A quiet place to keep what a book gave you.
Smriti is a private, reflective reading app. Read your own PDFs and EPUBs, keep the quotes and ideas that mattered, and watch each book grow into a plant in your reading garden. No feeds, no streak pressure, no audience. Just you and what you're reading.
Built for Android first. No account required to start. No ads, ever.
- 01ShelveSearch or import a book
- 02ReadA timed, quiet session
- 03KeepSave what struck you
- 04GrowWatch your garden fill in
Read it here.
Keep it forever.
Open any PDF or EPUB you own right inside Smriti — paged or scrolling, serif or sans, dimmed for night reading. Highlight a line and it becomes a context when your session ends, filed under the book it came from.
Your files never leave your phone. We don't upload them, read them, or send them to the AI.
- PDF & EPUB
- Stays on device
- Highlights → contexts
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.
Tap a sentence to keep it
What you keep lands here — tagged, and tied to the book.
What it's actually for
One idea throughout: give reading room to mean something, without turning it into another feed to keep up with.
Three honest shelves
Reading, Read, and your Anti-library — Nassim Taleb's term for the books you haven't read yet, kept close on purpose as a reminder of what you still don't know. Search millions of titles, import a file of your own, or start from a hand-picked recommended shelf.
Ask about what you just read
Mid-session, ask about a passage or idea without losing your place. From your library, ask what to read next — it knows your shelves, so the answer fits you. When you finish, it offers the ideas worth keeping; you choose which stay. Silent when you don't need it.
Keep the quote, not just the highlight
Capture quotes, concepts, principles, and open questions in under 30 seconds — or let your highlights and companion chats become contexts for you. Categorized and grouped by book, so you can filter back to what mattered later.
A log of when you actually read
Every reading session, grouped by day — pages covered, time spent, pace. A quiet record of your reading rhythm over time, not a leaderboard.
A streak that forgives
A day counts when you finish a reading session. Read steadily and you earn freezes — miss a day and one quietly saves your streak. Longest run, days read, the next milestone: there for a glance, never a score to chase.
Every time you read, something grows.
Each book in your library is a plant — its species decided by the book itself, so the same book always grows the same way. Read on more days and it grows; finish it and it blooms. Books you haven't started wait patiently as seeds.
These plants are drawn by the same generator the app uses — no artwork, just code and your reading.
Where your reading lives
A reading life is personal. Here is exactly what goes where — the long version is in our privacy policy.
- PDF & EPUB files you open
- Highlights inside them
- Reader and theme settings
- Library, shelves & progress
- Sessions, streak & garden
- Contexts & companion chats
Encrypted in transit. Delete everything from Profile, instantly.
- Ads or ad trackers
- Selling your data
- Training AI on your notes
Calm by design
Smriti is deliberately not a social network, not a gamified habit tracker, and not another account you have to manage.
Private by default
No profile to perform for, no followers, no public shelf, no ads. What you capture is yours alone.
No streak-gaming
A streak with built-in freezes and a garden that never wilts. Skipping a day costs you nothing you already grew.
Respectful of thinking
Every screen earns its place. If it didn't help you read or reflect better, it isn't in the app.
Be first to know when Smriti launches.
Android is where Smriti starts. iOS is coming soon after. Leave your email and we'll let you know the moment it's available.