Book Breeze vs Reading Time
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Book Breeze
Develop a consistent reading habit with this app. Track your progress with detailed graphs, monitor reading streaks, and receive optional daily reminders to stay motivated. Make reading enjoyable and achieve your yearly book goals.
- Detailed reading progress graphs
- Book completion time estimates
- Daily reading streak tracking
- Weekly and yearly reading statistics
- Optional daily reading reminders
- Motivational design elements
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Book Breeze helps you develop your reading habit. Whether your goal is 3 or 300 books a year — Book Breeze will make it fun and rewarding to get started with, and to finish, those books. Book Breeze reading tracker features: - Large graphs for pages read, books read and reading pace on weekly, monthly and yearly time scales - Continuously updated progress and remaining time estimates for each book - Tracking daily reading streaks and record of your best streak - Accessible weekly reading stats for short term goals, and total reading stats for long term motivation - Optional daily reminder to keep your daily reading habit on track - Designed in every aspect to make reading more attractive, and ultimately to make you read more Develop your reading habit — Download Book Breeze today! Notes: * This app is a book tracker (reading tracker). Book content and the actual reading is not done in the app, only the tracking of your reading. * Icons from icons8.com.
Reading Time
This app helps readers estimate the remaining effort to finish a book based on their actual reading habits. It's designed for those who read in short, irregular sessions and want a realistic understanding of a book's time commitment.
- Estimate remaining book effort
- Log reading sessions
- Learn from reading pace
- Realistic time commitment assessment
- Track progress at your own pace
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Find out how long it will take to finish your book. Simply log your reading sessions. Reading Time is built for readers who care about finishing important books, but read in short, irregular sessions. Instead of pages, streak pressure, or generic estimates, it shows the remaining effort for each book based on how you actually read. This lets you decide, realistically, whether a book fits into your life right now. Start reading and stop when you’re done. Reading Time learns from your sessions and shows how much effort is left for each book at your own pace. If you’ve ever thought “I want to read this, but I don’t know if I have time,” or found yourself starting books and never finishing them, or felt put off by apps that expect daily consistency, Reading Time was made for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Book Breeze at 347 against Reading Time's 24. Book Breeze also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 26.0). Reading Time's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 70%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Book Breeze sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Reading Time sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Book Breeze against 4.8 for Reading Time. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Book Breeze has 347 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of Book Breeze's written reviews are positive against 80% of Reading Time's.
Book Breeze ships an update every 2 weeks, Reading Time every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Book Breeze | Reading Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (347 ratings) | 4.8 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.7% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 347 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zendo Mobile | UX First |
Customer experience
Book Breeze
Reading Time
Bugs and requests
Book Breeze
Reported bugs
8 issues- Streak resets on October 26th or Daylight Saving Time dates
- Data loss when switching phones without account system
- Books showing completion date as January 1, 1970
- App crashes during new year transitions
- App freezes when updating reading sessions
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- Unable to edit or change book completion dates
- Icon notification stuck on 1
- Inability to save books without completing form
Requested features
16 requests- Cloud backup and account login system
- Dark mode option
- Barcode scanner for quick book entry
- Cross-device synchronization
- Notes and quotes feature for books
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- Reading goals and deadline setting
- Book review writing capability
- Widget for home screen display
- Apple Watch integration
- Daily tracking instead of streak-only stats
- Words per minute tracking and graphs
- Ability to pause or archive books
- iPad app version
- Automatic book metadata loading
- Support for ebooks and audiobooks tracking
- Book search functionality
Reading Time
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Book Breeze
- Book Breeze Pro$4.99
Reading Time
- Unlock forever$11.99
- Unlock forever (Special offer)$11.99
