CiteLighter vs BookSmartApp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CiteLighter
Easily highlight text from images of books or articles. Capture text from photos or screenshots and emphasize key passages by blurring the surrounding content.
- Highlight text from images
- Capture text from photos
- Capture text from screenshots
- Blur surrounding text
- Copy/paste text
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Want to share a passage from a book or article? Emphasize the parts you want them to see with CiteLighter! -Take a picture of whatever you're reading and highlight favorite passages. -Take a screenshot of your phone and copy/paste into CiteLighter! -Emphasize the highlighted text by blurring everything else!
BookSmartApp
This app helps you remember and engage with your physical books. Save highlights, get daily reminders, and use an AI assistant to answer questions, create social posts, or generate images based on your reading.
- Save and organize book highlights
- Daily highlight reminders
- AI assistant for questions and content generation
- Generate images from book passages
- Share highlights and generated content
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A reading assistant for your physical books. - Save highlights to help you remember important points - Get a daily reminder on the highlights of your choice. - BookBot will answer any questions, create a social post, or create a joke about any piece of text or page from your book. - Search or generate images based on passages from your book. - Share highlights, generated text, or images.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BookSmartApp at 5.0 against CiteLighter's 4.2. BookSmartApp also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and update cadence (daily vs every 2 days). CiteLighter's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BookSmartApp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CiteLighter has 29 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of CiteLighter's written reviews are positive against 100% of BookSmartApp's.
CiteLighter ships an update every 2 days, BookSmartApp daily. The most recent releases landed on July 25, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CiteLighter | BookSmartApp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Evan Gould | Jeff Chandler |
Customer experience
CiteLighter
BookSmartApp
In-app purchases
CiteLighter
No in-app purchases
BookSmartApp
No in-app purchases
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