Comparison

Reading List vs My Library

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Reading List

Organize your reading journey by tracking books you've read, are currently reading, or want to read. Log progress, add custom lists, and record notes and ratings. Sync data across devices and export your library.

Highlights
  • Scan barcodes to add books
  • Search online for books
  • Manual book entry
  • Track reading progress (start/finish dates)
  • Create custom book lists
  • Add ratings and notes
  • View reading statistics
  • iCloud data sync
Features
Currently charting
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Easily track books you’ve read, books you’re reading, and books you want to read. Record your progress by adding the start and finish date of your books. ADD NEW BOOKS • Scan the barcode of a book to quickly add it to your list • Search online to find and add books • Alternatively, add a book manually by typing in its details • Sync your data between all devices via iCloud TRACK YOUR READING • Quickly log the dates you start and finish each book with a tap or swipe • Order the books, to help plan what to read next • Create your own custom lists, like "Wishlist", "Favourites", etc • Record the current page of books you're reading • Add your own rating and notes to each book • View your reading statistics PRIVATE & PERSONAL • No online account or signup needed • All data is private, stored on-device or in your iCloud account • Export and import all your data Some premium features require Reading List Pro, which can be purchased in the app. The app remains fully-featured when used without Reading List Pro. Terms of Use: https://readinglist.app/termsofservice Privacy Policy: https://readinglist.app/privacypolicy

About

My Library

Features
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My Library is the reading tracker built for people who take their books seriously and their privacy even more so. No account, no sign-in, no server. Everything you log lives only on your device, exactly where it belongs. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN The book you're reading, cover, title and a progress bar, or your streak and this year's goal. Pin a book, or leave it to follow whatever you picked up last. Small and medium sizes. YOUR LIBRARY Scan the barcode on the back of a book and it's on your shelf in seconds and it says straight away if you've already read it, and how you rated it. No signal in the shop? It saves the book anyway and fills in the details next time you're online. Or search Google Books, or type it in by hand. Four shelves built in, plus a favourites heart and as many of your own as you like. Track series, and see which books you're missing. TRACK AS YOU READ Log your page straight from the home screen, two taps, no digging. Track by pages, percentage, or both at once. Rate in half stars, write reviews, save quotes, attach notes to a chapter or page. Reviews and notes save themselves as you write, so an interrupted thought is still there when you return. Re-read something and it counts again without losing the first time. MY CONTENT Every quote, note and review you've written, in one searchable place. Search runs across the words and the book, so "clarke labyrinth" finds a passage that never names its author. SESSIONS & STATS Start the timer when you sit down and stop when you're done. Every session becomes stats that mean something: reading time, pages per hour, current and longest streak, a 52-week heatmap, a genre breakdown, and how long the book in your hands has left. At the end of the year, a shareable recap of the whole thing. GOALS & CHALLENGES Set a yearly target and a weekly page goal, and see whether you're on pace. Take on challenges, ten decades, five genres, three ways of reading, each checked against your library, so the count means what it says. BADGES 114 badges, most levelling from Bronze to Diamond: books read, pages turned, streaks held, genres explored, authors discovered, series completed. Plus one-off feats for the unusual, a book finished in a day, five quotes from one title, three different languages. Seasonal badges arrive with the world's reading days and the turn of the seasons, wherever you are. BRING YOUR LIBRARY WITH YOU Import from Goodreads or StoryGraph, shelves, ratings, reviews, dates, series and re-reads all come across, and anything already on your shelves is skipped rather than duplicated. Kindle highlights import from My Clippings.txt and find their own books. EXPORT & BACKUP Export as a CSV or a formatted PDF reading log, or back everything up to a JSON file and restore it whenever. Delete a book by mistake and it waits 30 days in Recently Deleted, with everything that belonged to it. BUILT TO BE READABLE Five text sizes, bold text, and a high-contrast mode that goes further than the usual. An Easier Reading setting switches to an simpler font. Ten accent colours, Reduce Motion respected, and built with screen readers in mind. On iPad in landscape, your library and the book you're reading sit side by side. PRO — ONE PAYMENT, YOURS FOREVER Pro unlocks unlimited books and quotes, My Content, the reading timer and session history, full stats and heatmap, Year in Reading, challenges, seasonal badges, custom shelves, weekly goals, daily reminders, and the three imports. One purchase, no subscription. Bought it already? Restore Purchase in Settings. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No backend, no analytics, no network access beyond looking a book up. Your reading history cannot be sold, mined, or lost in someone else's breach. Erase All Data in Settings does exactly that. This is not a service. It's software. It works offline, it works forever, and it belongs entirely to you.

Screenshots

Reading List4 screens
My Library4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: My Library at every 3 days against Reading List's fortnightly. Reading List's advantage is chart position (#176 vs unranked). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Reading List sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.00 per month and My Library sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reading List ships an update fortnightly, My Library every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Reading List versus My Library: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReading ListMy Library
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (30K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings30K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#176 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrew Bennet LtdAchievoEDU PTY LTD

Bugs and requests

Reading List

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Issues with date/time tracking when adding books
  • Occasional crashes or data loss when using the app

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to track re-reads and 'on hold' books
  • Improve sorting/organizing options for large collections
  • Add support for audiobooks and reading time tracking
  • Implement cloud sync and account features to preserve data
  • Add more customization options for lists and book display

My Library

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Reading List

Subscriptions4
  • Reading List Pro (Monthly)$2.001 Month
  • Reading List Pro (Monthly)$3.991 Month
  • Reading List Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$14.001 Year
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  • Reading List Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time6
  • Small Tip$1.00
  • Medium Tip$2.00
  • Large Tip$3.00
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  • Very Large Tip$5.00
  • Giant Tip$10.00
  • Reading List Pro (Lifetime)$38.00
1 purchases

My Library

One-time1
  • My Library Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Reading List free?
Reading List is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Library free?
My Library is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Reading List or My Library have ads?
Neither Reading List nor My Library shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reading List or My Library?
Reading List ships an update fortnightly, and My Library every 3 days. Most recently, Reading List was updated on November 10, 2026 and My Library on October 31, 2026.

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