Vlad Ches

Readwell - Find books you’ll love with AI-powered recommendations.

Readwell is an AI-powered book discovery app that finds titles you’ll actually love based on your taste, mood, and bookshelf. No more scrolling or guessing what to read next. Just take a pic of your books and let the Readwell do the rest. Start enjoying books!

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Vlad Ches
Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I’m Vlad, one of the makers of Readwell. We built Readwell because we love books, but we hated how hard it was to find great ones we’d actually enjoy. Most recommendation engines are generic or based on what’s popular, not on you. So we set out to build a smarter, more personal way to discover books. With Readwell, you get: • AI-powered recommendations based on your taste • A personalized “Read Match Score” to help you decide fast • Smart search that works with vibes, moods, or big ideas • Curated bookshelves you can follow (like playlists for books) We’re most proud of how fun and effortless it feels to use. You get value from the first search; no need to rate 100 books first. We’d love your thoughts, feature requests, and brutally honest feedback. Let’s make book discovery joyful again. 🚀📚
Masum Parvej

@vladches Does the Read Match Score work for different genres or just fiction?

Vlad Ches

@masump HI Masum, it works across all genres and themes. Basically, any type of books that a user might be interested in.

Kevin McDonagh

I have never understood why anyone would leave their reading choices to the choice of whatever pulbishing house is paying for a feature on current shelves. I am an avid user of Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1902224-kevin-mcdonagh and I am so open to someone toppling it's dominance. I love following authors and acquaintances to keep my reading sharp and I really like these smart features but I'm on Android :( Please lean into what Goodreads does not do, this is where all challengers have failed. They keep trying to recreate good reads, don't bother, just work on the FOMO and capitalise on the fact that goodreads never ever update. You could get really far really fast for a small die hard audience.

Vlad Ches

@kevin_mcdonagh1 Hey Kevin, really appreciate you taking the time to write this. You nailed something we’ve been thinking about a lot: we’re not here to recreate Goodreads, we’re here to do what it doesn’t. That means smart discovery, real personalization, and an experience that actually evolves. Once we launch on Android (coming soon), we would love to receive your feedback.

Friso van de Stadt

Nice! Think adding a social element would also do extremely well here. What are my friends reading and what would I get recommended from that

Vlad Ches

@friso_van_de_stadt That's a great idea. We'll be introducing "Public Bookshelves" that users can follow to see what others are reading; it could be your friends or A16Z's bookshelf. Just like playlists in Spotify.

Ajitesh

I love the concept of using AI to personalize book discovery based on vibes and moods—feels like Spotify for books but smarter!

Vlad Ches

@aj_123 Thanks, Aj, that's the simple goal! Like Spotify but for books.

Joey Zhu

No more endless scrolling for book recs? Just snap my shelf and get picks?? That’s genius, tbh. Readwell is literally what my reading rut needed, fr.

Anh Nguyen

Just upvoted 👏 This looks awesome!

I'm curious, how does Readwell's AI learn about my taste over time? Does it adapt based on what I search, click, or read?

Vlad Ches

@ha_anh_nguyen Hi Anh, yes it does evolve as you keep refining your likes and dislikes; the app learns more about your taste to give you better recommendations.

Nader Ikladious

Readwell takes the guesswork out of book discovery — love how it personalizes picks based on your actual shelf and mood. A perfect tool for curious readers. Congrats on the launch 🚀

Andrei Tudor

Such a clever idea! Wishing you all the best with the launch and beyond. Can't wait to see what's next for Readwell!

Vlad Ches

@andreitudor14 Thanks Andrei, we hope you like it and give us some feedback.

Hannah Kort

Love the ‘Spotify for books’ analogy—it really captures how effortless discovery should feel. Really impressed with the summaries feature — are they purely AI‑generated or do you also have editors curating or checking them?

Vlad Ches

@new_user__26620221ad98bdc17e6dc92 Hi Hannah, really appreciate that! Since our goal is to provide insights across a massive number of books, we use AI to help generate the summaries, it allows us to scale quickly as the library keeps growing. That said, we’re constantly refining the quality to make sure what we show feels clear and useful.

Kavya

This is such a great idea!


I would love to use this app to discover more books. I've been consuming so many books lately, since I switched to Audible.

Any reason why it's a phone app and not a web app? (I don't have an iPhone so I am not able to use it 😔)

Vlad Ches

@k_j1 Hi Kavya, we're launching on Android soon, hope you get a chance to download and use it!

Lien Chueh

I love this idea, will there be ways to get recommendations based upon what others are reading too? For example, if I'm into entrepreneurship, will it help identify the top books from this topic that are most popular from this month/year, etc?

Vlad Ches

@lienchueh Hi Lien, one of our goals is exactly that, using AI to refine recommendations by learning not just what you like, but also what others with similar tastes are enjoying. Over time, this will help us highlight the best books in any topic, like entrepreneurship, based on what’s trending or resonating most with readers.

DIERUI ZHENG
It looks very intriguing concept! But when I try to download seems can’t download from Apple UK region 😭@vladches