, made only when you ask for it, and comes back as an image to post, copy or download.
2026-08-09 · iOS
Capture the books you talk about, with an Omi pendant
If you wear an Omi pendant, ReadingRate can listen for books in your everyday conversation. Mention a title to a friend and it's recorded as a book you talked about; read a passage aloud and it's saved as a quote against the right book. On iOS these appear under Settings as "Books You Talked About", where you can add any of them to your library in a tap.
2026-08-09 · iOS
Log your reading by talking
You can run your library by speaking to it. Say you read to page 140 and it logs the session against the right book; say you have started something new and it is added; ask what you were part-way through and it tells you. Six spoken intents are supported — status, add, recall, book info, finish and debrief — and the app matches what you said against your actual library rather than making you name things exactly.
2026-08-08 · web and iOS
Chat with your library on WhatsApp
ReadingRate now answers on WhatsApp. Link your account once and you can ask about your reading in plain language — what you were part-way through, what a book's difficulty looks like, what to pick up next — and add books to a shelf without opening the app. It replies in the thread you already have open, and check-in messages are deterministic rather than AI-generated, so it doesn't chatter. Message it on +351 931 179 283.
2026-07-07 · web
Turn your Goodreads export into a shareable shelf
Upload a Goodreads CSV export and ReadingRate turns it into a page you can share: your books as a timeline of covers in the order you read them, the span of years they cover, the totals for books and pages, and how many you gave five stars. The shelf is a frozen snapshot with its own link — it stays exactly as it was when you saved it — and anyone can open it without an account.
2026-07-05 · web and iOS
See your reading mapped onto Frye's Anatomy of Criticism
ReadingRate includes an interactive atlas built on Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism — his framework of modes, symbols, myths and genres — and plots your own finished books onto it. Instead of a list of what you have read, you get a picture of which seasons and modes your reading clusters in, and which parts of the map you have never visited.
2026-07-04 · web
Browse literature by era
ReadingRate lets you move through literary history by period — ancient, medieval, early modern, the nineteenth century, the twentieth, the contemporary — rather than by popularity, and shows which eras your own reading has covered and which it has skipped entirely.
2026-07-03 · web and iOS
Sync your reading into Obsidian
ReadingRate has an Obsidian plugin that writes your reading life into your vault as interconnected Markdown notes: one per book, author, journal entry and theme, plus quote collections, completion debriefs, domain mastery and a yearly timeline. Everything carries YAML frontmatter and wikilinks, so graph view, Dataview and search work on it like any other note.
2026-07-03 · web and iOS
Read a poem a day, and keep the lines
ReadingRate carries a poetry corpus of more than 92,000 lines and treats poems as reading rather than decoration. You can keep a rotation going, log a poem as read, save an individual line, and annotate a specific line rather than the whole poem — which is the unit poetry actually works in.
2026-06-18 · iOS
Save a quote by reading it aloud
Tap the microphone, read a passage aloud, and ReadingRate transcribes it and corrects it against the book itself — restoring exact wording and proper nouns that speech-to-text reliably mangles. Say the page number or who is speaking and both are pulled out into their own fields rather than left inside the quote. The saved passage is then tagged by theme and compared against everything else you've saved.
2026-06-06 · iOS
Log your reading from an Apple Watch
ReadingRate has an Apple Watch app. It shows the books you have in progress with a progress ring for each, lets you log the page you reached, and takes a dictated quote straight from your wrist — because the moment you stop reading is rarely a moment you want to pick up a phone.
2026-05-04 · web
A purity check that no author passes
ReadingRate publishes a satirical page at /is-my-author-problematic. Type any author's name and it returns a verdict, always yes, phrased eighteen different ways. It looks nothing up. The name you type never leaves the browser and never affects the answer, because the joke is that no writer has ever passed a purity test, and reading would be a thin business if that were the standard.
