Comparison

Bookmory vs Citrus Shelf

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

Head to head
About

Bookmory

This app helps you build a consistent reading habit by tracking your progress, setting goals, and keeping a detailed reading journal. It offers a reading timer, calendar view, and insightful statistics to keep you motivated. Remember your books and reading journey with this all-in-one tool.

Highlights
  • Track books via search or barcode
  • Reading timer and progress logging
  • Create reading journal entries and notes
  • Set daily and yearly reading goals
  • View reading statistics and calendar
  • Organize books with collections and tags
Features
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Build a lasting reading habit with Bookmory, the ultimate reading tracker. Whether you read print books, e-books, or audiobooks, set your yearly reading goals, track your daily reading progress, and keep a beautiful reading journal. With a powerful reading timer, calendar view, and detailed reading stats, staying motivated has never been easier. When you record a book in Bookmory, you don't just track it — you remember it forever. --- Perfect for Readers Who Want To: • Build a consistent reading habit • Borrow books from the library often • Bring over their records from another reading app --- Key Features Easy Book Tracking • Add books via search or barcode scan • Keep print books, e-books, and audiobooks all in one place • Organize books with collections & series • Manage your library with custom tags • Save books you want to buy to your wishlist, and pick your next read with a Random Book Draw • Rate and review finished books Loans & Purchases • Track due dates for borrowed books and get return reminders • Record where you bought each book and the price, then see it all at a glance in purchase statistics Reading Timer & Progress Tracker • Log progress in the unit that fits each book: pages, percentage, episodes, or time • Track reading time with a built-in reading timer • Check your timer on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • See your reading speed and time left to finish every time you log • Set daily and yearly reading goals • Keep your reading habit going with a reading streak, or switch to a weekly streak if every day feels like too much • Log each re-read of a book separately Reading Journal & Notes • Write reading notes in an editor with underlining, highlighting, and photo attachments • Sort notes by type: Book Content, Summary, Thought, or Question • Extract text from photos using OCR • Share notes with aesthetic backgrounds • Revisit past reading records with Random Notes Reading Stats & Calendar • Daily and yearly reading statistics with page and reading time analysis • Stats by author, publisher, language, star rating, and tag • Reading calendar to visualize your progress • Annual Rewind feature (available every December) Import & Export • Import records you kept in other reading apps from CSV or Excel files • Export your reading records as text, Markdown, or Excel files Customization & Security • Multiple themes to match your style • App lock with password and Face ID • Reading reminders at the time you choose • iCloud backup support (automatic backups available) --- Premium Features • Remove all ads • Automatic sync across multiple devices, so you never have to worry about backups • Unlimited text extraction (OCR) • All statistics, plus the Daily Statistics timeline • All themes, plus create your own custom themes • Reorder and hide home screen sections --- Your All-in-One Reading Tracker Bookmory is more than a book tracker. It's a reading log, reading journal, reading timer, and reading goal app — all in one place. Track your books. Measure your reading time. Build a lasting reading habit. Start your reading journey with Bookmory today. Contact: tonysoft.net@gmail.com

About

Citrus Shelf

This app helps you log and organize your reading. It visually represents your books on a customizable digital shelf, allowing you to track progress, add notes, and create collections. Share your reading journey with visually appealing recaps.

Highlights
  • Visual bookshelf with customizable spines
  • Track reading progress and status
  • Add notes, quotes, and photos to books
  • Create custom book collections
  • Generate shareable reading recaps
  • Offline library functionality
Features
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Give the books you read a place of their own. Citrus Shelf is a reading log that grows into a bookshelf. Each book has a spine shaped by its page count and coloured by its genre. Books in progress begin in linen; as you read, their colour rises. Finished books gather into a shelf worth looking back at and sharing. Add a book by searching for its title or author, scanning its barcode, or entering the details yourself. Check the page count, choose Reading or Finished, and give it a place on your shelf. Filter by Reading or Finished, or search your library by title or author. Make the room yours. Choose Light or Dark appearance and one of six accent colours, turn favourite books face out, and arrange a plant, a cat or puppy, a reading lamp, a tea mug, a candle and more on the boards, each made in 3D and brought to life when you tap it. Create collections for comfort reads, books that changed you, or any story your library tells. Keep the words that stay with you. Write thoughts, quotes and photos in a book’s margins, with an optional page number. For a quiet reading session, choose a time target and, if you like, a sound, from soft rain to ocean waves, that keeps playing with your phone locked, then record your progress when you finish. Look back at finished books on your shelf this month, this year and all time. See the pages in books you finished this year, your longest and shortest finished books, a January-to-December view of this year's finishes, your progress towards a yearly goal you choose, and the genres you've read. When you want to share, make a picture of your shelf, a collection, a book, a margin note or a monthly or yearly recap. Choose a square, portrait or story format, save it to Photos, or open your phone's share sheet. Notes and photos appear only in images you choose to include them in; a book’s notes are off by default. Shelf, collection and recap images never include them. Your library works on your phone without an account or a connection. Searching the catalogue or looking up a barcode needs a connection. Sign in when you want to keep your shelf across phones. Thoughts and quotes travel with it; photos in your margins do not sync between phones. Start with the book you are reading now. Let the shelf grow from there.

Screenshots

Bookmory4 screens
Citrus Shelf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Citrus Shelf at none against Bookmory's 2. Citrus Shelf also leads on ads (none vs shown). Bookmory's advantage is chart position (#121 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and iOS requirement 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. Bookmory sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. Citrus Shelf asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bookmory ships an update every 5 days, Citrus Shelf every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Bookmory versus Citrus Shelf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookmoryCitrus Shelf
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (16K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings16K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#121 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTonySoftNimish Lakhotia

Customer experience

Bookmory

All ratings16,177 ratings
Positive97.8%
Neutral1.6%
Negative0.6%
Written reviews1,762 reviews
Positive92.7%
Neutral4.1%
Negative3.2%

Citrus Shelf

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Bookmory

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Barcode scanner not working properly
  • Deleted data not recoverable
  • Inconsistent book information display

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to track re-reads
  • Yearly/monthly reading goals
  • Book recommendation system
  • Deeper integration with ebook/audiobook apps
  • Option to share reading progress with friends
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  • More customization options for the interface

Citrus Shelf

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bookmory

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$3.491 Month
  • Premium Yearly$30.991 Year
None

Citrus Shelf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bookmory free?
Bookmory is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Citrus Shelf free?
Citrus Shelf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bookmory or Citrus Shelf have ads?
Bookmory shows ads; Citrus Shelf does not.
Which is updated more often, Bookmory or Citrus Shelf?
Bookmory ships an update every 5 days, and Citrus Shelf every 9 days. Most recently, Bookmory was updated on October 25, 2026 and Citrus Shelf on October 24, 2026.

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