iOS · Spring 2026 · invitation only

BookTok, but inside the audiobook.

Marco Polo × Audible · For your friends and followers

Cozy up to an audiobook with your book club or your closest friends. Everyone listens at their own pace. When a moment gives them chills, they press and hold to leave you a little voice note and it stays tucked away until you reach that very same moment in the book.

Beta opens to small clubs first
THE VISION

BookTok has lived in the space before and after books — but never inside the book.

Book recs. If you loved this, you might also love that. New releases. Romantasy tropes. Reviews.

Tiptoeing around spoilers has meant that BookTok talks about everything except the actual writing, the storyline, the little plot points we live for.

Some of your friends have already finished it. So many haven't. How do you talk about the details with that mixed audience?

You haven't been able to—until now.

Talk about the book as you read it. Your friends and followers unlock the content the moment they get to that part of the book.

How it works

Real Talk. Deep Talk. Zero spoilers.

01 · Start a club

Pick a book with your people.

Katabasis The Ministry of Time Yesteryear

Invite your book club, your friends, or your followers. Read the book. Leave your comments and content as you read. They unlock it as they read.

02 · Listen + leave voice notes

Hold the button. Talk to the book.

Hear something that wrecked you? Hold the button, share a voice note or a video. Your content is pinned to the exact second you paused on.

03 · Hear them when you're there

The chapter delivers them.

BookClub
Sarah
Katabasis · pg 214
1
Mikel
Ministry of Time · ch 8
4
Book club · 6
Tomorrow³ · pg 61

It's like your besties tucking little social bookmarks into your book as you read.

Inside the app

Asynchronous book clubs layered on top of audiobooks.

Your usual audiobook UI, with one new layer: a colorful dot on the timeline every time a friend or someone you're following left you a thought. Tap, listen, react.

4:42
Now Listening · Chapter 4
×
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin · narrated by Jennifer Kim
00:42:17 03:14:08
M
Maya left a voice note
Pinned at 00:42:17 · 0:24

One-tap voice/video notes, pinned to the second

The mic button is right where the timeline is. Hold it, talk, let go. We attach your voice note to the exact timestamp you were on.

Spoiler-safe by design

You don't see your friends' notes early. They unlock as you reach the chapter, the line, the moment. It's the only group chat that can't ruin a book.

Book clubs, real friends & followers

Built for three-to-eight people who actually know each other. No follower count, no algorithm, no public reviews. Just your people, talking about a book.

The conversation stays with the book

When you re-listen a year later, your friends are still there at every stop — the laughs, the gasps, the half-asleep theory at 11pm.

Why this, why now

Insta is surface. Audible is solo.

Our reading lives have a way of splitting in two: all those quiet hours of listening on our own, and the friends we wish were curled up right there beside us. Every tool out there tends to one half and leaves the other longing. BookClub is the first one lovingly built to hold both at once.

Audible
Press play, you're alone. Biggest audio library on earth, zero people in it.
Social media
One person reads ahead. The ending leaks before half the chat has started.
Goodreads
Strangers, after the fact. Star ratings and text reviews, weeks later, from people you've never met.
Marco Polo
Voice with your people, no book in it. Great medium, no shared object to talk about.
BookClub
Voice notes from your closest friends, pinned to the chapter you're both in. Async, intimate, spoiler-proof.

I finished the chapter at midnight, paused, and there was Sarah — her voice, in my ear, talking about the same paragraph I'd just stopped on. It felt like she was sitting next to me on the couch.

BookClub alpha reader
— Mikel · January 2026
IOS · SUMMER 2026

Calling all creators and your readers.

We're welcoming authors and beloved book clubs and communities into our Beta first. Leave your email and we'll be in touch to help you find just the right book to start with.

No spam. Just a little hello in your inbox when your spot opens up.
Already in the library

An archive of conversations.

We’ve been in the studio with authors, novelists, essayists, and poets for since 2020 helping authors through COVID. So a library of content already awaits. Rich conversations from the writers themselves, ready to listen to alongside the book.

Tomorrow,
and Tomorrow,
and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
42:08
A. PatelIn studio · Author
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
38:14
M. OkaforIn studio · Novelist
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Demon Copperhead
B. Kingsolver
51:22
L. CastellanosIn studio · Essayist
North Woods
Daniel Mason
29:46
R. AhmadiIn studio · Poet
All Fours
Miranda July
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
46:12
J. LarssonIn studio · Novelist
Tomorrow,
and Tomorrow,
and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
42:08
A. PatelIn studio · Author
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
38:14
M. OkaforIn studio · Novelist
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Demon Copperhead
B. Kingsolver
51:22
L. CastellanosIn studio · Essayist
North Woods
Daniel Mason
29:46
R. AhmadiIn studio · Poet
All Fours
Miranda July
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
46:12
J. LarssonIn studio · Novelist
36:50
S. WhitlowIn studio · Memoir
James
Percival Everett
Trust
Hernan Diaz
44:02
D. MarchettiIn studio · Critic
The Heaven
& Earth Grocery
James McBride
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
58:15
K. NwosuIn studio · Author
Lessons
in Chemistry
B. Garmus
31:08
E. ParkIn studio · Novelist
Cloud Cuckoo
Land
Anthony Doerr
The Overstory
Richard Powers
39:44
N. TolentinoIn studio · Essayist
36:50
S. WhitlowIn studio · Memoir
James
Percival Everett
Trust
Hernan Diaz
44:02
D. MarchettiIn studio · Critic
The Heaven
& Earth Grocery
James McBride
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
58:15
K. NwosuIn studio · Author
Lessons
in Chemistry
B. Garmus
31:08
E. ParkIn studio · Novelist
Cloud Cuckoo
Land
Anthony Doerr
The Overstory
Richard Powers
39:44
N. TolentinoIn studio · Essayist