Products

Serial Reader

Read classic books in 20 minutes a day

serialreader.org App Store Google PlayEntertainment & Media / Books & Reading

AI Benchmark
Desktop
Mobile
Monthly visits
6.3K
Sep 2026
Public revenue
Undisclosed
No public revenue evidence yet
Entry price
Free
No monthly subscription pricing
Creators
Michael Schmitt
No social account linked
Launched
10y ago
2016-01-28 · Est.

Traffic

Monthly visitsData through Sep 2026 · Oct 2026 pending
Events1 change

Marketing moves

Launches, search & content, referrals, promotions
  • Launched on Product HuntLaunch

    Read classic literature in daily bite-sized bits

    Aug 3, 2016 · 10y agoLaunch page

  • Launched on App StoreLaunch

    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 ha

    Jan 28, 2016 · 10y agoLaunch page

Store data

App Store · Google Play
Serial Reader: Daily Book Bits
Michael SchmittBooksEducation
Updated 19mo ago
Rating
★ 4.854,085 ratings
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2016-01-2829 MB
Rating Distribution (1★–5★)5★ 89% · 1★ 1%
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Latest Release Notes (v4.18)

• Patching a few minor bugs

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. "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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Traffic sources

Sep 2026

Traffic breakdown

Channels

  • Direct38%
  • Organic Search38%
  • Referrals9%
  • Social7%
  • Other9%

Countries

  • United States93%
  • India7%

Search

Domain authority —Domain registered 2016-04-15

KeywordMonthly volume
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zofloya1,310
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sish pegana290
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Traffic data: Vaneform

Pricing

Pricing page not identified yet, or no public pricing listed.

Pages & changes

Tracked since 2016-08-03

Key pages

Weekly snapshots
Home
www.serialreader.org/ Snapshot 2026-11-04

Changes

  1. Nov 1 · 14d ago

    Adopted technology: Cloudflare Browser InsightsFeatures

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Design

First-screen visual analysis & :root CSS

Soft & Friendly (Light canvas, balanced density) featuring centered headline + cta layout and photography / live video visuals.

First-screen preview · click to zoom

First-screen pitch & conversion flow

“Serial Reader”

Centered Headline + CTA hero structure paired with download app / install extension CTA and no explicit trust bar.

Conversion path: Centered Headline + CTA + Photography / Live Video → Download App / Install Extension

Palette · click to copy

5-D design score7.1 / 10
Typography
7.0
Color & Contrast
7.0
Layout & Spacing
8.0
Craft & Polish
7.0
Distinctiveness
6.0

Structure

Fonts
Nunito
Primary visual
Photography / Live Video
Social proof
No Explicit Trust Bar
Navigation
Full-Width Top Bar
Theme & density
Light · Balanced
Corners & depth
Medium Radius · With shadow
Preview full AI design brief (includes :root CSS variables & layout rules)Style tokens only; never copy brand names, logos, copy, or images
# Design Brief: Soft & Friendly

Warm low-saturation pastels, generous rounded corners, and approachable illustrations.

## Design Tokens

```css
:root {
  --background: #398cc1;
  --surface: #ffffff;
  --foreground: #ffffff;
  --muted-foreground: #a7b9c7;
  --accent: #2e80b5;
  --radius: 8px;
  --font-heading: "Nunito", ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif;
  --font-body: "Nunito", ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif;
}
```

Color area ratio: Background #398CC1 (~52%) · Surface #FFFFFF (~22%) · Text #FFFFFF (~10%) · Muted Text #A7B9C7 (~8%) · Accent #2E80B5 (~8%). Background and surface dominate the canvas; reserve the accent color for primary buttons and active states.

## Layout & Conversion Structure

- Hero layout: Centered Headline + CTA
- Navigation: Full-Width Top Bar
- Theme & density: Light · Balanced
- Border radius & elevation: Medium Radius; use elevation shadows to separate layers
- Primary visual medium: Photography / Live Video
- Conversion CTA: Download App / Install Extension
- Headline hook: Outcome & Speed Promise
- Hero components: Large Hero Product Shot
- Spatial layout notes: Centered Headline + CTA hero structure paired with download app / install extension CTA and no explicit trust bar.
- Visual summary: Soft & Friendly (Light canvas, balanced density) featuring centered headline + cta layout and photography / live video visuals.

## Avoid

- Harsh pure-black backgrounds
- Sharp 0px corners
- Cold technical jargon in hero copy

Implement the UI following the design tokens and layout specifications above: use only these color variables, and reserve the accent color strictly for primary actions and active states. Adopt only this visual style—never copy any reference product’s brand name, logo, copy, or imagery.

Questions & evidence

How much website traffic does Serial Reader get?
Vaneform estimates 6.3K website visits in 2026-09. Visits can include repeat visits; this estimate measures web traffic separately from paying customers or revenue.Source
What is Serial Reader and what platforms does it support?
Serial Reader is catalogued under Books & Reading: Read classic books in 20 minutes a day. Supported platforms: Mobile App.

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