Serial Reader app for iPhone and iPad

4.4 ( 784 ratings )

Entertainment Book Education
Developer: Michael Schmitt

Free

Current version: 4.14, last update: 6 months ago
First release : 28 Jan 2016
App size: 29.29 Mb

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 Apples Best New Apps and Best New App Updates in 2016, 2018, and 2019.

"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 tomorrows 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 Solomons 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

Childrens
• Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
• Alices Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
• Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fantasy
• The Well at the Worlds 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
• Gunmans Reckoning - Max Brand

Religion
• King James Bible
• The Dhammapada
• The Quran

Build great reading habits and finish classic books in days with Serial Reader!

Pros and cons of Serial Reader app for iPhone and iPad

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If only there were books in Portuguese and Spanish too... That would be Heaven ❤️ Great incouraging app!

Loving the app, it reminds me to read at my chosen time, and I can always fit 10 minutes of reading even on busy days. It has a good selection of classics too.

Gave me the opportunity to check out some classics I would have otherwise skipped. Great idea!

Im often too busy to sit down with a good book. This app lets me take good books with me anywhere, providing short snippets each day for enjoyment. So good.

Love the app so far, I have always found it difficult to complete one of these classics in one go, with this app I get chunks everyday. I also love that (if read everyday) the sections serve as number of days it will take to finish.

I have been reading for almost a month. I never miss a day of reading. Have already finished one story and the better part of another.

Some bad moments

I just started with this app and was well into a Philip K. Dick story, when it reset. It wants me to pick my first novel. Ahem... I already had. Well, Im not starting all over again, nor am I going to bother with another one that will probably do the same thing. It doesnt sync to other devices either, so that certainly doesnt help any.

I should have known it was too good to be true. The books do not contain all the chapters. You can compare Les Fleurs du Mal, King James Bible, and maybe another of your choosing, but they do not contain the whole story. Just a warning. You will probably get most of the story, but not the full story.

I think the app is great and have enjoyed many of its features. I would ask that you add an ability to mark books you have already read before using the app as finished. Would be a great way to track them all. Thanks!

I was loving this app, but have not been able to access it for over a week. Immediately shuts down when I try to open it. I had hoped update would solve my problem, but sadly didnt.

Its great for those of us who spend so much time reading that we never have managed to fit in those classics we keep promising ourselves. I just wonder if it will ever take off with those who could really use it, those who see reading as a challenge instead of a pleasure. I hope you can find a marketing strategy that will bring these books to those who would never read them otherwise. Thanks for your time and effort

What a wonderful little surprise, and such an encouragement to encounter or reacquaint oneself with such good stuff - and serialization was a common way to consume many of the originals. While I look forward to UI improvements and refinement, I decided to not allow that to influence the rating - being vastly more interests in the titles which will be added. Bravo! (and thank you)

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