# Daily Canon — user reviews > 51 indexed App Store user reviews of Daily Canon by HENRY NICHOLAS WALL, rated 4.70/5 from 182 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/daily-canon/id6758525527/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/daily-canon/id6758525527.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 151 · 4★ 17 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 7 ## Newest reviews (12 of 51) ### 5/5 — Incredible app for literary lovers *2026-06-24* A truly excellent presentation of the literary canon. The free version gives you quite a lot of information, but the cost of the premium is quite reasonable for what is included. Try it out. See for yourself. ### 5/5 — Nothing works on iPad-Figured it out *2026-06-22* Nothing happens when I tap on things in IPad. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong and I love the concept, so I’m still giving it 4 stars hoping I’ll figure it out. Update: I was on the initial tutorial and didn’t realize I just needed to follow the step-by-step guides. :-) **Developer response:** Glad you cracked it! You saw an old version of the tutorial, which has now been overhauled. Thanks for sticking with it and enjoy the reading. ### 5/5 — my new fav app *2026-05-31* genuinely so well crafted. not only are the classics well picked, but the app is gorgeous and there’s so many hidden little features to discover, half of which are also literary references <3. you can tell so much thoughts and care was put into this hidden gem of an app. it’s even got a widget! just perfect. **Developer response:** Thank you! it's always a delight when someone notices this. Thanks for taking the time to leave this review, and happy reading. ### 5/5 — Easily one of my favorite apps *2026-05-30* Highly recommended. Love this app! **Developer response:** Thank you for the recommendation. Reviews like this help more than you know, and we're delighted the app has found a place among your favourites! ### 5/5 — Best app ever *2026-05-29* This app is so amazing! Highly recommend it is wonderful! Great way to expand reading skills! **Developer response:** Thank you so much for the recommendation. We're delighted the app is helping you explore beyond your usual reading. Happy reading! ### 5/5 — So glad I found this app *2026-05-29* This must be the number one app for classical literature - beautifully designed, a refined, knowledgable, and broad selection of works. I love it!!! **Developer response:** Thanks Silvan! There are still hundreds of works waiting to make their appearance, so we hope you stick around for the journey. ### 5/5 — Best apps for readers and best team ever! *2026-05-26* Daily Canon feels like it was made by someone who genuinely loves reading, not just tracking books. The app is beautiful, calm, and thoughtfully designed in a way that makes reading feel personal again. What impressed me most is how responsive the developer is to feedback. I suggested adding the ability to delete or reactivate abandoned reading plans, and they replied quickly and actually implemented it. That level of care is rare. In a world of noisy productivity apps, Daily Canon feels quiet in the best way. **Developer response:** Thank you Bashayer. Suggestions like yours genuinely shape the app. one of the advantages of being small is that we can listen carefully and move quickly when readers point out ways to make things better. ### 5/5 — Wonderful app *2026-05-23* This app is truly a great addition to one’s daily routine. I am able to learn about new works which may interest me, learn new quotes and vocabulary each day. It cultivates knowledge, a little bit at a time, in easily digestible amounts. The people behind this app are doing good work, I believe. **Developer response:** Thank you for such a thoughtful review. We love the idea of cultivating knowledge a little at a time; that's very close to the philosophy behind the app. Literature has a way of changing us gradually rather than all at once, and we're glad to be helping that process along. ### 5/5 — A Hidden Gem *2026-05-18* This app is like joining a fantastic book club. I wish I had found it sooner. **Developer response:** Thank you! A book club that never cancels and never picks a dud is roughly the dream, this means a lot. ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2026-05-16* Excellent app! Inspired me to dive into the classics in way that I never would have otherwise. 10/10, would recommend. **Developer response:** That's wonderful to hear. If we've managed to persuade even one person to spend more time with the classics than they otherwise would have, then the app is doing its job. Thanks for being part of it. ### 5/5 — Very impressive app *2026-05-16, version 1.5.0* I absolutely love how Rich than literature is and it’s a dream for book lovers ### 5/5 — Beautiful app, excellent customer service *2026-05-14* 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! **Developer response:** 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. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — An AI generated and soulless framework *2026-08-30* 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. ### 1/5 — Charging for publicly available classics is madness. *2026-08-13* 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. **Developer response:** 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 ### 1/5 — Why even have avatars? *2026-06-18, version 1.6.2* Why even have avatars on a book app? Okay they’re fun and dandy I guess. Unless you’re not white then pay for premium for someone who looks like you. The main person on the premium avatars being advertised is a black person. All free avatars are whiter than snow. Lol. ### 3/5 — Has Potential *2026-06-22, version 1.6.3* Tutorial is broken. I couldn’t get past it and had to delete and redownload and skip the tutorial to use the app. ### 3/5 — Insta Said It Was Free *2026-06-05* It is free to download but to read the books it costs money. Albeit, a VERY cheap subscription but still. I was hoping to read these books you can read for free online anyway. **Developer response:** Thank you for the feedback, you're absolutely right that many of these books can be found online - The Daily Canon is mostly about helping people find and discover great books, building a reading habit, and curating the perfect journey through our world's greatest literature. For those who enjoy reading inside the app, the subscription provides a beautifully designed reading experience, including a curated library with instant vocabulary lookup and the ability to save words to your personal lexicon, discussions with Bloomy (our literary companion) about highlighted passages or chapters, customisable reading themes and font sizes, and tools to track your reading cadence and habits over time. The