Dogear is a reading journal with a living bookshelf. Log a few pages and your spines light up, a streak catches fire in a pop-up book, and over time you find out what kind of reader you really are.
Free to start. Arriving mid-December 2026.
Add a book and it takes its place on the shelf. Log your page and the spine warms up. Finish it and it moves to Read, where it stays, catching the light.
Three shelves, one tap apart. Progress bars show exactly how far in you are.
Choose a binding for each book, so your shelf looks the way it feels.
Import from Goodreads or StoryGraph and watch years of reading fill the shelves at once.
Open any book and tell Dogear how you are reading this one. Print, e-book, audiobook or chapter by chapter, and you can change it any time.
Pages for print, percent for e-books, time for audiobooks, or one chapter at a time.
Keep the room’s style, or tap Change and dress a single book in its own binding.
Friends who visit your shelf see your books. One switch keeps a single book to yourself.
Send it back to TBR, put it down, or take it off your shelves for good.
Put a book down and it leaves your shelf for the DNF pile, a little attic where it waits in a beam of moonlight with the month you set it aside. No shame. When the time is right, tap Try again.
Your shelf lives in a painted room with its own light, day and night. Two rooms come free. Dogear Plus opens the other four, and you can move house whenever you like.
Cottage CoreTimber shelves, a brass lantern, and a little window onto the night.
Read a little each day and a pop-up book opens on your screen, pages unfolding into flame. Keep going and the fire grows through seven tiers, from a first spark all the way to Starfire.
Each tier has its own flame, shown on your streak chip wherever you go in the app.
Reach Starfire and you can prestige: start the climb again, with a mark that shows you have done it before.
Two freezes a month, applied for you, and a 48-hour window to repair a broken streak.
The seven flames, from first spark to Starfire.
Rate a few books and Dogear starts to see the pattern. You get a reading type, a constellation drawn from your year, a slowly turning DNA helix, and traits like mood, pace, depth and range. It all wears the colours of your room.
Your type, your reading hour and your top genre on one card, ready for your story.
Pages a day, books finished, your reading pulse and the twelve moons of your year.
Start a club or join one. The spoiler shield keeps every message behind the page you have reached, so nobody ruins chapter twelve for you.
A spoiler shield, shared quotes, reading trails and buddy reads.
A quiet feed of what your circle is finishing and rating, with named reactions.
Rate a book with up to three feelings. Every book shows what other readers felt, so you know if it is a cozy one or a devastating one before you start.
Twenty-five enamel pins to earn for the reading you actually do, and 41 gilded ones more with Plus.
Drop by a friend’s shelf, in their room, and see what they are reading right now.
Free is a whole reading journal, and it stays free. Plus adds four more rooms, the bindings, your full Reading DNA, reading sessions, Streak Shield and a lot more room for clubs. Try it free for 7 days.
Plus is $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year, and starts with a 7-day free trial.
| Compare | Free$0Yours to keep | Dogear Plus$9.99/moor $99.99 a year7-day free trial |
|---|---|---|
| Shelf & rooms | ||
| Your shelf: Reading, Read and TBR | Included | Included |
| Cottage Core and Wizard’s Tower rooms | Included | Included |
| Apothecary room | Not included | Included |
| Marble Library room | Not included | Included |
| Starship Library room | Not included | Included |
| Haunted Manor room | Not included | Included |
| Spines: leather, cloth & foil, paper label, paperback | Included | Included |
| Plus bindings: marbled, vellum, gilt-tooled, matched to the cover | Not included | Included |
| Reading | ||
| Daily streaks and the streak fire | Included | Included |
| Reading sessions with a timer | Not included | Included |
| Your reading speed and time left in a book | Not included | Included |
| Streak Shield: 2 automatic freezes a month | Not included | Included |
| Repair a broken streak within 48 hours | Not included | Included |
| Stats & Reading DNA | ||
| Reading stats | Included | Included |
| Your reading type | Not included | Included |
| Your reading constellation | Not included | Included |
| The DNA helix and your reading traits | Not included | Included |
| “At the core of your DNA” finale | Not included | Included |
| Reading DNA dressed for every room | Not included | Included |
| Clubs & social | ||
| Join book clubs | Up to 3 | Up to 10 |
| Host book clubs | Not included | Up to 10 |
| Buddy reads | 1 | Unlimited |
| The Stack, your circle and privacy controls | Included | Included |
| Visit friends’ shelves | Included | Included |
| Share cards | Included | Included |
| Badges & extras | ||
| Enamel badges to earn | 25 | 6641 gilded |
| Plus-only banner pieces for your profile | Not included | Included |
Subscribe within 90 days of launch and pay $5.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Yours for as long as you stay subscribed.
Install Dogear, then start the trial in the app. Cancel in the store before it ends and you will not be charged.
Prices in US dollars. Subscriptions renew automatically through Google Play or the App Store unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. See the Terms.
Yes. Your shelf, the Cottage Core and Wizard’s Tower rooms, streaks, stats, vibes, badges, the Stack and joining up to three book clubs are all free. Dogear Plus is optional and adds the four extra rooms, Plus bindings, your full Reading DNA, reading sessions, Streak Shield, gilded badges, unlimited buddy reads and hosting clubs.
Dogear launches in mid-December 2026 on Google Play. The iPhone version is on its way to the App Store; leave your email below and you will hear the day it lands.
Yes. Export your library as a CSV from Goodreads or StoryGraph and import it in Dogear. Your ratings, reviews and read dates come along, and your shelf fills up in one go.
You choose. Your shelf, posts and activity can be Public, visible only to your Circle, or kept to yourself with Only me. You can change it any time in Settings.
For the first 90 days after launch, Dogear Plus is $5.99 a month or $59.99 a year instead of $9.99 and $99.99. If you subscribe in that window, the founder price is yours for as long as you stay subscribed. If you cancel, it does not come back.
Plus is billed by Google Play or the App Store, so you cancel there: in Google Play, open Payments & subscriptions; on iPhone, open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions. Cancel at least 24 hours before renewal to avoid the next charge. Refunds are handled by the store.
In the app, go to Profile, Settings, Account, Delete Account. Or follow the steps on the account deletion page.
Kaelin, a solo developer who reads a lot. Every message to founder@readdogear.com is read by a real person, and most of the app was shaped by beta readers’ bug reports.
We will write once when Dogear is live, and again when it reaches the App Store. Nothing else.
