A free Fable alternative for reading with your own people
Start a club with your friends, family or coworkers, give it a reading plan, and keep your whole library and your quotes in the same place.
Pemberley is a free book app for iPhone built around the books you own and the people you read with. Run a book club with a reading plan by week, chapter or part, follow what friends are reading, and keep your library, quotes and stats in one place. Every feature is free, with no paid tier.
| Feature | Pemberley | Fable |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Pemberley: Every feature free, no ads | Fable: Free, with a paid tier (Fable Plus) |
| Ads | Pemberley: None | Fable: Ad-free with Fable Plus |
| Where it runs | Pemberley: iPhone (Android on the way) | Fable: iPhone, iPad and Android |
| Book clubs | Pemberley: Your own clubs, with a reading plan | Fable: Public and private clubs, with chapter discussion rooms |
| Read ebooks inside the app | Pemberley: Not offered | Fable: Yes |
| Import from Goodreads and Kindle | Pemberley: Yes | Fable: Yes |
| Custom reading goals | Pemberley: Yes, free | Fable: With Fable Plus |
| Advanced reading stats | Pemberley: Yes, free | Fable: With Fable Plus |
| Scan your home library by barcode | Pemberley: Yes, even offline | Fable: Not listed |
| Save quotes from a photo of a printed page | Pemberley: Yes | Fable: Not listed |
| Reading timer | Pemberley: Yes | Fable: Not listed |
Based on each app’s public listings and help pages as of October 2026. Apps change. If something here is out of date, tell us at support@getpemberley.com and we’ll fix it.
What you can do in Pemberley
- Run a club with a reading plan and see where every member is
- Get a reminder the evening before a section is due
- Take on a challenge as a team, or race to read the most
- Scan your home library by barcode, even offline
- Save quotes from a printed page with a photo
- Time your reading and keep a streak that forgives a rest day
- Choose who sees your shelf: anyone, people you follow, or just you
- Every feature free, with no paid tier
What readers love about Fable
Fable is a social reading app with a big public community: book clubs hosted by authors and well-known readers, spoiler-free discussion rooms by chapter, and a built-in ebook reader. If you love reading alongside a crowd, that’s what it does best.
Every feature, free
Pemberley has no paid tier and no ads. Goals, stats, clubs and everything else on this page are yours from the first scan. Here’s how that works: books you don’t own yet have a link to buy them on Amazon, and when you use one, we earn a small commission at no cost to you. That’s the only way Pemberley makes money, and nothing about you or your reading is sold.
Moving over
Download Pemberley and sign in with Apple.
If you keep a Goodreads shelf, bring it over from there. Pemberley reads Goodreads, Libby and Kindle files.
Start a club, share its code, and pick your first book together.
Questions
Can I import my Fable library?
Not yet. Pemberley imports from Goodreads, Libby and Kindle today. If you kept a Goodreads shelf, that’s the quickest way over.
Do my club members need to see my whole library?
No. A club sees how far you are in the club’s book and nothing else.
Is Pemberley free?
Yes, every feature, with no ads. When you buy a book through one of our Amazon links, we earn a small commission at no cost to you.
Make reading easy again.
