Comparison

Library Notes vs Bookie

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Library Notes

This app helps book lovers organize their thoughts and memories about the books they read. It allows users to create detailed notes and offers a unique review mode to help recall key information and quotes.

Highlights
  • Organize book notes
  • Create reading logs
  • Review mode for memory recall
  • Capture quotes and prompts
  • Open-source
  • User owns all data
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Library Notes is a free, open-source iOS app for taking notes about the books you read. There’s no service, no accounts, no passwords. You always own your data. If you are a book lover, your reading log and the notes you take about the books you read are one of the most important things you create in your life. Your notes help books become a part of you. Inspired by Commonplace Books, Library Notes is an iPad and iPhone app designed specifically for book notes. To help you remember your book notes, Library Notes has “review mode.” Review mode scans your notes for quotes, prompt questions, and fill-in-the-blank questions. It prompts you with this material to make sure you constantly refresh your memory with all of the great things you’ve been capturing. You are what you read!

About

Bookie

Easily manage your reading list, track books you're planning, currently reading, or have finished. Capture quotes by typing or using your camera, and share them with friends. Your reading data is securely synced via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Track reading progress
  • Save planned, current, and finished books
  • Add quotes via typing or camera OCR
  • Share books and quotes
  • iCloud data synchronization
  • No ads or tracking
Features
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Track every book you love, save the quotes that move you, and watch your reading grow. Bookie is a calm, private reading journal for your iPhone. The books you want to read, the one on your nightstand, and every book you've finished, together in one beautiful library. No ads, no tracking, nothing to sign up for. Make yourself at home. YOUR LIBRARY • Three shelves for your reading life: Pending, Reading, and Read. • Search by title, author, or both, preview any book, and add it to a shelf. • Can't find a book? Add it yourself, with your own photo as the cover. • Browse covers to find the edition you own. YOUR READING JOURNAL • Every book gets its own page, tinted with the colors of its cover. • Bookie notes the day you start and finish each book, and tells you how long it took. • Remember who recommended it, and write down what you thought. • Make each book yours: edit the cover, dates, page count, and more. YOUR QUOTES • Scan a passage right off the page with your camera, or type it in. • Keep the page number and your own thoughts beside every quote. • Find any quote by its words, its book, or its author. QUOTE CARDS • Turn any quote into an image in three styles: Cover, Night, and Paper. • Pick a size for wherever you share: Story (9:16), Square (1:1), or Landscape (16:9). • Share it anywhere or save it to Photos. • Cards show the quote and its book, never your notes. READING STATS • Books and pages finished, all time or year by year. • Charts of the books you finish each year and each month. • What you're reading now, and how long books wait on your pile. • How long books take you, from the quickest to the slowest. • Your most-read authors, genres, and languages, and whose recommendations you read most. • Your longest and shortest books, the oldest and newest, and your most-quoted reads. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your books, quotes, and notes live on your iPhone and sync with your iCloud. • Your library works offline. • Export all your books and quotes as text, anytime. BOOKIE PRO Bookie is free for up to five books, with quotes, stats, and quote cards included. Bookie Pro adds: • An unlimited library • Quote cards without the Bookie footer • Support for an independent reading app The books and quotes you've saved always stay yours to open, edit, and export, with or without Pro. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://xavimoll.com/legal/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Library Notes4 screens
Bookie4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Bookie at 20 against Library Notes's 4. Library Notes's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Library Notes against 4.9 for Bookie. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bookie has 20 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Library Notes ships an update every 3 months, Bookie every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Library Notes versus Bookie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLibrary NotesBookie
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.9 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings420 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrian DeweyXavi Moll

Customer experience

Library Notes

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bookie

All ratings20 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Library Notes

No in-app purchases

None

Bookie

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Library Notes free?
Library Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bookie free?
Bookie is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Library Notes or Bookie?
Library Notes is rated higher. Library Notes averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Bookie averages 4.9 from 20 ratings.
Do Library Notes or Bookie have ads?
Neither Library Notes nor Bookie shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Library Notes or Bookie?
Library Notes ships an update every 3 months, and Bookie every 5 months. Most recently, Library Notes was updated on October 19, 2026 and Bookie on October 13, 2026.

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