Comparison

Book Tracker vs Ember

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

Ember

Features
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Ember is a local-first app for collecting, reviewing, and annotating the highlights from everything you read. Spaced repetition brings the right quote back at the right moment, so the books you finish keep working long after you close them. Your library lives on your device. Sync with iCloud if you want it. No account, no servers, no tracking. DAILY REVIEW THAT FEELS GOOD A swipe-driven card stack surfaces the highlights worth revisiting today. The review schedule balances new material with old, so a thousand-highlight library stays useful instead of overwhelming. - Swipe right to mark reviewed, left to skip, up to star - Haptic feedback on every gesture - Intervals grow as you remember, shrink when you forget - Streaks and a weekly progress view keep you coming back CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE - Snap a page with your camera and pull the text out, perfect for physical books - Import Kindle clippings in one step, with duplicate detection - Add a highlight by hand in a few taps - Lock Screen widgets for one-tap capture without unlocking ORGANIZE THE WAY YOU THINK - Group highlights by source: books, articles, podcasts, anything - Tag and color-code by topic - Add notes to any highlight or source, with timestamps - Star the ones you want to find again SHARE WITH STYLE Export any highlight as a themed quote card, with elegant typography and a palette that matches the app. Send it to a friend, post it, or save it for yourself. AT HOME ON EVERY APPLE DEVICE Designed for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Keyboard shortcuts on iPad and Mac for fast navigation. Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets on iPhone. Everything stays in sync through iCloud, on your terms. YOUR DATA, YOUR RULES Ember does not require an account. Your highlights live on your device and sync only through your private iCloud. Export everything anytime as a plain file you can read in any text editor. Delete the app and your data goes with it. Ember is for readers who want their highlights to stay theirs, and to keep working for them. Make revisiting knowledge a joy rather than a chore. Terms of Use: https://anneto.notion.site/ember-terms Privacy Policy: https://anneto.notion.site/ember-privacy

Screenshots

Book Tracker4 screens
Ember4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Book Tracker at 18.4 against Ember's 26.0. 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 Ember sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Book Tracker versus Ember: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook TrackerEmber
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (751 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings751 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDamir StuhecAlexander Ivanov

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

Ember

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
2 purchases

Ember

Subscriptions2
  • Ember Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Ember Pro Yearly$44.991 Year

Questions

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

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