# Tome: Book Blog & Read Tracker — Reading Journal & Book Clubs

> Social reading journal and book club app for tracking and discussing books. (iPhone/iPad app by BINGBONG INC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tome-book-blog-and-read-tracker/id6738743633 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [BINGBONG INC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1700593481)
- Category: Books, Social Networking
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.70/5 from 3,789 App Store ratings · 196 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 53 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2025-01-28
- Data updated: 2026-06-20
- Monetization: subscription
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tome-book-blog-and-read-tracker/id6738743633/reviews.md

## What is Tome?

Join over 100,000 other readers in creating your book blog on Tome! Journal your thoughts about what you're reading, and find reading buddies along the way. Tome is the best social network to share what you’re reading and what's new in your life. Decorate & customize your profile, earn post awards, and join a bookish community no matter what genre is your favorite.

TRACK YOUR BOOK READING

- Rate and review your books with Tome’s Book Tracker — give in-depth reviews with half stars!
- Track from beginning to end: Add photos of your favorite quotes, share your reaction every plot twist, create memes and playlists that highlight the vibes
- Organize your books by status: TBR (To Be Read), Currently Reading, DNF (Did Not Finish), and Finished!
- Track progress by percentage OR page number
- Collect book recommendations from friends into your collections, keep track of your TBR with Tome’s handy status filters

GET INVOLVED IN THE LATEST BOOK DISCUSSIONS WITH TOME’S GENRE COMMUNITIES:

- Enjoy dedicated, judgement-free Reddit-like spaces for chatting about your favorite genres, tropes, hobbies. Tome’s Communities are the place to find new book recommendations in your favorite genres.
- Run by mods, each with their own rules, quests, and content.
- Tome has 18 initial groups: Fiction, Fantasy, Dark Romance, Horror, Romantasy, Sci-Fi, Non-Fiction, Monster Lovers, Romance, Lit RPG, Writing, Arts and Crafts, Pets, Memes, and Tome is Home.
- Don’t see a Community you’d like? Request to create one!

TOTALLY CUSTOMIZE YOUR PROFILE

- Create custom profiles that show-off your personality!
- Use collections to keep track of your reposts, make book lists, and organize your own content
- Change background images to customize your profile and collections, just like old-school Tumblr
- Collect profile badges, or even submit your own!

FOLLOW AND DISCOVER NEW FRIENDS AND CREATORS:

- Add Reading Buddies to get notifications whenever your friend updates their reading progress or makes a post. Share your reading progress with up to eight buddies!
- More than Goodreads, make blogs to find friends in your fandoms and niches
- Browse reddit-like communities, and even build your own to create a home for your most niche, bookish interests
- Take part in reading challenges for your for your favorite genres, tropes, and series

EXPLORE BOOKISH CONTENT, MEMES, AND MORE WITHOUT SEEING SPOILERS: Built-in spoiler tags mean you don’t have to worry about spoilers.

- Browse spoiler-free with our filters
- Explore all kinds of content centered around your favorite books in the their unique book pages

EARN TOME TOKENS IN THE MARKETPLACE & POST AWARDS

- A thriving marketplace of book badges made and submitted by you, unlock them to customize your profile!
- Tomies can purchase awards (bread) to give to posts they love, and the recipient receives half of the tokens!

NO ADS, NO ALGORITHM

Tome is supported by Tome Keepers, a monthly subscription to keep Tome free of ads for everyone. In addition, Tome Keepers get custom reactions, a monthly allowance of tokens to buy new badges to customize their profile, and a sparkly pink adornment throughout the app!

- Browse free of ads, and without fear of us selling our users’ data (so your art, memes, writing, etc are all safe with us)
- No bossy algorithm- Find and build your niche communities!
- Tome won’t use your data for ads.

## Key features

- Book tracking and reviews
- Genre-specific communities
- Customizable user profiles
- Reading progress tracking
- Friend recommendations
- Spoiler-free content browsing

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tome Keeper | $9.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tome Tokens - 100 Bundle | $0.99 | one-time |
| Tome Tokens - 2600 Bundle | $19.99 | one-time |
| Tome Tokens - 550 Bundle | $4.99 | one-time |
| Tome Tokens - 1200 Bundle | $9.99 | one-time |
| Tome Tokens - 7000 Bundle | $49.99 | one-time |
| Tome Tokens - 15000 Bundle | $99.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Tome?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🥰 Fantastic community
- 🎨 Customizable profiles
- 📚 Dedicated book-focused platform
- 🤝 Ability to connect with other readers
- 🎉 Fun and engaging experience
- 🔍 Helpful book recommendations
- 🌟 Great for fantasy/romance readers

