Book Tracker vs Bookbits
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
Bookbits
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The greatest books ever written are gathering dust because they feel too long, too dense, or too old. Bookbits changes that. Every classic text is broken into short, focused lessons you can read in 3-7 minutes. Each lesson gives you three things: context that frames the core idea in plain language, the original passage itself, and a takeaway that connects it to your life today. This isn't a summary app. You're reading the actual words of Marcus Aurelius, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Sun Tzu, Plato, Epictetus, Kafka, and dozens more. We just make sure those words land. HOW IT WORKS Pick a reading path during setup and your first lesson is ready immediately. Each path groups 2-3 books around a theme. The Strategist pairs The Art of War, The Prince, and On War. The Existentialist takes you through Notes from Underground, Beyond Good and Evil, and more. Each book contains key insight lessons that give you the essential ideas, plus deeper lessons for when you want to go further. Read one lesson a day or binge a whole book in an afternoon. GUIDED, NOT SUMMARIZED Other apps give you bullet points about great books. Bookbits gives you the real text with a reading companion built in. Short context sections frame each passage so you know what to look for. Bridge text between sections guides you through longer passages without losing the thread. Reflective takeaways help you connect ancient ideas to your own life. READ BY MOOD Some days you don't want a lesson plan. You just want to read something that meets you where you are. The Mood feature lets you choose how you're feeling and serves up insights matched to your emotional state. Feeling stuck? Anxious? Restless? Curious? There's a passage for that, written centuries ago by someone who understood exactly what you're going through. WHAT'S INSIDE Works by Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Sun Tzu, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Plato, Kafka, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Lao Tzu, Tolstoy, and more Curated reading paths that group books by theme Lessons ranging from 3-7 minutes each Daily reading streak to build a consistent habit Key insight and deep dive lesson types for every book Mood-based reading for when you want to explore by feeling Progress tracking across books and paths Start your first lesson today. It takes 30 seconds.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bookbits at none against Book Tracker's 6. Bookbits also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.4). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Book Tracker sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Bookbits asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Book Tracker | Bookbits |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (750 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 92.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 750 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Damir Stuhec | Puneetpal Sandhu |
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
Bookbits
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
Bookbits
No in-app purchases







