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Tap the + button on the Library screen. You can search by title or author, scan the ISBN barcode, or add a book manually. Once found, choose a shelf and you're done.

Shelves let you organise your library. Reading is for books you're currently reading, Finished for completed ones, Want to read for your to-read list, and Did not finish for books you abandoned.

Open a book, go to the Info tab, and tap the page or chapter count to update your progress. You can also tap the progress bar label directly. Plume. logs your daily reading and uses it to calculate streaks and stats.

Tap the shelf badge (e.g. Reading) on the book detail page to change status directly. Tap the Started or Finished rows in the Info tab to update dates. Tap the Pages or Chapters value to edit the total.

For manga without a known chapter count, you can toggle Ongoing series in the Info tab. This prevents Plume. from automatically marking the manga as finished when you reach the current chapter total. You can also find this toggle in edit mode for any manga.

If a book is missing its cover, synopsis, pages, or other details, a Refresh metadata button appears in the Info tab. Tapping it fetches the latest information from Google Books and fills in any missing fields. The cover is always updated to match. You can refresh once every 24 hours per book.

At the bottom of a book's Info tab, Plume. shows other books by the same author — a quiet way to discover what else they've written without leaving the app. Tap any cover to see details and add it to your library. This section only appears for books, not manga. Results come from Google Books, a free provider with broad but imperfect coverage — accuracy and availability vary by author, and some lesser-known authors may return no results or unrelated titles. This is a known limitation of free metadata sources.

Yes. Tap the filter icon on the Library screen and go to the Display tab. You can switch between grid and list view, choose how many covers appear per row (2–5), toggle the visibility of title, author, rating, and reading progress on each cover, and set your default shelf.

Tap the filter icon on the Library screen. The Sort tab lets you order by recently added, title, author, rating, or date finished. The Filter tab lets you narrow by type, genre, rating, year read, or custom tags.

Tap the filter icon on the Library screen, go to the Display tab, and select your preferred default shelf at the top. Your choice is saved and applied every time you open the app.

Tags let you organise books with custom labels — for example #japan, #nonfiction, or #rereads. Open a book, go to the Info tab, and tap the Tags row to add or remove tags. You can search for tags from the main Library search bar, and filter by tag in the Filter tab.

Tap or drag across the stars on the book detail page to set a rating. Ratings go in quarter-star steps — drag your finger slowly and you'll feel a gentle tick at each step, with the exact rating (for example 3.75) shown underneath the stars. You can also rate from the Edit screen or when adding a finished book. To clear a rating, tap your current rating again, or drag past the left edge of the first star. With VoiceOver, swipe up or down on the stars to adjust by a quarter.

Yes. Tap the filter icon on the Library screen and go to the Filter tab. Each star value covers its whole range — 3★ shows every book rated from 3 up to 3.75 — so half and quarter ratings are always included. Select several values to combine them.

Plume.'s own CSV export keeps your ratings exactly, so moving between devices or sharing with another Plume. reader loses nothing. Goodreads only supports whole stars, so the Goodreads export rounds each rating to the nearest whole star (3.75 becomes 4). When importing from StoryGraph, quarter-star ratings come across exactly as they were.

Open a book and go to the Highlights tab. Tap + Add highlight in the footer to type one manually, scan a page with your camera using OCR, or import from your e-reader.

In the Highlights tab, tap + Add highlight then choose Scan page. Point your camera at the text, and Plume. will extract it automatically using on-device OCR. You can edit the result before saving.

Yes. Open any highlight to edit it. There's a Your note section below the quote where you can write your thoughts. Tap Done to save.

Yes. Tap the search icon in the Highlights tab footer to search within a book's highlights by quote text or note content. To search across your entire library, use the search bar on the main Library screen.

Once you have 20 or more highlights for a book, a sparkle icon appears in the Highlights tab footer. Tap it to jump to a random highlight — a way to rediscover something you saved.

