Understory: Reading Tracker
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About this app
Reward your reading habit with real-world and in-game trees!
Understory is a reading tracker, book tracker, and social reading app designed to help you track books, log reading progress, set reading goals, and stay consistent. Whether you’re organizing your bookshelf, building a reading habit, or joining a book group, Understory brings together everything you need in one place with a fun plant aesthetic.
Join the Understory bookish community to build a better reading habit and build a better world!
GROW REAL-LIFE TREES:
Watch your garden bloom in Understory and meet monthly objectives to grow real-world trees! Visit friends’ gardens daily to help their trees grow!
INTERACT WITH FRIENDS:
Join book groups where you and your friends can read different books! Like and comment on reviews in the social feed!
TRACK YOUR READING:
Review your books with half stars, audiobook tags and private reads! Manage your library with custom reading lists including a Did Not Finish (DNF) list!
LEVEL UP YOUR READING:
Improve your reading habit with leaderboards for books read, reading streaks, and XP level! Earn XP by logging reading and interacting with other users!
SHARE BOOK RECS:
See your friends’ favorite and highly rated books and share book recommendations directly with your friends!
SEE YOUR STATS:
Get insights on your reading history and social interactions through shareable stats and graphs and our signature Library Card graphic
Understory is perfect for readers who want to:
- Track books and reading progress in one place
- Build a daily reading habit and reading streak by growing a fun garden that doesn’t feel like a chore
- Log books, reviews, and ratings (with half stars!)
- Organize a TBR (to be read) list
- Track audiobooks and ebooks
- Join a social book community
- Discover new book recommendations
Terms of Use: https://www.understory-app.com/terms-of-use
Privacy Policy: https://www.understory-app.com/privacy-policy
Content and Copyright Policy: https://www.understory-app.com/content-copyright-policy
Understory is a reading tracker, book tracker, and social reading app designed to help you track books, log reading progress, set reading goals, and stay consistent. Whether you’re organizing your bookshelf, building a reading habit, or joining a book group, Understory brings together everything you need in one place with a fun plant aesthetic.
Join the Understory bookish community to build a better reading habit and build a better world!
GROW REAL-LIFE TREES:
Watch your garden bloom in Understory and meet monthly objectives to grow real-world trees! Visit friends’ gardens daily to help their trees grow!
INTERACT WITH FRIENDS:
Join book groups where you and your friends can read different books! Like and comment on reviews in the social feed!
TRACK YOUR READING:
Review your books with half stars, audiobook tags and private reads! Manage your library with custom reading lists including a Did Not Finish (DNF) list!
LEVEL UP YOUR READING:
Improve your reading habit with leaderboards for books read, reading streaks, and XP level! Earn XP by logging reading and interacting with other users!
SHARE BOOK RECS:
See your friends’ favorite and highly rated books and share book recommendations directly with your friends!
SEE YOUR STATS:
Get insights on your reading history and social interactions through shareable stats and graphs and our signature Library Card graphic
Understory is perfect for readers who want to:
- Track books and reading progress in one place
- Build a daily reading habit and reading streak by growing a fun garden that doesn’t feel like a chore
- Log books, reviews, and ratings (with half stars!)
- Organize a TBR (to be read) list
- Track audiobooks and ebooks
- Join a social book community
- Discover new book recommendations
Terms of Use: https://www.understory-app.com/terms-of-use
Privacy Policy: https://www.understory-app.com/privacy-policy
Content and Copyright Policy: https://www.understory-app.com/content-copyright-policy
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Ratings and reviews
41 reviews
Tyffanie Fields
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November 3, 2026
Takes a bit to navigate a new app, but worth it. the owners listen and add what they can to make it even more enjoyable! not only do you have community, book tracking, but you can also plant real trees with the paid version. you have plenty to use with the free version as well!
Linn Sæther
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October 10, 2026
the fact that you can not access the part of the app about your own data without wifi or internet connection is so stupid. if I wanna track my reading at a remote cabin or while flying or while camping that's inaccessible to me. I feel like you guys focus way more on being a social media rather than a reading tracker
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Emma <3
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October 3, 2026
Had this come up as a reading tracker suggested alternative to Amazon's Goodreads and loved the concept of planting real and digital trees as well as the emphasis on a more aesthetic app. So far it has delivered exceedingly well. I love my little digital forest. Importing your data from other apps is easy, although it did get confused with my storygraph owned shelf and I had to manually sort 200+ owned books and got a "no more searches remaining" message. Had to finish the next day.
Understory Studios LLC
November 10, 2026
Thanks for your thoughtful feedback and we're so glad you're enjoying Understory! We recently made some significant improvements to both our importer and search limits, so we hope these features work better for you going forward. Happy Reading!
What’s new
Various improvements and bug fixes
App support
About the developer
Understory Studios LLC
support@understory-app.com
1900 Chapman Ave APT 353
Rockville, MD 20852-1983
United States
+1 240-396-9950