# StoryGraph: Reading Tracker — Book recommendations and stats

> Book tracking, personalized recommendations, reading stats, and social features. (iPhone/iPad app by The StoryGraph.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/storygraph-reading-tracker/id1570489264 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [The StoryGraph](https://appshunter.io/developer/1570489926)
- Category: Books, Entertainment
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.50/5 from 3,533 App Store ratings · 1,004 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 14 · 3 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2021-06-22
- Data updated: 2026-08-28
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/storygraph-reading-tracker/id1570489264/reviews.md

## What is StoryGraph?

Import your Goodreads data: We will import all of your currently-reading, read, to-read, and did-not-finish shelves. Any custom shelves will be mapped to a custom tag on The StoryGraph.

Simple tracking and insightful stats: Easily track and learn about your reading habits with our wide range of charts and graphs. See how your reading develops over time and use that to help you pick better books.

Get smart personalized recommendations: Our machine learning AI is like your trusted go-to friend for book recommendations. It'll understand your reading preferences and find the best books for you.

Discover books by mood: In the mood for something adventurous, funny, and fast-paced? What about a darker, slower, more emotional read? Mix and match our comprehensive set of filters to choose your next perfect book.

Read with friends: Add live reactions to specific parts of the book without fear of spoilers. Comments are locked for other participants until they reach that point in their reading. Don't have people to read with? We’ve got machine learning-powered suggestions for great reading buddies.

Reading Challenges: Want to read one book from every country in the world? Or how about read a book per week across a range of genres? Our reading challenges feature help you set up personal goals or join in with others.

Custom Tags: Enhance your book tracking and discovery by making use of our custom tags feature. You can search and filter books by your tags and share curated lists with friends.

Content Warnings: When you review a book, you can let us know if there's any content within it that might be triggering for others. Then, when searching for your next read, all of this information is at your disposal.

Features:
• Import your Goodreads account
• Reading charts and graphs
• Streaks
• Favorites
• Buddy reads
• Readalongs
• Book Clubs
• Personalized machine learning recommendations
• Follow your friends to see what they're reading
• Annual reading, page, and listening goals
• Search/browse books by mood, pace, and more
• Custom tags
• Lists to share with your friends or the public
• Create your own reading challenge or join in with others
• Dark Mode
• Barcode Scanner
• Giveaways
• Browse similar books
• Find similar users
• Half and quarter star ratings
• Built-in DNF (Did Not Finish) functionality (including tracking pages read)
• Progress updates with built-in reading journal
• Author-approved and user-submitted content warnings

Want to support an independent, Goodreads alternative? Consider upgrading to Plus!

• Keep the platform ad-free: You'll help The StoryGraph stay independent!
• Custom Charts: Create your own pie and bar charts.
• Extra Stats Filters: Filter down your stats to a custom time period, or view stats for your fiction or nonfiction reads, your custom tags, any particular mood or genre, and more.
• Custom Wrap-Up Graphics: Pick any custom date range and instantly generate shareable graphics for your reading.
• Compare Stats: Compare any two stats segments of your StoryGraph library, whether that's a particular year against a custom time period, your To-Read Pile against your owned books, or a combination of several other options. You can also compare any stats segment with any segment from any other user — mix and match however you like.
• Exclusive Charts: When comparing your reading across two different years, see exclusive year-on-year charts on the number of books read and their genres.
• Shape the roadmap: You get to vote and comment on upcoming features as well as submit official requests for new ones
• Priority Support: Your support tickets and requests for book information updates will be handled first

Privacy Policy: https://app.thestorygraph.com/privacy
Terms of Service:https://app.thestorygraph.com/terms-of-service

## Key features

- Import Goodreads data
- Personalized book recommendations
- Track reading habits with stats
- Discover books by mood and pace
- Read with friends (buddy reads)
- Custom reading challenges
- Content warnings for books

