Yes. The free plan has no time limit and needs no card. It includes an unlimited library, Goodreads import, reading sessions, streaks with freeze credits, goals, highlights, 3 custom shelves, Circles and the daily connection card, plus a small monthly allowance of each AI feature.

Hikara is free to start. Basic costs $3.49 a month or $34.99 a year, and Premium costs $6.99 a month or $64.99 a year. Both paid plans start with a 7-day free trial. Prices are set by region, and the ones on this page are for yours.

Both lift the free plan's limit of 3 custom shelves and raise the monthly AI allowances. Basic includes 8 vibe searches, 8 gap finder searches or journeys, 8 counter-reads or AI recommendations, 4 Reading DNA or personality reports, 20 whole-library connection analyses, 50 highlights read from photos and 5 Dialogues of up to 30 messages each, every month. Premium has no monthly caps.

Only that feature pauses, until allowances reset on the 1st of the month at 00:00 UTC. Everything else keeps working, and adding books by search or from a Goodreads export is never limited. A request that fails isn't counted, and unused allowance doesn't carry over.

Yes. Basic and Premium both start with a 7-day free trial, and if you cancel during the trial you aren't charged. The free plan doesn't need a trial: it has no time limit.

Yes, from the Usage page in your account. You keep your plan until the end of the period you've paid for, then move to the free plan, with your library, highlights and reading history as they were.

Hikara prices by region so that it's affordable in more places, which means the same plans cost less in many countries. The features and allowances are identical everywhere, and this page shows the prices for your region.

Lemon Squeezy, which runs the checkout, sends receipts and handles VAT or sales tax where it applies. Hikara never sees your card details.