A foreword warns you what's in the book
Choose the content you'd rather see coming. Foreword checks any book against your list and tells you what's there — plainly, by name — before page one.
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Type a title or author. Foreword names the content it contains — calmly, in plain words — so you can decide before you start.
How it works
No sign-up, no setup beyond choosing what matters to you. From there, every search is answered against your own list.
Pick from a curated list of the content you'd rather know about — grief, harm, abuse, whatever's yours. It's stored only on your device.
One field for every book — the novel you're starting tonight, a recent read, or a recommendation you're not sure about.
We tell you in plain words which of your notes the title contains — before you start. Calm, specific, never a wall of warnings.
Our approach
Most tools shout in colour: a red dot, a yellow triangle, an alarm before you've even decided you care. Foreword does the opposite. We name what's there, in plain language, and let you decide. Calm by design.
Where the notes come from
Every result tells you where its information came from. We lean on the communities who've done this work for years, and use AI only to fill the gaps.
Book-focused content warnings, carefully curated by readers. A community-run resource built specifically for books — our primary source.
Visit the databaseThe original crowdsourced trigger source — thousands of titles voted on and discussed by the community, including a growing catalogue of books.
Visit DoesTheDogDieFor books not yet in either database, we ask Claude to identify the book and describe what's in it — always clearly flagged as AI-assisted, never mixed in silently.
Learn about ClaudeReaders add their own trigger notes in the app and vote each other's up or down. Notes that don't hold up get voted down and hidden — always shown anonymously.
These communities do this work for love, not profit. If Foreword helps you, please consider supporting them directly.
Community notes
Alongside the databases, Foreword readers add their own content notes and vote each other's up or down. Browsing and voting never need an account — adding a note takes a quick, anonymous sign-in.
Agree or disagree on any note — right here on the web or in the app. No account, no sign-in. One vote per reader, and coordinated pile-ons are detected and blunted automatically.
In the app, sign in with Apple or Google (Google on Android) and add a content note — choose how much detail it goes into and where it appears. It goes live immediately.
Solid notes rise; off-topic ones get voted down and hidden automatically. Every community note is shown anonymously as “Reported by the community” — never under a name.
Reading, searching, and voting are always anonymous and account-free. To add your own notes you sign in with Apple or Google (Android uses Google) — Foreword stores only an anonymous id from them, never your name or email. You can ask us to delete it any time. See how sign-in data is handled ↗
Privacy
The people who reach for a tool like this are often in a vulnerable moment. So Foreword is designed to hold almost nothing about you — by default, not as a setting.
Foreword is in private beta while we polish it. Join on iOS or Android to help shape it — and to start every book a little more prepared.
Free on iOS and Android. Browse, search, and vote with no account — signing in (Apple or Google) is only needed to add your own notes.