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The StoryGraph Plus Monthly | $4.99 | per month |
| The StoryGraph Plus Annual | $49.99 | per year |


## Chart rankings

- #23 in Top Free · Book (US App Store)
- #123 in Top Grossing · Book (US App Store)

## What do users think of StoryGraph?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 🚀 Excellent reading stats and data visualization
- 💡 Innovative features like buddy reads and reading challenges
- 👍 Clean and modern design
- 💡 Independent company, not owned by big tech
- 👍 Responsive and helpful support team

**Cons**

- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- 🐛 Slow performance and loading times
- 🐛 Issues with importing data from other platforms
- 🐛 Missing some basic features like custom shelves/lists
- 🐛 Confusing navigation and UI in places

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes or freezes when trying to update reading progress
- Incorrect book details and page counts
- Login issues where users get logged out frequently

**Most requested features**

- Ability to track re-reads and multiple editions of books
- More robust social features like following friends, liking reviews
- Barcode scanning to easily add books
- Customizable reading challenges and goal tracking
- Dark mode option

## Recent user reviews (10 of 1,004)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/storygraph-reading-tracker/id1570489264/reviews.md

### 4/5 — slight glitch

*2026-08-21, version 1.24*

i love this app ! however , my only issue is that sometimes my stats are incorrect. it changes my format of reading quite frequently and misplaces my print v. digital reads. otherwise great app

### 4/5 — 4.5

*2026-08-21, version 1.24*

Storygraph, my faithful friend please don’t ever leave me. 
I have looked at and toyed with multiple reading trackers and I have no idea why anyone uses any other than you. 
The only problem others might have with storygraph is that there is no community like goodreads and fable in that, they can post comments and pictures and others can like and comment where as with storygraph you can only like that someone read and rated it. I don’t really care as much for this because people tend to get mean just because they don’t agree with someone else’s reviews and or ratings, I don’t need that drama lol.
The only other issue I have is that multiple user added editions may have wrong or incomplete information. 
Guys seriously, this one has charts and graphs that are FREE, unlike fable (here are all of the graphs you get to see for FREE: mood, pace, page number, fiction/nonfiction, genres, tags, format, most read authors, languages, number of books and pages and Star ratings!!!)
They also have giveaways just like goodreads 
Not only can you set a book reading goal you can set a pages goal and an hours goal
You can do buddy reads and read along’s as well as create or be a part of a book club. 
Just like goodreads, you can create your own tags, just like goodreads it will tell you the total of books you’ve ever read, as well as the total of books you have read this year and at the end of the year it will show every book you read and dnf’d (at least they did the dnf’s last year, hopefully again every year) and it will show the ratings you gave it. 
Just like fable you can add content warnings, the pace the book felt to you, you can choose to answer some of these questions like: are the characters lovable? You can answer: Yes. No. It’s complicated. was the cast of characters diverse?, was there strong character development?, was the book mainly plot or character driven or a mix?
Ditch goodreads, ditch fable or any other book tracking app and just use this one! Hey  maybe if more people join, storygraph will add the community posts like goodreads and fable has ;)

### 2/5 — Profoundly frustrating

*2026-08-21, version 1.24*

I want to love this app but the UI is god awful. I put in a book and it automatically says I’ve finished it. It supposedly keeps track of pages read but doesn’t. So poorly designed.

### 3/5 — Confusing interface

*2026-08-20, version 1.24*

I downloaded this and found the interface confusing. I simply want to keep track of how much I read each day and it really doesn’t do that. For example, you need to add the page began at and the page you ended rather than accumulative total. I accidentally added that I had reread it. And when I deleted that, it deleted all my extensive notes. Stay away from this app.  It’s a mess.  

Update:  appreciate the developer reaching out to me and understands the UI concerns. I hope these are changed because I think this app has great potential.

### 5/5 — Favourite book tracker

*2026-08-18, version 1.24*

This is by far my favourite book tracker - already love what you guys do, and super excited to see where this app goes.

