# Fable: Track & Discuss Books — A modern app for every reader

> Book and TV show tracking, discussion, and community platform. (iPhone/iPad app by Fable.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fable-track-and-discuss-books/id1488170618 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Fable](https://appshunter.io/developer/1485497426)
- Category: Books, Social Networking
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.80/5 from 78,747 App Store ratings · 1,426 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 194 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2020-12-01
- Data updated: 2026-08-29
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fable-track-and-discuss-books/id1488170618/reviews.md

## What is Fable?

Join a community of good people discussing great stories on Fable, an app designed to find, discuss, and track books and TV shows. Set reading goals, get personalized reading stats, discover new books and shows, and connect with fellow readers in online book clubs and TV clubs. 

TRACK YOUR READING LIFE: Stay organized with beautiful lists, reading goals, and daily streaks that encourage you to read more.
- Organize the books you’re currently into, what’s on your TBR, what you finished, and DNFed
- Import your book lists from Goodreads and Kindle to keep everything in one place
- Build custom lists for all of your niche reading interests
- Build watch lists for the TV shows you’re interested in, currently watching, finished, and more
- Follow lists from other readers for inspiration, and share your own

VIEW PERSONALIZED STATS: Learn more about yourself as a reader with deep insights, charts, and graphs about your reading history.
- Import your lists from Goodreads or Kindle to power your reading stats
- Visualize your progress to your annual reading goal
- See your most-read authors and genres
- See your longest reading streak
- View your average book rating across all the books you finished 

BUILD A READING HABIT WITH STREAKS: Stay motivated with tools designed to help you tackle your reading goals.
- Create daily reading streaks
- Track your book progress daily based on the page or percentage read
- Edit past streaks if you forget to log a day of reading
- Add our home screen widget for one-tap access to your streaks
- Set annual reading goals to challenge yourself
- Get reminders to keep your reading streak alive

CREATE BETTER BOOK REVIEWS: Share your perspective with customized book ratings and book reviews.
- Import your lists and reviews from Goodreads 
- Rate and review books with half-stars (and update your Goodreads ratings with half-stars)
- Add expressive tags to share exactly how the book made you feel
- Add spice level ratings to your book reviews
- Pair your book review with emoji reactions for further customization
- Leave book reviews in your book club’s reflection room or on the book’s detail page

JOIN BOOK & TV CLUBS: Explore thousands of free book and TV clubs for every niche interest, or start your own club to read or watch with friends or family.
- Join your favorite BookTokkers’ book clubs, or start a buddy read to discuss books with friends
- Find clubs led by TV recappers and reviewers from TikTok, YouTube, and elsewhere
- Spark conversations with your club in organized, spoiler-free chapter rooms and episode rooms
- Leave reviews in the reflection room at the end of the book or show
- Read or watch at your own pace or follow the club’s suggested milestones

DISCOVER NEW BOOKS & SHOWS: Find your next favorite book to read or show to watch.
- Use Scout to get personalized book recommendations
- Ask Scout to randomly select your next read from your TBR
- Import your Goodreads or Kindle lists for even more personalization
- Discover new books and shows from Fable’s editorial team
- Follow friends’ lists in the For You feed for community recommendations

BUY EBOOKS DESIGNED FOR INTERACTIVE READING: Experience an entirely new way to read books inside Fable’s custom ebook reader.
- Join other readers who are “social reading” inside thousands of free book clubs
- Annotate books with highlights, notes, tabs, comments, and reactions right inside the book
- Respond to discussion prompts embedded inside the book
- Discover thousands of free books to read inside the Fable app, or shop from our catalog of over one million interactive ebooks

SHOW OFF WHAT YOU READ
- Customize monthly Reading Wraps to highlight the books you read that month
- Come back at the end of the year for an annual wrapup of your year in reading

Terms of use: https://fable.co/terms

## Key features

- Track reading and watching lists
- Set reading goals and streaks
- View personalized reading stats
- Create and join book/TV clubs
- Discover new books and shows
- Write custom book reviews
- Import Goodreads/Kindle data

