Book Tracker vs EpicX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Text recognition
- Book collections
- Tags and notes
- Highlight export
- Page number detection
- Search functionality
- Photo highlighting
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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
EpicX
This app combines reading, writing, and community features for book lovers. Discover and read books, publish your own stories, and build fan communities through interactive features like events and polls. Gamified progression encourages both personal and community growth.
- Book discovery and reading flow
- Chapter-level interactions and comments
- Author dashboard with performance metrics
- Create and manage fan communities (Circles)
- Host and participate in events and polls
- Gamified progression with achievements and rewards
- Audio/TTS-connected reading experience
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EpicX At A Glance EpicX is a reader-author-community platform in one app: discover/read books, write/publish, and build fan communities through Circles. The product is built around engagement loops: reading activity, social participation, events, polls, and gamified progression. It supports both personal growth (skills, output, consistency) and community growth (fanbase, participation, retention). Reader Features Discovery + reading flow with trending/featured books, chapter reading, library, bookmarks, highlights, and reading history. Daily streak + reading streak systems with recurring rewards. Chapter-level interactions (comments, reactions, social engagement). Audio/TTS-connected reading experience and translation-aware reading flows. Premium voice customization for character/book voice personalization. Author Features Author dashboard with core metrics (books, views, earnings, shadowers/followers). Book lifecycle tools: create books, edit chapters, manage content, and monitor performance. Writing support modules (analytics/earnings plus structured creator workflows like character/world building in the author toolset). Author growth is tightly linked to community participation (Circles + events + polls), not only content upload. Building Fanbase With Circles Circles function as fan communities with posts, comments, reactions, chat, member management, moderation, rankings, and notifications. Authors can create/join circles and use them for recurring engagement (announcements, discussions, live interactions). Content can be shared across circle feed, circle chat, direct messages, and external channels from one sharing destination flow. Circle Events + Platform Events Circle events: members can create and RSVP to events with scheduling, attendee limits, online/offline context, and host controls. Role-based creation (leader/champion-type permissions) supports healthier community governance. Platform events: global events can run as competitive or quest-style campaigns with milestones/rank rewards. Participation can be incentivized with credits/rewards, which makes events useful for both fan growth and retention campaigns. Polling Circle and platform polls with configurable duration, anonymity, multiple-choice options, result visibility, and vote controls. Poll voting is integrated into engagement/reward systems (including platform-level incentive mechanics). Practical author use-cases: choose next chapter direction, cover/theme preference tests, character arcs, launch timing, community decisions. Gamification (Core Differentiator) Achievements + badges + quests (daily/weekly/monthly/special) with progress tracking. XP progression and level-ups with level-based rewards. Reading streak and login streak mechanics feed ongoing retention. Community and creator actions are also gamified (not only reading), creating multi-path progression. Theme Creation (Creator Customization) Theme creation is a real creator workflow: custom color systems, gradients/effects, background imagery, icon customization tiers. Level-gated unlocks make advanced customization aspirational and progression-driven. Theme submissions go through moderation workflow (pending/approved/rejected), enabling controlled UGC quality. What Makes EpicX Unique vs Typical Platforms Most apps do one thing well (reading, writing, or community). EpicX combines all three into one behavioral loop. Community mechanics are not an add-on; they’re deeply integrated with progression, events, and rewards. Authors aren’t isolated publishers—they can run live community operations (circles/events/polls) inside the same product. Gamification is systemic (quests + achievements + levels + streaks), not cosmetic. UGC theme creation + moderation adds identity and creator expression beyond content publishing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Book Tracker at 93% against EpicX's 50%. Book Tracker also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). EpicX's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.4). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Book Tracker sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and EpicX sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Book Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.0. 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. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Book Tracker's written reviews are positive against 50% of EpicX's.
Book Tracker ships an update every 5 weeks, EpicX every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Book Tracker | EpicX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (750 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.1% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 750 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Damir Stuhec | Bamidele Adams |
Customer experience
Book Tracker
EpicX
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
EpicX
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Book Tracker
- Highlighted Club Monthly$2.991 Month
- plus weekly$4.997 Days
- plus yearly3 Days trial$44.991 Year
- Small tip$9.00
- Medium tip$25.00
- Large tip$49.00
EpicX
- Reader Basic$4.991 Month
- Author$4.991 Month
- Premium$9.991 Month
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- Author Pro$9.991 Month
- Premium Plus$14.991 Month
- 100 Epic Sparks$0.99
- POP Starter Pack 100$0.99
- Welcome Bundle 40 (+2 Bonus)$0.99
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- 520 Epic Sparks$4.99
- 1,050 Epic Sparks$9.99
- POP Value Pack 1150 (1000+150)$9.99
- 2,150 Epic Sparks$19.99
- POP Premium Pack 2400 (2000+400)$19.99
- 5,500 Epic Sparks$49.99
- POP Ultimate Pack 6250 (5000+1250)$49.99









