Comparison

Book Tracker vs Literary Clock

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
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Remember more of what you read. Turn the passages that matter into a personal library you can search, revisit, and share. Point your camera at a book page, select the text, and save it with your notes, tags, and page number. Keep your books organized, return to favorite ideas with reminders and widgets, and recap a book’s core ideas from your own highlights with Apple Intelligence. CAPTURE • Capture text with your camera or from photos in your library • Select sentences and paragraphs with smart text recognition • Automatically select text you’ve highlighted or underlined in a book • Save multiple highlights from a page at once • Detect page numbers and scan ISBN barcodes to add books • Import highlights from Kindle or CSV files • Import your book library from Goodreads or other CSV files • Drag and drop images to capture highlights on iPad ORGANIZE • Build your personal bookshelf with collections and reading status • Group highlights into chapters and browse them in reading order • Add notes, tags, page numbers, and favorites • Add emphasis with bold, italics, underline, and strikethrough • Find relevant tags faster with smart suggestions • Search your highlights and filter by book, collection, or tag REVISIT • Recap a book’s core ideas from your highlights with Apple Intelligence • Rediscover saved passages with recurring highlight reminders • Keep highlights on your Home Screen with widgets • Start highlighting with Siri Shortcuts • Capture and browse your highlights offline SHARE & EXPORT • Share highlights as beautiful quote cards • Publish a book’s highlights as a web page anyone can read • Export one book or your whole library • Choose PDF, Markdown, CSV, RTF, or plain text • Include notes, tags, and page numbers in your exports FREE TO START Capture and organize unlimited books and highlights for free. Highlighted+ adds automatic selection of marked text, Apple Intelligence recaps, Kindle and CSV highlight import, whole-library export, custom reminders, and more. Apple Intelligence features depend on device, language, and system availability. Selected as Apple’s App of the Day 6 times. Trusted by 160,000+ readers. ABOUT ME I'm Damir, an independent creator from Europe who loves to read. Say hello at damir.stuhec@gmail.com 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

Literary Clock

Features
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Open the app at 10:38 and you might get Dickens. In The Old Curiosity Shop, a landlord looks up at the clock and promises the stew will be done "at twenty-two minutes before eleven." A minute later it's someone else, in some other book, telling you it's 10:39. That's the whole idea. Timely Quote is a clock that tells the time with lines from real books. Where the quotes come from Every passage comes from Project Gutenberg, the free library of public-domain books. There are more than 13,000 of them from over 6,000 books, and they aren't all novels. You'll get Jules Verne (Phileas Fogg is, unsurprisingly, always checking his watch) and P. G. Wodehouse. You'll also get Darwin timing how fast plants move, an admiral's account of the Grand Fleet, Victorian travel diaries, and every so often a page of the Warren Commission report. It turns out old books mention the time a lot. A few minutes of the day haven't turned up in any book yet. There are 34 of them, if you're counting. If you land on one, you get an apology and a line from Douglas Adams instead. I'm still looking. What you can do Pull down to get a different quote for the same minute. Most minutes have several. Turn on auto refresh in Settings and the quote changes on the minute, every minute, while you have the app open. Long-press a quote, or tap the ••• button, to share it, copy it, or open the book it came from on Project Gutenberg. There you can read the whole thing for free. Pick light, dark, or whatever your phone is set to. The small print There's no account, no ads, and nothing about you leaves your phone. The app is free and there's nothing to unlock. If it makes you smile, there's a tip jar in Settings. Tips are completely optional and don't change anything in the app.

Screenshots

Book Tracker4 screens
Literary Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Book Tracker at 18.4 against Literary Clock's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 Literary Clock sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Book Tracker ships an update every 5 weeks, Literary Clock monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Book Tracker versus Literary Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook TrackerLiterary Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (751 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings751 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDamir StuhecMikael Hultgren

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

Literary Clock

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
3 purchases

Literary Clock

One-time3
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99

Questions

Is Book Tracker free?
Book Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Literary Clock free?
Literary Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Book Tracker or Literary Clock have ads?
Neither Book Tracker nor Literary Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Book Tracker or Literary Clock?
Book Tracker ships an update every 5 weeks, and Literary Clock monthly. Most recently, Book Tracker was updated on November 7, 2026 and Literary Clock on October 30, 2026.

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