✦ A PRIVACY-FIRST APP FOR BOOK READERS
BUILDING NOW
The readers who own the same books as you,
are the ones who get you.
MatchMyRead connects you with readers who own the same books you do. Privately. Intimately. A small group — no more than four.
Free to reserve. Your place held, nothing more.
Already reserved your place, or just curious? Take our 3-minute reader survey →
Who it's for
Most readers have each of these feelings at some point in their reading life.
01
No real reading companion
When you're deep in a book — or you've just finished one — you want to talk about it with someone who gets it. You have people in your life. Just not your kind of book people.
02
Overwhelmed by the noise
Streaks. Star ratings. Reading challenges. Yearly goals. Somewhere along the way the apps turned your quiet pleasure into a scoreboard you never asked to play.
03
Lost in the crowd
Fifty-person servers, sprawling forums, endless post streams, a celebrity's book club with thousands of followers. You drift through them because nothing better exists — but they're broadcasts, not conversations. You're in the audience, never the room.
04
Reading isn't a performance
Rate this. Review that. Follow, be followed, build a profile. Your reading life is yours — the half-formed thoughts, the private reactions — and none of it was ever meant to be performed.
05
An algorithm doesn't know me
Every app has an algorithm certain of what you should read next. But a recommendation engine isn't the same as being understood — it doesn't know what truly moved you, or what you abandoned, or why.
06
The feeling fades
You don't just want a record that you read it. You want to remember what it did to you — the line you had to stop and sit with, the feeling at a certain page — long after the details have gone.
If any of this sounds like your reading life, you belong here.
What changes
From reader to connected reader
Six things MatchMyRead gives you that nothing else does.
01
Matched on the books on your shelf
No algorithm guessing what you might like. MatchMyRead pairs you with the handful of readers whose shelves genuinely overlap with yours — the books you're reading now, the ones waiting, and the ones that shaped you.
02
You find each other at the same moment
No one searches. No one is followed. When your shelves overlap, you and another reader discover each other at the same moment — a connection neither of you sought or expected, surfaced by the books themselves.
03
A real conversation, not an audience
Skip the fifty-person groups and endless stream of comments. You're connected with one or two readers for quiet, real, text-based conversation — where every voice is heard and nothing is performed for a crowd.
04
Discuss it while it's still alive in you
You don't have to wait until the last page to talk about it — or post into the void and hope someone replies. Exchange thoughts with your reading companion as you go: intimate, unhurried, just between you, at a pace you set together.
05
Remember how it felt, not just that you read it
Keep a quiet, beautiful reading journal that moves at your pace — reflections, lines worth keeping, the feeling at a certain page, the books that challenged you or changed your mind. Recorded book by book. Yours alone.
06
Your shelf, the way you actually read
Physical, audiobook, e-book — one unified library. Real statuses: reading now, to-be-read, wishlist, and the ones you chose to walk away from. No public profile, no follower counts, no algorithm to perform for. Ad-free, private, entirely yours.
Reserve your place
Be one of our
founding readers.
The more readers at launch, the better your first matches. Your place among our founding readers matters from Day 1.
Reserve your place
30 seconds. No payment needed. We will let you know when MatchMyRead is ready for you.
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Reader research
Help us build it right.
Whether you reserve a place or not — 3 minutes of your reading habits will shape what we build. Open to everyone.
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How do avid readers actually live with their books?
8 questions about your reading habits, how you track books, whether you discuss what you read, and what you wish existed. Anonymous unless you choose to share your details.
3–4 minutes · No sign-up required · Open to all readers