Every book.
Every reader.
One library.
Paper is slow, expensive and cannot cross borders. Forwarded files starve the people who write them. Hadithi is the borderless library that replaces both — a shelf in every pocket, a sale on every read.
Our thesis
Paper was never the point. Stories were. Knowledge was. When a library fits in a phone, every person on earth becomes a reader — and every writer finally finds their audience.
Thousands of titles. One tap away.
Read anywhere
Wherever you open Hadithi, you land on the same page.
One account. One library. Four ways in — pick whichever device is in your hand.
Web
Any modern browser
iOS
iPhone & iPad
Android
Phone & tablet
Desktop
macOS, Windows & Linux
Reading progress, bookmarks and highlights sync automatically across every device you sign in on.
The problem we're solving
Two broken habits are holding reading back.
Shared PDFs starve the authors. Printed books starve the planet — and everyone outside the shipping radius. Hadithi fixes both.
PDFs passed around WhatsApp
One person buys the file. Within a week it is in fifty group chats. The author is paid once; the book is read a thousand times.
- Files leak the moment they are bought
- Authors lose 90%+ of potential revenue
- No serious writer wants to publish into that
We're leaving print behind
Paper is expensive to print, slow to ship, and impossible to scale. A village three hours off the tarmac will never see the bestseller at the price the city pays — if it ever sees it at all.
- Trees cut for books that never sell
- Distribution stops where the roads stop
- Prices locked to printing costs, not to readers
Books that stay with readers. Revenue that stays with authors.
Books live on the platform, not on your hard drive. No file to forward. No piracy to fight. Every reader is a paying reader. Every author keeps earning — for every copy, forever. And no tree gets cut to make it happen.
Why digital
A book printed once reaches a hundred readers. A book published digitally reaches everyone.
Borderless by default
A reader in Kisumu opens the same book as a reader in Lagos, Kampala or Accra — at the same moment, at a price that respects where they live.
Instant, always
No shipping, no stockouts, no waiting for a reprint. A question arrives, and thirty seconds later you are three pages into the book that answers it.
Fair to creators
Every purchase routes real revenue back to the author. No middlemen skimming the margin. The people who wrote the book earn from the book.
How it works
From curious to reading in four steps.
1. Discover
Browse a growing catalog — fiction, self-development, academics, local voices, new writers.
2. Own
Pay with M-Pesa or bank card. The book lands in your library — yours to read, forever.
3. Read
Pick up where you left off on your phone, laptop or tablet. Progress syncs as you go.
4. Repeat
One finished book opens the next. The reading habit compounds — and so does what you know.
A reading life that travels with you.
No more lost books. No more "I'll read that when it ships." Your entire library — everything you've bought, everything you've started, everything you've highlighted — lives one tap away, on every device you own.
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Reading progress syncs automatically
Close the app on the bus, open it at home, land on the same paragraph.
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Pay the way you already pay
M-Pesa or bank card. Clean checkout, no foreign payment flow.
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Web, mobile and desktop — one library
Read in the browser, grab the iOS or Android app, or install the desktop app. Same account, same books, same page.
Start here
Worth opening tonight.
A handful of titles the library is talking about right now.
Publish once. Get paid for every read.
Upload your book and it is available to readers across the continent the same afternoon — priced how you want, paid into M-Pesa or bank on your schedule. You keep the majority of every sale, and the sale keeps happening long after launch day.
- Transparent royalties on every sale — withdrawn to M-Pesa or bank, your call.
- Real-time dashboard — see who is reading, from where, and at what hour of the night.
- Your book stays on the platform — no file to leak, no group chat can undo your launch.
- Price it, rent it, discount it — you set the terms, we run the rails.
Global
From day one
70%+
Back to authors
Zero
Files to leak
Instant
From upload to sale
Questions
Things people ask us.
Do I need to install anything?
Open it in any browser — no install needed. Prefer an app? Grab Hadithi for iOS, Android or desktop. Your library lives in the cloud, so the same books and the same page follow you everywhere.
Do I keep the books I buy?
Yes. Purchased books sit in your library forever. Log in from any device, pick up exactly where you stopped.
How do I pay?
M-Pesa or bank card. M-Pesa is the fastest route in Kenya; card works anywhere. No surprises at checkout.
I'm a writer. How do I publish?
Create an account, upload your manuscript, set your price. Your book goes live the same day and starts earning on the first sale.
What stops people from just forwarding my book?
The book never becomes a file on anyone's device. Readers access it through their account — so there is nothing to forward, nothing to leak, nothing to repost.
Your next book
is a tap away.
Free to sign up. Free to browse. Start your reading life — or your writing one — in under a minute.