Reading Hub · Ascend
The Reading Hub is Ascend’s free reading tracker: keep a library of books, log the pages or chapters you read each day, and earn points for the reading itself, not only for the last page. Every 2 pages earn a point, and a finished book adds a 15-point bonus.
A reading streak counts the days in a row you logged pages, so ten pages on a busy evening still keeps it alive. That is the habit most readers are really trying to build.
Free · In beta · Phone and PC · No download needed
Pick one from Discover or add your own with its title, author and length. Choose pages for most books or chapters for books you read chapter by chapter.
Enter the page or chapter you are on, and Ascend works out how much you read today. The card shows the percentage done and what is left.
Mark it finished when you reach the end, or tap Finish early and the unread pages are filled in for you. Add a key takeaway so you remember why it mattered.
Books you want to read wait in the Library tab. Move a book back there if you pause it, and pick it up later where you left off.
Discover holds 54 books in 9 categories: Habits, Mindset, Productivity, Discipline, Finance, Relationships, Spirituality, Business and Influence. Search by title, author or takeaway, filter by category, and sort by trending, bestsellers or A to Z. A book you add from Discover keeps its length, so you only have to log pages.
The rules below are the same ones the Reading Hub shows under “How points work”. With an account the server counts them, so the total matches on every device.
| What happens | Points |
|---|---|
| Every 2 pages | +1 |
| Every chapter, in a book counted in chaptersA chapter counts as 20 pages. | +10 |
| Daily cap, across all your booksReached at 20 pages. Reading more still counts for the book, the streak and your goals. | 10 a day |
| Finishing a bookOnce per book, when you logged pages on at least 5 different days and the first of them was 7 or more days before you finish. | +15 |
| Pages that Finish fills in for youThey complete the book but earn no page points. | 0 |
Removing a book is the one place points go back: it takes back that book’s finish bonus and today’s page points from it, and the confirm dialog says exactly how many. Earlier days keep their page points.
Pages you log don’t stay in one place. They count toward your season, your rank and the leagues, and they can fill other parts of the app as well:
Turn on the switch and a Reading habit joins your habits, ticked by itself on every day you log pages. It keeps a habit streak and earns nothing extra, so pages are never counted twice.
A weekly goal like “Read 100 pages” or “3 chapters of one book” fills in from your logs and ticks itself at the target.
Put a reading block in your time-blocked day and it gets a button that opens the Reading Hub.
Add the book on your desk, log today’s pages, and day one is done.