Your place to save and share trusted referrals.
The best recommendations live in texts, group chats, and conversations with people you trust. GemBook brings them into one place — organized, searchable, and easy to share. Need a recommendation? Ask your groups — and save the gems they share back.
Available on iOS
How GemBook Works
Save referrals directly from the messages where they're shared.
Take a Screenshot
Capture the message with the referral.
Tap the Share Button
Tap the share icon.
Select GemBook
GemBook organizes the referral for you.
Each referral keeps its context — who shared it, and why it's great.
Works with texts, emails, and social messages — any screenshot with a recommendation. You can also add referrals manually or import contacts.
Share a trusted recommendation directly from GemBook to a friend or group — only with the people you choose.
Groups
Groups, made simple
Create groups for the circles you already have — family, book club, mom friends. Then put them to work:
Request a Gem — ask your groups for a recommendation and get trusted answers back.
Group feeds — everything your circles are sharing, in one place.
React, vouch & comment — show what you've tried and loved.
Save what you want — keep the gems you'll actually use.
Control who can share — open it to everyone in the group, or keep it owner-only for a more curated collection.
Philosophy
Designed to feel different
GemBook is a calm, beautifully designed home for the recommendations you'd actually pass to a friend. No algorithm deciding what you see, no ads, no noise — just trusted recommendations, organized and easy to come back to.
Your own little black book of the people and places worth knowing.
Built for Trust
Nothing is public or searchable — you choose exactly who sees what.
No ads or sponsored results.
Everything you see was shared with you — by a group or a person, not an algorithm.
Loves, vouches, and comments stay inside your groups — they help the group decide what's worth trying, and they're invisible to everyone else.