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Serial Reader
Books in Bite-Sized Daily Bits
⭐️4.8 / 5
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🙌3.6K
Ratings
📼10 scs
Content
📦~ in 2 months
Updates frequency
🗣❌ unsupported
Your locale
🧾$1.99 - $14.99
In-App Purchase
- Versions
- In-App Purchases History5
- Price History
- Description
- FAQ
All Versions of Serial Reader
4.17
March 23, 2024
• Fixed: Issues for paused serials still delivered
• Fixed: Rewind Issues action being reversed
More4.16
December 30, 2023
• Widget fixes for iOS 17
4.15
October 24, 2023
• Improve cloud syncing
4.14
September 13, 2023
• Fix for My Serials freeze issue
4.13
September 5, 2023
• Faster load times when browsing new books
• Faster boot time
• Fix bug on serializing EPUB files
More4.12
May 21, 2023
• Faster load times when browsing for new books to read
• Remove unnecessary analytics collection
• Fix for bug blocking adding your own books
• Fix some rare text rendering bugs
More4.11
January 26, 2023
• More than 900 books now available, including many from 1927 that have newly entered the public domain!
More4.10
December 15, 2022
• New option to show clock while reading
• New option to badge app icon with unread issue count
• Congrats messages now include option to disable messages
• Improved text selection options in iOS 16
• Improved design of book settings and text legibility
• Add Mastodon and other social media links to About section
More4.09
October 22, 2022
• Fixes & updates for the latest version of iOS
4.08
July 23, 2022
• New setting to hide reading streak
• Fix for hyphenation not appearing at end of pages
• Fix for password bug when creating new cloud sync account
MoreSerial Reader In-App Purchases History
$1.99
Tip Jar - Essay
A donation to support Serial Reader
$2.99
Serial Premium
Cloud sync, Read Ahead, highlights, and more
$4.99
Tip Jar - Short Story
A great donation to support Serial Reader
$9.99
Tip Jar - Novel
A generous donation to support Serial Reader
$14.99
Tip Jar - Epic
An amazing donation to support Serial Reader
Price History of Serial Reader
Description of Serial Reader
Read classic books in daily bite-sized bits!
Serial Reader helps you fit more reading into your busy life. Choose from more than 900 books — or add your own! — and the app delivers a new issue from the book every day. Build great reading habits and tackle daunting classic books.
Each daily issue can be read in 20 minutes or less, making it easy to fit reading into your spare time! Picked as one of Apple's Best New Apps and Best New App Updates in 2016, 2018, and 2019.
"This free app will make you ridiculously well-read in 20 minutes a day" — Mashable
"For those who are intimidated by thick, leather-bound tomes, Serial Reader is a good way to break it all down" — The Washington Post
• Read hundreds of popular classic books for free
• Large variety of themes & fonts
• Serialize your own EPUB books
• Sync to Goodreads and Readwise
• Lookup words with quick dictionary & Wikipedia access
• Earn fun badges and track your reading streaks
Plus, with the Serial Premium upgrade:
• Read tomorrow's issue early
• Sync your reading across multiple devices
• Save quotes & notes while reading
• Save books to Read Later
• Pause delivery of new issues
• Pick specific delivery days and hours for new issues
• Custom app icons
"Serial Reader’s subscription format makes it a little bit more fun to crank through the classics" — Lifehacker
"A useful tool that makes it easy in our modern world to make classic books part of your reading diet" — MacStories
More than 900 books available in the app with new titles added each week. Every book is free to read!
A preview of available books:
Most Popular
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
• Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
• The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
• The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
American Lit
• Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
• Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
• My Antonia - Willa Cather
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Adventure
• The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
• Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
• Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
• The Odyssey - Homer
• King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
Romance
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Science Fiction
• The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
• A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Horror
• Dracula - Bram Stoker
• The Dunwich Horror - H.P. Lovecraft
• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
• The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers
• The Wendigo - Algernon Blackwood
Mystery
• The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
• The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Biography
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
Children's
• Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
• Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Fantasy
• The Well at the World's End - William Morris
• Time and the Gods - Lord Dunsany
• The Wood Beyond the World - William Morris
Philosophy
• The Republic - Plato
• Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
• Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
Nonfiction
• Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft
• On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
• The Federalist Papers
• The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Westerns
• Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey
• The Virginian - Owen Wister
• Gunman's Reckoning - Max Brand
Religion
• King James Bible
• The Dhammapada
• The Quran
Build great reading habits and finish classic books in days with Serial Reader!
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Serial Reader: FAQ
The Serial Reader software is compatible with iPad devices.
Michael Schmitt is the developer of the app.
Your iOS device must have at least iOS 15.0 installed to use the app.
4.8: The Serial Reader app gets a lot of positive feedback.
The App Category Of The Serial Reader App Is Books.
4.17 is the newly released version of the Serial Reader app.
Serial Reader released its latest update on July 1, 2024.
Serial Reader was initially released on February 5, 2023.
Michael Schmitt: The Serial Reader app may contain content unsuitable for children under the age of 12.
Currently, the Serial Reader app supports the following languages: English.
Unfortunately, Serial Reader is not on Apple Arcade.
Indeed, Serial Reader provides opportunities for in-app purchases.
No, Serial Reader does not offer compatibility with Apple Vision Pro.