2026-04-28 · web and iOS
Read EPUBs inside ReadingRate
You can upload an EPUB and read it inside ReadingRate rather than tracking a book you're reading somewhere else. Highlights become quotes with the exact wording preserved, progress updates as you read rather than needing to be logged, and the book's text becomes searchable — which is what lets a quote you dictate be corrected against the real sentence.
2026-04-08 · web and iOS
Connect your reading to Claude and ChatGPT
ReadingRate exposes your reading through MCP, so Claude or ChatGPT can answer from your actual library once you authorise it: what you missed in the last chapter without spoiling ahead of your page, which passages support an interpretation you're forming, and what to read next based on your rated books and saved quotes rather than the consensus of the internet.
2026-03-27 · web and iOS
Follow other readers and see what they're reading
ReadingRate has a feed of the readers you follow: the books they have started, the books they have finished, and the book clubs they have created or joined, over the last thirty days. Following is one-way, like a follow rather than a friend request, so there is nothing to accept. When the feed is empty it suggests readers to follow based on books you have both finished, and tells you how many you share.
2026-03-12 · iOS
Capture quotes and sessions with no signal
In the ReadingRate iOS app, everything you write while reading saves without a connection. Quotes, journal entries and logged sessions are written to the device before any network attempt and appear immediately; they upload when the signal returns or the next time you open the app. The reading timer runs offline, a downloaded EPUB reads offline, and a dictated quote is corrected against that book's own text on the device rather than on a server.
2026-03-05 · iOS
Prepare for a book club from your own notes
Mark a book as a book club read, give it the meeting date, and ReadingRate works out how many pages a day you need — counting only the days you actually read on — and counts down on your dashboard. Before the meeting it generates talking points drawn from the quotes and reflections you saved for that book, and connects one to another book you've read where it can.
2026-02-20 · iOS
Share a reading session as a short video
A single reading session can be rendered as a fifteen-second video. Three rings — words, time and cognitive load — close around the book's cover, followed by the day number and page you reached, the pages, minutes and words per minute, and optionally a quote you saved from that book. It is made in the iOS app, square or story-shaped, and arrives in the share sheet as an MP4 you can save or post.
2026-02-12 · web and iOS
Time your reading sessions
ReadingRate has a reading timer that runs on the web, on the phone, on the Apple Watch and in the Mac menu bar. Start it when you sit down; when you stop it asks what page you reached, so the session records minutes and pages together rather than one without the other. On the iPhone it runs as a Live Activity, keeping the elapsed time and your progress ring on the lock screen. It's free.
2026-02-08 · iOS
Save a quote from any app with the share sheet
Select text anywhere on an iPhone — a browser, a reading app, Notes, a message — and send it to ReadingRate through the share sheet to file it as a quote against a book you are reading. Send a screenshot of a page instead and the page number is read out of the image and logged as progress. Neither needs the app to be open, and both work from any app that offers a normal iOS share sheet.
2026-02-08 · web
Illustrate a passage as you read
Select a passage while reading an EPUB in ReadingRate and choose Illustrate. The app writes a scene description out of the text you selected and generates a picture of it, which you can share, save, or regenerate if the first attempt misses. Selections that are mostly dialogue or abstraction are flagged as poor candidates before you spend anything on them.
2026-01-28 · web and iOS
Answers that draw on academic writing about a book
When you ask ReadingRate about a book, the answer can draw on academic writing about that book. Papers are found through OpenAlex, ranked by how often they have been cited, distilled to a one-sentence argument each, and pulled into a conversation when they bear on what you asked — so an answer can tell you what a named scholar argued rather than only what a model thinks. Coverage is small: a few dozen books so far, growing nightly.
2026-01-27 · web
A daily connection between things you've read
Once a day ReadingRate finds passages from different parts of your reading that circle the same idea — a line you saved a fortnight ago, a page from the book you are in now, a poem you read last week — names the theme they share, and asks you a single question about it. What you write is saved to your reading journal. It appears on the web dashboard and is part of membership.
