The whole Great Books education, in one app
Read and understand the Great Books
Experience the classics like never before. GreatLógos™ is the Great Books education in one app: the library, a notebook that weaves your own thinking into the text, and a patient tutor that helps you discover the ideas that built our civilization.
Free to start. Private beta on web and iPhone & iPad.
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Borrowed from the tradition itself
The library, the notebook, the seminar
The Great Books tradition has always had three parts. GreatLógos brings them together so you can read, annotate and discuss in one place, for deeper and lasting understanding.
The books
The complete Great Books collection.
- 170+ works, from Homer to Einstein
- Curated reading plans for more focused exploration
- Search across the whole library; footnotes a tap away
- Pick up where you left off across devices
The notebook
Your thinking, inside the book.
- Highlight, annotate, and make margin notes
- Link notes to each other and to the Great Ideas across works
- Explore how your notes and the Great Ideas relate in a visual map
- A private library stamped with your own understanding
The seminar
A tutor that follows your journey.
- A Reading Companion on every page
- A Seminar Guide for deep, sustained sessions
- It knows the page you're on and has read your notes
- It asks instead of answers, so you discover the ideas yourself for deep and lasting understanding
Built the opposite way
Most AI is built to give you the answer. Ours is built to make you think
GreatLógos is made by Arche Intelligence, and the name says what we believe: Arche, the origin: the great works. Intelligence, the guide: an AI built to deepen understanding, never to replace it. The newest intelligence, in service of the oldest kind of learning, the kind you do yourself.
You ask the tutor
One shelf, twenty-six centuries
170+ great works. Free to read
A collection passed down through the ages, withstanding the test of time and carrying the ideas that shaped our world.
…and more than 150 others, from Herodotus and the Gospels to Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. All free to read.
This month's reading plan
Descents: Ghosts, Monsters and the UnderworldJourneys to the land of the dead, and the monsters we make.
About 15 hours · 10 works · Foundational
Read anywhere
On the web, and in your pocket
Read in your browser
The full library, notebook, and tutor, on any computer or phone browser. No install. Currently open to beta readers by invitation.
The dedicated app
The best way to read: offline reading, everything synced to the same account. In TestFlight now; on the App Store at public release.
Read the books that shaped the world
GreatLógos is in private beta. If you'd like to try it, request a beta invitation, on the web and on iPhone & iPad.
Free to start. We'll only email you about your access.