**Cons**

- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 🔍 Limited book selection
- 🔀 Difficulty reorganizing collections
- 🔒 Login and account creation issues
- 🔍 Inconsistent search functionality
- 📝 Inability to edit posts

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Login and account creation problems
- Freezing and crashes
- Inconsistent profile customization
- Formatting issues with long posts
- Unreliable notifications and achievements

**Most requested features**

- Edit post option
- Ability to rearrange collections
- Goodreads/StoryGraph integration
- Reading goal/progress tracking
- Dark mode option
- Improved search and book discovery

## Recent user reviews (10 of 196)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tome-book-blog-and-read-tracker/id6738743633/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Will be missed

*2026-05-29, version 3.18*

I really loved the layout of this app and it was so much fun.

### 5/5 — Best app ever

*2026-05-29, version 3.18*

Will be missed dearly

### 5/5 — Love this app, sad to see it go

*2026-05-19, version 3.18*

This app is so fun and such a good community. I love being able to make my profile as aesthetically pleasing as I want and I love the different things you can do it. It’s a bummer to see it go

### 5/5 — Loving Tome🦋

*2026-03-08, version 3.13*

I love that I can interact with others who love books as much as I do & that means of all genres✨you can still use the app as normal even if you’re not a tome keeper unlike other apps.

### 1/5 — Account logged out

*2026-01-31, version 3.11*

Logged me out, and had a awful time trying to get back in

### 1/5 — Do not recommend

*2026-01-13, version 3.08*

Overwhelmingly white. Very niche & specific demographic of people and books here. No thanks.

### 1/5 — so disappointed

*2025-12-01, version 3.03*

I’ve had this app nearly a full year, having been a part of the beta group of users. When it first launched, it felt intimate and exciting. Not only did it have so much potential, but it also felt like because the team was so small there was a unique community between the app user base and the developers that most all other apps don’t offer. What specifically attracted me to it was the tumblr-like design and functionality. The idea was it very much diary-like where you could post your bookish thoughts, reviews, memes, etc. there were so few users too that fast friendships were formed over common interests. However, like all good things, this secret corner of the internet was infiltrated by an unfortunate combination of cyberbullies, too many changes to the app, and wishy washy stances on things that’s should truly matter. What’s really pushed me from the app entirely is this latest redesign/update. The introduction of “Communities” has changed this unique space to reddit 2.0, which not only completely turns away those who joined for the tumblr/blog vibe, but also segregates the user base and essentially demolished engagement. No one asked for a redesign to a thread style (which is modded by the way further inhibiting posting). The beta testers and users in general have only ever asked for quality of life and bug fixes. Remember when I said they have an issue with horrible people on their app? Well god forbid you want to provide negative feedback in their discord, which serves as their main hub for all things surrounding the app. Their discord mods have over-inflated egos, will immediately shut down any negative opinion, and will let those same awful people drown out that opinion with *toxic*, and I mean *toxic*, positivity. As someone who had a lot of hope for tome’s beginnings and original concept, this has been the letdown of the year. Because toxic positivity is so rewarded, I do not see this app surviving long-term. There’s so many other reasons this gets one star, but this is a small window into the reason this gets the only ever app review I’ve ever left. If I could give negative stars at this point, I would.

### 1/5 — Fourth attempt

*2025-11-24, version 3.02*

This is my fourth time trying to post a review that’ll stay up. My first two were just full on declined for some reason and the 3rd was removed after a few days. Not sure if this was a decision made by Apple or if the Tome Dev team ask for it to be removed. Nevertheless, here it is again :) 

The Tome team (the Dev team) are exactly like the current US government, they love to silence people when they have differing opinions or when they call them out instead of dealing with the serious bullying issue that’s stemmed from their app. They allow users who’ve bullied, threatened (I’m talking death threats guys) and doxxed others to stay on the app, even after countless screenshots have been sent as evidence. They love to tell people to “block the bullies” instead of actually doing something; according to them since it’s occurred outside of the app they can’t do anything, but they refuse to understand THEIR APP IS WHERE THEY GET THEIR VICTIMS. They very openly admit to muting or removing posts that aren’t “relevant” (book related), but it seems to just be things they don’t personally agree with. There’s countless posts that aren’t book related that don’t get muted or removed, but god forbid someone calls them out for siding with bullies because they’ll immediately get muted or suspended from the app.