2026-01-15 · iOS
Run your reading log from Siri
Ten Siri phrases control ReadingRate: start and stop the reading timer, log the page you reached, save a quote or a journal note by dictating it, ask what you're reading and how far in you are, hear your reading stats, have a saved quote read back to you, and mark a book finished. Most of them complete inside Siri without opening the app. It's an iOS feature and part of membership.
2026-01-12 · web and iOS
Share a quote as an image
Any passage you have saved in ReadingRate can be turned into an image to post. Choose one of three styles, one of three shapes — square, story or landscape — set the typeface, highlight a phrase inside the passage, and add a note of up to a hundred characters. The card is drawn on your own device rather than generated by a model, so it appears the moment you ask for it, and it is free for anyone with an account.
2026-01-12 · web and iOS
Run a book club with other readers
ReadingRate runs multi-reader book clubs. Create one, share its invite code, and up to twenty readers can join, read the same book, and see each other's pace and progress. The reading schedule is built backwards from the slowest reader in the group, so the weekly milestones are ones everybody can actually hit, and each milestone carries five discussion questions written not to spoil anything past that page.
2026-01-12 · web and iOS
Get a monthly and yearly summary of your reading
ReadingRate summarises your reading by month and by year in two forms. On the web you can generate a short written summary of any month or any year — a few sentences on what you read and how it went, drawn from the books you finished — and publish it at its own public link with an image. On iOS, a wrap of the month's numbers arrives on the first: books, hours, words and active days, plus how the year is going so far. You can also generate one for any date range you choose.
2026-01-12 · web and iOS
See a book's cast without spoiling what's ahead
ReadingRate builds a cast list for a book out of the book's own text: who each character is, what else they are called, where they first appear, and how they are related to everyone else. On the web the list is filtered to the page you have reached, so a character you have not met is not shown, and neither is a relationship that would give away how they connect. Finish the book and the cast becomes a recall deck on your iPhone, resurfacing characters on a spaced-repetition schedule.
2026-01-12 · web and iOS
Four questions when you finish a book
When you mark a book finished, ReadingRate asks you four questions written for that book and for you. They are built from the passages you highlighted, the notes you logged while reading, your answers to earlier debriefs, and up to sixty books you have already finished — so one question will usually quote your own earlier phrasing back at you, and another will reach for something you read years ago. Your answers are saved as a journal entry.
2026-01-12 · web and iOS
Reminders that back off when you ignore them
ReadingRate can remind you to read, and the interval between nudges adapts to how you respond: act on them and it shortens, ignore them and it lengthens, moving between one day and fourteen. Separately it tells you when something has actually happened — an EPUB you uploaded finished processing, a book in your library gained new analysis, someone replied to you in a book club. Quiet hours are honoured in your own timezone, and none of it costs anything.
2026-01-11 · web and iOS
Your quotes, connected across every book you've read
Every quote you save is automatically tagged with a few themes and compared by meaning against everything else you've saved. A passage from a novel can surface alongside one from a poem or a science book when they circle the same idea, and saved quotes come back later on a spaced-repetition schedule so you meet them again before they fade.
2026-01-11 · web and iOS
See what a character looks like
Ask ReadingRate what a character looks like, in those words, in a conversation about the book, and it searches the book's text for the passages describing them, writes a visual description grounded in those passages, then generates a portrait. Each image gets its own page you can share, and every image made from a book is collected on a gallery page for that book. It is part of membership.
2026-01-11 · web and iOS
Ask questions about the books in your library
ReadingRate has a chat that answers from your own library rather than from the internet. You do not pick a book first: ask a question and it searches across the books you own, the passages you have saved, your journal entries, and how far into each book you are. If a question would give away plot in a book you are part-way through, it stops and tells you which books are affected before it answers. It is part of membership.
