Independent product
Letturia
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A social reading tracker built like a home rather than a scoreboard: shelves and a reading room for your books, book clubs, events and readers around you. 22 languages, no advertising, private by default.
Letturia, the land of readers, was born in Milan. It is a social reading tracker, shelves and tracking, book clubs, events and readers in one place, designed the way I would design a room: around how it feels to be inside it.
What it does
You shelve and track every book you own and read, on shelves that look like shelves, and in a 3D reading room in evening light where your books wait for you. You keep the lines you underline, see the year back as Wrapped, stats and a Reading DNA portrait, and follow a reading challenge without being ranked against anyone. Around that sits the social half: book clubs that remember last month's conversation, events and an events map, a live map of readers, lists, messages, and pages for bookshops and artists. Public-domain classics can be read inside it, on the web and in the app. Your shelf can also travel: a Debuto page, the page builder I made next, can show it once you have connected your Letturia account.
It speaks 22 languages, carries no advertising, is private by default, and sells no one's data. There is a free Starter plan and a Plus plan.
Why I built it
In my home in Milan there is a bookcase that outgrew my memory: which books I had read, which were waiting, where I had stopped. I tried Goodreads, and there is nothing to say against it, but it never felt like mine. The reading groups I knew lived in Facebook groups and WhatsApp chats, warm and generous and impossible to search. A recommendation made one week had scrolled away by the next.
I started building Letturia in December 2025, in the evenings and at weekends, because by day I work as an architect. I brought the method of the studio with me. Before plans, before materials, an architect asks how it will feel to be in the room: where the light falls, where you sit, what makes you stay. A reading life deserves a home, not a leaderboard, so Letturia was designed from that question outwards. The name joins the Italian lettura, reading, to -ia, the suffix of lands, and the girl walking towards the open book in the logo is the reader it is made for. In the wordmark the I is a reading lamp, and the film above opens with that lamp switching on.
Travon Ridley-Evans joined as co-founder and strategic advisor in October 2026, and Letturia launched the same month in Milan with an evening of books and art in Brera.
What I learned
Light is a design material on a screen as much as in a building. Warm colours, real materials and a lamp left on do more to make people stay than any streak or badge, and the questions I ask about a room, where you pause and what you feel when you open the door, turned out to be the right questions for an app too.
