Comparison

Book Tracker vs Xcerpt App

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

Xcerpt App

Save and organize memorable passages from books. Discover what others are reading and share your own favorite excerpts. Features include scanning, chapter navigation, and export options.

Highlights
  • Scan book excerpts
  • Organize with chapter outlines
  • Discover user-shared excerpts
  • Shuffle random excerpts
  • Export excerpts as .txt
  • Dark/Light mode toggle
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Xcerpt is a social book excerpt app that allows you to scan and store memorable passages from books, easily navigate your saved excerpts with the help of a responsive chapter outline, and discover excerpts that other users have saved. • Add Connections - Take a peek into interesting books other users are reading, and control your privacy settings for individual books. • Organize Excerpts - Navigate your excerpts with the assistance of a chapter outline, and bookmark your favorite excerpts. • Scan Excerpts - Quickly add excerpts with the built-in scanner. • Shuffle Excerpts - Feeling spontaneous? Surprise yourself with a feed of excerpts randomly selected from all of your books. • Export Excerpts - Export your excerpts as a .txt file for usage in other locations. • Toggle Between Dark/Light Mode - Choose whichever lighting scheme suits your fancy!

Screenshots

Book Tracker4 screens
Xcerpt App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Xcerpt App at none against Book Tracker's 6. Xcerpt App also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.4). Book Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (751 vs 4). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Book Tracker sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Xcerpt App asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Book Tracker against 5.0 for Xcerpt App. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Book Tracker has 751 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Book Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Xcerpt App's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Book Tracker versus Xcerpt App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook TrackerXcerpt App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (751 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings751 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.416.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDamir StuhecBrian Ho

Customer experience

Book Tracker

All ratings751 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews362 reviews
Positive92.8%
Neutral3.9%
Negative3.3%

Xcerpt App

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Xcerpt App

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
None

Xcerpt App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Book Tracker free?
Book Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Xcerpt App free?
Xcerpt App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Book Tracker or Xcerpt App?
Xcerpt App is rated higher. Book Tracker averages 4.9 out of 5 from 751 ratings, while Xcerpt App averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Book Tracker or Xcerpt App have ads?
Neither Book Tracker nor Xcerpt App shows ads.

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