Co-Star Team Launches Readme, a Dating App That Matches You on Book Taste

The team behind Co-Star just announced a brand new dating app, and this one is for the readers. It’s called Readme, and it matches people based on the books and writing they love instead of the usual selfies and one-line bios. Co-Star founder Banu Guler revealed the launch on X this week, and fans of the astrology app are already obsessed.

Here’s how it works: you answer questions about your reading and writing taste, and that builds a profile the app uses to pair you with compatible people. Head of brand Emily Segal says the mission is to create something more authentic than typical dating apps, which she says“flatten people.”Her pitch line? Readme is for people whose love language is language. It’s still unclear whether astrology will play a role, which has the internet asking a lot of questions.

So would you trust your bookshelf to find your next partner? If your reading list says more about you than any photo ever could, this app might be your moment. Drop your most dateable book in the comments and let’s see who matches.