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Track what you read.
Remember what matters.

ReadList follows the whole life of a book on your iPhone: the reading sessions, the lines you photograph, what they made you think, and the ideas worth coming back to long after the last page.

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Free, through Apple’s TestFlight app. Your library carries over to the App Store release.

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More than a list of finished books.

ReadList’s Today screen: Foundation by Isaac Asimov at page 181 of 280, 64% read, about 2 hours 10 minutes left, with a Continue Reading button and the last quote saved.

I · Trackp. 181Reading now

Built around reading, not updating a database.

Open ReadList when you sit down to read. Your current book is waiting at your page. Start a session, keep anything worth keeping, tell it where you stopped, and get a short summary of what just happened.

1 · Start Page 181 of 280Continue
2 · Read 00:42:18Started 8:59. Keeps time on the Lock Screen.
3 · Capture QuoteNoteSaved to p. 183 without leaving the session.
4 · Where did you stop? 205of 280 · +24
5 · Summary Nice reading. 42 minread24pages34pages / hour p. 181 → 20573% “A civilization is less a building than a habit…”+ 1 note on p. 183

Apple Watch

Your session, on your wrist.

Start, pause and end a session from your Apple Watch, and set the page with the Digital Crown. Today’s goal and the timer sit on your watch face, and with iCloud sync on it works even when your iPhone isn’t nearby.

Your TBR is a queue, not a pile.

Put the next few books in order. When you finish one, ReadList offers the next in line instead of a list of 58.

1Piranesi · Susanna Clarke272 pp
2Klara and the Sun · Kazuo Ishiguro307 pp
3Stoner · John Williams288 pp

II · Capturep. 183Quote saved

From the page in your hands to your reading memory.

Photograph a printed page, tap the passage that stopped you, and it’s saved to the right book with its page number. It takes seconds, and it stays with everything else you know about that book.

Photograph the pageThe text is recognised from the photo.
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The Encyclopedia had never been the point. It was a pretext, a reason to keep a hundred thousand people busy and hopeful while the real work went on elsewhere.Seldon had understood what the Board had not: a civilization is less a building than a habit, and habits can be taught again. The trick was to leave behind people who remembered how.Hardin closed the report and looked out at the sky.183Use Passage

Select the exact passageTap the paragraph, then narrow it to the sentences you want.
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A civilization is less a building than a habit, and habits can be taught again.
FoundationIsaac Asimov · p. 183 · during session

Saved to the bookWith the page, the date and the session it came from.

Quote · what the author said

“A civilization is less a building than a habit, and habits can be taught again.”

Note · what it made you think

Hardin is doing exactly what Seldon did, only faster. Is a habit the only thing that survives a collapse?

Capture the passage. Keep the thought. The book’s words and yours are kept apart, and linked.

III · Understandp. 205Journey

Don’t just know where you are. Remember how you got there.

Every book gets a Journey: sessions, page updates, the lines you kept, the notes you wrote and the milestones along the way. Read it again and the new read gets its own Journey, next to the first.

Mar 2Finished Mar 13 · 11 days · 6 quotes · ★★★★

Reading again · 2026

Sep 20Started againPage 1
Sep 26HalfwayPage 140
TueSession38 min · p. 157 → 181
Today · p. 183Quote“…habits can be taught again.”
TodayPage 20542 min · + note: “Hardin is doing what Seldon did…”
SaturdayLikely finishEstimate

7 sessionsYour pace

ReadList learns how you read.

Other estimates assume an average reader. ReadList measures your pace from your own sessions, for each book, and the estimate settles as it learns.

Generic estimate · 40 pages/h 341234567

Pages an hour, session by session, on Foundation.

FoundationPage 205 of 280 · 73%

Your pace: 34 pages/hour
Time left: About 2 h 10 m
Likely finish: This weekend

ESTIMATEFrom your last 5 sessions. Predictions are always labelled.

Understand how you actually read

You read longest on Sunday evenings.

Insights · a pattern from 6 weeks of your own sessions

PROWritten patterns and the Year and All-time views are part of Pro. Week and Month views are free.

4 h 12 mthis week, +37%

7sessions

19 / 24books this year

IV · RememberSaved Sep 12Daily Review

Finishing a book shouldn’t mean forgetting it.

The ideas you saved come back a few at a time, just before you’d lose them. You try to recall, then see the passage in your book’s words. A couple of minutes, from your own quotes and notes.

1 · Saved Sep 12, resurfaced today
A YEAR AGO TODAY
Shevek keeps choosing the harder kind of freedom. I don’t think I would.
Your note · The Dispossessed · p. 92
2 · Recall
Foundation · saved Sep 12
What did Seldon understand that the Board had not?
Show passage
3 · Reveal and review
“A civilization is less a building than a habit, and habits can be taught again.”
Your note: Hardin is doing what Seldon did, only faster.
Again1 minHard1 dayGood4 daysEasy2 wk

PRODaily Review is part of ReadList Pro. Resurfacing on the anniversary of a saved line is free.