One thing - am super keen to be supporting a non-Amazon owned app, but I don’t personally see the value in paying for the premium subscription. If it keeps you guys running, I honestly wouldn’t mind ads here and there.

### 4/5 — It’s not GoodReads

*2026-08-17, version 1.24*

The search algorithm and app have been improved. Plus you’re not supporting an exploitative monopoly.

### 5/5 — My Reading Brain Lives Here Now

*2026-08-17, version 1.24*

StoryGraph genuinely changed how I read. Migrating years of Goodreads history was a certified ✨journey✨, but getting my reading life out of Amazon’s ecosystem felt delicious.

The tracking is where StoryGraph absolutely eats. Reading streaks turn my book habit into a tiny dopamine machine, while the stats, charts, moods, pace data, challenges, and progress tracking actually tell me something about how I read instead of merely cataloging what I finished. Following readers with similar tastes is also dangerous in the best way—I routinely burgle their shelves for my already-unmanageable TBR.

My biggest remaining weakness is discovery. When I want curated lists, rabbit holes, or that glorious feeling of stumbling across something unexpected, I still find myself opening Goodreads. StoryGraph’s recommendations are smart, but browsing doesn’t feel quite as rich yet.

As an actual reading tracker, though? StoryGraph has become indispensable.

### 5/5 — Content Warnings feature is the best!

*2026-08-16, version 1.24*

I love this app! It is so easy to find out whether a book contains content I may be sensitive to. I use to spend so much time searching for content warnings before starting a book. I would have to do multiple internet searches and search reviews in hopes someone else put warnings in. This app makes the process simple and convenient, I know within a minute of searching for a book if it is a good fit for me. As a result I have been able to branch out to other genres I love without spending a ton of time researching.

### 1/5 — Useless

*2026-08-15, version 1.24*

Useless junk! You can’t import any of your Goodreads books.

### 3/5 — Seems great

*2026-08-13, version 1.24*

It seems great so far, I wish it was easier to import my data from Fable. I’d love to use both as they both offer different things but to manually input everything takes time

## Frequently asked questions about StoryGraph

### What does The StoryGraph app do?

The StoryGraph is a reading tracker that helps you import your existing book data, track your reading habits with detailed statistics, and receive personalized book recommendations. It also allows you to discover books based on mood and pace, and connect with friends for shared reading experiences.

### How does the app recommend books?

The app uses a machine learning AI to understand your reading preferences and provide personalized book recommendations. You can also discover books by mixing and matching filters for mood, pace, genre, and more, making it easier to find your next perfect read.

### Is The StoryGraph app free to use?

The app offers a freemium model. Core features like tracking, basic stats, and recommendations are available for free. An optional 'Plus' upgrade is available to support the independent platform, keep it ad-free, and unlock additional features like custom charts and advanced stats filters.

### What devices is The StoryGraph app compatible with?

The provided description does not specify device compatibility. However, as a mobile application, it is typically available on iOS and Android operating systems. Users can check their respective app stores for exact compatibility information.

### Can I read with friends on The StoryGraph?

Yes, the app supports reading with friends through features like 'Buddy Reads' and 'Readalongs'. You can add live reactions to specific parts of a book without spoilers, and the app can even suggest reading buddies based on machine learning.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.24 — 2026-03-15

What's new in v1.24?

• Improved bottom native tab bar performance and reliability

### 1.23 — 2026-03-11

What's new in v.1.23?

  • Support for the new floating navigation bar in iOS 26
  • Improved in-app giveaway prize download experience

### 1.22 — 2025-12-24

What's new in v.1.22?


• General software updates

### 1.21 — 2025-12-09

What's new in v.1.21?


• Improved Accessibility and VoiceOver functionality

### 1.20 — 2025-06-24

What's new in v.1.20?


• Improved Maintenance Mode functionality for upcoming maintenance work

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