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CLUSTER READING-BOOKS-SOCIAL · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2017-07-17

Social book club apps

This cluster covers social reading apps for sharing thoughts, tracking books, and coordinating book club discussions. The dated history before the index start is thin: one entry in November 2014, one in July 2017, one in February 2025, and three in June 2026, showing sporadic early activity and a small clustering in mid-2026. Traction leader is 'bookwithyou' with 7 stars, while the other two members have zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

NOV 2014: 1JUL 2017: 1FEB 2025: 1JUN 2026: 3OCT 2026: 2
NOV 2014OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 1 hand-coded · 6 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 1 commercial · 5 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01midnightreaders0★12 daysliveWeb app that connects late-night readers to share books and discuss what they are reading.
  2. 02bookwithyou7★3 molivehobbyA social reading tracker that lets friends create shared book sessions, log chapter progress, and discuss with threads and emoji reactions.
  3. 03connect-share-book0★3 days—Social reading app where people connect, share books, and discuss what they read.
  4. 04Booknook - Social Reading0★1 moliveSocial reading app that tracks books and reading sessions and lets readers share collections, thoughts, and book club discussions.
  5. 05Bookship: a virtual book club0★2 moliveSocial reading app for sharing thoughts, discussing books, and coordinating book club meetings with friends.
  6. 06Glose0★4 molivecommercialReading app with an ebook store, social features to share notes and highlights, and book club creation.
  7. 07books-and-friends0★3 mo—hand-codedhobbySocial reading app where friends join book sessions, track chapter progress, and chat in real time.
  8. 08chapterly-chat0★1 yrabandoned—ai-builtA chat app that connects readers to discuss specific book chapters in real-time.

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