01 · Start a club
Pick a book with your people.
Invite two or three friends. Choose what's next. No moderator, no schedule. The club is just a thread between people who like the same kind of books.
Start an audiobook with three or four friends. They listen at their own pace. When something hits, they hold down a button and leave you a voice note — and you only hear it when you reach that exact moment in the book.
It's the book club texts you wished you'd sent — before someone in the group chat ruined the ending.
Reading is private. Talking about it is the best part. BookClub is for the small group of friends who want to read the same book at the same time, without a calendar invite, without spoilers, without having to wait six weeks to compare notes over wine.
Invite two or three friends. Choose what's next. No moderator, no schedule. The club is just a thread between people who like the same kind of books.
Hear something that wrecked you? Hold the button, talk for thirty seconds. Your voice note is pinned to the exact second you paused on.
Your friends' voice notes pop up the moment you reach the same line. The book becomes the conversation. Spoilers are physically impossible.
Your usual audiobook UI, with one new layer: a coral dot on the timeline every time a friend left you a thought. Tap, listen, react.
The mic button is right where the timeline is. Hold it, talk, let go. We attach your voice note to the exact timestamp you were on.
You don't see your friends' notes early. They unlock as you reach the chapter, the line, the moment. It's the only group chat that can't ruin a book.
Built for three-to-eight people who actually know each other. No follower count, no algorithm, no public reviews. Just your people, talking about a book.
When you re-listen a year later, your friends are still there at every stop — the laughs, the gasps, the half-asleep theory at 11pm.
The reading life splits in two: hours of private listening, and the friends you wish were there for it. Every existing tool fixes one half and breaks the other. BookClub is the first one built to do both at once.
I finished the chapter at midnight, paused, and there was Anna — her voice, in my ear, talking about the same paragraph I'd just stopped on. It felt like she was sitting next to me on the couch.
Beta opens to small clubs first — you and the people you'd actually want to talk about a book with. Drop your email; we'll reach out when there's a spot for your group.
BookClub has been recording with novelists, essayists, and poets since 2020. Every conversation we’ve produced becomes a voice your club can listen to alongside the book.