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Plönum is a simple Icelandic app for your small groups. Each group does one thing well: the home keeps recipes, a weekly menu and tasks; the book club keeps the book of the month and everyone's ratings; and regular meetups keep track of what's coming up and who's coming. All in one place, no ads.

For families and groups of friends who meet regularly — book clubs, knitting clubs, football groups and coffee meetups. You can also add one-off meetups.

Yes. Plönum holds every Icelandic book and translation published in the last ten years, and the catalogue keeps growing. You search for the title, pick the book and the cover comes along automatically — no manual typing. This is exactly what's missing from international book club apps like Goodreads, Fable and StoryGraph, where Icelandic books are hard to find or absent altogether.

Yes — Plönum is a book club app from the ground up. The group sets the book of the month, each member gives their own rating and the app shows the group's average. The book's Goodreads rating sits next to the group's own, book recommendations get their own place, and the whole history is kept.

Yes. You upload a file of the group's past books — title, month, year and rating — and Plönum finds the books, fetches the covers and slots them into your history. A club that has been running for years starts with everything intact instead of from zero.

Plönum is on its way to the App Store. It will be free during beta and cheap after that — kids are free. No ads, now or later, and your data is never sold.

You send an invite link, for example in a message. Whoever gets it downloads the app and lands straight in the group — no searching for usernames, no fuss. You can also invite by email if people prefer that.

Yes. The group shares the same information — the weekly menu, the book of the month and who's coming — so everyone needs access to see and respond. The invite link gets people in within seconds.

Yes, as many as you like. Your family, your book club and your knitting club all live in the same app, each with its own space and its own members. You can even be in two book clubs without them mixing.

You create a recurring meetup — Thursday coffee, Monday football or the knitting club — give it a name and an icon, and each person says whether they're coming. You see at a glance who's in and who hasn't answered yet. A new round starts automatically.

Yes. The recipe app is part of Plönum: your family's recipes live in one place, you rate the dishes and the favourites rise to the top. From there it's one step to drop them into the weekly menu.

That's part of it. You arrange the week's dishes across seven days and everyone in the household sees the same menu on their phone — nobody has to ask what's for dinner.

Yes. Knitting clubs, reading groups, sewing circles and football groups all use the same meetup feature: you create a recurring meetup, give it a name and an icon, and each person RSVPs.

Yes. The app lets you know when a new meetup is added and sends a reminder before it happens, so nobody forgets. You can always turn notifications off in your phone's settings.

Only members of your group. Nothing is public, there's no general search for people, and your data is never sold or used for advertising.

Plönum is an iPhone app coming soon to the App Store, and an Android version is on the way too. The app is in Icelandic and English.