The amount of changes the app has gone through in less than a year is ridiculous and has made it impossible to enjoy your time on it. The book tracking feature? Not good enough for me to stop using other much better trackers. They just launched communities after a week of beta testing (was supposed to be longer) but ignored all the countless bugs they’ve been told about in order to push this update out. The communities have mods who have a bunch of expectations and duties, yet they’re getting absolutely nothing from it. The team gets free labor and the mods get to feel special for a lil bit. They also requested people make banners for the communities instead of utilizing the team member they have for art….so they’re asking users for free art they’ll end up using to promote the app and the users get nothing. 

Let’s talk about AI: before launch and for maybe 5-6 months after, the creator (Nick) was constantly shouting from the rooftops about how much they were against AI. Slowly he started bringing up how they’d eventually have to include a bit of AI in the app for certain things they had planned, which threw everyone for a loop as they were supposedly against it. Well turns out Nick is not against AI at all and actually fully supports its use. Now it makes sense why they let users get away with using AI to make badges, even after people have reported them.

They say they’re open to feedback, but just know they only want positive feedback. Any negative feedback will cause: the team members to treat you like you’re gum stuck to their shoe, discord mods to attack you and tell you to calm down, and other users to gang up on you. You’re only allowed to praise everything they do as if they’re gods and we’re just the mortals who depend on them.

Run. Run as far away as you can from this app. Trust me, it’s not worth it.

### 1/5 — Wow.

*2025-11-22, version 3.02*

Fourth attempt. Horrible business practices. Liars. Allow bullying. Allow threats. Ask j for screenshots.

### 3/5 — Miss the old Tome

*2025-11-15, version 3.01*

I’ve been using Tome since before its debut, it was a place of community, of belonging, of safety for all readers. I understand the creators wanting to make it the best possible, but it has become so far from what their marketing presented. I don’t find it to be user friendly anymore, and I can only imagine how difficult it must be for new users to navigate. It saddens me because this was THE space I came to where I could be myself and now the platform feels performative and like a popularity contest, particularly with the addition of reading buddies (which is reminiscent of MySpace top 8) and communities, where sure you can connect with people of similar interest, but posts get little to no recognition. Add in posts to your profile that aren’t in a community and you’re basically speaking to the void. Traffic on the app has, seemingly, be slowing more and more with each change rolled out and it leaves one to wonder if the creators are scrambling to keep retention of users through all these changes in hopes it will be the “it” thing, when in reality all the changes are driving people away. I love this app in spite of this all and wish to see it the way it used to be again. Bring tags back, change communities (because giving each mods who can create separate rules at their discretion for it is very off-putting) and make it the welcoming space again. It’s previously been stated they wanted to remove some aspects because it wasn’t new-user friendly and felt alienating, but this newest change with communities undermines that entirely. Please, be receptive to feedback. Those who’ve been with you as long as I have believe in this app, but there’s definitely a common consensus it’s not what it used to be and we wish it was.

## Frequently asked questions about Tome

### What does the Tome app do?

Tome is a social reading app where you can create a personal book blog, track your reading progress, and connect with other readers. It allows you to journal your thoughts, rate and review books, organize your reading list, and discover new recommendations.

### What are the key features of Tome?

Key features include a book tracker with in-depth reviews, the ability to organize books by status (TBR, Currently Reading, Finished), customizable profiles with badges, genre-specific communities for discussions, and spoiler-free browsing of bookish content.

### How is Tome monetized?

The app is supported by Tome Keepers, a monthly subscription service. This subscription model allows Tome to remain free of ads for all users, ensuring a cleaner and more focused reading experience.

### What kind of content can I share on Tome?

You can share your thoughts on books, add photos of favorite quotes, create memes and playlists inspired by books, and participate in discussions within genre communities. The app also supports spoiler tags to protect content.

### Who is Tome for?

Tome is designed for avid readers who enjoy journaling their reading experiences, want to discover new books and authors, and are looking for a community to share their passion for literature with. It's suitable for all genres and reading interests.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.18 — 2026-05-06

Download your data tool

### 3.17 — 2026-04-15

bug fixes and improvements

### 3.16 — 2026-04-09

update your login email or phone number

### 3.15 — 2026-03-25

bug fixes and improvements, especially to dark mode.

### 3.14 — 2026-03-12

quality of life update: login stability, app is 20mb smaller, you can see your login info (phone or email) in account settings. Plus dark mode fixes!

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