About
The books you love leave fingerprints.
Slowburn is a reading journal built around that one idea.
Some people read a book and put it down. Some of us read a book and walk around for a week with it still in us: rereading a chapter on the bus, texting a friend at midnight because she chose him, refusing to start anything else until the ache fades. Slowburn was made for the second kind.
Most reading apps are built to count. Books per year, pages per day, a streak to protect. That’s fine for some readers and wrong for these ones. The count was never the point. The point was what the book did to you, and the fact that you would like to remember it.
What it is
A journal first. You keep your shelf, your progress, your rating and your spice, your tropes and moods, the line you kept and the note you didn’t show anyone. You tell the book how badly it has you, one flame at a time, and it draws the curve. At the end of a month you get a dossier, not a dashboard. Over time you get a Reading Identity that says, with receipts, what kind of reader you are.
Everything in it is a plain function of what you wrote. There is no AI reading your notes, no personality test, no conclusion about you as a person. The insights show which books they came from, because you should be able to argue with them.
What it is not
It is not a social network. Your journal stays on your phone, and you choose what leaves it. A circle is a few people you invited one at a time; it has no profiles to browse, no followers, no feed, no way for a stranger to find you. Slowburn is honest about this on purpose: it is a journal that lets you share, not a community with a journal attached.
That may change. The plan is a place where romance readers can eventually find each other by taste, and the plan is public, on the roadmap. Until then the site says what the app does today, and the community page says what is coming later, and keeps those two apart.
Who makes it
Slowburn is made by one person, in Norway, who reads this way. It is a small, independent product, priced so that the free journal is a real journal and Premium pays for the servers and the next thing. If something is wrong, write. It will be a person who answers.