About Bookly
Bookly is a smart reading companion designed to make reading more consistent, enjoyable, and measurable. Whether you’re reading physical books, e-books, or listening to audiobooks, Bookly helps you track your progress in real time with its built-in reading timer. Users can set daily, monthly, and yearly goals, save favorite quotes, jot down reflections, and organize their library into collections. To keep motivation high, the app introduces achievements, streaks, and detailed statistics that showcase reading habits over time. Beyond habit tracking, Bookly transforms reading into a rewarding journey, giving users insights into their pace, estimated finish times, and overall growth.
Overview:
- Allow readers to track real reading progress (pages, time, books) rather than just owning books.
- Provide insights via reports & statistics (monthly/yearly summaries, reading speed, streaks).
- Enable goal setting (daily, monthly, yearly) and motivation through achievements & reminders.
- Offer features like quotes & reflections, tracking character info, and organizing books in collections like Wishliste or Favourites.
Challenge:
- Motivation & Habit Formation — users often abandon reading goals without reminders or a way to visually see progress.
- Tracking Across Formats — handling tracking of physical books, e-books, audiobooks consistently.
- Keeping Users Engaged — through features like achievements, readathons, streaks, social/progress sharing.
- Data & Insights — providing meaningful stats that help users improve and stay inspired.
Solution And Results:
- Implemented a reading timer which users start when they begin reading; records pages/locations so users see real progress.
- Set up goals and reminders: daily, monthly, yearly goals, and reminders to keep users on track.
- Added achievements & tracking streaks to gamify the reading habit.
- Built in collection & notes features: users can save quotes, reflections, mark characters, track unknown words.
- Provides rich analytics: visual/trend reports so users can see hours spent, pages read, estimated finish time etc.
