ReadingRate · What's new · 2026-01-15
Run your reading log from Siri
Ten Siri shortcuts control ReadingRate: start and stop the reading timer, log the page you reached or the pages you read, save a quote or a journal note by dictating it, ask what you're reading, hear your reading stats, ask when you'll finish a book at your pace, and mark a book finished. Most of them complete inside Siri without opening the app. It's an iOS feature.
Available on iOS.
The case for voice here is physical. Your hands are holding a book, and the gap between finishing a chapter and picking up a phone is exactly where a logging habit dies.
Commands run against your own library. You can name the book, and if you don't and more than one is in progress, Siri asks which you mean. Stopping the timer asks for your page and files the session in the same breath, and marking a book finished asks you to confirm first.
“When will I finish my book in ReadingRate” answers with the page you're on, the pages to go, and the date you'll finish at your pace. “I read some pages in ReadingRate” asks how many and adds them to where you were.
Journal entries, books and quotes also appear in Spotlight search on the iPhone.
What it can't do
- iOS only, and the ReadingRate app has to be installed — the phrases are registered by the app itself.
- Logging a page, logging pages read, saving a quote and adding a journal note are part of Reader, and need AI features allowed. The timer, what you're reading, your stats, when you'll finish and marking a book finished have no such check.
- Every phrase has to end with “in ReadingRate”. That is how Siri routes a command to an app, not a stylistic choice.
- Twenty voice commands a minute. Beyond that it asks you to wait a moment.
- Having a saved quote read back is an action in the Shortcuts app, no longer a spoken phrase.
- A journal entry found in Spotlight opens the Journal, not that entry.
- If a command is too garbled to classify, it asks you to start with quote, page or journal rather than guessing and filing something wrong.
Questions people ask
- Can I use Siri with ReadingRate?
- Yes, in the iOS app. Ten shortcuts cover starting and stopping the reading timer, logging pages, dictating a quote or a note, asking what you're reading, hearing your stats, asking when you'll finish, and marking a book finished. Most run without opening the app. The ones that write a page, a quote or a note are part of Reader.
- What can I say to Siri about my reading?
- Things like start reading in ReadingRate, log my page in ReadingRate, save a quote in ReadingRate, when will I finish my book in ReadingRate, and how much did I read today in ReadingRate. Each phrase has to name the app so Siri knows where to send it.