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yearly sub - 2 week trial | $69.99 | per year |
| Yearly subscription | $69.99 | per year |
| Fable Plus Monthly | $5.99 | per month |
| Fable Plus Annual | $49.99 | per year |
| Fable Friends | $1.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Legends & Lattes | $12.99 | one-time |
| The Cruel Prince | $11.99 | one-time |
| The Inheritance Games | $10.99 | one-time |
| Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of | $12.99 | one-time |
| Better Than the Movies | $9.99 | one-time |
| Local Woman Missing | $14.99 | one-time |
| Circe | $11.99 | one-time |
| Lessons in Chemistry | $14.99 | one-time |
| Practice Makes Perfect | $13.99 | one-time |
| Last Night at the Telegraph | $10.99 | one-time |
| The Covenant of Water | $28.00 | one-time |
| Fourth Wing | $14.99 | one-time |
| Archer's Voice | $9.99 | one-time |
| The Invisible life of Addie | $12.99 | one-time |
| Caraval | $9.99 | one-time |
| Love, Theoretically | $10.99 | one-time |
| Dark Matter | $4.99 | one-time |
| Nettle & Bone | $12.99 | one-time |
| The Night Circus | $13.99 | one-time |
| The Heaven & Earth Grocery... | $14.99 | one-time |


## Chart rankings

- #12 in Top Free · Book (US App Store)
- #30 in Top Grossing · Book (US App Store)

## What do users think of Fable?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 💕 Fantastic community
- 📚 Great for book clubs
- 🎨 Beautiful UI design
- 📊 Useful reading stats
- 🔍 Helpful book recommendations
- 🤝 Positive and supportive interactions

**Cons**

- 🔍 Limited book selection
- 🐛 Occasional app crashes and glitches
- 🔍 Difficulty finding specific books
- 🔍 Lack of ability to add custom books
- 🔍 Syncing issues with other platforms

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Issues with updating currently reading status
- Inconsistent behavior when adding new books
- Notifications not always syncing properly

**Most requested features**

- Add ability to track reading progress across devices
- Implement more filtering and sorting options for book lists
- Allow users to customize book covers and details
- Improve notification settings and controls
- Add support for more book formats and sources

## Recent user reviews (10 of 1,426)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fable-track-and-discuss-books/id1488170618/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Motivation

*2026-08-24, version 281*

This app has been so motivating for tackling my reading goals!

### 4/5 — Pretty please

*2026-08-23, version 281*

Love the app but can we please get a desktop version??

### 5/5 — Love the app

*2026-08-22, version 281*

I really love this app, it’s got me into reading. Last year I only read 1 book, this year I’ve already read 12. It’s really good for finding book recommendations and reviews for books, and creates a community for readers. I love tracking which days I read and what I’m reading, which I think is what started me reading regularly

### 4/5 — Love it!!

*2026-08-22, version 281*

I absolutely love this app so much. I have recommended it to all my reader friends and non reader friends. The only issue I have is that sometimes books aren’t on the app and I can’t mark it as being read or completed which is kind of annoying. They do have something you can submit in the app though for situations like to put more books in the app itself. Not sure how long it usually takes though.

### 1/5 — Love idea, but they don’t allow exports

*2026-08-21, version 281*

I liked fable for a while, but since they’ve started leaning into AI features so heavily, I was feeling less and less good about using the app. But guess what? Fable doesn’t even allow you to export your data like other apps, so either you have to transfer manually or lose your reading data. I don’t appreciate when apps lock you out of your own data, so I guess this is a reminder for me that I should check the way apps own my data. I would’ve kept the app and still used some features if they allowed export but guess not. Really disappointed at this scammy practices

### 1/5 — No desktop version which sucks

*2026-08-21, version 281*

I prefer to type my thoughts instead of texting them.

### 1/5 — nonsense

*2026-08-21, version 281*

have to pay to put how many pages you read. pointless.

