Everything's free. Right now.
Covers is in its Founders release: every feature, both columns, nothing to pay. Here's what's in the app today, and what Covers Gold could add.
Android: in development
Take a Founders seat.
Download Covers during our Founders release and every Covers Gold feature stays free on your Apple ID, for good, even when Gold arrives for new members. No code, no sign-up. Your first download is your seat.
- Free, forever
- Every Gold extra included
- You help choose what gets built
Six parts, one book club.
Everything below works in the current build, on every phone in the club.
Your clubs
- Start a club in five steps, or join one by scanning its QR code
- Club rooms: Tonight, Plan, Noticeboard, Questions, Members and a track record
- Pin, vote and nominate the next moderator
- Leave whenever you like, and take your posts with you
The night
- Tap any day: I can, I can't, or suggest it
- The host locks in the date and picks the next host
- Your window of opportunity: your free evenings, read from your own calendar and never shared
- Questions in rounds, led by a member or by Covers, which never goes past the spoiler line
- The meeting card: date, time, host, address, add to calendar
The books in your hand
- Up to five books on the go, and your page in each
- Add a book by title, a photo of its cover, or its barcode
- Notes by chapter in the six COVERS rooms: Chapters, Observation, Vocabulary, Exploration, Reflection, Sharing
- Type a note or speak it
- Club notes stay private until the night is done
The Card tab
- Your membership card: your character, member number and member since, in an engraved gold outline
- Turn it over for your reading record: pages a night, day streak, books this year
- Records, a favourite three and your top 10
- Your shelves: a score out of 100 and a one-line sign-off for every book you finish
Fellow members
- Their cards in a rolodex, filed A to Z
- Put the kettle on: celebrate a fellow member's latest read
- Let people find me: just your name, a tag and your character, and you can turn it off
- Ask to follow; they accept or decline
- Report or block anyone, any time
Live and locked
- Shared through iCloud, locked so we can't read it
- No Covers server holding your reading
- Reminders the day before, two hours before, and after the night
- A word filter on every phone, so the club stays kind
Free for every club. Gold for the devoted reader.
Free is the whole book club, and it stays free. Gold remembers every book you read. Its extras beyond today's aren't decided: these are the ideas on the table, and your feedback picks which ones get built.
Free
Free, alwaysYour clubs, the rooms and your membership card.
- Join, start and run book clubs
- The COVERS rooms for your club's book
- Track the page you're on, in any book
- Your membership card and fellow members
- Put the kettle on: celebrate a fellow member's latest read
- Your shelves, kept safe
Covers Gold
Free for FoundersDownload now and every Gold feature is yours, forever.
- Everything in Free
- The COVERS rooms for your own books
- Your shelves open, the Members Log and On this day
- Favourite, top 10 and records
- The gold card, your reading goal ring and your Gold record
Ideas on the table, not promises
- A club anthology: every book, night and question, bound into one keepsake
- A line of your own, engraved on your membership card
- Reading challenges to run with your club
- Bring your reading history in from another app
- Your year in books as a page to print or share
Tell us which ones you'd use in Settings › Founders feedback, or on our Founders page.
| What you get | Free | Gold |
|---|---|---|
| Your clubs | ||
| Join, start and run book clubs | ||
| The COVERS rooms for your club's bookNotes, questions, the convene | ||
| Track the page you're onAny book, club or your own | ||
| Your membership card and fellow members | ||
| Every book, remembered | ||
| The COVERS rooms for your own books | – | |
| Your shelvesEvery book you've finished | Kept, locked | |
| The Members LogYour year in review | – | |
| Favourite, top 10 and records | – | |
| On this dayThe book you finished this month, years ago | – | |
| Your card | ||
| The gold cardEvery fellow member sees it | – | |
| Your reading goal ringOn your card, for fellow members too | – | |
| Your Gold recordTwelve months of reading, on the back | – | |
Right now nothing is locked: everything in both columns is yours, free.
The fine print
Early downloads: if you first download Covers during our Founders release, before Covers Gold arrives for new members, every feature in Covers Gold stays free for you, on the same Apple ID, for as long as Covers is offered. This promise is also in our Terms, section 15. There are no prices yet, and nothing in the app asks you to pay.