Connect your Kindle to your Mac or PC via USB. Open it in Finder or File Explorer and look for the documents folder. Inside you'll find a file called My Clippings.txt. Copy it to your iPhone — via AirDrop, email, or Files — then open Plume., go to Profile → Import highlights, choose Kindle, and select the file.

First, enable the export feature on your Kobo. Connect it to your Mac or PC via USB. On Mac, show hidden files with Cmd + Shift + . (period). Find the file at .kobo/Kobo/Kobo eReader.conf and open it in a text editor. Before the [General] section at the top, add two lines: [FeatureSettings] on one line and ExportHighlights=true on the next. Save, eject, and restart your Kobo. A new Export highlights option will appear when you press and hold on a book. Export each book individually — files are saved in the Exported Annotations folder at the root of your Kobo. Send the .txt files to your iPhone and import in Plume. via Profile → Import highlights → Kobo.

Plume. will detect the match and ask what to do. Merge adds the new highlights to the existing book. Replace overwrites the existing highlights. Add as new creates a separate entry.

The Notes tab lets you write freeform thoughts about a book — things that don't belong on a specific quote. Think of it as a reading journal per book. Tap + Add note in the footer to create an entry. Notes are timestamped and saved automatically.

A highlight note is a reaction tied to a specific quote. A book note is a standalone thought not linked to any passage — for broader reflections, questions, or ideas the book sparked.

Yes. Tap the search icon in the Notes tab footer to search within a book's notes.

Reflections surface a past highlight from your library — a quiet moment to revisit something you found worth saving. When a reflection is ready, a subtle pill appears at the bottom of your Library. Tap it to read.

You can choose the frequency in Profile → Settings → Reflection frequency. Options are Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, and Monthly. Reflections appear when you open the app after the interval has passed. Changing the frequency resets the timer so a new one can surface on your next app open.

Plume. favours older highlights you haven't seen recently, so Reflections feel like rediscovery rather than repetition. The same highlight won't appear twice within six months.

Yes. Go to Profile → Settings and toggle Reflections off.

Stats are based on your reading log — updated each time you record page progress on a book. Books read, pages read, and streaks all come from this log, so keeping your progress updated gives you more accurate stats.

A streak counts consecutive days where you met your daily goal — pages for books, minutes for audiobooks. Each format keeps its own streak. Your current streak and best streak are shown on the Stats page.

On the Stats page, tap Edit next to Today's goal. You can set your target number of pages per day once for free. Changing it later requires Plume. Pro.

On the Stats page, go to the Year tab and tap Set goal. Enter how many books you want to read this year. The goal pill tracks your progress. Setting a yearly goal is free once — changing it later requires Plume. Pro.

The Stats page has three tabs. Month shows your reading activity for the current month — daily goal, reading calendar, genre breakdown, and top reading days. Year shows your full-year progress with a 12-month calendar grid and yearly goal tracking. All time shows your complete reading history, year-by-year breakdown, milestones, and reading session stats. Month and Year also show a row of covers for the books you finished in that period — tap any cover to open the book. Each scope has separate Books and Audiobooks views.

Milestones appear in the All time tab and highlight your personal records — your longest book, fastest read, the book with the most highlights, and your best reading year.

For manga, chapters are counted as pages in the reading log since Plume. uses a unified progress system. This means manga chapter counts contribute to your pages read total, which may appear lower than expected for heavy manga readers. This is a known limitation.

Yes. In the Month tab, tap See your month in covers under the reading calendar. Each day shows the cover of the book you read most, with any other books that day stacked just behind it. Tap a day to see every book and how much you read. Audiobooks have their own listening calendar, opened the same way from the Audiobooks view. Browsing previous months requires Plume. Pro.

Books and Audiobooks keep fully separate stats, so each view reflects one format. Finished audiobooks, listening sessions, and highlights on audiobooks count in the Audiobooks view only — including towards your yearly audiobook goal rather than your yearly book goal. Nothing is lost; switch to the Audiobooks view to see them.

