Commit to three months. Choose the books, choose the date, and Leaf builds the reading plan: one pace across every book, redrawn as you go, down to what today needs. You read. It does the arithmetic.
Challenge Pass, $9.99 for three months. One payment, no renewal.
Setting it up
How many books, which ones, and by when. Leaf turns those three answers into a daily pace and shows it to you before anything is settled.
1 How many books
Start with a number that suits the season you are in. Three over a summer, a dozen over a winter: the plan is built around whatever you pick, and you can change it later.
2 Which ones
Choose from the books already on your shelf, or search and add as you go. Either way the list is books you actually want to finish.
3 By when
Pick the date you want to be done. Leaf works backwards across all of the books at once and shows you the pages a day before you commit to anything.
4 Ready
That is the whole setup. Three decisions, and the plan is set: your books, your date, and the pace that connects them.
Day to day
Leaf holds the whole reading plan so you do not have to. Open it in the evening and there is one number waiting, already adjusted for how the week has gone.
The yearly challenges you already know are good at what they are for. This one is built for a different job, and the two sit together perfectly well. There is more on how Leaf compares in our Goodreads alternative guide.
Goodreads, StoryGraph and the like
Three months, your books
Build your challenge in the app and see your real pace before you decide anything. It takes about a minute.
Scan to open Leaf on your phone. Wanting to read more is rarely the problem. Most of us have the books and the interest. What tends to be missing is anything that makes tonight different from last night, and that is the whole job a challenge does.
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The Challenge Pass costs $9.99, once, and that is deliberate. Paying for something is a small act of deciding, and deciding is the part that carries you through the week you would otherwise quietly stop. For roughly the price of one paperback, you get a plan for three months of them.
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Leaf treats the challenge as a single reading plan. It works backwards from your finish date across all of your books at once, so today’s page count already accounts for the long one you have not started yet. Finish something early and the pace redraws for the rest. You never do the arithmetic.
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"Read more this year" gives you nothing to do this evening. "Eleven pages" does. It is small enough to fit a tired Tuesday, and small enough that catching up is a chapter rather than a whole weekend.
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Plans meet real life. Push the finish line out, drop a book that is not working, swap in a shorter one: the pace recalculates and you carry on. Leaf would far rather you finish late than not at all.
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In three months the finished books are the visible part. The part worth having is that reading became a normal piece of your evening somewhere around week two, and that does not end when the challenge does.
A reading challenge is a commitment to read a set of books within a set time. Most versions count books across a year. In Leaf, you choose the specific books and a single finish date, and the app converts that into a daily page target that updates as you go.
Leaf is a reading challenge app for iOS and Android. You build a challenge from books already in your library, set a deadline, and get one daily pace to read against, plus a dashboard, weekly check-ins, and a finisher recap. Building a challenge is free; running one needs a Challenge Pass or Leaf Pro.
In Leaf it takes three steps: choose how many books, choose which ones from your library or search for new ones, and choose a finish date. Leaf works backwards across the whole list and shows you the daily pages before you commit to anything. Afterwards you can rename it, add or drop books, and move the date.
It depends on the books and the deadline, which is exactly the sum Leaf does for you. As a rough guide, five average novels is around 1,700 pages, so finishing them in three months is about 19 pages a day and in one month about 57. Build a challenge with your actual books and Leaf will give you the real number before you commit to anything.
For most readers, somewhere between three and six. At 20 pages a day, three months is roughly 1,800 pages, which is about five average novels. At 10 pages a day it is closer to two or three. Rather than guess, build a challenge from the books you actually own and Leaf will tell you what your list needs per day.
The daily pace rises slightly and Leaf carries on. There is no penalty, no lost progress, and no shaming. If the deadline has become unrealistic you can extend it or wrap the challenge up early, and neither of those costs money. Falling behind is never a paywall.
Yes. You can edit the book list, rename the challenge, and move the finish date at any point. The pace recalculates immediately. If you give up on a book you can drop it, and it leaves the target entirely rather than blocking you from finishing.
The Goodreads challenge counts how many books you finish in a year and compares you to a schedule. Leaf asks which books, by when, and turns that into what to read today. There is also no social layer: no friends, no public progress, no feed. Your challenge is visible to you alone.
The rest of Leaf works with no account at all. Starting a challenge does need one, because the challenge is saved to your account and your weekly check-ins have to reach you somewhere. Signing in is also how your pass is restored if you change phones.
The Challenge Pass is $9.99 for three months and it does not renew. It is a one-time payment, so there is nothing to remember to cancel. Leaf Pro ($24.99 a year) includes challenge access as well, and existing Pro members already have it at no extra cost.
You keep everything you read and everything you logged. You can still finish the challenge you are in the middle of. Starting a new one needs an active pass or Leaf Pro. Your reading data is never held hostage, and export is free for everyone, always. If you move to Leaf Pro when your pass ends, what you paid for the pass is credited toward your first year.
