Daily Canon Reviews: Is It Legit?

Name: Daily Canon
Rating: 4.72332 (253 reviews)

Daily Canon

HENRY NICHOLAS WALL

📚 Education

📚 Books

Customer Experience

Positive experience90.3% of reviews

Neutral4.8% of reviews

Negative experience4.8% of reviews

~ Based on 62 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Daily Canon Safe?

Daily Canon appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Daily Canon is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 253 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.5% of ratings point to a safe experience

2.0% of ratings suggest some concerns

4.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 245 App Store ratings for Daily Canon.

Is Daily Canon Legit?

Daily Canon appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Daily Canon is 63/100.

Based on 63 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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I met a traveler from an antique land…

And thus my journey with this app began and continues still. I have read more literature in the last week than I have in the past year. Short stories, poems, essays, and whole novels—from different authors, eras, genres, and regions. This app is a bibliophile’s dream! Are you looking for a daily practice? They have the Bradbury Challenge! Do you need a break from doomscrolling? Come and get their app blocker! Are you seeking personal growth? Check out Tolstoy’s Calendar! Are you a lonely wanderer in search of community? Come to the Salon! Do you crave glory and honor? Come and earn your laurels, ranks, and titles! Are you simply looking for a good book that everyone praises but nobody seems to have read? Welcome home! Without reservation I can attest that the development team is incomparably responsive and invested in their app. I’ve reached out twice: once with a suggestion and the other with a bug report. The suggestion was added and the bug was fixed within 24 hours. I cannot recommend this app enough only because I cannot use this app enough! I look forward to reading everyday—a feeling I haven’t had since I was much, much younger.

TTheRueOfAnj

11 days ago

My Favorite App Ever

What wonderful witchery is this? That was one of my first thoughts as I explored this incredible app! If you love literature, want to revisit your favorite classics or find something new, or are wanting to expand your reading and literary knowledge, this app was made for you. It’s changing my life and daily habits for the better. I’m a life-long reader, but sometimes I go for long stretches without reading. No more. Now, I start and end my days with this app. Not only is the literary content extensive, but it’s so beautifully designed! The symbolic literary artwork that accompanies every work, the ability to quickly access the author biographies with little known facts about their lives, and the Salon! I’m currently reading Dracula with a cohort of people from all over the world and we’re sharing insights and laughs and conversation as we read it together chapter by chapter. Brilliant! A giant library, filled with likeminded people, all on their literary paths, intersecting here and there, sharing what they’ve learned. I never thought my life could be enriched by an app, but I’m happy to say it has.

AAthenaZeldaRey

16 days ago

Response from developer

starting and ending the day with a book is exactly the habit we hoped the app would make easier, so hearing that it's done that for a lifelong reader means a great deal! we're thrilled you've found the Salon. There's something lovely about a group of strangers across the world reading Dracula chapter by chapter, letter by letter, just as Stoker's first readers might have. Thank you for taking the time to write this. enjoy the rest of the Count, and mind the garlic.

My favorite app ever

This app is a true gem! Beautiful in its presentation, inspiring in so many ways and exactly what I needed to help me connect with literature in the best possible way. I could not recommend this app enough. It took me a half hour of jumping around the app to understand the concept and all the amazing features and tools that are offered. It is a project born out of sheer passion and love for literature from this one guy and you can really feel how this app is designed by one nerd for all nerds, and I just love it so much!

JJMHmusic

20 days ago

Excellent app

I’m glad I stumbled upon this app

EEnthusiasticWill

a month ago

Response from developer

so glad you stumbled in! there's a new work waiting every morning, welcome to the canon.

One of my favorite apps!

This is such a wonderful app that has so many beautiful, clever touches that make it clear this was made by people passionate about literature and reading! I’m a busy mom and I often find myself without adequate time (or mental bandwidth) to read the way I wish I could. This is an amazing “bite sized” bit of reading that makes me feel like I accomplished something, and even though each day only takes less than 5 minutes to read, I always learn something new about a book or author. I’m recommending this to anyone that has even the slightest interest in reading!

LLindsey@Cricketers

a month ago

Response from developer

this made my day, thank you Lindsey! it's built for exactly the days you're describing, when there's no time or bandwidth for a whole book but you still want to come away having met someone worth meeting. and thank you for passing it on!

Doorway to the Classics

Multiple degrees in engineering, I missed something along the way in liberal arts. So, I really appreciate the way this app is introducing me to much of what I missed. This helps discovery by sampling and summary, but it facilitates reading more deeply and richly, too. The organization is thoughtful, and there is a lot to discover and stumble upon. Further, the visual appearance of the app is rich and appealing to the eye. Overall, it’s a great way to start the day.

