Book Tracker vs Pageling
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
Pageling
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Some lines deserve more than a folded corner. Pageling helps you capture meaningful passages from paper books, organize them with notes and tags, and revisit the ideas you do not want to lose. Scan a page, choose the exact words, and turn them into a clean, searchable highlight without retyping. CAPTURE THE PASSAGE • Scan with your camera or choose a page from Photos • Select only the lines you want to keep • Use on-device text recognition for ordinary scans • Choose Smart Scan when a difficult page needs extra cleanup • Type a highlight manually whenever you prefer ONE HOME FOR WHAT YOU READ Bring supported Kindle and Instapaper highlights into the same calm library as your paper-book passages. Each source stays clear, while everything remains easy to browse and search. MAKE IT YOURS • Add notes, tags, and page numbers • Pin or favorite the highlights that matter most • Sort and search your saved passages • Add books by search, ISBN, or barcode • Sync your library across iPhone and iPad RETURN TO THE GOOD LINES Set gentle highlight reminders, keep a reading streak, receive personal weekly book recommendations, and save promising books to your wishlist. FREE TO START Regular text scanning, cloud sync, reminders, notes, tags, and search are included. Pageling Pro expands your library and imports, increases your Smart Scan allowance, and keeps weekly recommendations coming. Pageling is for readers who underline, dog-ear, photograph, and think, “I want to remember this.” Keep what you read. Pageling is intended for adults aged 18 and over. Smart Scan is optional, uses cloud processing after a clear disclosure, and can make mistakes. Check the original page when accuracy matters. Kindle and Instapaper are independent services. Connected-import availability may vary. Privacy Policy: https://artifacts.software/pageling/privacy-policy Terms: https://artifacts.software/pageling/terms-and-conditions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pageling at every 5 days against Book Tracker's every 5 weeks. Pageling also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 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 Pageling sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Book Tracker ships an update every 5 weeks, Pageling every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Book Tracker | Pageling |
|---|---|---|
| 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 5 days — 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 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Damir Stuhec | Artifacts |
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
Pageling
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
Pageling
- Pageling Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Pageling Pro Yearly$29.991 Year









