Know exactly when you'll finish your book
Reading Time is a book reading tracker for iPhone and iPad. It clocks your sessions and builds a personalized time-left prediction based on your reading pace — not a generic estimate. Free for your first 3 books, then one payment. No subscription. Ever.
Who is this for?
If any of these sound familiar, Reading Time was built with you in mind.
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Getting back into reading
You used to read all the time. Life got in the way. Seeing real progress — sessions logged, pages tracked, a personalized countdown — makes it easier to keep the habit going.
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Reading in short windows
Commute, lunch break, ten minutes before bed. Every session counts. Knowing that 20 minutes a day adds up to finishing a book in weeks changes how you see those small gaps.
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Always starting, never finishing
You have a graveyard of half-read books. Seeing a concrete estimate — "5 hours 20 minutes left" — turns an abstract goal into something that actually feels within reach.
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Replacing doom-scrolling with reading
The running timer keeps you intentional. You're not passively reading — you're tracking. That small shift in mindset is surprisingly effective at building the habit.
How it works
Three steps, and your reading time starts working for you
1.
Add any book in seconds
Scan the barcode, search by title, or type it in yourself. Your book is ready to track immediately.
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Stay focused while you read
The running timer keeps you in the session. No read is too short — every session is logged and every minute counts toward your prediction.
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See your personalized time left
The app learns your reading speed for this specific book and shows how many hours you have left. Your pace, your prediction — not someone else's average.
Already using Goodreads or StoryGraph?
Those are good tools. If you use them to manage your shelves, find recommendations, log reading challenges, or connect with other readers — keep using them. They're built for exactly that.
Reading Time is different. It doesn't care about your shelves, your ratings, your social graph, or whether you hit 50 books this year. It does one thing: it tells you how long it will take you to finish the book you're reading right now.
Not a generic estimate based on word count or average reader speed. A prediction built from your own sessions with that specific book — because you read a thriller differently than a dense history tome, and no average can account for that.
Free for 3 books — then one payment, forever
Download Reading Time and use it completely free for your first 3 books.
After that, unlock unlimited books with a single one-time purchase. You pay once, you own it.
No monthly fees, no annual renewals, no upsells. In a world of endless subscriptions, that's worth saying clearly.
App Store reviews
What readers say — including the honest ones.
🇬🇧 Fantastic book tracker! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"I've just started trying to read more often again after a long break, and this app is amazing. I don't have a set number of books I'm aiming for, but seeing progress and features like telling me how much longer I have left are very motivating!
Being able to add 12 books for free is a fair way to implement a trial period before needing to buy the complete app unlock, which is a once off purchase.
Well designed and implemented, if you're looking for a brilliant app to help you start or restart reading and tracking your progress will help, then this is absolutely worth it!"
🇺🇸 Helpful and Informative ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"I often get distracted when I'm reading, but this helps me to stay focused because I know the timer is going. The stats it tracks are also pretty interesting."
🇨🇦 Love this app but.. ⭐️⭐️
"Really loved this app used it for every single reading session. Unfortunately they have a limit of how many books you can read with an outrageous fee attached."
For context: it's a one-time purchase to unlock unlimited books — not a subscription. We include this review because transparency matters more than a perfect star count.
🇮🇹 Motivante ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Sarò strana io, ma quest'app mi aiuta molto bella lettura, rendendomi più motivata. Mi piace molto poter vedere quanto tempo passo sul libro e la possibilità di vedere (approssimativamente) quante ore di lettura mi mancano. Molto comoda la possibilità di scannerizzare il libro per aggiungerlo più facilmente."
🇷🇴 I love it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"It simply does what is supposed to do."
Ready to know when you'll finish?
Free for your first 3 books. No account needed. iPhone and iPad.
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