Your stories.
Your world.
Slowburn.
A reading journal made for people who don’t just read romance — they obsess over it.
Coming to the App Store and Google Play. iPhone first.
Built for readers who love deeply
01 Read
The shelf
A shelf that looks like a shelf.
Your books stand as objects, spine out, on a shelf that fills as you do. A ribbon hangs from every book you’re inside, tinted by how much it has you.
Add a book by searching, by scanning its barcode, or by typing it in. Nothing about your shelf ever leaves your phone.
The journal
Write the book down while it’s still in you.
Rating, spice, tropes, moods, the line you can’t stop thinking about, the note nobody else reads. Yours, in your words, never suggested for you.
Progress is a page number or a percent. Not a timer. Not a streak.
02 Feel
The Burn
How badly does the book have you, right now?
One dial. Five flames. Tap it as you read, as often as you read. By the last page, Slowburn has the whole curve — the slow build, the chapter that ruined you, the cooling after.
- Cooling
- Warm
- Burning
- Feral
- Ruined
When you finish, the curve gets a name — a slow burn, a wildfire, a flicker — and a card you can share without sharing a single word you wrote.
03 Understand
Stats
Your reading, read back to you.
Your moods, your tropes, your spice gap between what you say you want and what you actually finish. Counted from your own journal, shown plainly.
Reading Identity
What kind of reader you are.
Ten insights, each a plain function of your journal: what you reach for, what ruins you, how you burn. No AI, no personality test. Every line says which books it came from.
04 Remember
Monthly Post-Mortem
A dossier on your month, not a dashboard.
The body count. Your type. Structural damage. The one that ruined you. The disappointment. Each section appears only when your month can back it up.
Widgets
The book you’re inside, on your home screen.
One widget, two sizes, iPhone and Android. Your current read, your place in it, the line you saved, and how it’s burning. Tap it and you’re back on the page.
05 Connect
Circle & Buddy Reads
A few people you choose. Nobody you didn’t.
Your circle is people you invited one at a time. No profiles, no followers, no feed, no way for a stranger to find you. You hand them a book, a verdict, a month — and only what you hand them.
A Buddy Read is two of you inside the same book, leaving notes for each other that stay sealed until the other one catches up.
06 Shape
Shape Slowburn
Slowburn isn’t built behind a curtain.
Every reader can see what’s being considered, what’s in the works, and what shipped. Premium readers vote on what comes next and send their own ideas. The board lives in the app and on this site.
Free, and Premium
Free is the whole journal. Premium is what it means.
The shelf, the journal, progress, the Burn, basic stats, reminders, widgets, your circle and Buddy Reads are free, without limits. Premium unlocks the deeper reading: the full Reading Identity, Compare, the complete Post-Mortem, premium share cards, and a vote on what’s next. Fourteen days free.
Download Slowburn
The reading journal for romance readers.
Coming to the App Store and Google Play. iPhone first.