Serial Reader vs Beginners Sponsorship Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Serial Reader
Read classic literature in daily, manageable segments. This app breaks down over 900 books into daily issues, each readable in 20 minutes or less, helping you build reading habits and tackle lengthy classics. Customize your reading experience with various themes, fonts, and sync options.
- Daily book installments
- Over 900 classic books
- Serialize your own EPUBs
- Sync with Goodreads/Readwise
- Word lookup
- Reading streaks and badges
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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!
Beginners Sponsorship Guide
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A free digital companion to the paper Beginners Sponsorship Guide by Bobby. Built for the AA community — for people who have completed the 12 steps and are now ready to sponsor others. THE GUIDE The full 60-page guide, digitized. Big Book passages for each step with tap-to-read excerpts. The Problem and Solution diagrams, Step One through Step Twelve illustrations, the Spiritual Arch, and the "Our Way of Life" diagram — all redrawn as crisp vector graphics. WRITABLE INVENTORIES The Resentment Inventory, Fear Inventory, and Sex Conduct Inventory are fully writable, laid out the way Bobby designed them: • Resentment Inventory — four columns, seven areas of self, three belief/fear pairs per area, and the full column four (Realization, Self-Seeking, Selfish, Dishonest, Afraid, Harm). • Fear Inventory — chain the fears underneath your fears until you reach the root. • Sex Conduct Inventory — relationship history plus the nine questions from the Big Book, page 69. • Future Sex Ideal — build your "God, in the future I would like to be…" list. SPONSOR + SPONSEE Link with your sponsor (or sponsee) using a simple 6-character code — no email, no passwords. When the sponsee is ready, they tap "Share" and the sponsor can read the inventory from their own phone. Mark resentments and relationships as "Reviewed together" so you always know where you left off between sessions. PRIVACY Your inventory content is private by default. It only becomes visible to a sponsor after you tap Share. No ads. No analytics. No email or phone number required. You can delete your account and all data from Settings at any time. ACKNOWLEDGMENT This app is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. The 12 Steps and the Big Book are the property of A.A.W.S. The Beginners Sponsorship Guide was written by Bobby as a service to the fellowship. This app is a community effort to make it more accessible. See ya in the trenches.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beginners Sponsorship Guide at none against Serial Reader's 5. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Serial Reader sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Beginners Sponsorship Guide asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Serial Reader | Beginners Sponsorship Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4.1K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 95.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4.1K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Michael Schmitt | Gilbert Dozier |
Bugs and requests
Serial Reader
Reported bugs
2 issues- App crashes when changing fonts
- Issues with new chapter delivery not working
Requested features
4 requests- Add more modern/non-classic book options
- Improve sync functionality across devices
- Allow more customization of reading experience
- Provide flexible delivery schedule options
Beginners Sponsorship Guide
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Serial Reader
- Tip Jar - Essay$1.99
- Serial Premium$2.99
- Tip Jar - Short Story$4.99
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- Tip Jar - Novel$9.99
- Tip Jar - Epic$14.99
Beginners Sponsorship Guide
No in-app purchases
Questions
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