Litscape vs Slowburn

Tired of describing your perfect book and getting generic results? Meet Litscape, a personalized book-discovery app built around your reading taste. Choose a genre, select the tropes and moods you love, set your preferences, and tell Litscape what you want to avoid. You’ll receive book recommendations with a clear explanation of why each one may fit your choices. FIND BOOKS YOUR WAY SEARCH BY TROPE Explore enemies to lovers, slow burn, found family, dark academia, forbidden love, grumpy sunshine, and many more. You can also type your own trope or story element. CHOOSE WHAT MATTERS MOST Mark selected tropes as a must-have or something you would simply love to see. Litscape prioritizes your strongest preferences while staying honest when a recommendation may be lighter on another pick. SET YOUR PREFERENCES Personalize your search by genre, mood, spice preference, age category, book length, popularity, and more. AVOID WHAT YOU DON’T WANT Add exclusions such as pregnancy, cheating, love triangles, or cliffhangers to help guide your recommendations away from unwanted elements. UNDERSTAND EVERY MATCH Each recommendation includes a reader-friendly “Why It Fits” explanation showing which of your choices could make the book a good match—and where the match may be less certain. TEACH LITSCAPE YOUR TASTE Add books you already love in My Taste to help personalize future recommendations around your reading preferences. BUILD YOUR SHELF Save books you want to read and keep your discoveries together in My Shelf. Whether you’re looking for a slow-burn romance, a cozy mystery, a fantasy adventure, or something completely different, Litscape helps make finding your next read easier. Recommendations and book information are created using automated systems and external book data, so details may occasionally be incomplete or imperfect.

Some books ruin you. This is where you keep them. Slowburn is a reading journal built for romance readers, and for everything a five-star rating cannot hold. It records what a book did to you while you were still inside it, not just whether you finished. THE BURN One dial. Five levels, Cooling up to Ruined. Tap the one that matches how badly the book has you, whenever you pick it up. Slowburn keeps every reading and draws the curve: the slow build, the chapter that ruined you, the cooling after. When you finish, the curve is named. Slow burn, wildfire, flicker, steady, cooled. It becomes a card you can keep or share, and the card carries the shape. Never a word you wrote. A SHELF THAT LOOKS LIKE A SHELF Every book stands spine-out on a shelf that fills as you read, each one bound from its own cover. Ribbons hang from the books you are inside, tinted from wine to flame by the latest Burn. Covers and List views are there when you want the analytical face of the same library. THE JOURNAL, IN YOUR WORDS Status, rating, spice, tropes, moods, the line you keep, the private note nobody else reads. Thirty-eight romance tropes and an Other for the ones there is no word for yet. A spice scale with its own vocabulary. DNF with a cause of death. Content notes: what you noticed was in a book, private, in your own words. Progress is a page or a percent. Not a timer. Not a streak. YOUR READING, READ BACK TO YOU Your mood profile, your trope profile, and the spice gap between what you say you want and what you actually finish. Reading Identity reads ten insights off your journal, each a plain function of what you logged, each saying how many books it rests on. No generative AI writes your Reading Identity. No personality test. The Monthly Post-Mortem is a dossier rather than a dashboard: the body count, your type, the one that ruined you, the disappointment. Each section appears only when your month can support it. A FEW PEOPLE YOU CHOSE Circle is people you invited one at a time. No public profiles, no followers, no feed. A handle separate from your journal, and only what you hand over. Buddy Reads are one person, one book, two positions, with notes sealed at the page you leave them until the other reader gets there. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your journal is a database on your phone. There is no sign-up and no account to make. Your library is not synced anywhere and the company cannot read it. What leaves is what you deliberately hand over, and your book searches, which go to Open Library to find the book. Everything exports as one file, or your books as a spreadsheet, whenever you want it. Bring a Goodreads or StoryGraph export and Slowburn reads it on your phone. FREE AND PREMIUM Slowburn has a free journal tier with shelf, rating, spice, tropes, moods, notes, the Burn, stats, Circle, Buddy Reads, and every privacy feature. Premium is the deeper reading: the full Reading Identity rather than one insight, Compare, the whole Monthly Post-Mortem, the premium card families, and a vote on what gets built next. $29.99 a year or $4.99 a month, with fourteen days free on the annual plan. Nothing about privacy or safety is behind the paywall. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Slowburn Premium is an auto-renewing subscription: Slowburn Premium Annual at $29.99 a year with a fourteen day free trial, or Slowburn Premium Monthly at $4.99 a month. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews at the same price unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in your App Store settings at any time. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Our terms: https://myslowburn.com/terms