subscription helps us cover development costs, and the ongoing work of curating and maintaining the library. We appreciate you giving the app a try, and thanks again for taking the time to share your thoughts. ### 3/5 — Lost me during the orientation tour *2026-06-02* This app lost me as a user during its orientation tour. The tour featured a famous quote from Fitzgerald’s *The Great Gatsby*. Which was fine, but then the commentary blurb about the novel was clearly something written with generative AI. (Granted it wasn’t the worst AI writing I’ve ever seen, but then I read a lot of stuff by sophomores, and in this case we are referring to classic works of literature.) It was sort of crazy when you think of it that the blurb didn’t really try to put human editing into the commentary; its last sentence managed to do that thing where it generates a sentence or statement that might sound smart *if you’ve never looked at the text*, but does not actually say anything interesting about the reading. (And this is inside an application that is supposedly all about *reading*.) **Developer response:** Hi there, I wrote that blurb (last sentence and all) so the flatness is mine to answer for, not a machine's. But you're right, a closing line that sounds clever and says nothing about the text has no business in an app about reading!! and if that's what this one did, it's getting rewritten rather than defended. Sorry that it cost you the app before the rest could make its case. ### 4/5 — Features and a few bugs *2026-06-27* Overall a slickly vibe-coded app, but I’d like to see a reading path feature that sticks to works the app has access to in the public domain. Too many have me looking around elsewhere. Also, writing a suggestion in app isn’t working. ### 4/5 — love the concept but kinda clunky *2026-06-01* beautiful concept but i wish the app wasn’t made with ai! clunky and not compatible with the apple accessibility features i use (larger text/buttons) so it’s near unusable for me. i hope you guys get enough subscriptions in the future to hire a programmer or smth because i LOVE this concept and it deserves to be designed by a real human being! and sorry if it is NOT in fact made by ai, i might just be scarred by the amount of ai slop apps ive come across recently 😭 **Developer response:** Thank you (you clearly care about the thing which makes the criticism worth more). On the AI worry… every blurb, design decision, and piece of copy is from a fleshy real human. Yes, LLM’s helps us to build faster, but nothing in the Canon is blindly generated. I'd rather earn that trust than just assert it, so we'll let the next few updates make the case for us. On accessibility, you're right. We have two text sizes in settings but that's isn’t the same as Dynamic Type support, and if the app fought your system settings then it failed you and we are so sorry. Larger touch targets included, it's going on the list to fix properly ASAP! Thank you for your feedback. ### 4/5 — love the concept but kinda clunky *2026-05-11, version 1.4.0* beautiful concept but i wish the app wasn’t made with ai! clunky and not compatible with the apple accessibility features i use so it’s near unusable for me. i hope you guys get enough subscriptions in the future to hire a programmer or smth because i LOVE this concept and it deserves to be designed by a real human being! and sorry if it is NOT in fact made by ai, i might just be scarred by the amount of ai slop apps ive come across recently 😭 ### 4/5 — A worthy app for the few moments it takes to peruse daily *2026-04-12, version 1.3.2* Exposes the user to a wealth of authors and their ideas ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I love it! *2026-08-23* 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! ### 5/5 — Beautiful app, excellent customer service *2026-08-17* 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! **Developer response:** 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. ### 5/5 — Laurie *2026-08-06* 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” **Developer response:** 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. ### 5/5 — Great UI, great use of AI *2026-07-31* 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. ### 5/5 — Phenomenal *2026-07-22* 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 **Developer response:** Thank you Karitzaa! Books are personal, so the app should be too. lovely to have you reading with us. ### 5/5 — Gets your mind going again *2026-07-16* 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? ### 5/5 — They’re thinking of everything *2026-07-15* 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. ### 5/5 — Absolutely Fantastic *2026-07-10* I stumbled across this app completely on accident but am so incredibly happy I did. I didn't even realize I was searching for something like this, but as I learned more about how the app works and got to use it for myself, I didn't hesitate to sign up. As a designer/developer myself, I also appreciate all the attention to detail on the experience and Ul elements. It’s been one of the highlights of my week to recommend it to my friends and family. **Developer response:** Thank you Benvienue! The design and attention to detail are the parts we sweat the most, so being clocked by another designer means a great deal. There's no higher compliment in this line of work than someone quietly recommending us to the people they love, we hope the app keeps earning that. ### 5/5 — Excelent *2026-06-28, version 1.6.4* Good app ### 5/5 — Great for new and experienced readers *2026-06-25* I’m a somewhat new Classic Literature reader and am absolutely loving this app! The mix between reminiscing on quotes from novels that I’ve read, and then learning more about ones that I’ve maybe heard but not looked into, is very exciting and engaging. Two examples of the use of this app is by my discovering of Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, through the quote and blurb of the day. Also, my reintroduction to 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Both of these are works that I plan on diving into after seeing them on the app. Another interesting piece is the suggested readings and badges you can develop which will help you navigate to other works that you may not have heard of. I recommend this app to anyone who is new or old in the classic literature space! **Developer response:** Carlos, this is exactly the kind of review that makes one feel the whole endeavour was worthwhile. Calvino and García Márquez waiting on your shelf is a very fine position to be in. Invisible Cities will rearrange how you think about cities; One Hundred Years of Solitude will rearrange everything else. Welcome to the canon, there's plenty more waiting. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-01.*