Serial Reader
Books in Bite-Sized Daily Bits
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About Serial Reader
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 Apple's 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 tomorrow's 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 Solomon's 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
Children's
• Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
• Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Fantasy
• The Well at the World's 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
• Gunman's Reckoning - Max Brand
Religion
• King James Bible
• The Dhammapada
• The Quran
Build great reading habits and finish classic books in days with Serial Reader!
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 Apple's 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 tomorrow's 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 Solomon's 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
Children's
• Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
• Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Fantasy
• The Well at the World's 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
• Gunman's Reckoning - Max Brand
Religion
• King James Bible
• The Dhammapada
• The Quran
Build great reading habits and finish classic books in days with Serial Reader!
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What's New in the Latest Version 4.17
Last updated on Mar 23, 2024
Old Versions
• Fixed: Issues for paused serials still delivered
• Fixed: Rewind Issues action being reversed
• Fixed: Rewind Issues action being reversed
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Version History
4.17
Mar 23, 2024
• Fixed: Issues for paused serials still delivered
• Fixed: Rewind Issues action being reversed
• Fixed: Rewind Issues action being reversed
4.16
Dec 30, 2023
• Widget fixes for iOS 17
4.15
Oct 24, 2023
• Improve cloud syncing
4.14
Sep 13, 2023
• Fix for My Serials freeze issue
4.13
Sep 5, 2023
• Faster load times when browsing new books
• Faster boot time
• Fix bug on serializing EPUB files
• Faster boot time
• Fix bug on serializing EPUB files
4.12
May 21, 2023
• Faster load times when browsing for new books to read
• Remove unnecessary analytics collection
• Fix for bug blocking adding your own books
• Fix some rare text rendering bugs
• Remove unnecessary analytics collection
• Fix for bug blocking adding your own books
• Fix some rare text rendering bugs
4.11
Jan 26, 2023
• More than 900 books now available, including many from 1927 that have newly entered the public domain!
4.10
Dec 15, 2022
• New option to show clock while reading
• New option to badge app icon with unread issue count
• Congrats messages now include option to disable messages
• Improved text selection options in iOS 16
• Improved design of book settings and text legibility
• Add Mastodon and other social media links to About section
• New option to badge app icon with unread issue count
• Congrats messages now include option to disable messages
• Improved text selection options in iOS 16
• Improved design of book settings and text legibility
• Add Mastodon and other social media links to About section
4.09
Oct 22, 2022
• Fixes & updates for the latest version of iOS
4.08
Jul 23, 2022
• New setting to hide reading streak
• Fix for hyphenation not appearing at end of pages
• Fix for password bug when creating new cloud sync account
• Fix for hyphenation not appearing at end of pages
• Fix for password bug when creating new cloud sync account
4.07
Apr 19, 2022
• Sync highlights and notes to Readwise
• Added search & more sort options when browsing book issues
• Added option to disable Goodreads syncing
• Added option to delete cloud sync account
• Bug fixes & general improvements
• Added search & more sort options when browsing book issues
• Added option to disable Goodreads syncing
• Added option to delete cloud sync account
• Bug fixes & general improvements
4.06
Jan 10, 2022
• Fix for some display bugs in larger iPads
• Fix for bug where changing line height alters margin size
• Fix for scroll bar color not updating to match theme
• Fix for Tip Jar button selection
• Lots of minor design updates & adjustments
• Fix for bug where changing line height alters margin size
• Fix for scroll bar color not updating to match theme
• Fix for Tip Jar button selection
• Lots of minor design updates & adjustments
4.05
Aug 31, 2021
New:
• Lots of minor design improvements
• New reading option to advance pages when tapping either margin
• While reading, font options menu includes link to additional reading settings
Fixed:
• Bug in "Unread" issue list implying book was completed
• Bug displaying note and Wikipedia information when reading in scroll mode
• Bug when toggling between multi-column reading mode and scroll mode
• Lots of minor design improvements
• New reading option to advance pages when tapping either margin
• While reading, font options menu includes link to additional reading settings
Fixed:
• Bug in "Unread" issue list implying book was completed
• Bug displaying note and Wikipedia information when reading in scroll mode
• Bug when toggling between multi-column reading mode and scroll mode
4.04
Jun 28, 2021
New:
• Option to export your Read Later list
