Kabook vs Bookly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kabook
Easily manage your personal library by scanning, searching, or manually adding books. Track reading progress, rate titles, and add personal notes. Organize your collection with custom lists and sync across all your devices.
- Add books via barcode scan or search
- Rate and take notes on books
- Create custom book lists
- Track reading status
- Cross-device synchronization
- Light and dark mode
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Kabook is a quiet place for the books in your life: the ones you want, the ones you’re reading and the ones you finished. Add a book in a few keystrokes, mark it reading or finished, and Kabook keeps the rest. ADD A BOOK IN A FEW KEYSTROKES Search 8 million books as you type, by title, author or ISBN. Spelling is forgiven, and a book already in your library says so and opens your copy. Scan a book’s barcode with the camera, or create one yourself. MARK IT READING, OR FINISHED Wish list, Next up, Reading, Paused, Finished and Abandoned. Each has its own colour, and every cover wears its status, so a shelf reads at a glance. The Reading screen shows what is open now and what comes next. KEEP WHAT YOU THOUGHT Give a book stars and a line about it, and put it on your own lists: a book club, a summer, a shelf for Dad. Kabook keeps the dates for you, so every book has its history. YOUR LIBRARY Every book you have, as covers or as a list, sorted the way you like and searchable by title or author. Coming from Goodreads? Import its export file, and your shelves become lists. WORKS OFFLINE, SYNCS ACROSS DEVICES Your library lives on your device, so it works on a plane. An account is optional: continue with Apple or Google, or with an email and password, and your library stays in step on iPhone and iPad when the signal comes back. Export your library as a spreadsheet file at any time, signed in or not. ON IPAD A sidebar, a shelf that uses the width, and the book you open beside it. Finished books are grouped by the year you finished them. Keyboard shortcuts, the menu bar, and drag and drop: a cover dropped on a list goes on it. YOUR YEAR IN BOOKS Every year gets its own page: how many books, the first and the last, your stars, and a picture to share. Free. KABOOK PLUS Kabook is free. Kabook Plus adds the ledger of your reading over the years, most-read authors, series progress, unlimited lists, and app icons and accent colours. Monthly or yearly. NOTHING TO KEEP UP WITH No feed, no streaks, no challenges and no ads. Kabook is a list of your books and whether you’ve read them. Terms of Use: https://kabook.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://kabook.app/privacy
Bookly
Streamline salon and barbershop operations with an appointment scheduling app. Manage calendars, book clients, and send automated reminders to minimize no-shows. Features include customer profiles, payment tracking, and service management for efficient business operations.
- Appointment scheduling
- Client management
- Automated reminders
- Payment tracking
- Service management
- Customer profiles
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Take control of your salon or barbershop with our powerful appointment scheduling app designed specifically for beauty professionals. Easily manage your calendar, book clients, and send automated reminders to reduce no-shows. With features like customer profiles, payment tracking, and service management, running your business has never been easier. Whether you're a solo stylist or managing a team, our app ensures a seamless and efficient experience for both you and your clients.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bookly at none against Kabook's 2. Bookly also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). Kabook's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Kabook sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Bookly asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Kabook against 5.0 for Bookly. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kabook has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Kabook ships an update every 4 weeks, Bookly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kabook | Bookly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gregory Schier | Akhmad Ounesoud |
Customer experience
Kabook
Bookly
In-app purchases
Kabook
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Annual$14.991 Year
Bookly
No in-app purchases









