Library Notes vs Book Notion|notes reviews memo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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!
Book Notion|notes reviews memo
This app automatically imports your Kindle highlights and helps you remember what you've read through reminders. It offers integration with Notion for organizing books and highlights, and features like page scanning and web saving. It's designed to enhance your reading and note-taking experience.
- Automatic Kindle highlight import
- Notion integration
- Customizable reminder emails
- Page scanning for paper books
- Web saving via Safari extension
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
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Surpassed 70,000 users! More and more users find they cannot read without BookNotion! BookNotion is a reading app that automatically imports your Kindle highlights and helps you remember what you've read with reminders. Just sign in to Amazon in the app to import your Kindle highlights automatically (free). New highlights are imported each time you open the app. Your password is never sent to BookNotion. With the Chrome extension on a PC, highlights can also be imported fully automatically every hour. With the Z Plan, connect Notion from within the app. Two databases are created, one for books and one with a row for each highlight, and your highlights are exported automatically. You can also check the connection status and sync missing items from the app. People use it for reading logs, reading management, study, business notes and more. Features: - Automatic import of Kindle highlights (free) - Kindle stores in 13 countries, including the US, the UK and Japan - Monthly reminder email (free) - Customizable reminder emails (Z Plan) - Notion integration with books and highlights databases (Z Plan) - Page Scan: photograph a paper book page and trace the lines to save them (up to 5 a month without the Z Plan) - Save from screenshots of Kindle books you can't highlight and manga - Save text from the web with the "BookNotion Web Marker" Safari extension (up to 5 a month without the Z Plan) - Import X bookmarks (Z Plan) - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets - Works on iPhone and iPad
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Library Notes at none against Book Notion|notes reviews memo's 6. Library Notes also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 70%). Book Notion|notes reviews memo's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 Notion|notes reviews memo sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Library Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Library Notes against 5.0 for Book Notion|notes reviews memo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Library Notes's written reviews are positive against 70% of Book Notion|notes reviews memo's.
Library Notes ships an update every 3 months, Book Notion|notes reviews memo every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Library Notes | Book Notion|notes reviews memo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 70.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brian Dewey | Sho Kosaka |
Customer experience
Library Notes
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In-app purchases
Library Notes
No in-app purchases
Book Notion|notes reviews memo
- Pro Plan (Monthly)7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Premium Plan (Monthly)7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Z Plan (Monthly)7 Days trial$7.991 Month
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- Pro Plan (Yearly)7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Premium Plan (Yearly)7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Z Plan (Yearly)7 Days trial$79.991 Year
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