Nōvele exists because we needed it. We couldn’t find an app that let us fully feel everything reading gives us, so we built it.
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Nōvele’s strengths
Nōvele recommends based on feeling, not just genre. With a catalogue of millions of titles to explore, it refines its suggestions with every book you finish, and invites you to capture your thoughts along the way with your built-in journal.
That’s what sets it apart from other apps, and this chart proves it.
| Nōvele | Goodreads | The StoryGraph | Fable | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| French interface | ✓ | |||
| Journaling side | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Voice memos | ✓ | |||
| Structured tropes | ✓ | |||
| Spice rating | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Trigger warnings | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Private or not, your call | ✓ | ✓ |
Some thoughts stay just for you. Others, you can choose to share, in text or voice memo.
Half-star ratings, spice level, tropes, and TW: all in one place, so you know what you're getting into.
The place to log how a book really made you feel, in your own words.
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Two ways to experience Nōvele
The free version already gives you everything you need to discover, track and savor your reading.
The Premium version is made for readers who want to go further: more personalization, more tools, more depth. Here’s exactly what’s included in each plan.
| Free | Subscription | |
|---|---|---|
| Discover & browse | ||
| Browse the app | ✓ | ✓ |
| View book details | ✓ | ✓ |
| Search books | ✓ | ✓ |
| See community content (ratings, feelings, tropes) | ✓ | ✓ |
| View your existing entries | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your journal, for every book already in your library. | ||
| Track your reading progress | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rate each book (stars) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Set the spice level | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tag your feelings, tropes and trigger warnings | ✓ | ✓ |
| Write private and public notes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Keep your highlights | ✓ | ✓ |
| Record voice memos | ✓ | ✓ |
| Share your reviews with the community | ✓ | ✓ |
| Filter and sort your Journal | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add content | ||
| Add new books to your « To Be Read » | — | ✓ |
| Add new books to your Journal | — | ✓ |
| Import your Goodreads library | — | ✓ |
What you’re probably wondering
Our answers to the questions you’re probably asking
An emotional reading journal is a digital notebook where you record not only the books you’ve read, but the emotions you felt while reading them: emotional intensity, spice level, content warnings and tropes.
Unlike a simple list of titles, it helps you get to know yourself better as a reader and guide your future choices. It’s an approach favored by the BookTok community, which chooses its reads for the emotional experience they promise.
Yes. The app was designed from the start as a bilingual French-English product, a positioning that sets it apart from the American apps that dominate this market.
The home page offers suggestions generated by algorithm and artificial intelligence based on your previous reads. You can also search by title, author or genre, and check community ratings.
A trope is a recurring narrative pattern, like « enemies to lovers » or « slow burn ». You can tag your reads by trope, but explicit trope search and filtering are coming in a future version.
The spice level is a scale that indicates the intensity of a book’s intimate scenes, often represented by peppers from 0 to 5. It appears on the book’s page, with half-values possible.
Three approaches exist: recommendation by popularity and community (Goodreads), by mood tags and stats (StoryGraph), and by algorithm and artificial intelligence based on reading history (Nōvele).
It all depends on your needs: a huge catalog and a large community (Goodreads), detailed stats and mood tags (StoryGraph), book clubs (Fable), or a bilingual experience centered on emotions with AI recommendations (Nōvele).
You record your position in the book (page or percentage), which lets you estimate what’s been read and what’s left to read. In Nōvele, this data also feeds your personal stats.
The TBR groups the books you own or want to read, but haven’t started yet. Nōvele lets you build and manage it to choose your next read.
