A private Goodreads alternative for serious readers

A different kind of reading app

If you are looking for a Goodreads alternative that feels more private, quieter and more editorial, BibliotecaChic is built around your personal reading memory.

Most reading platforms are designed around sharing: public profiles, star ratings visible to strangers, lists optimized for an audience. That model works for some people, and there's nothing wrong with it.

BibliotecaChic is built for the readers it doesn't fit. The ones who want to keep their library, their notes and their honest reviews for themselves —as a personal reading memory, not as content for an audience.

What BibliotecaChic actually is

It's a personal library you carry with you. Every book you've read, are reading, or want to read, organized the way you'd organize a real shelf —by genre, by location, by mood. With covers, with metadata, with the small details that turn a list of titles into a library.

• Books in every format: print, digital, audiobook. Add them by scanning the ISBN with your camera.
• Reading notes chapter by chapter, anchored to the moment you wrote them.
• Quotes you don't want to lose, organized by book and theme.
• Private reviews written for your future self, not for an algorithm.
• Storage locations for the physical copies —because a personal library is partly a physical object.
• A Literary Assistant that talks about your notes and your highlights —it doesn't invent, it draws from what you saved.

How it differs from the social model

This isn't a critique of public reading platforms —they serve their audience well. BibliotecaChic just makes a different set of choices:

• Your library is private by default. No public profile, no follower count, no shareable ranking.
• Your reviews are written for yourself. Honesty doesn't have a social cost when no one else is reading.
• The interface is editorial: serif typography, calm pacing, no infinite feed.
• Sharing is opt-in and visual: when you do want to share a quote, you export it as a card —outside the app.

Who it's for

Readers who keep a paper notebook next to the bed. Readers who reread their margin notes. Readers who want to remember the way a book made them feel six months later, not just whether they finished it.

BibliotecaChic is available in seven languages and works on the web, iOS and Android.

Start with no commitment

1. Create an account in under a minute —no credit card.
2. Add your first books by scanning the ISBN.
3. Start writing notes the next time you sit down to read.

You get 30 days of full access. After that, you decide whether to continue.