Bookship: a virtual book club

Bookship: a virtual book club

Reading with groups or friends

⭐️4.5 / 5
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🙌18
Ratings
📼9 scs
Content
📦~ in 2 months
Updates frequency
🗣❌ unsupported
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🧾$2.99
In-App Purchase

All Versions of Bookship

10.0.5

June 4, 2024

Bookship 10 has many new features including Polls for voting on books for your book club, dark mode, and a refreshed user interface.
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8.10

December 19, 2023

This version includes minor defect corrections and other improvements

8.9.2

September 11, 2023

This version corrects an issue with the Bookship Live Video chat feature.
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8.9.0

September 6, 2023

This version corrects issues with the Bookship Live Video chat feature.
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8.8.5

April 4, 2023

This version corrects a screen display issue when signing up by email. This version uses the text messaging app to send reading invites by phone number.
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8.7.8

January 18, 2023

This version corrects an issue where display of Group TBR book lists could become garbled or duplicated.
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8.7.3

September 26, 2022

This release corrects issues with Bookship Video Chat, where Bookship users on browsers caused iOS users to become muted with no video feed. This release provides User Safety features including the ability to flag objectionable content and well as block individual users. This release includes the ability for readers to upload their own ePub files and conduct social readings on them. Also included is the ability to search external databases for books when starting a reading.
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8.7

August 30, 2022

This release includes the ability for readers to upload their own ePub files and conduct social readings on them. Also included is the ability to search external databases for books when starting a reading.
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8.6.4

May 31, 2022

This version introduces Personalized Book Recommendations for Bookship Premium customers. Get book recommendations based on your reading tastes, favorite authors and current events! Live Video! Bookship Live is secure, private, unlimited and free Video Chat with your reading group, or anyone on Bookship. No more scheduling, invites and logistical trouble. Just hit the Video icon and you are live with your group. Reviews: now you can write reviews of your books and post them in your Reading or the Cafe to discuss with others. Meet the Author! Bookship now lets you connect with bestselling authors and have them join your book club meetings live! Browse our large (and growing!) list of participating authors, and start a reading of one of their books, and we'll be in touch to arrange a virtual meeting with your book club! The Café: meet interesting people that love the same books you do in the Cafè, a public forum where Bookship members can discuss any book they like, or start a public Reading anyone can join! This version includes various performance improvements and defect corrections and allows Spotify playlists to be posted and played inside a Reading. User Accounts can now be deleted directly from the app.
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8.6

April 7, 2022

This version introduces Personalized Book Recommendations for Bookship Premium customers. Get book recommendations based on your reading tastes, favorite authors and current events! Live Video! Bookship Live is secure, private, unlimited and free Video Chat with your reading group, or anyone on Bookship. No more scheduling, invites and logistical trouble. Just hit the Video icon and you are live with your group. Reviews: now you can write reviews of your books and post them in your Reading or the Cafe to discuss with others. Meet the Author! Bookship now lets you connect with bestselling authors and have them join your book club meetings live! Browse our large (and growing!) list of participating authors, and start a reading of one of their books, and we'll be in touch to arrange a virtual meeting with your book club! The Café: meet interesting people that love the same books you do in the Cafè, a public forum where Bookship members can discuss any book they like, or start a public Reading anyone can join! This version includes various performance improvements and defect corrections and allows Spotify playlists to be posted and played inside a Reading.
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Bookship In-App Purchases History

$2.99

Bookship Premium

Access Book Briefings & create large groups.

