Hardcover.app vs Thaal

Hardcover is a book tracking app with a social side, built for readers, not algorithms. Add books you’ve read or want to read. Keep your library tidy with lists and tags. See what your friends are reading, explore trending picks, and discover hidden gems through curated lists. Rate, review, and share your thoughts. Make your profile public, private, or friends-only—your reading, your rules. Set goals, track your stats, and find your reading rhythm. We use Apple's standard Terms of Service (EULA). https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Thaal is a book discovery and social reading platform for literature that English-first apps serve poorly — starting with Malayalam. Most reading apps treat a Malayalam novel as a badly-spelled English one. Titles get mangled into romanised approximations, covers go missing, and the books that shaped a literature are nowhere to be found. Thaal is built the other way round: the interface is English so anyone can navigate it, and the books stay in their own script. DISCOVER • Thousands of Malayalam and English titles with real covers, synopses and author pages • Top 100 — the essential shelf, ranked • Browse by genre, mood, decade or literary award • Author pages with lineage, themes and the full body of work • Search that understands Malayalam script and romanised spellings alike TRACK YOUR READING • Shelve books as reading, finished, or want to read • Rate what you have read and write full reviews • Save the passages worth keeping • Set a Reading Challenge for the year and watch it fill • Year in Books — what your reading year actually looked like READ TOGETHER • Book Clubs — start one for your city, your friends, or a single author • Follow other readers and see what they are shelving and reviewing • Build and share public lists • Import an existing library from Goodreads BUILT BY READERS The catalog is editorially curated and open to correction — suggest an edit or report a problem on any book or author page, and earn a librarian badge for good contributions. Thaal is free, has no advertising, and does not sell your data. Discovery, shelving, reviews and social features will never sit behind a paywall. Malayalam literature is the heart of the catalog. Your shelf is your whole reading life — Malayalam, English, and whatever comes next.