Glose - Social ebook Reader

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About this app

The next-generation READING APP that makes reading AWESOME with features to keep you engaged and motivated. Pick a book in our choice of 1 million, start reading any book for free, connect with other readers and share notes, highlights, and conversation - and become a better reader.

Build your bookshelf in seconds : Create a free reader profile, organize your books, create lists.
Browse our ebookstore : 1 million ebooks in all categories. Best sellers, fiction, non fiction, young adult, business, education etc... with great discounts and free classics.
Start any book for free! One touch and you’re into any book for free. Read up to 10% of the content before deciding to pursue and purchase the book. Also, upload an import your own epubs from Dropbox, your desktop of anywhere else!
Read anywhere, anytime, online and offline. Glose stores your current reads so you can read them offline, in the bus, subway, in the depths of a mysterious forest or a far away galaxy.
Join the Community : see what other people are reading, recommending, highlighting, and annotating.
Read with your friends! Create reading groups to read with your friends and share highlights and annotations. Shared annotations in the margins of the text make reading more engaging and exciting. Post a note and see what other readers think.
Start an online book club! Create a group, pick a name and image, invite people and choose books : you’ve got your online book club read to go - around the world!
Make reading beautiful : create beautiful quote cards from the books you read. Choose a sentence that inspires you, choose a background photo, and share the quote card on social media.

More about Glose :

Reading for better learning : our unique features makes your reading more conducive to text analysis, memorization, and study. Glose is used in leading schools and universities to power distribution of reading material and discussion around text.

Our bookstore features the works of Malcolm Gladwell, Walter Isaacson, Stephen King, John Green, Paulo Coelho, James Patterson, E.L. James, Suzanne Collins, Danielle Steel, David Baldacci, Janet Evanovich, Nora Roberts, Dan Brown, Dean Koontz, John Grisham, George R.R Martin, and many more ! 

• Read popular FREE ebooks by classic authors : Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes, The Art of War, by Sun Tzu, The Marvelous Land of Oz, Tales from Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, Pride & Prejudice and more. 


On Glose, reading becomes social. You can highlight your favorite quotes with one touch, archive them, share them on social networks, and annotate them. So join our community of readers who read, share, and discuss the books they love!

Glose provides the most powerful reading experience online.
• Customise your reading settings to personalise your experience
 : fonts, spacing, page structure, background color (might mode and more).
• Always pick up your reading at the right page thanks to automatic synchronisation of your Reading activity on all devices. 

• Make new friends through books



So what are you waiting for ? Don’t miss the inspiring conversations happening every day in Glose, and Download our app !

Connect with us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/GloseApp)
Follow Glose on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Glose)
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Updated on
Sep 11, 2026
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Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
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  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, Audio and 3 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

2.97K reviews
Richard Hayden
June 26, 2023
The most annoying reading app I've ever used. Only using to read free ebooks from a newspaper. You have to swipe to turn pages and if you don't do it carefully it closes the app. If you touch the screen wrong it pops up an annoying highlight menu which occupies half the screen and is impossible to get rid of. It doesn't seem to be possible to turn off this option. It keeps coming up with spurious "motivational" exhortations to read more pages as though I'm a five-year-old
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Alyx McKeown
February 4, 2026
not great for audiobooks. chapters stop in the middle, then randomly reset the speed back to 1. the settings for your speed do not save. chapters read as null pretty frequently and you have to reset the app and your speed. this is just having it open, not even toggling between apps. if you switch between apps those problems increase in frequency which is already a bit too high.
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B B
January 25, 2024
The App is overall useful but frequently loses / forgets ALL highlights (markups) which remain persistently absent, despite closing and restarting the App and the phone. So, in short, it's unreliable and defeats the purpose. Hopefully that buggy part will get fixed but if you need to study for an exam by using notes and highlights, make sure you use alternatives.
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What’s new

Bug fixes and improvements.