Price History of Bookship

Description of Bookship

Bookship is a social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with friends, family & co-workers. Chat, share thoughts and observations with your book club. Post photos of a favorite passage. Have Bookship extract a quote from a photo of a page you're reading. Create Groups & Calendars to manage your meetings. A mobile-first, camera-ready, emoji-friendly experience! Whether it's reading a great novel with your best friend across the country or a neighborhood book club, or a business book with your co-workers, Bookship is your virtual book club companion. Build better relationships through books, and enrich your reading experience along the way. Read classic books right inside the app. Browse classic books from Project Gutenberg, Standard eBooks, and other sources. Use our built-in eReader to read the book, sharing notes and comments with your friends RIGHT INSIDE THE book. Look for the "Read Free!" tag on the top left of the cover art for the book to see books you can read for free. Bookship provides unique book discovery and recommendations, with a special emphasis on books that are topical and perfect for book clubs! Get great ideas for your next group reading or book club! Browse by genre, with books being talked about by the leading book tastemakers. Keep a Reading List by using our Saved Books feature, so you can come back to interesting books later and keep track of what you’ve read. Key features: * Browse unique book recommendations from leading tastemakers, book reviewers, best-seller and awards lists * Invite friends, family, co-workers to read a book together * Post & react to comments, photos, links, video * Video chat with your group right from Bookship. No more scheduling, invites and waiting rooms. Completely secure, free and private by default - or open it up to anyone? * Write reviews when you finish your books and share them with the world! * Get alerts when your friends post; keep in sync by sharing your location in the book * Tag your comments as spoilers - they're hidden from others until they open them * Use the Virtual Highlighter to highlight passages (and extract quotes!) from physical books, and share them with friends. * Keep & manage your To Be Read List (TBR) by saving interesting books you find in the app. * Use our handy barcode scanner to remember books you find in a bookstore * Groups - keep your group member lists & Group-specific TBRs inside the app. * Calendars - schedule your Group meetings & automatically send reminders. * Read classic works for free right inside the app! Tens of thousands of classic works are available. * Social Reading lets you highlight and comment right inside the book, and share with your group. * Share readings on social media and websites to open them to the public! Bookship Premium is a monthly subscription that helps you get the most out of your reading and your reading groups. * Book Briefings provide curated content about your book - reading guides, author interviews & reviews. Great for getting ready for your book club meeting! * Bookship Premium enables groups with 10+ members. (Groups with less than 10 members are free.) * Ad-free experience. Bookship Premium is guaranteed ad-free, and helps us keep Bookship going! Bookship Premium is $2.99 per month in the U.S. Prices will vary by your location. Get started with a 2-week free trial! Privacy Policy: https://www.bookshipapp.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.bookshipapp.com/terms
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Bookship: FAQ

Does Bookship have support for iPad devices?

Yes, Bookship is available for iPad users.
The Bookship app was made by The Hawaii Project, LLC.
The minimum iOS requirement for the app is 13.0 or higher.
The overall user rating of the Bookship app is 4.5.
Bookship Relates To The Books App Genre.
10.0.5 is the newest version of Bookship.
July 1, 2024 is the date of the latest update of the Bookship app.
Bookship officially launched on February 5, 2023.
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The following list of languages is supported by the Bookship app: English.
Sorry, Bookship is not part of Apple Arcade.
Certainly! Bookship contains in-app purchases for users.
No, Bookship does not provide support for Apple Vision Pro.

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Reviews of Bookship

  • A Wonderful Book Club App

    Was looking for an app to have a “book club” with a few long distance friends. I tried a few different ones, but most were set up for in-person meetings, and I just wanted to discuss books long distance and have our chats separated by book. This app has been the perfect thing. It started out as a good structured way to recommend and talk about books with a few pals, but over the past year of using it it’s had tons of improvements and now offers supplemental readings about the books, has a nicer format, lets you invite people to read in different ways, and is really nice aesthetically.
    It is simple and easy to use, and fulfills the exact purpose I needed it for... sharing books I love with friends, and getting to hear what they think.
  • Can't import your own epubs

    The concept is great, but the app is of no use to me unless I can import my own epubs and then share them with friends. Provide this functionality and I'll return with a much better review.

    Developer Response

    Thank you Itinerati for the feedback. Can you give me more details about the ePubs you would like to see? We've been interested to allow user upload of ePubs but need to respect author copyright, as well as have some way to map the uploads to our current books database. The current selection of ePubs has been vetted to ensure the ePubs are out of copyright...Feel free to follow up via email at mark - at - thehawaiiproject.com as well if desired.
  • Perfect for Reading with Friends or a Book Group

    BookShip is a natural way to share reading of any text. All the tools are there to communicate: photos, hyperlinks, excerpts and, of course, text. I’ve used it to read with large groups, small groups, long and difficult texts and shorter recreational reads. It makes group readings more fun and insightful.