Add the book as usual, then turn on the Audiobook toggle on the screen where you choose a shelf. You can also switch an existing book to an audiobook from its Edit screen. Once it's on, you can enter the duration and narrator. Switching back to text keeps your page details, so nothing is lost either way.

For audiobooks, the Info tab shows Duration, Narrator, and your Position instead of pages. Tap Position to update how far you've listened. On the book detail page, shelves read as Want to listen, Listening, and Finished.

Yes. The book timer works for audiobooks exactly as it does for books, including the Live Activity on your lock screen. When you stop the timer, Plume. calculates your new position from the time you listened — you can adjust it before saving if it's slightly off. Adding a listening session manually requires Plume. Pro.

Yes. In the Audiobooks view of the Stats page, you can set a daily listening goal in minutes and a yearly audiobook goal. Turning the daily goal on or off is always free. Like reading goals, each can be set once for free — changing them later requires Plume. Pro. Listening goals and streaks are tracked separately from your reading ones.

Yes. In Profile → Settings, turn on Hide Audiobooks in Stats to remove the Books / Audiobooks switch from the Stats page. Your audiobooks stay in your library and keep being tracked — they're just not shown in Stats. This setting applies to the device you change it on.

The free book sources Plume. uses don't reliably include audiobook details like narrator or running time, so these are entered by hand for now. Covers, authors, and other book details are still fetched as usual.

Yes to both. Audiobooks and books mix freely in any collection. The Plume. CSV export includes each book's format, duration, narrator, and listening position, so everything comes back exactly when you import it. The Goodreads export includes your audiobooks, but not the audio-specific details, since Goodreads has no equivalent fields.

The book timer lets you track how long you spend reading in each session. Start it from the Info tab on any book you're currently reading. The timer runs in the background and shows a floating pill at the bottom of the app while active.

Open a book on your Reading shelf, go to the Info tab, and tap Start session. The timer starts immediately and a floating pill appears at the bottom of the screen.

Yes. Tap the pause button on the floating pill, or tap Pause & Open App from the Live Activity on your lock screen. The timer freezes until you resume.

Tap the stop button on the pill, confirm you want to stop, then enter your current page in the sheet that appears. Tap Save session to log it. Your book progress updates automatically.

When a session is active, Plume. shows a Live Activity on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island. It displays the book title, elapsed time, and buttons to pause or stop the session. Tapping Stop & Open App brings you back to Plume. to save or discard the session.

Open any book and scroll to the Reading sessions section in the Info tab. It shows your three most recent sessions with date, duration, and pages read. Tap See all to view your full session history for that book.

Tap the stop button on the pill, then tap Cancel session in the confirmation. This discards the session without saving anything.

Collections let you group books together for any reason you like — a yearly reading goal, a genre, a themed pile, or anything else. A book can belong to as many collections as you want, independent of its shelf status.

From your Library, tap the collections icon next to the filter icon, then tap the + button. Give it a name, an optional description, and choose whether to track completion.

Open a collection and tap + to either pick from books already in your library or search for a new one. You can also add a book to any collection directly from its own page, in the Collections row under its details.

When enabled, each book in the collection gets its own checkbox and the collection shows a progress bar. Checking a book off only marks it complete within that collection — it won't change your library shelf unless you confirm you'd like to also mark it Finished.

Only if you confirm the shelf-sync prompt. Collections track completion independently from your library — your Stats page is driven by your shelves and reading sessions, not by collection checkmarks.

Yes. In Manual order sort, drag the grip handle on any book to reorder it within a collection. Collections themselves can also be dragged into a new order from the main Collections page.

Yes. Open the collection, tap the ··· menu, then Edit collection. Tap the cover to choose and crop a photo. You can reset it back to the automatic cover — made from your first few book covers — at any time.

Swipe left on any book in list view to remove it. This only removes it from that collection — the book stays in your library untouched.

Only the collection itself is deleted. Every book inside it stays exactly where it is in your library.

Yes. Tap the ··· menu on a collection and choose Duplicate. This creates a fresh copy with the same books, but all completion checkmarks reset — handy for reusing a list like "Reading list" for a new year.

