StoryGraph vs Refrain

Import your Goodreads data: We will import all of your currently-reading, read, to-read, and did-not-finish shelves. Any custom shelves will be mapped to a custom tag on The StoryGraph. Simple tracking and insightful stats: Easily track and learn about your reading habits with our wide range of charts and graphs. See how your reading develops over time and use that to help you pick better books. Get smart personalized recommendations: Our machine learning AI is like your trusted go-to friend for book recommendations. It'll understand your reading preferences and find the best books for you. Discover books by mood: In the mood for something adventurous, funny, and fast-paced? What about a darker, slower, more emotional read? Mix and match our comprehensive set of filters to choose your next perfect book. Read with friends: Add live reactions to specific parts of the book without fear of spoilers. Comments are locked for other participants until they reach that point in their reading. Don't have people to read with? We’ve got machine learning-powered suggestions for great reading buddies. Reading Challenges: Want to read one book from every country in the world? Or how about read a book per week across a range of genres? Our reading challenges feature help you set up personal goals or join in with others. Custom Tags: Enhance your book tracking and discovery by making use of our custom tags feature. You can search and filter books by your tags and share curated lists with friends. Content Warnings: When you review a book, you can let us know if there's any content within it that might be triggering for others. Then, when searching for your next read, all of this information is at your disposal. Features: • Import your Goodreads account • Sync with Kobo • Reading charts and graphs • Streaks • Favorites • Buddy reads • Readalongs • Book Clubs • Personalized machine learning recommendations • Follow your friends to see what they're reading • Annual reading, page, and listening goals • Search/browse books by mood, pace, and more • Custom tags • Lists to share with your friends or the public • Create your own reading challenge or join in with others • Dark Mode • Barcode Scanner • Giveaways • Browse similar books • Find similar users • Half and quarter star ratings • Built-in DNF (Did Not Finish) functionality (including tracking pages read) • Progress updates with built-in reading journal • Author-approved and user-submitted content warnings Want to support an independent, Goodreads alternative? Consider upgrading to Plus! • Keep the platform ad-free: You'll help The StoryGraph stay independent! • Custom Charts: Create your own pie and bar charts. • Extra Stats Filters: Filter down your stats to a custom time period, or view stats for your fiction or nonfiction reads, your custom tags, any particular mood or genre, and more. • Custom Wrap-Up Graphics: Pick any custom date range and instantly generate shareable graphics for your reading. • Compare Stats: Compare any two stats segments of your StoryGraph library, whether that's a particular year against a custom time period, your To-Read Pile against your owned books, or a combination of several other options. You can also compare any stats segment with any segment from any other user — mix and match however you like. • Exclusive Charts: When comparing your reading across two different years, see exclusive year-on-year charts on the number of books read and their genres. • Shape the roadmap: You get to vote and comment on upcoming features as well as submit official requests for new ones • Priority Support: Your support tickets and requests for book information updates will be handled first Privacy Policy: https://app.thestorygraph.com/privacy Terms of Service:https://app.thestorygraph.com/terms-of-service

Your Kindle highlights, back in your life. You marked those passages because they mattered. Refrain brings a few of them back each day — seamlessly imported, beautifully set, and read entirely on your own devices. THE DAILY RETURN A few passages come back each day. Not a backlog. Not a reading assignment. A short deck, waiting for you when you have a minute: one you dog-eared opens it, and a rediscovery from a book you haven't visited in months closes it. AND THEN YOU START TO NOTICE THE CONNECTIONS Your passages aren't random. They're a record of what caught your attention — across books, years, authors, and ideas. Refrain reads your library on your device and finds what runs through it. THREADS — the lines of thought running through your books. You may have been thinking about something longer than you realized. RHYMES — passages that resonate by meaning, not by matching words. Somewhere in your library, you already said this. SEARCH BY MEANING — search finds your words. Rhymes find your meaning. Search for "paying attention" and Refrain can find passages about attention that never use those words. ECHOES — the deck closes with a line from the wider canon that resonates with what you've been reading. If there's no good Echo, there is no Echo. A quiet day is better than a false connection. INSIGHTS — your thoughts belong here, too. Keep them with the passage or Thread that sparked them. GO DEEPER — some passages deserve more than a highlight. Refrain gathers the passage, your note, its Rhymes, and its Thread into a research brief. You decide who reads it. Every count in the free app is real. You'll see what Refrain found before you pay a cent. IMPORT IS PLUMBING. IT JUST WORKS. Sign in to Amazon inside Refrain and your Kindle highlights come across with their books, notes, and real covers. Every book gets a cover, even the ones that never had one. Older Kindle, or sideloaded books? Bring over your My Clippings.txt file. No duplicate passages. No fiddling. A LITTLE REFRAIN, RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE. One passage a day on your Home Screen. Your library on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. Your passages and Insights stay in sync through your own iCloud. And once your library is imported, everything important works offline. YOUR READING LIFE BELONGS TO YOU. There is no Refrain account and no Refrain server. Your library lives on your devices and syncs through your own private iCloud. Every feature that reads your passages runs on your device. No tracking. No analytics. That's not a privacy policy — it's the architecture. ONE PURCHASE. YOURS. Refrain is complete for free: Kindle import, My Clippings import, your whole library, exact-text search, the daily return, iCloud sync, the widget, and Apple Watch. The $4.99 unlock adds the discovery layer — Threads, Rhymes, Search by meaning, Echoes, Insights, and Go Deeper — with future discovery features included. Never a subscription. You already did the hard part. You found the passages worth keeping. Refrain gives them a way to come back — and a way to show you what you couldn't see the first time.