Book Tracker vs PaperTaps
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
PaperTaps
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Screens weren't made for tiny eyes. We tried to make one that is. PaperTaps is a calm picture book with sound for children aged 1 to 7. Every page is warm ink on paper: one picture, a few words, and a gentle voice that reads them. No bright colours, nothing flashing, no ads. WHY IT LOOKS LIKE PAPER • Inspired by E-Ink readers, and designed to be gentle on young eyes. • Warm cream paper and soft ink. No pure white, no neon, no flashing. • Readable even at 5% screen brightness, so you can turn the screen right down. Typical kids' apps are built to capture attention. PaperTaps is built to deserve it. TAP, LISTEN, TRACE • Tap a picture to hear it: real animal sounds, and a recorded voice that reads the words aloud. • Hold a picture to trace it with a finger, or draw your own. • Guess together: "Who is this?" Tap to reveal. Nothing listens, scores or records. • Nineteen shelves: animals, vehicles, dinosaurs, birds, sea creatures, space, ABC, numbers and more. BOOKS YOU MAKE WITH PIP Make a book about your child's world: their dog, their day, their teddy. Tell Pip what it's about, and Pip writes the pages, draws each one in the same ink style, and reads it aloud. A picture can even move: a small, slow loop while the page is read, then it rests. Making books is for grown-ups. It needs a parent sign-in and an internet connection, and Pip's pictures use credits. A VISIT CAN END • Every shelf ends with a goodbye, not an endless feed. • Choose how many cards a visit shows. • Set a daily limit from 15 to 60 minutes. When time's up, Pip falls asleep, and only your PIN opens it again. • Settings and purchases sit behind a grown-up check. • Bedtime mode switches to dark, warm paper for evening reading. FREE AND PRO Animals is free, always, with its sounds and voice built in. Every other shelf shows a few cards for free. PaperTaps Pro is a monthly subscription. It opens every shelf, lets your child trace any card, opens all your saved drawings so you can print or share them, and adds credits every month for Pip's pictures. Credit packs are also available. OFFLINE AND PRIVACY Animals works offline from the first launch. Other shelves download once, then work offline too. No ads, no microphone, and your child never signs in. When you make a book, the words you type and any photo or drawing you add are sent to our AI providers to create the pages. The privacy policy has the details. Terms of Use: https://papertaps.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://papertaps.app/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PaperTaps at every 2 weeks against Book Tracker's every 5 weeks. PaperTaps also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.4). 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
Both are free to download. Book Tracker sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and PaperTaps sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Book Tracker ships an update every 5 weeks, PaperTaps every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Book Tracker | PaperTaps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (748 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 93.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 748 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Damir Stuhec | Mohit Garg |
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
PaperTaps
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
PaperTaps
- PaperTaps Pro Monthly$6.991 Month









