Readerly: Book Recs & Tracking Reviews

I really like the details provided on the profile and I love how gists and takes work. It’s really fun to be notified when your thoughts are interesting to others and encourage them to save a book. The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is because I really wish there was a list function of some kind. I’d love to be able to make lists of things like classics I want to get around to, books I’ve already purchased but haven’t read yet, comfort books, etc. I’ve gotten really into making all kinds of lists of movies on letterbox and I like to have something similar on this app. Being able to search and look through other readers lists would be so fun too!

I love the feature that I can see how likely I am to agree with a user based on what we’ve reviewed so I can find like minded readers. Although it doesn’t deter me from following other uses as well to be exposed to new books. The one thing I don’t love is that there are sometimes multiples of the same book, i’m guessing because multiple users have added the same book to the apps virtual shelves. This makes it hard to figure out which version is the one people often review on and I don’t want to look at multiple locations to see accurate reviews of that book. It’s a minor thing but otherwise I love Readerly , highly underrated.

So this app is really cool. I like the short but sweet approach that the “gists” encourage but I feel like a big part of Readerly is locked behind a paywall. That’s generally fine in a lot of apps but I can’t help but feel that in this app, some of the best features that could really make Readerly take off... simply are locked behind a subscription. Other than that, I wish you could have a chat option so you could discuss books with your fellow readers. That could turn this app into not just a review and recommendation centered app... but turn it into a nice social app as well.

Love Readerly so far, especially with the latest improvements!

A few things I wouldn’t mind: 1.) the ability to organize the slides in a specific order; 2.) can we get a books read counter?

Readerly is so good for finding books, it has a way simpler and easier set up to use compared to goodreads and it’s easier to find books and the recommendations it’s giving me are spot on and its so amazing. Readerly is worth waiting for, I’m so glad I did!

I love Readerly, the idea of gists is wonderful keeping things short and sweet. With the most recent update you can import from good reads which is wonderful. The new profile interface looks good and is much better than it was before.

I was avoiding trying this out but it has ticked all of my boxes so far. I’m still testing things out but this could easily be a front runner out of all of my different reading trackers

Totally in love with Readerly!! I’d recommend it to anyone who’s sat in a Barnes and Noble wondering what to read. The only recommendation I’d make is a way to unlink a goodreads account because mine is linked to the wrong account!

Have any of you read a design book? You break a design trend when it provides something to your user. This just makes them select the wrong thing when they use your app. And you didn’t have the same things available on the different select screens, only the dislike section had my favorite genre. Hope things work out.

so far, Readerly is so good!! i love the interface and it has a bunch of different features! if you want an app for books and don’t want to use goodreads, i would recommend this!

Really like Readerly and the style of it, however even with Premium, I cannot figure out how to mark books “currently reading” only read or DNF.

I loved it but I got problems when I write characters descriptions, one description is repeated for every character I add and even if edit it, it doesn’t change .

extremely user friendly and love the prompts!!

So far so good!

A reader-focused app, with no ties to Amazon and no annoying ads? Yes please!

I joined this app today and absolutely love it. I imported my entire (GIANT) goodreads library in less than ten minutes, and I love the rating system.

I "explored" for literally five minutes and found SO MANY books I haven't seen before! And I work in a library! It was so nice to see new things and not just the bestsellers or ~trending~ books.

And I LOVE how easy the interface is. Just pick "save" "hide" or "read" and move right to the next book!

Seriously I am obsessed. Try Readerly: you won't be disappointed.

i absolutely love Readerly’s premise and mission statement and really speaks to the ethos of books — that stories and information and knowledge and art should be free to and owned by all, not hoarded by amazon.

with that being said, my 5 star rating speaks more to how much i believe in Readerly rather than to my user experience. and it’s not that i’ve had a bad experience at all, i just think there are a few issues they’re still sorting out with the user interface. i do have some feedback for the developers!

1. i think it would be great if you included an option to note whether or not a book is a review copy — AKA, whether it was given to you by the publisher/author in exchange for a review. disclosing when a book was given to you in exchange for a free and honest review is key to maintaining a culture of transparency within the community, and it would be great to have a space to note this without it taking up your gist word count!

2. i would love to be able to switch around the order of posts in my gist draft! sometimes i write out my dislikes/warnings first but then decide i’d rather start out with a “things to know,” i’m unable to switch the order around and have to create a new gist.

thank you creators + developers for all you do!!!