Yes. Tap the ··· menu on a collection and choose Share. This exports a CSV of just that collection, which you can send to a friend any way you like — Messages, email, AirDrop. They can import it into their own Plume library. Unlike Following, this is a one-time snapshot to one person, not a live shared feed.

Yes, the same way the rest of your library does. If iCloud sync isn't enabled, Collections are stored only on your device and won't transfer if you reinstall the app or switch devices.

Following lets you share your reading activity with friends and see what they're reading. You generate a personal code and share it — anyone who enters it can follow your shelves and collections in read-only mode. No accounts, no public profiles, no social feed.

Go to Profile → tap your profile card to open the Following page. Tap Get your code and sign in with Apple — this is only used to keep your code private and persistent. Your code will appear in the format PLUME-XXXX. Copy or share it directly from there.

On the Following page, tap the + button, enter your friend's PLUME-XXXX code, and tap Find. You'll see a preview of their profile — tap Follow to add them. Their reading activity will appear as a card you can tap into at any time.

Only what you choose to share. Go to Following → What you share to toggle your Currently reading, Read, and Want to read shelves on or off individually. You can also choose which Collections to share. Everything else — highlights, notes, ratings, reviews — stays private.

Yes. Long-press on a friend's profile page to bring up the nickname sheet. Nicknames are stored locally — your friend won't see it.

Go to Following → What you share → Revoke code… This invalidates your current PLUME-XXXX code — anyone following you will lose access immediately. You can generate a new code at any time and share it selectively.

Open the friend's profile and tap Remove reader at the bottom. They won't be notified. You can re-add them later with their code if they still have one active.

Only the data you explicitly choose to share is stored on Plume's relay — the shelves and collections you toggled on. It is keyed to your code and only accessible by someone who has that code. No other library data, highlights, or personal information is ever sent.

Open a book, go to the Info tab, and tap See all under Reading sessions. At the bottom of the Sessions page, tap Log manually. Enter the date, duration, and optionally how many pages you read. This requires Plume Pro.

Yes. On the Sessions page, tap the trash icon to the right of any session. A confirmation dialog will appear — tap Delete to remove it permanently. Deleting a session updates your Stats and streak immediately.

Yes. Manually logged sessions are treated the same as timer sessions — they count toward your total reading time, average session length, and pages read in Stats.

Go to Profile → Your library → Export highlights. Choose By Book to export a single book as a Markdown file, or Full Library to export multiple books as a CSV. This requires Plume Pro.

By Book exports a single book's highlights and notes as a Markdown file — clean and readable, compatible with Notion, Obsidian, and Bear. Full Library exports highlights and notes from multiple books as a CSV file, useful for searching across your entire library or importing into a spreadsheet.

All highlights and any inline notes attached to them, plus standalone book notes. Highlights appear in the order you added them. Only books with at least one highlight or note are available to export.

Tapping Export opens the iOS share sheet, where you can save the file to Files, iCloud Drive, send it via email, or open it in any compatible app directly.

Plume supports importing from Reading List, Goodreads, StoryGraph, and Plume itself. Go to Profile → Your library → Import library and select your source. For the first three, you'll need to export a CSV from that app first.

On the Goodreads website, go to My Books → Import and export → Export Library. This downloads a file called goodreads_library_export.csv. Import that file into Plume.

On the StoryGraph website, go to Manage Account → Manage Your Data → Export StoryGraph Library. Import the downloaded CSV into Plume.

In the Reading List app, go to Settings → Export → Export to CSV. Import the downloaded file into Plume.

Choose Plume as your source and select the CSV. A Full or Custom export brings in shelves and collections as they were when exported. A collection shared by a friend only brings in the books themselves — no shelf or reading status — added to a new collection in your library, since your reading progress is yours to set.

Plume detects duplicates on the import preview screen. You can choose to add the book anyway or skip it individually for each duplicate found. When importing a file exported from Plume, a skipped duplicate still joins any collection listed for it — only the extra book record is skipped.

