What's New

v2.0

October 14, 2026

Redesigned Bookrise

Bookrise 2.0 has been redesigned from the ground up to look and feel native. Make Bookrise yours with many new themes, including seasonal ones available for a limited time. The new Search tab finds books in your library and online.

The Bookrise library in the new design

Bookrise on iPad

Bookrise now runs on iPad, in portrait and landscape, and alongside your other apps.

Bookrise on iPad and iPhone

Your month in covers

The Reading Calendar in Insights now shows the cover of every book you read each day. Tap a busy day to cycle through its books, then share the month as an image with your choice of background, layout and stats. You can also pick the day your week starts.

The Reading Calendar with book covers, and the month ready to share

Richer notes

Notes have a new editor with headings, quotes, checklists, bold, italic and links. Scan a passage from a photo of a page and pick the lines you want to keep. Share a note as Markdown or as an image card with the book’s cover. Reading Mode now shows the notes you wrote during the session.

A note in the new editor and its share card

Additional Improvements and Fixes

  • A big accessibility update: Bookrise now works much better with VoiceOver and Voice Control, supports text up to 200%, and follows Reduce Motion and Increase Contrast.
  • Choose your covers: search for one, paste an image link, pick a photo, or use the new cover camera, which finds the edges of the cover and straightens it. Your covers are saved in iCloud Drive.
  • Import your library from Goodreads, StoryGraph, Hardcover, Calibre or Bookmory, or match the columns of any CSV file yourself. Bookrise looks up missing covers after the import.
  • Timed reading sessions are now unlimited for everyone.
  • Change the date you started or finished a book, and edit the pages of a reading session.
  • Fixes for many issues across the app, plus performance and usability improvements.

v1.8

September 26, 2026

Make Bookrise your own

Pick a color theme that suits your reading: Blue, Purple, Emerald, Rose, Red, Gold or Minimal. Each theme shows a preview before you switch. You can also give Bookrise a Gold, Green, Pink or Red app icon. Find both in Settings → Appearance. Extra themes and icons are included with Bookrise Premium.

Weekly Reading Streaks

Not everyone reads every day, so Insights now tracks a weekly streak next to your daily one. Read at least once a week to keep it going, and see your longest weekly streak in your statistics. Add the new Weekly Reading Streak widget to keep it on your Home Screen.

Additional Improvements and Fixes

  • Your Apple Watch can now track pages even when your iPhone isn’t nearby.
  • Adding reading progress to a book now moves it to Reading automatically.
  • Library exports now include the current page of each book.