Smartwatch

Bookworm pairs with a smartwatch so your current book, your daily goal ring and your streak are one wrist-flick away. The watch is a remote control for the reading timer that already lives on your account — start a session on your wrist, and it shows up on your phone and on the web instantly.

Your watch never asks for your email or password. Pairing happens through a 6-digit code that expires in five minutes.

Pairing a Watch

There are two ways in. Scanning a QR code is the quickest — nothing gets typed on either device.

Scanning a QR code (no typing)

1. Open the Bookworm app on your watch. With no account connected, it opens on the Not connected screen.
2. Tap Scan QR code. The watch shows a QR code that lasts 5 minutes.
3. Point your phone’s camera at it — any camera app works — and open the link.
4. Sign in if you aren’t already. Check that the 4-character code on the page matches the one under the QR on your watch, then tap Connect.
5. Go back to your watch. It picks up the connection within a few seconds.

Tip

Nothing to type on either side, and the code on screen never gives anyone your password. If the QR expires before you get to it, tap New code on the watch.

Caution

Only approve a request when the 4-character code on the page matches what your watch is showing. If a pairing link reaches you any other way — by message, email or from someone else’s screen — the codes won’t match, and approving it would hand your reading data to that person’s watch.

Typing a 6-digit code

Prefer numbers, or your camera won’t cooperate?

1. Generate a code: on the web go to Connect a watch at bookwormtracker.com/watch and tap Generate code; in the phone app open Profile, scroll to Integrations and tap Pair in the Watch card.
2. On the watch, tap Type a code, then tap the row of dashes to bring up the number keypad.
3. Type the 6 digits and tap Connect.

Tip

The code lasts 5 minutes and works once. Generating a new one invalidates the previous code, so if you lose track of it, just generate another.

Note

On Amazfit watches you can also pair from your phone: open the Zepp app, find Bookworm in your watch’s app list and open its settings, then type the code there.

What You See on Your Wrist

• Your current book — title and the page you’re on.
• The daily goal ring — how far along you are on today’s pages or minutes.
• Your streak — how many days in a row you’ve read.
• The timer — elapsed time of a session in progress, even one you started on your phone.

Controlling the Timer

From the watch you can start a session, pause it, resume it and finish it. When you finish, the watch asks for the page you stopped on and logs the session on your account — the same session you’d see if you had used the phone.

Because the timer lives on your account and not on the watch, the elapsed time stays correct even if the screen turns off, the app closes, or Bluetooth drops for a while.

Premium

Controlling the timer from the watch requires Premium. On the free plan the watch still shows your book, goal, streak and any session in progress — you just start and stop it from your phone or the web.

Managing Paired Watches

Every watch you pair gets its own key, listed under Paired watches on the web and in the Watch card in the app. Tap Disconnect to revoke a single device without touching the others — useful if you sell a watch or lose one.

Caution

Disconnecting is immediate and can’t be undone. The watch stops seeing your data right away; to use it again you pair it with a new code.

Connection

The watch reaches Bookworm through your phone. Keep the watch’s companion app installed and running — if it’s closed, your watch shows the last synced data with a note telling you how old it is, instead of an empty screen.

Free vs Premium

	Free	Premium
See current book, goal ring and streak	✓	✓
See a session in progress	✓	✓
Start, pause and finish the timer from the watch	—	✓
Paired watches	2	5