Our Story
We believe that reading should be beautiful, personal, and accessible to everyone. Verso was born from a simple idea: what if your digital bookshelf felt as warm and inviting as a real one?
The Vision
We started Verso because we were tired of reading apps that felt cold and utilitarian. Books are warm, personal, beautiful — and the app you read them on should be too.
Every detail in Verso is designed to evoke the feeling of a real library: wooden shelves, colorful spines, the satisfying weight of a growing collection.
Get Verso on your Android device. It's free, lightweight, and works offline.
Add books from our catalog or import your own EPUBs. Arrange them on your beautiful wooden bookshelf.
Dive into immersive reading with customizable themes. Discover new titles through curated collections.
Opt into bandwidth sharing to earn credits while you read. It's passive, transparent, and entirely your choice.
What We Stand For
Every pixel is intentional. We craft interfaces that feel warm, human, and delightful.
Your reading habits are yours. We never sell personal data, and bandwidth sharing is always opt-in.
Great books shouldn't be gated. Verso works on affordable devices and modest connections.
You control your library, your data, and your earnings. We build tools; you make the choices.
Our roadmap is shaped by readers. Feature requests and ideas from our community drive every update.
Lightning-fast page turns, instant search, tiny app size. We obsess over speed.
Journey
A small team of book lovers started sketching a reading app that felt like a real bookshelf.
The first working prototype with the iconic wooden shelf UI was shared with beta testers.
Verso v1.0 launched on Android with 1,000+ books and the core reading experience.
Introduced opt-in bandwidth sharing, letting readers earn credits passively.
Crossed 50,000 active readers. Launched v4.7 with enhanced discovery and notes features.
iOS app and web reader in development. Your shelf, everywhere.
Our People
A small, passionate team of readers, designers, and engineers building the future of digital reading.