Comparison

Book Tracker vs Book Quotes

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

Book Quotes

Features
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Bring timeless literature to your nightstand. Book Quotes transforms your iPhone into a literary timepiece, showing powerful, witty, and thought-provoking quotes from classic books.  Right on your StandBy screen or Home Screen widget. Every hour, a new quote appears, matching the rhythm of time with words that have lasted for centuries. Features: • Hourly quotes from classic books and great authors • Beautiful widget designed for StandBy mode • Customizable fonts and colors • Curated collection: 1000+ quotes, always fresh • Perfect for nightstand use. Simple, elegant, and distraction-free Whether you’re looking for inspiration, reflection, or just a touch of literary charm, Book Quotes makes every glance at your phone meaningful. Privacy Policy: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BeauNouvelle/privacy-policy/refs/heads/master/free-app-policy.md Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Book Tracker4 screens
Book Quotes3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Book Quotes at every 2 weeks against Book Tracker's every 5 weeks. On price, review sentiment, 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 Book Quotes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Book Tracker ships an update every 5 weeks, Book Quotes every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Book Tracker versus Book Quotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook TrackerBook Quotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (750 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews93.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings750 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.418 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB33 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDamir StuhecBeau Nouvelle

Customer experience

Book Tracker

All ratings748 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews360 reviews
Positive93.1%
Neutral3.6%
Negative3.3%

Book Quotes

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

Book Quotes

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

Book Quotes

One-time1
  • Lifetime$1.99

Questions

Is Book Tracker free?
Book Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Book Quotes free?
Book Quotes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Book Tracker or Book Quotes have ads?
Neither Book Tracker nor Book Quotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Book Tracker or Book Quotes?
Book Tracker ships an update every 5 weeks, and Book Quotes every 2 weeks. Most recently, Book Tracker was updated on October 29, 2026 and Book Quotes on October 30, 2026.

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