Built in Ghana, for students across Africa.

MyBookPal began with a straightforward observation: students are not short of books. They are short of someone to ask about them at nine o'clock at night, when the textbook is open and the paragraph still makes no sense. That is as true in Accra as it is in Lagos, Nairobi or Freetown.

So we built the companion rather than another library. Open a textbook in MyBookPal and you can circle the paragraph you're stuck on and have it explained, ask a question about the page in front of you, have it read aloud, or photograph your maths working and find out where it went wrong rather than just that it did.

Who we are

MyBookPal is our own product, and publishers bring their catalogues onto it. Advocate Publishing Limited was the first to come on board, and their titles are on the platform today. We start where we are — Ghana, and the WAEC syllabus shared across West Africa — and add each market with publishers from that market, because a curriculum is not something you can approximate from somewhere else.

Publishers keep their own dashboard, their own sales and their own relationship with readers. Every book is encrypted at rest and unlocked per reader, so a PDF cannot simply walk out of the app. We do not take a publisher's catalogue and call it ours.

How we make money

Students buy credits, or a plan, or a single book — and a great deal is free. Institutions can fund students directly: a pensions company or an insurer, anywhere we operate, buys credits in bulk and gives them to its customers' children as a benefit that renews with the premium.

We would rather say that plainly than bury it. Nothing on MyBookPal is funded by advertising to children.

Talk to us

Publishers: your own branded app.
Insurers, pensions and banks: customer benefits.
Everyone else: support@mybookpal.app.