How Kiveo Works — A Calm Reading Tracker for iPhone

A reading tracker built around how you actually read — one session, one quote, one book at a time.

We built Kiveo for people who love reading but don’t love the noise. No social feeds, no streaks, no leaderboards. Just a quiet place to track what you read, save the lines that matter, and see your reading life take shape over time.

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Kiveo library screen with a search bar, category chips, and a row of Fiction book covers under the All Books button.

Your books, your shelves.

We keep your library simple. Books live on one of four shelves — Reading, Read, Want to Read, or Set Aside — and you can move them whenever you’re ready.

Need to narrow down your next read? The Nightstand holds up to seven books — the ones you’re genuinely reaching for. Not a wish list. Not a backlog. Just the books within arm’s reach.

And if you started a book and it didn’t land? That’s fine. Set it aside. We don’t call it quitting — some books just aren’t right for right now.

Kiveo library screen with a search bar, category chips, and a row of Fiction book covers under the All Books button.

Read at your own pace. We’ll keep time.

When you settle in with a book, start a session. Kiveo tracks your reading time quietly in the background — even if you leave the app. A gentle Live Activity on your Lock Screen shows your session is running, without pulling you out of the story.

Finished a session? Log what you read. Reading doesn’t always happen on schedule, and we’re not here to penalize that.

Kiveo library screen with a search bar, category chips, and a row of Fiction book covers under the All Books button.

Save the lines that stay with you.

Some sentences change the way you see things. Kiveo gives you a quiet place to keep them — save quotes while you read, and revisit them whenever you want.

You can also write short reflections. Not reviews for anyone else — just a few honest lines about what the book means to you. Your reading journal grows alongside your library, one book at a time.

A reading space that respects your pace.

No accounts required. No ads. No data sold.
Kiveo is free to download, and everything you need to track your reading is already there.

If this sounds like the kind of reading space you’ve been looking for, we’d love for you to try it.

Download on the App Store