Daily Canon

A lifetime of literature, one day at a time.

The whole canon, open and waiting. Hundreds of complete works to read cover to cover inside the app: novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, philosophy. Four millennia of great writing in dozens of languages, all in one place, all yours to read whenever the mood takes you.

Most reading apps hand you a shop and leave. This one hands you a library and a reason to come back to it. You can lose an afternoon in Wuthering Heights, read a Borges story over coffee, sit with a single poem until it gives something up.. When something calls to you, it's already here.

And every day, one work arrives, chosen for the day. Hamlet on Shakespeare's birthday. Ulysses on Bloomsday. Frankenstein at Halloween. Wuthering Heights on Valentine's, because love should always be a little unhinged. In Search of Lost Time on February 29th, because what better day for a book consumed with the moments between things. The calendar reaches beyond the Western tradition too, with works placed on Diwali, Nowruz, Vesak, and the lunar new year. Where no occasion fits, a work sits in the season that suits it. It's a way of keeping your line in the water across the whole stretch of the river. You can't know in advance which writer will reach you. The point is to keep enough of them in front of you that some will.

THE LIBRARY

Hundreds of complete works, readable in full, right inside the app. The reason to stay.

TODAY'S WORK

Each day, a new work, with a blurb that gives you the context without spoiling what's ahead, a key extract from the opening pages, and the date it falls on and why. Star it to your reading list. Mark it done. Come back tomorrow.

BLOOMY

A literary companion who has read everything and forgotten nothing. Bloomy knows what you love, what left you cold, and how you like to read, and will tell you what to read next. Not an algorithm. The most well-read friend you'll ever have.

READING PATHS

Guided journeys through the canon, each tracing a theme or tradition. Follow The Russian Soul through Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Stare into existentialism with The Abyss Looks Back. Trace the development of the novel or the history of ideas. Syllabi, without the exam.

READING LIST

Three shelves for your intentions. The Nightstand for what's next. In the Wings for works circling your attention. The Bookshop List for future you.

MY CANON

Your personal ranking of every work you've read. Drag them into order. The canon is a conversation, and this is your side of it.

DYNAMIC THEMES

Over 50 bespoke visual themes, each built for a specific work. Moby Dick gets the ocean. Frankenstein gets the storm. Gatsby gets the green light.

TOLSTOY'S CALENDAR

Daily aphorisms from Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom, matched to each day of the year.

AUTHORS

Every author has a profile, with portraits, biographies, and complete works lists.

ALSO INCLUDES

Home Screen Widgets · Dark Mode · Daily Notifications · Pathfinder Quiz · Badges · Offline Mode · Spotlight Search · Share Cards · Year in Review