Fable: Track & Discuss Books

I love this app! Of all the different book review and journaling apps, it’s my favorite. I only wish there were more ways to customize the content in your feed. I love seeing book clubs recommended, even though I don’t use them, and I love the random users’ posts that allow me to see others’ opinions about how/where they read, share what we’re reading, who we’re reading with (humans and pets alike), etc. But I hate hate hate! that my only option to remove content I’m not a fan of is to either mute all the content associated with certain books or mute users themselves. For example, I do NOT want to see bad reviews of books I left great reviews of. I understand why the algorithm puts those on my feed, and I do appreciate seeing different opinions, but it’s simply not something I want to use fable for. I’m in an irl book club, and imo that’s a much better way to discuss differing opinions than seeing a random stranger trash a book I dearly love. My only options when this happens are to either mute the user themselves, which I think would be unnecessary since their opinions are valid, or I’d have to mute all content associated with that book, which I obviously don’t want to do with a book I enjoyed. Some apps have “suggest less like this” buttons, and I’d love it if Fable adopted something like that! Or even had an option in settings that allows us to toggle bad reviews of books we’ve read or rated positively. Overall, the app is quite lovely, and I really enjoy that it feels more like social media than Goodreads or Storygraph, and I can’t wait to see how the app grows and continues to get better! <3

I absolutely adore this app! It is my prized possession as of late! I was on the search a few months back for switches to be a more ethical and mindful reader. A reader I trust on booktok mentioned this app. The cute name and logo caught my eye so I decided to give it a try (and also wanted to help support a growing brown owned app)! Words cannot describe how much I love how organized and sleek the layout and user experience as a whole is. I love how the feed, book club, explore, and your profile are on separate sections so the app does not look cluttered nor overwhelming. I love we’re also able to filter the feed between “for you” and “following”. Speaking of filtering, I am so happy with how easily to tailor the notifications are. The bookclubs section and just ability to join bookclubs is my little reader heart’s dream come true. Again I cannot stress how well organized the layout is with different threads for chapters and ability to communicate with one another. As others have mentioned, the data stats are divine!! The 2024 wrapped is so insightful and so freaking cute!! Not to add, their is a cute holiday theme that gives you a holiday category! I also love how you’re able to read with your bookclub or on your own - and the app not only tracks your progress but also updates your daily tracker for you! My only note would be I wish our lists were organized alphabetically (but that might just be a me thing). So grateful for this app like again words can’t describe how happy I am to finally have an app like this. Thank you developers and team!!

I absolutely adore the app!! One of my favorite things about it is being able to see all of your stats, especially having the ability to see what books you read in what months and the reader summary. Every single time I put a book in the Finished List I find myself looking forward to what my Reader Summary is going to update to say, a few I’ve even laughed out loud too. But I do want to suggest a rereading option on the reading status, that lets me track my progress when I set it to Currently reading as well as keeping it in my Finished List, so that way it shows up however many times I read it on the Finished # of books so far this year. Now this doesn’t need to count towards my reading goal since it’s not a new book, but it would be nice if it appeared as many times as I reread it in that year. Other than that idea I just had (as I am currently rereading a book and went to log it so it would count towards my streak, but realized it took it out of my finished list) it’s a lovely app that I’ve discovered thanks to a friend mentioning it, in which case I’ve now actually started recommending it to other people and would 10/10 recommend it to you!!