Private by design

Booksnack

True stories from great books

Swap one scroll for a story

True stories from great books, one idea each, about a minute to read. Keep an idea and it comes back as a question, so you remember what you read.

Swap one scroll for a story: a feed of true stories from great nonfiction books, one idea each, and a memory for what you read.

  • No account required for core use
  • On-device privacy
  • iPhone
  • Education
Booksnack story open for reading, with the idea as a pull quote
Booksnack story on its painting: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Booksnack recall answered in your own words and checked on the iPhone
Booksnack story on its painting: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Booksnack story open for reading, with the idea as a pull quote
Booksnack recall answered in your own words and checked on the iPhone
Booksnack reading a whole book in order: Endurance
Booksnack Shelf of painted book covers filling in as you read
Booksnack chapter break showing what you kept
Booksnack story on its painting: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Booksnack story open for reading, with the idea as a pull quote
Booksnack recall answered in your own words and checked on the iPhone
Booksnack reading a whole book in order: Endurance
Booksnack Shelf of painted book covers filling in as you read
Booksnack chapter break showing what you kept

Product tour

What does Booksnack include?

One job per screen. Tap a capability to see it.

Booksnack story on its painting: A Short History of Nearly Everything

Feature 1

One true story, one idea

A real moment from a nonfiction book: a Super Bowl play call, a Stanford tapping experiment, a submarine captain who stopped giving orders. Then the idea, and what it means for your week.

Why Booksnack?

Faster to value. Harder to abandon.

Speed to value plus privacy-first defaults—so the first session earns the install.

One true story, one idea

A real moment from a nonfiction book: a Super Bowl play call, a Stanford tapping experiment, a submarine captain who stopped giving orders. Then the idea, and what it means for your week.

A feed that feeds you

Swipe up for the next story, from the topics you pick: thinking, work, habits, people, mind, health, money, business, creativity, science, history and philosophy.

Remember what you read

Kept stories come back as questions at the right intervals. Say the idea in your own words and Apple's on-device model checks it; your answer never leaves your iPhone.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

The questions people ask right before they hit Download.

No. Each card is one idea from a real nonfiction book, told through a true story the book tells, in our own words. The source is named on every card, and a caveat says where the idea is limited or contested.

No. Your answer is checked by Apple's on-device model and never leaves your iPhone. It needs an iPhone with Apple Intelligence turned on; without it, Show the idea works as before.

You can read without one. Signing in with Apple keeps what you keep and write in sync across your devices.

Booksnack is a subscription billed by Apple, with seven free days on the yearly and monthly plans. The paywall shows the price and the date of your first charge before you confirm, and you can cancel in two taps from Settings.

Yes. Settings, Export gives you everything you keep and write as JSON and Markdown, even after a subscription ends.

Download Booksnack on the App Store

Premium iOS craft—privacy-first defaults, conversion-ready product pages, zero template feel.

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Compatibility

Available on iOS.