Austen’s Owl
A Literary App of Answers
Hold a question in your mind.
Open the book. See what finds you.
A personally curated collection of literary quotations for your iPhone. Open a page for a fresh perspective, save a favorite, or send a line to a friend.
Now available on the App Store
A question.
A page.
A different perspective.
Shake your phone, swipe left, or tap Open. The pages turn and a quotation appears, with its author and source. Some are witty. Others invite you to sit with them a while.
Keep your question to yourself. There’s nothing to type and no account to create. I chose the quotations; the app doesn’t use AI to write an answer.
Spend a minute
inside the book.
I recorded this on my iPhone so you can see how the app works. Open a page, save a favorite, and take a look through the menu.
Read a description of the walkthrough
A green cloth book opens to reveal literary quotations. Tapping Again turns to another page. A heart saves the quotation, and the Favorites screen shows saved pages. The menu includes page sounds, saved quotations, Recent Pages, Reader’s Edition, and About. The recording visits About and Support & Privacy, then returns to the book and opens a choice of Classic sharing or the premium share studio.
Keep a thought.
Pass one along.
Save the pages you want to return to, or share a quotation with someone who might enjoy it.
A small library
to carry with you.
The free edition includes the core quotation collection, up to seven saved Favorites, and Classic sharing.
Reader’s Edition is an optional one-time purchase. It adds another collection of hand-checked quotations, unlimited Favorites, Recent Pages, and more share-card designs.
Saved pages stay on your device. No advertising or in-app analytics.
Download on the App StoreIt began
with a book.
Karen Tucker
At our local library book sale, we found a treasure: The Literary Book of Answers by Carol Bolt. It's since become a shared treasure among friends. And we all love returning to it as a fun daily ritual, when we need a little inspiration, or when we're feeling particularly bookish.
We’re a family of readers, and this little ritual became something we loved doing together. I wanted to make that feeling portable: a pause anytime, and a thought to carry through the day.
Austen’s Owl is an independent app with a separately curated collection, drawn from my own reading and carefully attributed wisdom from around the world.
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