Comparison

Book Tracker vs BookNotes | Save Highlights

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

Head to head
About

Book Tracker

Capture, organize, and revisit key passages from your books with advanced text recognition. Create collections, add tags and notes, and easily export your highlights. Stop forgetting what you read and make your reading more impactful.

Highlights
  • Text recognition
  • Book collections
  • Tags and notes
  • Highlight export
  • Page number detection
  • Search functionality
  • Photo highlighting
Features
Currently charting
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4x App of the Day - Apple Remember more of what you read. Highlighted helps you capture meaningful passages from books, organize them into a searchable library, and revisit the ideas you do not want to forget. Point your camera at a page, select the text that matters, and save it with the book, page number, notes, and tags. Build your personal bookshelf, group books into collections, import highlights from Kindle or CSV, export everything in bulk, and share beautiful quote cards. Trusted by 150,000+ readers. ______ CAPTURE • Best-in-class text recognition • Smart sentence and paragraph detection • Photo highlighting from your library • Page number detection • ISBN barcode scanning • Kindle highlights import • CSV highlights import ORGANIZE • Personal book library • Book collections and reading status • Tags, notes, page numbers, and favorites • Powerful search and filters REVISIT • Highlight reminders • Home Screen widgets with random highlights • Siri Shortcuts • Offline mode SHARE & EXPORT • Beautiful highlight sharing cards • Bulk highlights export • Export to multiple formats • Include notes, tags, and page numbers • iPad drag and drop highlighting Highlighted is free to start. The core reading and highlight experience is free, and Highlighted+ unlocks optional power features. ______ Privacy Policy: https://highlighted-app.webflow.io/terms-and-policies#privacy-policy-heading Terms: https://highlighted-app.webflow.io/terms-and-policies#terms-of-service-heading ______ ABOUT ME I'm Damir, an independent creator from Europe who loves to read. Say hello at damir.stuhec@gmail.com

About

BookNotes | Save Highlights

Features
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Save the highlights to Notion while reading on Apps like Kindle with only a couple of clicks. Easy and intuitive. You can tag and comment on any of your notes from reading apps like Kindle directly, which will be well organized and displayed in Notion automatically. Notes can be transformed into Images and saved in BookNotes. With the ability of iCloud, all notes will be shared across all your Apple devices. # Main features - Create notes from Apps like Kindle and save them to Notion in one place without copying/pasting and switching Apps. - Notes can be tagged, commented on, and applied with different colors. - Notes can be transformed into Images and saved to BookNotes. - Notes will be stored and well organized in Notion automatically. - With the ability of iCloud, all notes will be shared across all your Apple devices. # Most importantly - No ADs - No subscription - No Registration

Screenshots

Book Tracker4 screens
BookNotes | Save Highlights4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Book Tracker at #197 against BookNotes | Save Highlights's unranked. BookNotes | Save Highlights's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.4). 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. Book Tracker sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and BookNotes | Save Highlights sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Book Tracker versus BookNotes | Save Highlights: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook TrackerBookNotes | Save Highlights
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (733 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews93.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings733 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#197 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDamir StuhecLiang Wang

Bugs and requests

Book Tracker

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Occasional crashes or freezes
  • Issues with recognizing text from curved pages
  • Problems with losing previously saved highlights

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to highlight and annotate PDFs
  • Integrate with ebook readers like Kindle
  • Implement cloud sync and backup
  • Add more customization options for highlights
  • Improve search and filtering functionality

BookNotes | Save Highlights

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Book Tracker

Subscriptions3
  • Highlighted Club Monthly$2.991 Month
  • plus weekly$4.997 Days
  • plus yearly3 Days trial$44.991 Year
One-time3
  • Small tip$9.00
  • Medium tip$25.00
  • Large tip$49.00
1 purchases

BookNotes | Save Highlights

One-time1
  • Notes - Kindle Notes Pro$5.99

Questions

Is Book Tracker free?
Book Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BookNotes | Save Highlights free?
BookNotes | Save Highlights is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Book Tracker or BookNotes | Save Highlights have ads?
Neither Book Tracker nor BookNotes | Save Highlights shows ads.

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