Book Tracker vs Readay
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
Readay
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You finish a chapter with a thought you want to keep, so you screenshot a page, highlight a line in some app or snap a photo of a paragraph, and then never see any of it again. What you actually wanted was somewhere to write it down while it's fresh, so when a friend asks what you made of the book, it's all still there. Readay is just one journal for whatever you're reading, a thought or a quote with the page it's on. Snap a page to keep the exact line, talk a thought through when you can't be bothered typing, tag characters with @names and blur the spoilers, then scroll back when you go "wait, I had a theory about this part". No account and no feed, it stays on your phone and syncs through your own iCloud, so it's yours and nobody else's. Readay is free to download, with an optional Readay Pro subscription that renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage it in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy: https://readayapp.store/#privacy Terms of Use: https://readayapp.store/#terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Readay at every 2 weeks against Book Tracker's every 5 weeks. 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 Readay sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Book Tracker ships an update every 5 weeks, Readay every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Book Tracker | Readay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (751 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 92.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 751 — 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 — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Damir Stuhec | Gian Hao Liow |
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
Readay
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
Readay
- Readay Monthly$4.991 Month
- Readay Yearly$29.991 Year
- Readay Lifetime$79.99









