50 Best Reading Apps Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent reading apps companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 150 companies tracked on Fsome.

150
Total Companies
$939.8M
Total Funding
$6.3M
Avg Funding
New York
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Realm
Realm is an entertainment company that provides serialized entertainment for rea…
New York 11 - 50 $11.3M Series A 2020-01-29
2
Pratilipi
Pratilipi is a language storytelling platform that brings readers, writers, and …
Bengaluru 101 - 250 $101.7M Series E 2025-04-03
3
Deepstash
Deepstash is an app that offers the daily source of inspiring, life-changing sto…
Newark 11 - 50 $3.9M Seed 2022-01-01
4
Speechify
Speechify is a mobile and desktop app that allows people with dyslexia and low v…
Miami 51 - 100 Seed 2020-01-01
5
Radish
Radish is a mobile fiction platform for serialized storytelling.
New York 11 - 50 $66.2M Series A 2020-08-04
6
Sol
Sol is the creator of the Sol Reader VR headset aimed at providing users distrac…
San Francisco 1 - 10 $5.0M Seed 2023-06-09
7
Litnerd
Litnerd brings the creator economy to traditional K-12 education, offering a coh…
New York 1 - 10 $1.6M Seed 2021-09-20
8
Midu Novels
MiRead Novels is an online platform for reading literature, offering users acces…
Shanghai 11 - 50 $224.0M Series C 2021-03-06
9
Kinoo
Kinoo develops tools to help in the development of children.
Mountain View 11 - 50 $10.0M Seed 2021-02-01
10
BiMA
BiMA designs electronic devices and software aimed at enriching kids' reading.
Munich $689K Pre Seed 2025-10-08
11
Wendy
Wendy offers a fresh approach to children's literature, using an app to make rea…
Chicago 1 - 10 $2.2M Pre Seed 2025-03-05
12
Blinkist
Blinkist offers an app that allows its users to read the most important insights…
Berlin 101 - 250 $34.8M Series C 2018-06-20
13
Mangatoon
Mangatoon is an application for reading comics and manga on mobile phone.
Changning 51 - 100 $10.0M Series A 2019-02-14
14
Charmtech Labs
Charmtech Labs was founded in 2010 by a group of CS professors and Ph.D. student…
Stony Brook 11 - 50 $2.4M Grant 2022-07-19
15
Kuaidian Yuedu
Kuaidian Yuedu offers a story reading app.
Beijing 11 - 50 $147.1M Series C 2020-07-08
16
WebComics
WebComics is a mobile comics publishing and distribution platform.
Kowloon City 51 - 100 $4.0M Series Unknown 2019-04-01
17
Tadu Literature
Tadu Literature is an online reading platform.
Beijing 251 - 500 $41.8M Private Equity 2018-12-19
18
HOMER
HOMER is the essential early learning program that gives kids the best start to …
New York 101 - 250 $52.2M Series C 2020-09-30
19
Spiritual Wealth Club
Spiritual Wealth Club is a reading community that promotes reading through mobil…
Changning 11 - 50 $9.7M Series B 2018-01-31
20
Literably
Literably is a K-8 literacy assessment system that sends results to teachers aft…
San Francisco 1 - 10 $1.0M Grant 2022-05-16
21
Dudiangushi
Dudiangushi is a online novel reading platform.
Haidian 1 - 10 $9.7M Series C 2018-05-04
22
FaceMetrics
FaceMetrics, a startup working on an AI-powered parental app Nicola for the iPad
Cracow 51 - 100 $2.0M Seed 2018-06-13
23
Yondemy
Yondemy is an online learning platform that helps kids build a love for reading …
Akasaka 1 - 10 $2.5M Seed 2025-01-27
24
Millie
Millie is an online book reading application.
Mapo 51 - 100 $21.7M Series C 2019-03-31
25
Elephant Magazine
Elephant Magazine is a mobile app for magazine reading.
