Tommy, another book-tracking competitor on Goodreads, has shut down

Tommya book tracking app and book lover community, is closing its doors.

Built on the back of BookTok’s large, influential community — creators who discuss and review books on TikTok — the app offers readers a place to chronicle and rate their books, get recommendations, and even add images of things like favorite quotes or memes, or share playlists that match a book’s sentiment.

The app is now one of many that cater to a growing demographic of Gen Z readers who create book-related content on social media — a group that started primarily as women promoting their favorite “romance” titles, but has since grown to include readers of all types.

But the space needed to leverage this community to take on the book-tracking champion that still reigns supreme, GoodreadsIt might be a little crowded now. For example, Tommy had to compete against many other book trackers with a similar vibe, e.g myth, Footnotes, written, StoryGraph, Bookmore, bound to the page, TBRet al. (The TBR app should not be confused with a book recommendations website TBRwhich will also close in June!)

In a blog post advertisement Post-lockdown, Tommy hints at the competitive landscape, noting that his community of 100,000 readers hasn’t been able to reach the scale needed to keep up with the cost of running a social app that supports memes, GIFs, and video. Ultimately, the service “was not financially able to continue operating,” the company said.

Tommy said the app will officially shut down on May 29, at which point the app will stop working as the servers will be shut down. The company said the site will also be closed that day.

The post also advises Tome users how to download their data, including posts, photos, and a spreadsheet of their reading updates.