— CUSTOM iOS APPS FOR AUTHORS · LIVE IN 72 HOURS

Authors need their own app.

Your readers live on Amazon's list, Meta's feed, and BookTok's algorithm — three landlords who charge you for reach to people who already love you. An app puts your readership in your pocket: push a launch and ~90% see it. Email manages ~20%.

Concept preview — InkCircle, for fictional novelist Maya Hart

— SOUND FAMILIAR?

1

Amazon owns your reader relationship — you can't even email the people who bought your last book.

2

Launch week lives or dies on an algorithm you don't control and ads that get pricier every year.

3

Your superfans have no home — they're scattered across a newsletter, a Facebook group, and a TikTok comment section.

— WHAT AN APP UNLOCKS FOR AUTHORS

Own the pocket. Everything follows.

A reader list nobody can take

Every download is a direct line. Push notifications for launches, cover reveals, and preorders — no algorithm, no 20% open rate.

Cover & title testing with real fans

Put two covers in the app, let readers vote in one tap. A/B decisions from the exact people who'll buy — not a Facebook ads proxy.

A launch team that actually launches

ARC delivery, review checklists, share streaks, leaderboards. Your street team becomes a game your fans want to win.

Direct sales & serialized reading

Sell signed editions, audiobooks, or chapter-a-week serials in-app. Keep the margin Amazon keeps now.

The viral utility we'd build a author

Chapter Drops

A serialized-reading engine with streaks: readers unlock a chapter a day, keep reading streaks, and pull friends in for group-read challenges. It's a reading habit tracker your name lives inside.

— GO DEEPER

The math Amazon doesn't want you to run

A $4.99 ebook pays you ~$3.50 through KDP. The same reader in your app buying direct pays you ~$4.50 — and you know who they are. Across a 2,000-reader list and three launches a year, ownership isn't a vibe, it's five figures.

Test covers. Test titles. Test first chapters.

Publishers guess with committees; you can ask 2,000 actual readers in one push. Cover A vs B, two title options, even competing opening pages — a voting utility your readers genuinely enjoy using.

Your backlist is a subscription waiting to happen

Ten books deep? That's a $6.99/month all-you-can-read app for your superfans — serialized re-reads, annotations, bonus epilogues. Recurring revenue from words you already wrote.

— FREE TASTE FOR AUTHORS

See the app we'd build your readership. Free.

Drop your website. Our engine reads what you do, designs the app your people actually need, and pours a private, clickable demo — usually inside ten minutes.

NO CALL · NO CARD · NO CATCH — ONE POUR PER BUSINESS

One app. One flat price. 72 hours.

FROM $1,999 · MOST AUTHORS POUR RESERVE ($5,999)

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— STRAIGHT ANSWERS FOR AUTHORS

I'm mid-list, not Colleen Hoover. Is an app overkill?
It's the opposite — mid-list is exactly where owning 2,000 true readers beats renting 50,000 impressions. Your app is a direct line to the people who already convert.
What about my existing newsletter?
Keep it. The app sits above it: push gets seen ~90% of the time, and the app gives readers things email can't — streaks, votes, serialized chapters, community.