Comparison

Book Tracker vs Dogear

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

Dogear

Features
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Dogear is your personal virtual library. Save the books you care about to a bookshelf on your iPhone. Keep the quotes, highlights, and bookmarked pages that actually stick. Then see them again when you open your shelf, or on the Home Screen with widgets. Most reading apps try to replace the book. Dogear keeps the titles you mean to return to, and the lines you do not want to lose. BUILD YOUR SHELF Add a book the moment you find it, before the thought walks off. • Search by title or author • Point the camera at a barcode • Import several titles from a CSV file on your device, including Goodreads-style exports with Title, Author, and ISBN columns Each saved book lives on your bookshelf with its cover and details. Open it later and everything you attached to it is still there. SAVE WHAT MATTERS From any saved book you can: • Snap a page with the camera and mark the lines you want to keep • Pick a photo of a page from your library • Type a quote or highlight yourself • Bookmark a page so you can find your place again Quotes, highlights, and bookmarked pages stay with that specific book, on your iPhone, not scattered across Notes, screenshots, and camera roll. SEE IT AGAIN Saving only helps if the line comes back when you need it. On the bookshelf, flip through your titles and read a saved passage with the book still in front of you. You can show a saved line under the focused book on the home shelf. On the Home Screen, widgets keep the habit going: • Add Book: jump straight into adding a title • Add Passage: open a book and save another line • Random Passage: resurface a quote or highlight you already saved Widgets run on your device. There is no Dogear account or cloud library. A QUIET PLACE FOR YOUR LIBRARY Dogear is a personal shelf, not a social feed. No accounts, no followers, no public reviews. Search, scan, save, and leave. The free version includes search and barcode scanning, a small bookshelf (up to 2 books shown), and up to 20 quotes and highlights shown per book. Add passages with the camera, from Photos, or with the keyboard. PRIVACY AND CONTROL Saved books, page images, quotes, highlights, and bookmarks live on your device. The camera scans barcodes and captures pages. Page photos are not uploaded to us. Search queries and ISBNs go to book catalogs so we can look up titles. Optional analytics may include a book title or author. Purchases go through Apple. Full details are in the Privacy Policy. You can pick an in-app language (English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German) and more readable fonts. Dogear requires iOS 26 and an iPhone. Privacy Policy: https://medium.com/@amol.kmr05/book-bytes-privacy-policy-697b72a0241d Terms of Use: https://medium.com/@amol.kmr05/book-bytes-terms-of-use-a66e37ac0366 Support: support@amolkmr.com

Screenshots

Book Tracker4 screens
Dogear4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Book Tracker at 18.4 against Dogear's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 Dogear sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Book Tracker ships an update every 5 weeks, Dogear every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Book Tracker versus Dogear: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook TrackerDogear
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (751 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings751 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDamir StuhecAmol Kumar

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

Dogear

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

Dogear

Subscriptions2
  • Dogear++ Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
  • Dogear++ Annual Subscription$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Book Tracker free?
Book Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dogear free?
Dogear is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Book Tracker or Dogear have ads?
Neither Book Tracker nor Dogear shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Book Tracker or Dogear?
Book Tracker ships an update every 5 weeks, and Dogear every 3 weeks. Most recently, Book Tracker was updated on November 9, 2026 and Dogear on November 5, 2026.

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