Commonplace Support

Commonplace is a reading app for classic literature: carefully made editions of the classics, a passage to keep each day, and a library and notes that stay on your own device.

Contact

Email [email protected]. Please include your device (for example, “iPhone 16” or “Pixel 9”) and, for a problem with a book, its title and author. The build details at the bottom of Settings help too.

Common questions

Do I need an account? No. Everything in Commonplace works without signing in. Sync with Google is optional.

Where are my notes kept? On your device. If you turn on Sync with Google (Settings, then Sync), they are also kept in a private folder of your own Google Drive, so your other devices can have them. Commonplace never receives them.

How do I move to a new phone? Turn on Sync with Google on both. Your notes, saved passages, bookmarks and reading places move across, and books from the Commonplace catalogue download again by themselves. Books you imported do not move: import them again on the new phone.

A book looks out of date. Open it in the Bookstore. If a newer issue of the edition exists, you will see “Update to the current edition”. Your notes, bookmarks and reading place are kept.

Where does a book’s text come from? Every edition is made from a public-domain source — most often Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg, Wikisource, or a scan of the printed book.

Can I read my own books? Yes. Import EPUB, plain text, HTML, Markdown, RTF, Word (.docx), FictionBook and DRM-free MOBI files. Commonplace does not open files protected by DRM.

Privacy Commonplace sends us no personal information. The privacy policy is at https://readcommonplace.com/privacy/.