1,204 savedConnections

Your books don’t have to live in isolation.

Help appears next to something you already saved, never in a separate chat. Ask what a passage means, translate it, or see where the same idea turns up in the rest of your library.

Quote → Explain this passageor translate it
Note → Find related ideasacross your books
Book → Summarise my noteson your iPhone

PROTranslate is free. Explain is free 5 times a month, unlimited with Pro. Connect and Summarise are part of Pro.

“A civilization is less a building than a habit, and habits can be taught again.”

Foundation · p. 183

In your other books

The Dispossessed · your note, p. 210“Odo’s ideas only last because people practise them every day.”

Braiding Sweetgrass · your note, p. 31“Reciprocity as a habit you’re taught, not a rule you follow.”

Connect, run on one quote. Results come only from your own library.

247 booksLibrary

A library that organises itself.

Describe a shelf once and it stays current. Books move in and out as you read, finish, rate and take notes.

Short books I want to readWant to ReadUnder 300 pages12 books
Books with notesFinishedHas notes41 books
Started but untouchedReadingNo progress in 30 days2 books

Updates automatically as your library changes. Built-in Smart Collections are free; your own rules are part of PRO.

58 to choose fromWhat to read next

Your next book is already on your shelves.

Say what you’re in the mood for and ReadList picks from the books you already want to read or own, each with a plain reason. Moods come only from a book’s subjects, so nothing is guessed.

Help Me ChoosePRO
What are you in the mood for?
- Short
- Relaxing
- Thrilling
- Inspiring
- Thought-provoking
- Easy before bed
- Under 5 hours
- Something different
From your shelves
1. A Psalm for the Wild-BuiltBecky ChambersAlready in your Want to ReadAbout 3 h 20 min at your pace
2. The Remains of the DayKazuo IshiguroA change from your recent science fiction
3. StonerJohn WilliamsOn your shelf, not started yet
Books you’ve already read
Tap the covers you’ve finished
- Summer 2016
- 2018
- Not sure
More by Ursula K. Le Guin

Your library now goes back to 2016.

After you finish

The finish screen offers the next book in the series when it’s on your shelf, and more by the same author in the languages you read. Tap an author’s name for their page.

Next in the seriesFoundation and EmpireStart

More by Isaac Asimov

PROWhat to Read Next and picks from your own shelves after you finish are part of Pro. Adding the books you’ve already read, the next in the series and the “More by” rows are free.

IndexEverything else

And the rest of a reading life.

Goals if you want them, a year in numbers, your session on the Lock Screen, widgets, adding and importing books, and share cards.

All features

Reading goals19of 24 books in 20262 books ahead of pace · or pages and minutes
Year in reviewPRO19books5,840pages112 hread
Lock Screen and Dynamic IslandPause or end without unlocking.
Home Screen widgets“A civilization is less a building than a habit.”
Add any bookSearch, scan the barcode, or add your own.
Import your historyFrom Goodreads, StoryGraph and 10 more reading apps, or any CSV. Re-reads included.
Share cardsSend a quote, a finished book, or your week, month or year as an image.
Finishing a bookYou finished The Remains of the DayRead in 12 days · 8 sessions · 6 h 50 m · 11 quotesBook 19 of your 24 for 2026

Track

Library and statuses
Reading progress
Reading timer
Reading goals
Up Next queue
Barcode and search
Rereads
Apple Watch

Capture

Camera quotes
Quotes
Notes
Share cards

Understand

Reading Journey
Insights
Personal pace
Year in review

Remember

Daily Review
Resurfacing
Explain and translate
Connections

Organise

Collections
Smart Collections
Import
Backup and restore

Discover

What to Read Next
Books you’ve already read
After you finish
More by an author
Author pages

Yours

Your reading history belongs to you.

Years of sessions, quotes and notes are worth keeping safe, wherever you read them.

Bring your library

Import shelves, dates, ratings and re-reads from Goodreads, StoryGraph, 10 more reading apps or any CSV. Files are read on your iPhone.

Restore without surprises

Before a backup replaces anything, you see exactly what would change, and your current library is saved first.

Synced through your iCloud

Your library lives with your Apple account. No ReadList account to create, and no ReadList server.

Backups you control

Automatic daily, weekly or monthly backups to iCloud Drive or your iPhone. Restore by replacing or merging.

p. 280Likely finish

ReadList is in beta on iPhone.

Try it today through TestFlight. Android is next.