The Realm

A bookshelf for your heart

The Realm is a bookshelf you build on your phone. Add the books you have read, are reading or still mean to read, and stand them on a shelf the way you would at home: spine by spine, in the order you like, with a little decor between them.

Every book gets a spine — a photograph of the real one where we have it, and otherwise one drawn from the book’s own cover colours. You choose the bookcase, arrange it until it looks like yours, and can save the finished shelf as a picture.

Publish a shelf and other readers can find it, like it, save it and leave a comment; follow the readers whose taste you trust. Rate and review what you read — your ratings and reviews stay private unless you choose to share them. Reading notes and the covers you design in the app’s studio stay on your phone.

There is no advertising in The Realm, and we never sell your data. It is an app for adults: you must be 18 or older to use it.