IIInquisitive iPad

a month ago

Response from developer

an engineer catching up on the liberal arts is one of my favourite kinds of reader, you come at it with fresh eyes and none of the school baggage. thank you, and enjoy the rest of what you missed (there's a lot of it, in the best way!)

Best start to the day

This is a superb app. I’m not a technical person so I am not referring to the mechanics (although I think it is very good). I am referring to the frictionless way one can engage with amazing minds from many eras. I love the daily features and the immersions are great fun. I was surprised that just seeing the number of people also reading a work is gratifying. There is so much to do and you can choose your own way in. For anyone wishing to start a reading habit, you must try The Daily Canon.

GGeoeduk8r

a month ago

Response from developer

thank you! i love that the little count of people reading the same work landed with you, it's a quiet thing but it's there on purpose, reading is solitary and it's nice to know you're not alone in it. glad the immersions are fun too!

Thank you for this graceful, beautiful app

I have used Daily Canon for a few weeks now, but it was today that I fell in love with it. The app served me a poem on the very day the poet wrote it (206 years ago to the day, it was Keats) and this pairing, along with the thoughtful curation changed my whole understanding of the poem, the season and the wider human condition. I don’t usually write reviews, but I felt the need. Thank you for this graceful, beautiful app!!

SShamul0n

2 months ago

Response from developer

this is the review we'd frame if we could! Keats wrote To Autumn after a walk near Winchester on 19 September 1819, so that's the day it comes round, and reading it with the season actually turning outside is the whole idea. thank you for writing, and i'm so glad it landed the way it was meant to.

Great app for literature!

This app came recommended across my feed, and I had been wanting to take a re-read of classic literature as a full fledged adult. I appreciated the literature I was provided during my high school courses, and undergraduate courses. However, the books hit differently once you’ve lived some life and had some poignant experiences. I like that there are various paths to choose from. I’m currently going through the Back to School course. They also have several versions of each path if you want more selections from that path to read.

WFWumby Flappy

2 months ago

Response from developer

"the books hit differently once you've lived some life" is the best argument for rereading! glad the paths are working for you, and the wider levels are there whenever you want to keep going.

Great app, great support

A little literature to start the day just feels good, at the end of every day you get to be exposed to something new and worthwhile which is nice. The subscription is great value too, super reasonably priced for how much you get out of it.

Also I had a little glitch happen with the font size not aligning with something behind the scenes which led to chapters cutting off some text at the end and I sent a chat about it and it got handled surprisingly quickly along with a really thorough response (shoutout Charlie and Hal) that I appreciated a lot. Bug reports usually disappear into the void so having a personal touch to it was really cool and it’s just gratifying to know you’ve been heard.

Overall would recommend this to literally anyone in a heartbeat, give it a shot.

LLapisLabs

2 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you (Hal here!) that's genuinely made our week. bugs like the one you found are only fixable because people take the time to tell us, so thank you for that too.

An AI generated and soulless framework

The daily canon looks like it was made with great care. It feels warm, and inviting, enticing you at the idea of learning from the classics.

But it lacks substance. Everything suggested work feels like chatting with an LLM. Nothing is thought out, and clearly hasn’t been battle tested. It doesn’t work the way it feels at first glance. Navigating the see of classics is confusing. It’s easy to lose track of your things in a messy and unorganized UI.

You’re better off asking fable to make you your own app for reading great literature and curate your own experience locally. That’s what I’m doing at least.

Bbenport3r

2 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you for this, it's useful, and the sea of classics line most of all. that feeling is the exact thing the app exists to get you out of, so if it came back inside the app we did something wrong. the idea is one work a day. you read about it and go as deep as you like, which some days means nodding and moving on, and some days means a poem, a short story, or a novel that takes you all summer. the canon behind it is huge and always growing, but you're never meant to face the whole of it at once (you meet just one). if Explore felt like the whole sea, that's the second door, and the front door is today. a person chose each work and their name is at the foot of its page, and a person answers the 'write to the team' card in the app (usually me) - I'd like to hear where it lost you! Building your own reader with 'Fable' sounds like a fun weekend, the books belong to everyone, and if it ends with you reading more of them, we're on the same side. Thanks, Team DC

I love it!

Hello! Thank you for your efforts for these wonderful experience for the application. At first, I was a lover of books and I was only 10 years old. I didn't have only two books, so I searched for a suitable application to read books on it, so I found this application that I liked very much. It is English, my favorite language. It is true that I am not from an English country, but I was learning it every day, so greetings to the work team and the application developer and I will wait for all new updates!

IMIraqi maomao

2 months ago

Response from developer

hello, and thank you for this lovely message! learning English by reading great books is a wonderful way to do it, and your English is already very good. we're so happy you found the app. keep reading, there is a new work for you every day!

Beautiful app, excellent customer service

It’s like they made it just for me. All the best books in a beautiful UI. The Tolstoy calendar is a great touch.