Covers are sourced from free, open databases. Most books import with a cover, but some — particularly obscure titles, non-English editions, or older books — may not have one available. Manga covers are matched automatically only when importing a file exported from Plume, since it's the only format that records which titles are manga. You can tap Refresh metadata on the book's Info tab to try fetching a cover again, or add one manually in edit mode.

Go to Profile → Your library → Export library. Choose your format and the iOS share sheet will open so you can save the file to Files, iCloud Drive, or send it anywhere.

Goodreads Compatible exports in the standard format accepted by Goodreads, StoryGraph, and most book trackers — ideal for migrating your library to another app. Plume Full Export includes every Plume field (genres, language, reading dates, reviews, and collections) and is best for archiving or re-importing into Plume. Custom lets you choose specific shelves or collections to include, using the same full field set as Plume Full Export.

Yes. Choose Custom from the export menu, then select any combination of shelves and collections. A book is included if it matches at least one of your selections. Custom exports use the Plume format, so they can be imported back into Plume later.

Yes. StoryGraph accepts the Goodreads CSV format directly. Export your library from Plume using the Goodreads Compatible format, then import that file into StoryGraph from its Manage Account page.

Go to Profile and tap Theme, the first row in Settings. Choose Light, Dark, or Custom. Plume. keeps the theme you pick rather than following your iPhone's light or dark mode setting, so it always looks the way you chose.

Choose Custom and tap any colour in the list to change it. You can pick from the colour spectrum, type a hex code, or tap a quick preset. Each colour shows a small preview of the exact part of the app it affects — like buttons, text, or borders — and the preview card at the top shows everything together. When you're happy, tap Save.

Light and Dark are free for everyone. You can also explore Custom freely — change every colour and see the live preview — but saving a custom theme requires Plume. Pro.

Plume. includes four ready-made palettes to start from: Sage, Moss, Ocean, and Deep. You can also save your own with Save as… and give it a name — there's no limit. Tapping a preset loads its colours so you can preview or tweak them; nothing changes until you tap Save. To remove one of your presets, tap the small × on it. To rename one, load it, use Save as… with the new name, then delete the old one.

Yes, with iCloud sync turned on. Your theme and your saved presets follow you to your other devices, and a theme changed on one device updates on the others without needing to restart the app.

A few things keep fixed colours on purpose. The lock screen widget and Live Activity use Apple's own system, separate from the app. The floating timer pill and delete buttons stay the same so they're always readable, whatever colours you choose. Placeholder covers and some stats charts keep their variety of colours so they stay easy to tell apart.

When enabled, Plume. syncs your library, highlights, notes, reads, reading log, reading sessions, and collections to your private iCloud container. Your data is only visible to you — Plume. never has access to it. Sync happens automatically when you open the app.

Go to Profile → Settings and toggle iCloud sync on. Make sure you're signed into iCloud on your device. The first sync may take a moment depending on library size.

Yes. Everything stays on your device or in your private iCloud container. Plume. has no backend servers and no access to your data. No tracking, no ads, no third-party sharing.

Go to Profile → App data → Export backup. Plume. creates a JSON file containing your entire library, highlights, and reading history. Save it somewhere safe — Files, iCloud Drive, or email it to yourself.

Go to Profile → App data → Import backup and select your backup file. Plume. will restore all your books, highlights, and reading history.

Profile → App data → Delete all data permanently removes everything from your device and returns you to onboarding. This cannot be undone. If you have a backup or iCloud sync enabled, you can restore afterwards.

Pro unlocks unlimited Kindle and Kobo imports, iCloud sync, full stats history across all years and months (including the cover calendar), daily and yearly goal editing after the first set, full reading and listening session history per book, manual session logging, highlight and note exports, unlimited Reflections after the first, and saving your own custom themes. It's a one-time purchase — no subscription.

If you've previously purchased Plume Pro and reinstalled the app, open the paywall and tap Restore purchase. Your Pro access will be reinstated at no charge.