Comparison

Book Tracker vs chapterly

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

chapterly

Organize and personalize your digital book collection. Enjoy a focused reading environment with robust features for book enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Organize digital library
  • Personalize book collection
  • Distraction-free reading
  • Powerful reading tools
Features
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Read, organize, and personalize your digital library with ease. Enjoy a distraction-free reading experience with powerful tools for every book lover.

Screenshots

Book Tracker4 screens
chapterly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: chapterly at none against Book Tracker's 6. chapterly also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.4). Book Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (750 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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. chapterly 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 chapterly. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Book Tracker has 750 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Book Tracker ships an update every 5 weeks, chapterly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Book Tracker versus chapterly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook Trackerchapterly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (750 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings750 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDamir StuhecNishant Gautam

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

chapterly

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

chapterly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Book Tracker free?
Book Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is chapterly free?
chapterly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Book Tracker or chapterly?
chapterly is rated higher. Book Tracker averages 4.9 out of 5 from 750 ratings, while chapterly averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Book Tracker or chapterly have ads?
Neither Book Tracker nor chapterly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Book Tracker or chapterly?
Book Tracker ships an update every 5 weeks, and chapterly every 2 weeks. Most recently, Book Tracker was updated on November 3, 2026 and chapterly on October 21, 2026.

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