Pricing
Start free with three foundational books, no card. Scholar unlocks the full library and hands-free voice mode for $11.99/month, after a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime — keep access until the period ends.
Try it without a card. Three hand-picked books with the full experience — every feature, just a smaller catalog.
The full library, hands-free voice mode, and uploads. 7-day free trial, then $11.99/month.
| Feature | Free | Scholar |
|---|---|---|
Books you can open The Socratic dialogue is locked to these books on each tier. | 3 foundational texts | All 65+ books |
Collections browsable Stoic, American Founding, Russian Giants, Well-Educated Mind, more. | All 31 (browse only) | All 31 |
Socratic dialogue (Grammar / Logic / Rhetoric) | On the 3 free books | |
Your synthesis You write three paragraphs in your own words; Socrates reviews. Yours forever. | ||
Commonplace book Save quotes across every book; tags weave them into cross-book threads. | ||
Book-level synthesis Long-form reflection weaving threads across all the units in a book. | On the 3 free books | |
Hands-free voice mode (iOS) Put in AirPods, walk, hear the passage, speak your answers. Runs on-device — no per-utterance cost. On Free, available across the three free books. | On the 3 free books | |
Leisure mode Audiobook-style read-throughs with auto-advance, no Socratic dialogue. | On the 3 free books | |
Upload your own books Drop in any EPUB or plain text and run the full Trivium flow on it. | — | |
Native iOS app Same account, same dialogue, plus voice on a walk. | ||
Daily dialogue limit Tokens are real money. Heavy users get capped so pricing stays sane. | 50 turns / day | 500 turns / day |
Email support |
A single Socratic dialogue turn costs us real money — the AI that reads with you isn't free to run. A serious reader finishing one book a month costs us about a third of their subscription to serve. The rest pays for new books, infrastructure, and keeping the product getting better without ads or selling your reading data.
Voice mode runs entirely on your iPhone via an open-source speech model — no per-utterance cost to us, and it works offline. That's why we can include it in one tier instead of charging extra for it.
If you use the product heavily and run into a daily limit, you'll see a clear message, not a surprise bill. No usage-based invoicing, no throttling surprises.
Subscribe through the web and you keep the same access on iOS, with the same account. Same library, same notebook, same commonplace book — just a different surface to read on.