Crone characters, group photo

The free, fun, immersive way to read great books

Coming this winter

Read Homer's Odyssey on Crone

Learn from the greatest minds of all time

Great Leaders

  • Napoleon
  • Elizabeth I
  • Walt Disney
  • Oprah Winfrey
  • Orison Marden
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Hamilton
  • Churchill
  • Steve Jobs
  • Ben Franklin
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Sam Altman
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Caesar

Great Writers

  • Maya Angelou
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Homer
  • Shakespeare
  • L.M. Montgomery
  • Langston Hughes
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Dickens
  • Octavia Butler
  • Rilke
  • Emerson
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Virginia Woolf
  • George Orwell
  • Jane Austen

Great Thinkers

  • Will Durant
  • Aristotle
  • Carl Jung
  • Maria Popova
  • Walter Isaacson
  • Plato
  • Robert Greene
  • Naval Ravikant
  • Tim Ferris
  • Paul Graham
  • Marc Andreessen
  • Kierkegaard
  • Charlie Munger
  • Nietzsche
  • William James

Great Sages

  • Epictetus
  • C.S. Lewis
  • Mooji
  • Khalil Gibran
  • D.T. Suzuki
  • Papaji
  • Ramana Maharshi
  • Rabbi Heschel
  • Henri Nouwen
  • Thomas Merton
  • St. Augustine
  • Ibn Arabi
  • Carl Jung
  • Rumi
  • Joseph Campbell
Feel smarter. Read deeper.
Feel smarter. Read deeper.
We built Crone as a Duolingo for the intellect so you could feel well-rounded, well-grounded, and well-read. Researchers have found that ten minutes of active learning is worth over an hour of passive consumption.
Gain wisdom and eloquence
Gain wisdom and eloquence
The greatest men and women in history were feverishly active learners. They filled the margins of book after book, imitated passage after passage, and journaled day after day. Crone helps you gain wisdom and eloquence just as they did.
Keep great company
Keep great company
You're the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Crone puts you in daily conversation with the greatest minds in history. Learn from the best. Become the best.
Free, playful, life-changing
Free, playful, life-changing
Adler said, "In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you." Crone's episodes will pierce you to the core.

Join thousands of us, free

I'm on an unbroken 200 day streak. Obviously I love it.

Rating
Leila

My world and brain are bigger. I'd have never had been exposed to [these works] otherwise.

Rating
Kris

It's changed the way I see reading as a whole.

Rating
India
Rating

Rated 4.9 on the App Store