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            "website": "https://apprun.icu/",
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            "tagline": "Free browser apps for reading, planning, learning and games",
            "summary": "apprun.icu is a catalog of 34 free browser apps in eight groups: book discovery, reader tools, planners and calculators, tools, games, experiments, reference and guides. The apps need no account, no install and no tracking. The site is by Yunus Emre Vurgun.",
            "developer": "Yunus Emre Vurgun",
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                "web"
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            "pricing": "freemium",
            "price_note": "Apps are free; ebooks are paid, for example $3.84 on Gumroad",
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                "No account, install or tracking is needed to use the apps",
                "Book lists update live from Open Library and Google Books",
                "Eight groups and search across 34 apps",
                "Includes games and experiments alongside the tools"
            ],
            "limits": [
                "Book lists depend on Open Library and Google Books data",
                "Apps vary widely in scope, from games to calculators",
                "The ebooks are paid and sit outside the free catalog"
            ],
            "checked": "2026-10-10",
            "connected_to_publisher": true,
            "overview": "The book discovery apps rank reading lists live from Open Library and Google Books, with separate lists for science fiction, self-help, finance, health and technology. Reader tools include a reading speed test. Planners and calculators cover tasks such as sizing a camper-van power system and planning a mapping flight.\n\nPaid guides and ebooks sit alongside the free apps. The homepage links a 224-page ebook sold for $3.84 on Gumroad, and the catalog page says the paid guides fund the free apps. The How it works page describes where the data comes from and where it stays."
        },
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            "name": "Hardcover",
            "kind": "web",
            "website": "https://hardcover.app/",
            "page": "https://listme.name/software/hardcover",
            "tagline": "Social book tracker with a website and iOS and Android apps",
            "summary": "Hardcover is a social book-tracking service with a website and iOS and Android apps. Readers track books as want to read, currently reading, read or did not finish, rate and review them, and follow other readers' shelves. It is free, and an optional Supporter plan costs $4.99 a month.",
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            "price_note": "Free forever; optional Supporter plan at $4.99 a month",
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                "Free to track, rate and review books",
                "Imports libraries from Goodreads and StoryGraph",
                "Status, progress and lists for each book"
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                "Smaller community than Goodreads",
                "Extra stats and flair sit behind the Supporter plan"
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            "overview": "Hardcover is a reading tracker and social network for books. Readers record each book's status, progress, half-star rating and review, and they can add any number of lists to a book. Shelves can be public, private or friends-only, and genres, moods, tags and content warnings can be added to each title. The site says libraries can be imported from Goodreads, StoryGraph or a CSV file.\n\nHardcover is free, and the Supporter plan adds book stats and supporter flair for $4.99 a month or a yearly price with a 20% saving. The site describes Hardcover as a bootstrapped project that has not taken funding. Its trending section and discovery feed use the reading history of its members. Hardcover suits people who want social tracking in a modern interface; Goodreads in this list has the larger English-language community."
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                    "best_for": "Finding new books and tracking reads in a browser",
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                        "open_source": false,
                        "cost": "Free apps, paid ebooks"
                    }
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                    "product": "hardcover",
                    "rank": 4,
                    "score": 83,
                    "verdict": "A free social tracker with status tracking, half-star ratings, reviews and imports from Goodreads and StoryGraph, plus iOS and Android apps. Goodreads is the larger English-language community, so it remains the better place to find reviews.",
                    "best_for": "Social book tracking with Goodreads imports",
                    "spec": {
                        "platforms": "Web, iOS, Android",
                        "tracking": true,
                        "open_source": false,
                        "cost": "Free; optional Supporter plan"
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