What’s new
Everything that has changed since SlowRead landed on the App Store, version by version.
Current version 1.0.6
- 1.0.6 Current
Every reading, not just the first. Read twice in a day? Log them both. Tapping “I read today” now opens everything you’ve read that day — timer sessions included — each with its own time, pages and note.
Forgot to log a day? Add it whenever you remember. Tap any past day — in your streak calendar or in Stats — and write down the reading you did. Your streak closes the gap on its own.
Adding a book, in one tap. Choose a shelf and you’re done, the sheet closes itself. And while you’re deciding, the story is right there, next to the year, the page count and the genre.
Fixes and polish. Covers no longer flicker back to their drawn stand-ins, today is easy to spot in your streak calendar, and dozens of small things across the app are steadier.
- 1.0.5
Your book’s three faces. Add a spine and a sprayed edge to any book, right from its page — and turn a book around on the shelf to show it off. The cover was never the whole story.
A whole new Library. We rebuilt your shelves from scratch: tap the wand and everything lives in one place — hold a book to lift and move it, arrange a shelf by colour, height or author in one tap, and place decorations wherever you like.
Three new shelf themes. Dress a library in Night Court, War College or Fae Dungeon — starlit arches, a storm-lashed fortress, or glowing amethyst in the dark. Four new decorations too.
Much, much faster. A deep performance pass across the whole app: scrolling your shelves, moving books and decorations, opening books and switching tabs are now buttery smooth.
Back up your library. New in Settings: create snapshots of your entire library — books, photos, shelves and reading history — and restore any of them whenever you want.
This update also fixes a lot more, including buttons that were hard to tap.
- 1.0.3
Your shelf now lives on your home screen. Add the SlowRead widget, pick any library, and give it its own background (wall, shelf or theme).
Better book search. The right edition and its real cover show up faster and more often. A smoother Goodreads import, with covers and details filled in for you. Plus polish throughout.
- 1.0.2
- “Velaris Library” — a new moonlit dark-academia shelf theme.
- New shelf decorations — dragons, potions, tarot, hanging ivy and more, now sorted into tidy categories.
- Rearrange your books more freely, in a calmer, decluttered library.
- 1.0.1
- Feature requests board — suggest and vote on new features in Settings.
- New “Cozy Autumn” shelf theme.
- Theme-aware shelf surfaces for light and dark mode.
- Bug fixes and improvements.
- 1.0.0 Launch
SlowRead arrives on the App Store. Your library on a 2.5D shelf you arrange and decorate yourself, reading sessions with real app blocking, and everything kept on your device.