• Option in Reading Settings to reset font options to default settings
Fixed:
• Several rare bugs miscounting issues and causing trouble
• Updated inefficient book status calculations
• Option to export your Read Later list
• Option in Reading Settings to reset font options to default settings
Fixed:
• Several rare bugs miscounting issues and causing trouble
• Updated inefficient book status calculations
4.03
Mar 1, 2021
New:
• Scroll view option while reading
• Improved design throughout the app, including a fresh new look for collections of books while browsing for new serials
Fixed:
• Properly render line breaks for works of poetry
• Improved handling of issue preview text
• Fixed navigation bar not updating when reading a new issue
• Fixed some less-than-legible text around the app
• Fixed incorrect placement of some highlights
• Fixed error if all days removed from custom delivery schedule
• Scroll view option while reading
• Improved design throughout the app, including a fresh new look for collections of books while browsing for new serials
Fixed:
• Properly render line breaks for works of poetry
• Improved handling of issue preview text
• Fixed navigation bar not updating when reading a new issue
• Fixed some less-than-legible text around the app
• Fixed incorrect placement of some highlights
• Fixed error if all days removed from custom delivery schedule
4.02
Dec 13, 2020
• New App Icons
• Design improvements to App Icons selection screen
• Design improvements to App Icons selection screen
4.01
Nov 30, 2020
• Improvements to cloud sync
• Fix for bug that could cause widget to crash
New in the previous update:
• Add your own books to Serial Reader! Add EPUB files and have Serial Reader automatically serialize them into daily issues
• Widgets! Add a handy widget to your home screen to track your current books
• Custom schedules! Pick which hour and specific days you want to receive new issues for each book
• Fix for bug that could cause widget to crash
New in the previous update:
• Add your own books to Serial Reader! Add EPUB files and have Serial Reader automatically serialize them into daily issues
• Widgets! Add a handy widget to your home screen to track your current books
• Custom schedules! Pick which hour and specific days you want to receive new issues for each book
4.0
Oct 27, 2020
• Add your own books to Serial Reader! Add EPUB files and have Serial Reader automatically serialize them into daily issues
• Widgets! Add a handy widget to your home screen to track your current books
• Custom schedules! Pick which hour and specific days you want to receive new issues for each book
• More books! Over 750 classic books are now available in Serial Reader
We're approaching Serial Reader's 5th year, I can't believe it. Thank you all so much for supporting the app! I hope your next great read is right around the corner, -Michael
• Widgets! Add a handy widget to your home screen to track your current books
• Custom schedules! Pick which hour and specific days you want to receive new issues for each book
• More books! Over 750 classic books are now available in Serial Reader
We're approaching Serial Reader's 5th year, I can't believe it. Thank you all so much for supporting the app! I hope your next great read is right around the corner, -Michael
3.70
Aug 21, 2020
• Speed up loading time when reading and viewing book details
• New settings for managing your Goodreads integration
• New settings for managing your Goodreads integration
3.69
Jul 9, 2020
• New: Browse all genres in the "View All" section when looking for new books
• Fixed: Dictionary lookup overwriting display settings
• Behind the Scenes: Improvements for tracking bugs and other issues
• Fixed: Dictionary lookup overwriting display settings
• Behind the Scenes: Improvements for tracking bugs and other issues
3.68
May 16, 2020
• Improvements to behind-the-scenes logging and bug tracking
• Fixes for Read Later bugs
• Fixes for Read Later bugs
3.67
May 1, 2020
• Bug fixes for sync
3.66
Apr 29, 2020
• Improvements to sync
3.65
Apr 22, 2020
Bug fixes & improvements:
• Improvements loading book images
• Fix for certain font option combinations that caused text layout to crash
• Fix for bug when autofilling sync account information
• Fix for highlighting text when reading in two-column layout
• Improvements loading book images
• Fix for certain font option combinations that caused text layout to crash
• Fix for bug when autofilling sync account information
• Fix for highlighting text when reading in two-column layout
3.64
Feb 23, 2020
• Refactored animations
• Corrections to book list design
• Fixed navigation when using app for first time
• Fixed dark mode colors in upgrade screen
• Corrections to book list design
• Fixed navigation when using app for first time
• Fixed dark mode colors in upgrade screen
Serial Reader FAQ
Serial Reader is available in regions other than the following restricted countries:
China
Serial Reader supports English
Serial Reader contains in-app purchases. Please check the pricing plan as below:
Serial Premium
$2.99
Tip Jar - Essay
$1.99
Tip Jar - Short Story
$4.99
Tip Jar - Novel
$9.99
Tip Jar - Epic
$14.99
Click here to learn how to download Serial Reader in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Serial Reader.
iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
