Pagebound: Social Book Tracker

Pagebound

About this app

Pagebound combines old-school internet forums with robust book tracking—every book has its own forum. We are indie, anti-AI, and built by 2 women. Discuss books as you read them and earn points & badges for tracking your reading.

EXPERIENCE SOCIAL READING
Read with others, without the commitment of a book club. Whatever you’re currently reading, post thoughts, theories, ideas, reactions, and more to that book’s forum. Sort posts by % read to read along with people from all over the world. Anyone with that book in their library will see and can interact with your post, so it’s really easy to start discussions and make new reader friends.

GAMIFY BOOK TRACKING
Earn badges that reflect your reading taste by completing reading challenges—Main Quests and Side Quests. Accumulate points for tracking your reading, sharing your thoughts, and contributing to the community. Showcase your badges on your profile and unlock fun rewards.

ORGANIZE YOUR LIBRARY
Plan your TBR (to-be read) by month or year. Rate books in half-star increments with sub-ratings for enjoyment, quality, characters, and plot. Track your books accurately with Paused and DNF (did not finish) reading statuses.

MAKE READER FRIENDS
Connect with other readers based on what you think, not what you look like. With anonymous profiles, no algorithm and private follower counts, we connect readers based on shared taste in books, not clout.

Ratings and reviews

definitely a work in progress! looks very promising, but is still early enough that I find it inconvient compared to StoryGraph. I will be sticking with it due to firm stances on AI integration, but it's still somewhat lacking as far a book tracker. my main issue is the inability to filter results such as by format type. some format versions, particularly audiobooks are not listed but that will be better with time I expect.

Pagebound is a great platform to track and discuss reading and listening to books! The app version has the same features and capabilities as the Pagebound mobile/browser version. The app interface looks nice, is user-friendly, and works well! There are no ads or annoying notifications. You can create an account or use Google credentials to log into the app. There is no AI anywhere in or used by the app, and the app doesn't need any access to your phone data.

Very grateful that a reading app has been made for readers by readers! I have been using the desktop version for the past few months and at first I was nervous about switching from Goodreads (which would update my reading status without me having to do anything). I thought I would fall behind on tracking what I was reading if it wasn't an automated process, but that hasn't been the case! Whenever I start or finish a book I get excited to go manually enter in the information!

What’s new

Feed customizations and various bug fixes