Beijing 11 - 50 $4.5M Series B 2019-02-02
26
Madefire
Madefire provides Motion Book Tool that delivers a reimagined collaboration expe…
Berkeley 11 - 50 $16.4M Series B 2016-10-05
27
Green Lamp
Green Lamp is a mobile app that provides reading room.
Yeoksamdong 11 - 50 $10.6M Series A 2023-07-18
28
Jiatu Technology
Jiatu Technology is a platform for lending and sharing books through an O2O mode…
Suzhou 251 - 500 $5.4M Series B 2018-05-28
29
feedly
Feedly offers an app that enables readers to connect with the websites and sourc…
Palo Alto 11 - 50 $1.0M Seed 2014-03-01
30
Huaxi
Huaxi is an emerging female literary creation and reading platform.
Beijing 11 - 50 $1.9M Series A 2017-11-15
31
Living a Book
Living a Book is a fictional book reading app.
Redwood City 1 - 10 $1.0M Seed 2020-11-08
32
Doufu
Doufu is a digital comic reading platform.
Shenzhen 11 - 50 $4.0M Series B 2017-01-19
33
Mussila
Mussila is an EdTech company that offers creative and unique award-winning digit…
Reykjavík 1 - 10 $2.6M Equity Crowdfunding 2021-06-09
34
Ri Yuetong
Ri Yuetong is a cultural science and technology innovation enterprise.
Hangzhou 11 - 50 $3.6M Series A 2018-04-09
35
Goodreads
Goodreads is a mobile and web app that allows its users to find, share, recommen…
Santa Monica 51 - 100 $2.8M Series Unknown 2017-07-27
36
Kelo
Kelo is an online bookstore and interactive reading platform where readers can f…
Midrand 1 - 10 $1.5M Seed 2022-05-05
37
Tangyuan Chuangzuo
Tangyuan Chuangzuo is an online platform for novels and books.
Beijing 11 - 50 $9.2M Series Unknown 2016-06-06
38
Zhang Wen Information
Zhang Wen Information is an online literary reading service provider.
Beijing Shi 101 - 250 $7.6M Series B 2016-09-27
39
Glose
Glose is a reading platform for inspired readers who want to share their thought…
Paris 11 - 50 $3.4M Series Unknown 2018-12-12
40
Youhe Wenhua
Youhe Zhuoyi Information Technology builds an online game and comic reading netw…
Beijing 11 - 50 $1.9M Series A 2018-09-19
41
Shidian Reading
Shidian Reading is a reading sharing self-media based on WeChat public accounts.
Xiamen $11.7M Series A 2017-01-04
42
Levebee
Levebee is an online app for improving reading and helps chidren with reading di…
Prague 1 - 10 $118K Series Unknown 2022-03-07
43
Forfiction
Forfiction is a creative platform designed for writers, readers, and publishers …
1 - 10 $300K Seed 2024-08-07
44
Ambani Africa
Ambani Africa is a gamified early childhood development (ECD) educational applic…
Randburg 1 - 10 $68K Grant 2023-04-14
45
Lalilo
Lalilo is a literacy web-based app for K-2 teachers willing to differentiate rea…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $7.3M Seed 2019-11-18
46
Yanbeitang
Yanbeitang is a cultural company that offers online reading, publishing, and dis…
Beijing 11 - 50 $2.0M Series A 2017-07-05
47
Lulu
Lulu is a private app for girls to read and create reviews about the guys they k…
New York 11 - 50 $3.5M Series Unknown 2013-07-02
48
Story Nation
Story Nation is a co-creation platform for worldview and web novels.
Seoul 101 - 250 $513K Seed 2022-06-27
49
H
Hanwujinian
Hanwujinian provides novel creating, reading, and audiobook listening services o…
Minhang 11 - 50 $453K Angel 2017-12-07
50
PlaBook
PlaBook is created to meet the needs of the next generation for reading, learnin…
Kansas City 1 - 10 $152K Grant 2022-09-08