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Glose is an app designed to help you read more and better. It is the most powerful reading app today.
Read better
🎈 Navigate easily
Always know where you are thanks to progress bars, visual cues, bookmarks, and easy navigation through pages, chapters, and books.
🛠 Personalize your experience
Choose among our hand-picked fonts for perfect reading comfort, select your background, day or night mode, police size, reading atmosphere, and more...
🚀 Fast
Quick loading speed, automatic synchronization across devices, Glose is engineered to get you to your content as fast as possible.
Discover
📚 +1.000.000 Ebooks in your hand
Our built-in ebookstore features titles from the world's best authors and publishers. A vast selection of fiction and non-fiction, new releases and New York Times best sellers, business and educational material. We have it all – just one touch away.
🎉 Start any book for free
Glose removes all barriers to reading. Just click on the ebook cover and you can read the first 10% of any ebook for free. Millions of pages before you make your mind.
🗂 High-level curation
We gather book lists from readers, authors, and inspiring leaders. Top 10 lists, reviews and articles from our editorial team to help you choose the best.
The ultimate collection of classics
Great classics reformatted
Don't settle for bad digital copies of the best books. We reformatted over 2000 titles to make them beautiful and pleasant to read on any screen. Because we care.
Beautifully designed Ebook covers
We designed original covers for the greatest masterpieces, some of which are animated for your delight. Get the best possible copy of classic and modern masterpieces.
The best books made affordable
Get a full bookshelf of 100 classic titles for only 20$. A great way to get you started with timeless masterpieces in literature and philosophy.
Search better across +1.000.000 books
🔍 Spotlight for books
Live search results will appear in real-time as you type, making everything faster. Whether it's book titles, authors, keywords or even readers you can follow.📋 Universal search across all books
Search for keywords across +1,000,000 books and we give you all the results with the full quotes, across our full catalog. Only on Glose.📖 In-book search
Search for keywords inside the ebooks you read and easily navigate through the different results in seconds, without losing context.
Remember more
✋ One-touch highlighting
Interacting with text has never been easier. Forget the long tap that forces you to use both fingers to highlight a piece of text. With Glose, it only takes one touch to highlight a sentence, making it much easier to save what's important.
💾 Automatic archiving
Everything you highlight or write in the text is automatically posted to your personal feed, creating an organized archive of all your thoughts and ideas.
🗃 Your memory in one place
Glose saves everything you do when you read, creating your own smart notebook. A notebook you can bring everywhere, and cannot lose.
🌞 Everywhere, forever
Everything you do is in the cloud, accessible and automatically synchronized across all your devices.
More open
✅ Sync your reading with your digital life
Glose connects to Facebook, Twitter, Google, and new APIs every month, allowing you to synchronize your reading activity with the tools you already use. 🔗 Sharing made easy
While reading, share your favorite quotes through social media, messaging platforms, email and text.📰 Quote sharing made beautiful
When you share a quote, send it as a beautiful quote card your friends or colleagues will love. We automatically convert the text you like into an image, and you can choose the background illustration you want.
Learn about yourself
📊 Learn from your activity
Reading develops your brain like physical activity develops your body, so why not measure reading like your running sessions or workouts? Glose helps you assess and understand your reading habits through a simple data interface. Know how you read and how to improve. This is an option for people who want to make their reading smarter.
🗣 Achieve more
Never drop off. Receive messages who will motivate you when you need it. Contextual notifications help you finish your books and encourage you to read more.
🗒 A reading program for you
Set up your reading program and goals in seconds. Get community support to achieve them.
🏆 Be rewarded
Reach landmarks and unlock animated badges you can collect. We spice your reading activity up and make it fun!
Engage in your reading
Annotate
Feeling inspired by what you read? Have an idea or story you want to write down before it's gone? With Glose, it takes only one touch to add an annotation to the margins of the text. Write whatever you want and decide if you want to keep it private or make it public.
Rich annotations give life to text
Annotation support text but also links, photos, videos, Gifs, etc. Augment your reading material to make it exciting, and see how other readers have been adding to the text.
Follow the readers
See other people's book lists, recommendations and reading progress. Follow the readfeed to see your friends' reading activity.
Engage with your friends
Comment on other readers' posts, add to their annotations, and trigger interesting conversations about the content you read.
Create private reading groups
Reading groups let you build your own digital book club. Select the people you want to read and share with. Glose is the perfect tool for groups of friends, families, teams and classrooms who want to read the same content and have discussions around it.
Read Everywhere
💻 On all devices
Glose is available on web browsers, iOS, and Android. Your reading activity is synchonized live across all your screens. Shift from your smartphone to your computer without losing progress or content.
📲 Read online and offline
Ebooks are stored locally on your mobile app so you can read them offline. From subway tunnels to the top of that mountain – don't lose a chance to progress in your reading. All your notes, highlights, and data are stored, even when you read offline.
Beyond books
📂 Upload your digital library
Glose is open to outside content, so you don't have to go through our ebookstore to find your next read. Upload your existing (DRM-free) library to read your ebooks with all our features.
🗞 We digitize your reading material
We provide services to transform your printed content into digital text and make it open to online reading, sharing and collaboration through our signature features.
📙 Trusted by schools, universities and businesses
We embark Pdfs, Word documents, printed memos, case studies, white papers –content meant to be read and shared.
Frequently Asked Questions
Unfortunately, an ebook you redeem or purchase on Glose cannot be sent to an e-reader at this point, whether it's a Kindle, Nook, or Kobo. That is due to the specific formats these devices require for the files they distribute. With Glose you can read anytime, anywhere, on your laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Also you can start reading any of our ebooks for free - up to 10% - which is great to discover new ebooks and try out our very special reading experience with no risk.
It’s easy! You just need to download the Glose app on your smartphone or iPad, and login to your account. All of your books and profile information will be synchronized across all of your devices.
Yes! You can read offline on our mobile app. You just need to open the ebook you want to read once, when you’re online. Then the ebook will be saved to your account and you’ll be able to read it offline everywhere at anytime on your smartphone or tablet.
You don't have to do anything to bookmark where you left off. The site and the app will save it for you. When you want to read next time you'll be automatically put on the right passage.
Sorry, but you can not download an ebook you bought or redeem on Glose on your computer. You can only read it on our app or our website. To do that, you just need to download the Glose app and login to your account. All of your books and profile information will be synchronized across all of your devices.
The world is already talking about us
We work with +1,000 publishers worldwide
Education and trade publishers worldwide trust Glose as a chosen eBooks and Audiobooks distribution and education platform
