Bookie vs Reading tracker BookNotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bookie
This app helps you meticulously track your reading journey, from books you plan to read to those you've finished. It allows you to save impactful quotes, view detailed reading statistics, and organize your personal library privately on your device.
- Organize books into Pending, Reading, and Read shelves
- Save and categorize favorite quotes with page numbers
- Generate shareable quote cards in various styles
- Track reading statistics like books finished and reading time
- Private library with iCloud sync and offline access
- Manually add books and edit details
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Track every book you love, save the quotes that move you, and watch your reading grow. Bookie is a calm, private reading journal for your iPhone. The books you want to read, the one on your nightstand, and every book you've finished, together in one beautiful library. No ads, no tracking, nothing to sign up for. Make yourself at home. YOUR LIBRARY • Three shelves for your reading life: Pending, Reading, and Read. • Search by title, author, or both, preview any book, and add it to a shelf. • Can't find a book? Add it yourself, with your own photo as the cover. • Browse covers to find the edition you own. YOUR READING JOURNAL • Every book gets its own page, tinted with the colors of its cover. • Bookie notes the day you start and finish each book, and tells you how long it took. • Remember who recommended it, and write down what you thought. • Make each book yours: edit the cover, dates, page count, and more. YOUR QUOTES • Scan a passage right off the page with your camera, or type it in. • Keep the page number and your own thoughts beside every quote. • Find any quote by its words, its book, or its author. QUOTE CARDS • Turn any quote into an image in three styles: Cover, Night, and Paper. • Pick a size for wherever you share: Story (9:16), Square (1:1), or Landscape (16:9). • Share it anywhere or save it to Photos. • Cards show the quote and its book, never your notes. READING STATS • Books and pages finished, all time or year by year. • Charts of the books you finish each year and each month. • What you're reading now, and how long books wait on your pile. • How long books take you, from the quickest to the slowest. • Your most-read authors, genres, and languages, and whose recommendations you read most. • Your longest and shortest books, the oldest and newest, and your most-quoted reads. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your books, quotes, and notes live on your iPhone and sync with your iCloud. • Your library works offline. • Export all your books and quotes as text, anytime. BOOKIE PRO Bookie is free for up to five books, with quotes, stats, and quote cards included. Bookie Pro adds: • An unlimited library • Quote cards without the Bookie footer • Support for an independent reading app The books and quotes you've saved always stay yours to open, edit, and export, with or without Pro. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://xavimoll.com/legal/privacy-policy
Reading tracker BookNotes
This app helps you manage your reading notes and highlights. Organize books by category, sync Kindle highlights, and use a powerful text editor. It also features OCR for paper books and real-time device synchronization.
- Book categorization
- Kindle highlight synchronization
- Advanced text editor
- OCR text conversion
- Real-time device sync
- Customizable categories
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BookNotes is a note-taking application dedicated to reading so that you don't stop at just reading a book. ■ Manage books by category You can create as many categories as you like, with many icons and colors to choose from. You can also rearrange the categories to your liking. ■ Synchronization with Kindle Highlight Highlights created on Kindle can be saved in the app as notes! ■ High-performance text editor You can freely add font size, color, markers, etc. You can also paste videos and images. ■ Text conversion using OCR Those of you who prefer to read books on paper, text conversion using OCR is also possible. Take a picture of the book you are reading and take your own notes easily. ■ Real-time synchronization of reading data between devices Once you have authenticated your account, you can back up and synchronize data between devices. You can also change your device at a moment's notice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bookie at 4.9 against Reading tracker BookNotes's 4.0. Bookie also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (20 vs 2). Reading tracker BookNotes's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.1). On price, update cadence 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. Bookie sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year. Reading tracker BookNotes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bookie holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bookie has 20 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bookie | Reading tracker BookNotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (20 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Xavi Moll | Yugo Matsuda |
Customer experience
Bookie
Reading tracker BookNotes
In-app purchases
Bookie
- Pro Membership3 Days trial$3.991 Year
Reading tracker BookNotes
No in-app purchases
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