ReadingRate · What's new · 2026-10-22

Decide what ReadingRate may do with your reading

ReadingRate now asks before it sends your reading to an AI model. The question has two equal answers, Allow and Not now, and says what is sent and who receives it. Not now keeps every AI feature off for your account on the website, in the iPhone app, on the Apple Watch and in Siri, and stops the jobs that would otherwise run on their own. You can change the answer at any time in Settings, under Privacy.

Available on web and iOS.

Three other choices arrived in the same weeks. If you are in the EU, the rest of the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, usage analytics stay off until you say yes; elsewhere they run until you switch them off, and off stops all of it, crash reports included.

New accounts start with a private profile. Only you can see it until you make it public.

Being counted in comparisons with other readers is a separate switch, off by default. If you turn it on, your finished books are added anonymously: the comparisons never show a name or a book, every count is rounded, and no figure is drawn from fewer than twenty readers.

Deleting your account now takes a held button, and for thirty days afterwards you can restore it by signing in.

What it can't do

  • Not now turns off a lot: the shelf scan, cover recognition, voice, photo capture, the written debrief questions, the Companion in the reader and the chat about your books.
  • Book files and the analysis of books themselves do not ask, because they use the book and not your reading. The chat bot does not ask yet.
  • The comparisons with other readers do not show yet. Too few readers have opted in to reach the twenty needed, so for now the switch only counts you in.
  • Profiles created before the change kept whatever setting they had.
  • Deleting an account does not cancel an App Store subscription; that is done with Apple.

Questions people ask

Can I use ReadingRate without AI?
Yes. Answer Not now when the app asks, or turn AI features off in Settings under Privacy. Logging, the library, the journal, quotes, statistics and the catalogue all work without it.
Is my reading profile public?
Not unless you make it so. Accounts created since October 2026 start with a private profile; older accounts kept the setting they had.

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