# Serial Reader: Daily Book Bits — Classic lit, one day at a time

> Read classic books in daily, bite-sized installments. (iPhone/iPad app by Michael Schmitt.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/serial-reader-daily-book-bits/id1077180804 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Michael Schmitt](https://appshunter.io/developer/832063887)
- Category: Books, Education
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.80/5 from 4,063 App Store ratings · 214 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 15.6 · 29 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2016-01-28
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/serial-reader-daily-book-bits/id1077180804/reviews.md

## What is 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.

"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!

## Key features

- Daily book installments
- Over 900 classic books
- Serialize your own EPUBs
- Sync with Goodreads/Readwise
- Word lookup
- Reading streaks and badges

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Serial Premium | $2.99 | one-time |
| Tip Jar - Essay | $1.99 | one-time |
| Tip Jar - Short Story | $4.99 | one-time |
| Tip Jar - Novel | $9.99 | one-time |
| Tip Jar - Epic | $14.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Serial Reader?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Bite-sized reading
- 📚 Wide selection of classics
- 👍 Simple and intuitive interface
- 💰 Free with affordable premium upgrade
- 🎉 Motivating achievements and badges
- 🔖 Ability to pause, resume, and read ahead

**Cons**

- 🐛 Sync issues across devices
- 🔍 Limited customization options
- 🕰️ Inflexible delivery schedule
- 🤔 Lack of modern/non-classic book selection

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes when changing fonts
- Issues with new chapter delivery not working

**Most requested features**

- Add more modern/non-classic book options
- Improve sync functionality across devices
- Allow more customization of reading experience
- Provide flexible delivery schedule options

## Recent user reviews (10 of 214)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/serial-reader-daily-book-bits/id1077180804/reviews.md

### 5/5 — 6 Stars

*2026-08-18, version 4.18*

Amazing app works very well and a great idea!

The free version is great on its own and fair and the paid version is only £2.99 one time purchase?! An absolute steal I cannot recommend this enough

### 5/5 — Best app ever

*2026-07-22, version 4.18*

Love it!

### 5/5 — Fave reading app

*2026-07-16, version 4.18*

Absolutely amazing app, everyone should have it! My favorite way to read books. I love that the developer is an individual, and I would encourage everyone to support him even by just writing a review.

### 5/5 — Yummy books

*2026-06-05, version 4.18*

This app is like free candy for a kid, except the free candy is knowledge and the kid is nerds like me. This app is great and I love it

### 5/5 — Great app

*2026-05-25, version 4.18*

Work the cost of the premium version. Using this app has trebled the number of books I read each year.

### 5/5 — Hooked

*2026-05-17, version 4.18*

I am able to on a daily basis read books I might never had found the time to read. I am hooked on this way to read great literature

### 5/5 — Wonderful app

*2026-04-16, version 4.18*

Love reading on this app. Great selection. Congratulations to the creative mind(s) behind bringing back serialised reading. THANKS.

### 2/5 — Faulty Widget

*2026-04-10, version 4.18*

The widget isn’t working. It’s just a blank rectangle. When I hold it down and select edit widget, it does nothing.

### 5/5 — Love this app!

*2026-04-03, version 4.18*

I have been a huge reader since I was very, very young. My favorites have always been the classics. This app introduced me to many, many, classics that I have never even heard of so it gave me the opportunity to explore different classics and new authors (new to me). Most classics are rather big books with over 500 pages. This app allows you to read just a little each day without getting overwhelmed by how many pages the books actually are and how many pages you have left to go to finish the book. I participate in reading challenges through Goodreads and one of the challenges is to read a book with over 500 pages. Having this app allows me to finish the challenge much easier!

### 5/5 — Wonderful!

*2026-03-14, version 4.18*

This app is a treasure trove of classic (and some more obscure) literature, each presented in bite-sized nibbles so that even the largest of works don’t seem so daunting.

## Frequently asked questions about Serial Reader

### What is Serial Reader?

Serial Reader is an app designed to help you read classic books by delivering them in daily, bite-sized installments. Each daily issue is short enough to be read in 20 minutes or less, making it easier to fit reading into a busy schedule and tackle longer literary works.

### How many books are available?

The app offers access to over 900 popular classic books across various genres, with new titles added weekly. All of these books are free to read. You can also serialize your own EPUB books to read them in the same daily format.

### Is the app free to use?

The core functionality of reading classic books in daily installments is free. However, there is an optional 'Serial Premium' upgrade available via subscription. This premium version offers additional features like reading tomorrow's issue early, syncing across multiple devices, saving quotes, and more control over delivery times.

### What devices is Serial Reader compatible with?

While the description doesn't explicitly list all compatible devices, it mentions syncing reading across multiple devices with the premium upgrade, suggesting availability on various platforms. It was also highlighted as one of Apple's Best New Apps, indicating strong iOS compatibility.

### What are the benefits of using Serial Reader?

Serial Reader helps build consistent reading habits by breaking down daunting classic books into manageable daily chunks. It makes reading more accessible for busy people, offers customization options for fonts and themes, and includes features like word lookup and integration with Goodreads and Readwise for a richer reading experience.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 4.18 — 2025-05-03

• Patching a few minor bugs

### 4.17 — 2024-03-23

• Fixed: Issues for paused serials still delivered
• Fixed: Rewind Issues action being reversed

### 4.16 — 2023-12-30

• Widget fixes for iOS 17

### 4.15 — 2023-10-24

• Improve cloud syncing

### 4.14 — 2023-09-13

• Fix for My Serials freeze issue

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