Tome, a book-tracking and community app aimed at Gen Z readers, is closing down. The app will stop working on May 29, 2026, when its servers are shut off, and its website will also go dark the same day.
Built around the BookTok community — creators who discuss and review books on TikTok — Tome allowed readers to track and rate books, receive recommendations, upload photos of favorite quotes or memes, and share playlists tied to specific titles. Its user base reached 100,000 readers.
In a blog post announcing the closure, Tome said the service “wasn’t financially viable to keep running.” The company indicated that its community size wasn’t sufficient to cover the costs of operating a social app that supported memes, GIFs, and video.
The competitive landscape also loomed large. Tome operated in a crowded field of Goodreads alternatives, competing against apps including Fable, Margins, Bookly, StoryGraph, Bookmory, Pagebound, and TBR, among others. Goodreads remains the dominant book-tracking platform.
Tome’s closure is not the only one in the space. TBR, a separate book recommendations site, is also shutting down in June 2026.
The app had catered to a growing segment of Gen Z readers who create book-related content on social media — a group that began largely as women promoting “romantasy” titles but has since expanded to readers of various genres.
Users who want to preserve their data before the May 29 shutdown can download their posts, images, and a spreadsheet of reading updates, according to instructions provided in Tome’s closure announcement.
Source: TechCrunch