Premium sub includes thousands of books for logging. I messaged the team in-app and they added three books for me the same day. Amazing!

CCshiloh23

3 months ago

Response from developer

The Tolstoy calendar is a personal favourite too, a little reminder that even the giants kept to a schedule! Keep the requests coming, welcome to the canon.

Charging for publicly available classics is madness.

Sure, Daily Canon has a nice UI. A very nice UI, it’s easy to use, it’s fun to use, and maybe it gets you reading a couple blurbs for a day. The problem, though, is most all of the content I have found on the app is in the public domain and available free on Project Gutenberg. I will certainly not be paying for the app. Buyers beware that you are paying for something you can get on your own with little to no research at all. If that stresses you out, try a library. They are full of great resources to help you discover little-known classics that will likely surprise you.

BBrenton398

3 months ago

Response from developer

Hi Brenton, you're completely right and we'd never argue otherwise: nearly every text we hold is in the public domain, and Project Gutenberg is one of the great gifts of the internet! Penguin Classics never sold anyone a copyright either, what a good edition sells is the choosing, the typesetting, the ease... that's the tradition we're working in just built for a phone. The daily heart of the app is free and stays free: a work each morning with its introduction and extract, it's author profile, your reading list, your log, your own ranked canon. Premium is the deeper end for those that want it; a library of nearly 1000 works typeset properly for the screen, downloadable for offline, with rain or the sea playing softly behind the page if you like! Bloomy, a literary companion who has read all of it and will argue with you about any of it and can draw beautiful reading plans just for you. and we have no quarrel on libraries, we're devoted. We just wanted a librarian in your pocket, one who slides something surprising across the desk each morning (glad the desk at least looked nice) I'm sorry you felt the need to give 1 star. yours, Hal

Laurie

This app is so worth it. I quite literally and ironically don’t feel I have enough words to describe , in this spot , ALL OF THE THINGS THIS APP CAN DO! The team is right there for any and all communication you need. The ability to use Claude Bloomy to help explain the text you are reading, or to provide you some background or to just answer a question? Makes this app something not along the lines of any app.. ever before..they should have another category of a word than “app” or application to describe for lack of better words this “app”

MMe(/)

3 months ago

Response from developer

thank you! An app built on three thousand years of vocabulary and you've caught us without a word for what it is; that might be the finest compliment we've ever had. we'll keep trying to earn the new category.

Great UI, great use of AI

It’s beautifully designed, simple, and doesn’t force me to use the app in just one restrictive way - I’ve been able to explore at my own pace and click different links to figure out what works for me.
The content library is impressive. Their AI is well-trained on source material and quite personable. The main page that allows you to read a little bit from a classic every day is really compelling. I can’t recommend this app more.

HH1638H

3 months ago

Perfect for replacing scrolling!

I find myself opening this app every morning instead of the usual social media doomscrolling. Not only that, but I actually look forward to it. The simplicity and beautiful aesthetics of the app make it so peaceful and I find that I'm actually excited to put down my romantasy booktok slop in favour for something that'll leave a lasting impact. I'm so glad I stumbled upon this app, we need more pockets of peace like this!!!

RVRosalie V.

3 months ago

Response from developer

Replacing a few minutes of doomscrolling with a few minutes of literature is pretty much the dream. We're especially pleased to hear you're discovering books outside the usual algorithmic orbit. Thanks for spending part of your mornings with us.

Phenomenal

This is exactly the type of app people yearn for. It’s a way to connect to literature but also with the team that puts genuine replies and recommendations. And it’s a human team which makes it all the more personal. This app helps find new reads and could be a new way of reading

KKaritzaa

3 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you Karitzaa! Books are personal, so the app should be too. lovely to have you reading with us.

Gets your mind going again

For all those who ever appreciated English class in American high school, this app will give you nostalgic fuzzies. I remember well reading books in high school that inspired me to explore more beyond class, beyond the few paragraphs of a literature textbook sample. I will definitely consider the subscription because this app makes reading an enjoyable experience again with all the insights and extra information pertaining to the author, their works, their era and the influences. I could write a novel about the greatness of this app but just want to say kudos for the work put into this and I look forward to the maintenance of this app. Maybe a modern book app is in the works, that connects these classics to the masterpieces of today’s great authors of the future?

TMThe Silly Wise Monkey

4 months ago

They’re thinking of everything

I’m new to the app, and thinking about subscribing. I reached out because I was looking for a way to swap languages (‘any book originally written in another language sits in our library in both the translation and the original. Inside the reader, tap the three dots and hit "read in original language" and you'll get the version the author actually wrote.’).
So I support the developers who are building a great app that will help people with humanity’s most massive undertaking- literally.

SSharpEars

4 months ago