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Image Credits:Tome11:38 AM PDT · May 7, 2026
Tome, a book-tracking app and publication lovers community, is closing its doors.
Built connected the backmost of the sizable and influential BookTok assemblage — creators who sermon and reappraisal books connected TikTok — the app offered readers a spot to chronicle and complaint their books, get recommendations, and adjacent adhd photos of things similar favourite quotes oregon memes, oregon stock playlists that lucifer the book’s vibes.
The app was present 1 of galore that caters to a increasing demographic of Gen Z readers who make book-related contented connected societal media — a radical that began chiefly arsenic women promoting their favourite “romantasy” titles, but has since grown to see readers of each types.
But the abstraction to leverage that assemblage to instrumentality connected the still-reigning book-tracking champ, Goodreads, whitethorn beryllium a spot excessively crowded now. Tome, for instance, had to vie against respective different booktrackers with a akin vibe, specified arsenic Fable, Margins, Bookly, StoryGraph, Bookmory, Pagebound, TBR, and others. (TBR’s app not to beryllium confused with the publication recommendations tract TBR, which is besides shutting down successful June!)
In a blog station announcing the closure, Tome hints astatine the competitory landscape, noting that its assemblage of 100,000 readers wasn’t capable to scope the standard needed to support up with the disbursal of moving a societal app that supported memes, GIFs, and video. The institution said that successful the extremity the work “wasn’t financially viable to support running.”
Tome said that the app volition officially unopen down connected May 29, astatine which constituent the app volition halt moving arsenic the servers volition person been unopen off. The website volition besides unopen down connected the day, the institution said.
The station besides advises Tome users connected however to download their data, including posts and images, and a spreadsheet of their speechmaking updates.
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