Choose how you feel
Calm, curious, nostalgic, dreamy—start with the mood, not an endless catalogue.
Bedtime stories for grown-ups
Good books
for quiet nights.
A beautiful story, a gentle voice, and nothing else to do. Nod turns the last part of your day into a small, restorative ritual.
Coming quietly to iPhone
Calm
Slow everything down.
Gentle voices✦Enduring stories✦Natural pauses✦No endless feed✦
A softer ending
Your night has a rhythm.
Nod listens to it.
Settle into a story
A considered shelf of enduring books, narrated with warmth and room to breathe.
Drift without losing your place
The timer fades at a natural pause and remembers where the night ended.
Choose by feeling
What does tonight need?
Nod begins with a mood, then finds a book to match. Six quiet ways to leave the day behind.
Calm
Slow everything down.
Gentle, low-tension books with a quiet pace and plenty of room to breathe.
Comforted
Something warm and familiar.
Reassuring stories filled with warmth, home, friendship, and a sense of ease.
Dreamy
Let your mind wander.
Imaginative, atmospheric books that feel soft, strange, and a little magical.
Nostalgic
Return somewhere familiar.
Stories with a timeless, memory-rich quality that feel like revisiting another place or time.
Curious
Follow an interesting thought.
Books that quietly spark the imagination and give your mind somewhere absorbing to go.
Adventurous
Go somewhere else for a while.
Journeys, discoveries, and distant places with enough momentum to escape the day without feeling too intense.
The first book on the bedside table
The Wind in
the Willows
A riverbank, a warm house, old friends, and the feeling that adventure can wait until morning. Kenneth Grahame's classic opens Nod's first quiet shelf.
Calm · artworkDesigned for the dark
Less app.
More atmosphere.
A timer with manners
Nod waits for a natural paragraph break, fades gently, and saves the true stopping point.
Your place, remembered
Come back tomorrow a little before you drifted off—enough context to settle in again.
Ready when Wi-Fi isn't
The current story stays close, with thoughtful caching and permanent downloads for your shelf.
A shelf, not a feed
No streaks, sleep scores, or infinite scroll. Just books chosen to leave the day more quietly.
The small hours are coming
One more chapter.
Then rest.
Nod is being made carefully for iPhone. Write to us and we'll keep you close to the bedside table.
hugs@nodbooks.com