The book club is the best thing about reading.
It's the part that gets you off the couch, into a room, talking to people about something that mattered to you. We built Viraldico to protect that, and to send it back toward the library.
What we believe
Reading apps spent the last decade learning the same tricks as every other app: streaks to make you anxious, badges to make you compulsive, feeds to keep you scrolling, and lately, models trained on your most personal habit. We think a book deserves better company than that. So we built the opposite. The club is the reason you come back, and the only nudge you'll ever get is your own group asking if you've finished chapter nine.
We want to send readers back to the library.
Public libraries run thousands of book clubs, mostly on duct tape: a calendar tool here, a spreadsheet there, a stack of photocopied discussion questions. We built tools that make that work easier for librarians, that protect patron privacy completely, and that keep pointing people toward the physical building, where the kits are checked out and the conversations actually happen. The library isn't an afterthought for us. It's the point.
Independent on purpose
We're not owned by a retailer or a streaming company, and we don't sell ads. That independence is why we can refuse to mine your reading, refuse to add AI, and link to independent bookstores instead of the biggest one. Our incentives are simple: if the clubs are healthy, we're healthy.
The name
Viraldico is a made-up word. We liked that it didn't mean anything yet, the way a club is whatever its members make of it.