Reviews for Fable: Books & TV

The stats are fun and the idea of being able to join bookclubs is fun. but the app is challenging to use. Adding books is difficult, moving books around that shouldn’t count towards the reading goal is seemingly impossible despite following the app’s instructions. There are other tracking apps that function better and simpler.

This app crashes while using phone network data and only works well on Wifi. Also when reviewing a book, the prepopulated review options for the Indie/Self Published books are incorrect. It looks like someone is reviewing a research paper. The search bar is not pulling up books correctly when searched by title or some authors. […]

Almost perfect, I love all the features available and have replaced all my physical book journals. Just wish it wasn’t as glitchy for Android users. Sometimes you go to open the app and it just won’t and you’ll get an error. The only work around I’ve found for it is to restart your phone, but […]

Update 4: Crashes every time I open it, within 1-2 minutes, no matter if I clear cache or uninstall. It has so much potential but it’s SO BUGGY. Lists don’t display correctly, goodreads import was messy, can’t edit comments OR posts, there’s more features for ios than android, and social aspect is ok but too […]

The user interface is very well done. I love the blend of social media, book club, and book tracking available on the app. I mainly use it for tracking, but I’ve seen the options for a book club – definitely a great tool for online connection to talk about books! It also has an easy […]

I downloaded this app today. I’ve been using Goodreads for the last year. I wish there was a website for Fable. I find it way easier to update and write reviews on the computer. I really liked the ability to do partial ratings. My biggest gripe with the app is how buggy it is. I […]

I really enjoy this app out of all the reading log apps out there. It helps me feel really organized and at the same time motivated to keep reading more in order to grow my “finished” list and reading streaks. My only complaint is that it can be laggy at times and also sometimes think […]

I tend to explain this app to my friends as if Goodreads and Tumblr had a baby. I hate Goodreads; their recommendation system simply does not work. Fable’s is sooo much better!! I use it to track my reading and find new books, so I can’t speak for the book club feature or the social […]

Great Goodreads replacement, and in addition it also lets you track your TV shows (if you want too.) At present the ads are small and minimal while the app feels modern and up to date. But they’ve started an AI roll-out which is a red flag and a bad sign. It seems to be limited […]

Want to love it… I love this more than goodreads, but the app is so buggy for me and I don’t know how I can fix it. I cannot tag other users without the tag disappearing, or the app pasting the users multiple times over and over uncontrollably. This is extremely irritating. It also sometimes […]

I like that you can see followers stats/profile and the books they’ve been reading. Would love to have an update giving us the ability to click on the books/author(s) they’ve been reading in the profile area. It would also be nice if we could click on the books and get the info when checking out […]

Overall, I love this app. I love that its got reading streaks, the reading personality algorithm, the book club chapter convos, and just the data and community on here. The support is also wonderful, so quick to respond and always professional. The reason it gets 4/5 stars is because the recommendations are truly atrocious. I […]

I love this app and want to continue to use it as I read quite a bit and getting to keep track of my reading progress is nice but this app is super frustrating when I am constantly getting an error message when going to my profile. I’ve finished a book and I can’t even […]

This app is great for both connecting with other readers and organizing my books into categories that can help me read with more intention! The book club part is an incredible aspect that I love to use with my friends. I think they could add a dark mode some time, though, because my eyes are […]

update 7/30/25 I have uninstalled & reinstalled I don’t know how many times, it doesn’t load or I get the white box “fable isn’t responding” I’m tried of fight with it. farewell fable 7/15/25 I have been using this app for over a year, then one day all of a sudden it wouldn’t load it […]

Edit: changing my review back to 5 stars. I finally found the email address directly to technical support (my app was completely broken so I was not able to get to tech support through the app). We could not fix it without uninstalling the app and installing a clean fresh copy, but they assured me […]

I really like a lot of aspects of this app. The tracking, the personalized page of your information, and the monthly options to share with you’ve been reading. I also would like to be able to find friends easier via Facebook or contacts. The BookAura thing is cool, but you can’t switch between other friends […]

can’t click on the author’s name to see all their books. the transfer from GR was weird. Did it 3 times. Still off. when you try to share your stats, it just shows a small pic of the stats and a phrase “Tap and hold to download.” Tap. Hold. Nothing happens. lol, really? you couldn’t […]

I love the idea of the app but, as an avid reader (like at least one, sometimes more, books daily) I can definitively say that their selection is sorely lacking. I ending up referring a few friends and got the book Fourth Wing for free via my credits. And that’s where my reading list stops […]

I really enjoy this app. However my biggest complaint is the search functionality and list of books to choose from. Some books have multiple versions listed while some are not cataloged at all. I listen to graphic audio books and part 2 of a book I listened to is on fable but not part 1. […]