Comparison

Book Pile! vs BooksRUs

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

Head to head
About

Book Pile!

Organize your reading list and track your progress. Never forget what you've read, what's next, or upcoming releases from your favorite authors. This app helps manage your growing collection of books.

Highlights
  • Track books to read
  • Manage read books
  • Monitor reading progress
  • Never miss release dates
  • Organize favorite authors
Features
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If you're a reader, you probably have a pile of books just waiting to be read. The trouble is, sometimes that pile gets a little uh... long. It can be hard to remember what you've read, what you wanted to read next, and what you've been waiting for, but forgot you were waiting for! Book pile is here to solve those problems. Easily find and track books from the authors you love, and never miss a release date again! Having trouble keeping track of how many books you've read this year? We'll keep track of it for you! Have any books that you've been meaning to read, but that book pile just keeps getting longer, and longer, and now you've forgotten which ones you planned to read next? We've got that covered too. Just add it to the book pile.

About

BooksRUs

Organize your personal book collection with this app. Easily catalog books by taking photos, recording details like author and genre, and tracking lending status. Quickly find any title with fast search and synchronization across your Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Catalog books with cover photos
  • Track title, author, genre, and condition
  • Manage lending status
  • Search library quickly
  • Synchronize across Apple devices
  • Import/export library data
  • Duplicate book records
Features
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BooksRUs is your personal library, beautifully organized. Catalog every book you own, remember who borrowed what, and find any title in seconds, all on your iPhone and iPad. SNAP IT, SAVE IT Take a cover photo with your camera and add up to four photos per book. Front cover, back cover, spine, or that signed title page: keep them all. TRACK WHAT MATTERS Record the details that make your collection yours: • Title, author, and genre • Condition and shelf location • Lending status, so you never lose a book to a friend again • Your own star rating and written review • What you paid for it FIND ANYTHING, FAST Search across all your fields at once: title, author, genre, location, and more. Drag along the A–Z index scrubber to leap to any letter in a long list, just like Contacts. BUILT FOR iOS 27 BooksRUs uses a modern Liquid Glass design. On iPad, see your list and book details side by side. On iPhone, it collapses into a clean, simple flow. SIRI AND SHORTCUTS Say the word and add a new book, or open the app, using Siri or the Shortcuts app. Your hands stay free for holding the book. USE iCloud to SYNCHRONIZE WITH ALL DEVICES The app synchronizes all data across all iOS, iPadOS devices that have the same Apple ID User signed into iCloud. IMPORT AND EXPORT YOUR LIBRARY Moving from a spreadsheet? Import your collection from a CSV file. Want a backup, or a copy for Excel or Numbers? Export your entire library (except photos) to CSV any time. Imports are verified with checksums, and each import is tracked as a batch, so you can undo an import cleanly if something looks wrong. For modern backup and restore, use the backup to JSON file format and restore from JSON file format from any disk location your Apple ID has permissions to read/write. DUPLICATE WITH ONE TAP Own several editions or a series with similar details? Duplicate a record and edit only what differs. BUILT-IN HELP A full help section with illustrated topics explains every feature, so you can get started quickly. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR DATA Your books are stored on your device with Apple's SwiftData. There are no accounts to create and no ads. Whether you have fifty books or five thousand, BooksRUs keeps your shelves in order.

Screenshots

Book Pile!4 screens
BooksRUs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BooksRUs at none against Book Pile!'s 1. Book Pile!'s advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 27.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Book Pile! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BooksRUs asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Book Pile! against 5.0 for BooksRUs. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Book Pile! ships an update every 6 days, BooksRUs every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Book Pile! versus BooksRUs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook Pile!BooksRUs
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Vision ProiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael GrantJohn Grauel

Customer experience

Book Pile!

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

BooksRUs

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Book Pile!

One-time1
  • Unlimited Book Pile$4.99
None

BooksRUs

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Book Pile! free?
Book Pile! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BooksRUs free?
BooksRUs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Book Pile! or BooksRUs?
Book Pile! and BooksRUs are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Book Pile! or BooksRUs have ads?
Neither Book Pile! nor BooksRUs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Book Pile! or BooksRUs?
Book Pile! ships an update every 6 days, and BooksRUs every 3 months. Most recently, Book Pile! was updated on November 3, 2026 and BooksRUs on November 4, 2026.

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