### 3/5 — It’s fine, storygraph is better.

*2026-08-21, version 281*

Here is a list of my pros and cons:
Con- I accidentally added a book (to actually read on the app) on my shelf, and there is no way to back out of it and go to the home screen. I even tried exiting the app completely, but upon reopening the app it went right back to the book. I had to delete the app and re-download it for it to return to the home screen.
Con- you can get charts and graphs of how you’re reading is going…for a price. You can get that for free with storygraph. 
Pro-it has a good rating system in terms of stars (.25, .5, .75,1 and so on, which I love. 
Pro- “how did this book make you feel?” there are 20 feelings, one of which is “no selection“ that you can choose from. 
Con- 20 sounds like a lot of feelings, but when you scroll through them and realize the book did not make you feel any of these you are left with “no selection”. 
Pro-“how would you describe this book?” In this part you get to use the star rating again which is awesome. you get to rate the characters, plot, the setting, and add content warnings. There is even a list of words and phrases you can use to help describe the book. 
Con-in the same “how would you describe this book?”Section, the list of words or phrases that you can use to describe the book , in my opinion are limited, and you cannot write in your own. 
Pro- the last part of rating your book is the “got more to say?“ Section, this is where you will write your review.
All that being said about the rating system, in my opinion, the cons outweigh the pros. 
With the cons, you may as well just skip all of that and just stick with your review to accurately describe the book and how it made you feel. 
Pro- I don’t like goodreads however, the one thing good about goodreads is the community aspect. with fable It is better in that, not only can you like and comment on other people‘s posts you can also add memes and other pictures of your own to post. 
Pro & con- when searching for a certain edition, like an audiobook, if you do not find it, you cannot add it yourself like you can with storygraph. You have to request an edition be added. It is a pro because if you know storygraph, then you know when users add the edition themselves, you often see editions that have wrong information or has incomplete information or there may be a duplicate edition. It is a con because instead of adding the information for the edition yourself, you have to request the edition be put in and have to wait an unknown amount of time for it to be added to fable. (I have not requested an edition be added, so I do not know how long their process takes). 
There may or may not be more pros and cons. I did not play around with it too much but with what I have looked into I am still 1000% a STORYGRAPH fan and I highly recommend that you all make the switch to storygraph.

### 1/5 — Poor experience, deleted account and app

*2026-08-20, version 281*

The UX wasn’t good, the import from Goodreads was nowhere close to accurate and created duplicate lists. I was having to correct just about everything and finally gave up. Simply not worth the hassle.

### 5/5 — I love this app

*2026-08-20, version 281*

Amazing app for readers and people who love to watch tv!

## Frequently asked questions about Fable

### What does Fable do?

Fable is an app designed for readers and TV show enthusiasts to discover, discuss, and track their favorite content. It allows users to set reading goals, view personalized statistics about their reading habits, and connect with others through online book and TV clubs.

### What are the key features of Fable?

Key features include tracking reading and watching lists, setting daily reading goals and streaks, viewing personalized reading statistics, discovering new books and shows, writing custom book reviews with detailed ratings, and joining or creating book and TV clubs for discussions.

### Is Fable free to use?

The app is free to download and use, offering a range of features for tracking and community engagement. There are in-app purchases available, which may unlock additional functionalities or content for users who wish to enhance their experience.

### Can I import my existing book lists?

Yes, Fable allows you to import your book lists and reviews from Goodreads and Kindle. This feature helps you consolidate your reading history and leverage existing data to power your personalized stats and recommendations within the app.

### How can I use Fable to build a reading habit?

Fable offers tools to help build a reading habit, such as setting daily reading streaks and annual reading goals. You can track your progress daily, receive reminders to keep your streak alive, and use the home screen widget for quick access to log your reading sessions.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 282 — 2026-08-27

• Fixed an error surfaced to users from monthly wrap-up

### 281 — 2026-08-19

This release includes:
- minor improvements

### 280 — 2026-08-13

This release includes:
- bug fix for an issue where users were not seeing saved edits to reviews, updates to settings and list updates

### 279.1 — 2026-08-07

This release includes:
- Fixed a crash during Goodreads import
- New Library UI

### 279 — 2026-08-05

This release includes:
- Fixed a crash during Goodreads import
- New Library UI

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*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 2026-08-29.*