2026-01-09 · web and iOS
What a ReadingRate membership includes
Tracking your reading and browsing the catalogue are free, and stay free: logging sessions, adding books, difficulty scores, finish-date projection and bookshelf scanning cost nothing. Membership is €10 a month or €100 a year, starts with a 7-day free trial, and covers the parts that cost us per use — connecting Claude or ChatGPT to your library, the WhatsApp bot, the Omi pendant integration, and the deeper AI analysis.
2026-01-06 · web
Plan the order of your next books
Drag the books you plan to read next into the order you want them and ReadingRate dates the whole queue: each book gets a projected start and finish, chained one after another from the day your current book ends. The estimates use your own words-per-day and stretch for difficult books and shrink for easy ones. Reorder the queue and every date moves with it.
2026-01-05 · web and iOS
Every book scored on nine dimensions of difficulty
Every book in the ReadingRate catalogue carries nine difficulty scores rather than a single reading level, split into technical difficulty — vocabulary, sentence structure, abstraction, information density — and interpretive difficulty — narrative indirection, symbolic density, ironic distance, withheld resolution, structural complexity. Each score comes with a short written explanation of why the book scored that way.
2026-01-03 · web
Pull your Readwise highlights in
Paste a Readwise API token and every highlight you have saved from a book arrives in ReadingRate as a quote — the passage, your note, the date you highlighted it, and its Readwise tags kept as themes. Books you don't have yet are created in your library so the highlights have somewhere to live. Run it again whenever you like: highlights already imported are skipped, and after the first sync it only fetches what has changed. This is in the web app.
2026-01-03 · web and iOS
Take your reading data with you
Everything you put into ReadingRate comes back out, on any tier. The web app exports your library, journal entries and quotes as Markdown — either one consolidated file or a zip with a file per book — and lets you choose which fields to include. The iOS app adds a CSV built to the Goodreads and StoryGraph column layout, so it loads straight into either of them. Neither export needs a membership.
2025-12-31 · web
See how often a book is taught at university
Book pages on ReadingRate show how many university syllabi a book appears on, counted by the Open Syllabus Project. The figure sits inside the panel explaining how that book's literary regard was scored, as one of the inputs to canonical standing — because a book set on six thousand reading lists is being taught, and that is a different fact from being popular. It is free and needs no account.
2025-12-31 · web and iOS
Browse the major literary prizes
ReadingRate carries the winners and shortlists of the major literary prizes — the Booker and International Booker, the Pulitzer for Fiction, the Nobel in Literature, the Women's Prize, the National Book Award, the Prix Goncourt, the Costa, the PEN/Faulkner and the Dublin Literary Award — alongside canonical lists including the Modern Library 100, Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century, TIME's All-TIME 100 Novels and the Open Syllabus top 500. Every book carries its difficulty score, and if you're signed in the ones you've read are ticked. The pages are public and need no account.
2025-12-28 · web and iOS
Import your Goodreads library
Export your Goodreads library as a CSV and ReadingRate reads the whole file: titles, authors, ISBNs, your star ratings, your reviews, the dates you read, and which shelf each book sat on. Read, currently reading, to read and did-not-finish each become a status here. Books the catalogue doesn't have are created rather than dropped. The import runs in the background so you can close the page, and it's free with any account, on the web and in the iOS app.
2025-12-27 · web
Give your reading a public page
Every reader gets a page at readingrate.com/u/yourname. It shows the books they have read as a timeline of covers, with progress on anything still open, a short bio and a rotating line of reading statistics. Nobody needs an account to see it. What appears is controlled section by section in your privacy settings — currently reading, completed books, statistics, quotes and your member number each have a switch, and one setting hides the profile entirely.
2025-12-24 · web and iOS
Mirror your reading into Notion
Connect a Notion workspace and ReadingRate writes your books, journal entries, quotes and saved AI insights into your own Notion databases as you create them. It finds the right databases in your workspace by name, and it writes only the properties your databases actually have — a field you never made is skipped rather than forced in. Nothing in Notion is deleted, and a nightly pass picks up anything that failed to send.