PageTrail

PageTrail is a reading diary that lives on your phone. It holds the books you are reading, where you are in each one, how long you read, the quotes you want to keep and how the year is going against your goal. Nothing is looked up online and nothing is uploaded.

READING NOW

The first screen is the books you have on the go: the page you are on, the percentage, and how many days the book will take at the pace you have been reading. Log pages by hand, or start a session and let the timer do it.

A TIMER THAT DOES NOT LOSE TIME

The session timer runs on real time, so locking the screen, switching apps or a flat battery does not lose it — it is still counting when you come back. Pause when you are interrupted, then type the page you stopped on: the app saves the session, moves the book and works out your pace in pages per hour.

FOUR SHELVES

Reading, Want to Read, Finished and Abandoned. Every book carries a title, an author, a format, a length, genres and a colour for its spine. Audiobooks are counted in minutes instead of pages. Books are typed by hand: there is no online search, no catalogue and no cover downloads, so the app needs no access to your photos and makes no network requests.

FINISHING A BOOK

Rate it from half a star to five, write a review for yourself, and it moves to the Finished shelf with the date. The yearly goal counts the books finished this year and shows how far along you are.

QUOTES AND NOTES

Keep the lines worth keeping with the page they came from and a note of your own. Search runs over every quote and note you have saved, and a quote can be handed to the share sheet as plain text when you want to send it to someone.

STATS WORTH LOOKING AT

Books finished and pages read month by month, your reading streak, your average rating, the genres you keep coming back to and the longest book you finished. Every number is arithmetic on what you logged — nothing is estimated.

PRIVATE AND OFFLINE

No account, no sync, no ads, no analytics, no bookshop and no social feed. The only permission the app ever asks for is notifications, for an optional reading reminder. Export your library and your quotes as CSV when you want a copy; otherwise everything stays on this device.