ReadingRate · What's new · 2026-08-12
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.
Available on web and iOS.
Words-per-minute estimates answer a different question. A four-hundred-page novel at an average pace is about nine hours, which is true and useless for planning, because it says nothing about whether those hours are spread across four days or four months.
Your own logged pace already contains the answer, because it includes the evenings you didn't read. The same book therefore has a different finish date for two different readers, which is the point.
A date that moves is feedback in a way a static estimate never is. It also works honestly in the other direction: leave the book for a week and the date slides.
What it can't do
- It cannot predict the evening you don't feel like reading, or the week you're away.
- One logged session is not a pace. Any confident date drawn from a single entry is a guess.
- It cannot know you are about to abandon the book, which is the most common reason a projection never comes true.
Questions people ask
- Does ReadingRate tell you when you'll finish a book?
- Yes, free. It projects a finish date from your own logged pace and updates it after every session you record.
- Why does my finish date keep changing?
- Because your pace changes. The date is recalculated from your recent reading each time you log, rather than fixed when you start.