The catalogue does the typing
Search millions of works from Open Library. Title, author, cover, publication year and page count arrive already filled in — you never key in a book by hand.
A quiet reading tracker
Two shelves.
Nothing else.
Books you want to read, and books you’ve finished. Stow keeps the record — the page you stopped on, the day you turned the last one — and stays out of the way of the reading.
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Richard Powers
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What it does
Everything a reading log needs. None of what it doesn't.
Three shelves, one tap apart
Want to read, reading now, read. Moving a book between them is a single tap, and the shelf you are looking at updates the moment you do it.
Progress worth logging
Log the page you stopped on. The book you are reading sits at the top of your library with a quiet progress bar, so picking it back up takes no searching.
The date you finished, kept
Every book you mark as read keeps its completion date, and your Read shelf stays ordered by it — a reading diary you never had to write.
No feed, no followers, no ads
Nobody sees your shelves unless you share one, and a shared link expires after a day. There is no feed to scroll, no followers to gather, and no advertising or third-party tracking anywhere in the app.
Leave whenever you like
Deleting your account is in the app, not buried in an email thread. It erases your library, your progress and your account for good.
How it works
Three taps from shelf to record.
- 01
Search the catalogue
Type a title or an author. Results come from Open Library, complete with covers.
- 02
Put it on a shelf
Save it to want to read, or straight to reading now if you have already started.
- 03
Mark it read
One tap when you finish. Stow records the date and files it on your Read shelf.
Book information comes from Open Library, the open catalogue run by the Internet Archive.
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Start your shelves tonight.
Free to download, free to use. Your library syncs to your account, so it follows you to a new phone. Android is on the way — leave your email and we will tell you the day it lands.
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