Sit down and read
Pick a book, pick a length, and start a session. The screen stays awake, a soft chime marks the end, and the pages you read are logged when you close the book.
A reading companion for Android and iOS
Readers are made one quiet hour at a time.
BookZEN gives each evening somewhere to go: a session to open, a shelf that fills, a year you can watch. One sitting a day is all a reading life asks.
Free to start. No account needed. Seven languages.
Not a tracker that counts you. A room that waits for you.
What BookZEN does
A shelf that fills
Every book you finish takes its place on a drawn wooden bookcase. Arrange it by colour, author or the order you read, and decorate it for the season.
Your rhythm, not your score
Weekly, monthly and yearly views of pages and sittings. A streak that celebrates the seventh day. A yearly challenge that nudges your pace and never says “you're behind”.
Find any book
Search four catalogues at once — Google Books, Open Library, Inventaire and NeoDB — or scan the barcode. Bring your whole Goodreads library across in one import.
A commonplace book
Keep the lines worth keeping. Notes and quotations live with the book they came from, and stay after the book is closed.
A gentle reminder
Tell BookZEN when you read best and it taps you on the shoulder at that hour. In English, Czech, French, German, Polish, Portuguese or Spanish.
The shelf
Every book you finish takes its place.
Reading apps count. BookZEN builds. Each finished book becomes a spine on a bookcase that is yours alone, drawn to the height and colour of the real thing — or photographed from your own copy, so the shelf on your phone matches the one in your room.
- Book spines drawn from the cover, or from your photo
- Ledges that fill as the year goes on
- Frames, plants and nameplates to make it yours
- A shelfie to share when a ledge is full
From readers
“The nightly reminder is my cue to sit down with whatever I'm reading. I've finished more this year than in the five before it.”
I got my evenings back
“A book appears every time I finish a session. It sounds like nothing, but it's the only thing that has ever kept me coming back.”
The shelf is what did it
“Twenty-five minutes with the timer on and the phone face down beside me. The book is better than the feed. It always was.”
Quiet is a habit
BookZEN Pro
Free to read. Pro to build the bookcase.
Everything a reading life needs — sessions, streaks, stats, the challenge, the commonplace book and a shelf of ten books — is free. Pro takes the limit off the shelf and opens the tools that make it yours.
- An unlimited bookcase
- A spine of its own for every book, drawn or photographed
- Arrange the shelves by colour, author, size or date
- Frames, plants, nameplates and seasons
