Comparison

Bookie vs BookNotes | Save Highlights

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

BookNotes | Save Highlights

Features
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Save the highlights to Notion while reading on Apps like Kindle with only a couple of clicks. Easy and intuitive. You can tag and comment on any of your notes from reading apps like Kindle directly, which will be well organized and displayed in Notion automatically. Notes can be transformed into Images and saved in BookNotes. With the ability of iCloud, all notes will be shared across all your Apple devices. # Main features - Create notes from Apps like Kindle and save them to Notion in one place without copying/pasting and switching Apps. - Notes can be tagged, commented on, and applied with different colors. - Notes can be transformed into Images and saved to BookNotes. - Notes will be stored and well organized in Notion automatically. - With the ability of iCloud, all notes will be shared across all your Apple devices. # Most importantly - No ADs - No subscription - No Registration

Screenshots

Bookie4 screens
BookNotes | Save Highlights4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: BookNotes | Save Highlights at 15.0 against Bookie's 26.1. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bookie sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year and BookNotes | Save Highlights sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Bookie versus BookNotes | Save Highlights: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookieBookNotes | Save Highlights
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXavi MollLiang Wang

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bookie

Subscriptions1
  • Pro Membership3 Days trial$3.991 Year
1 purchases

BookNotes | Save Highlights

One-time1
  • Notes - Kindle Notes Pro$5.99

Questions

Is Bookie free?
Bookie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BookNotes | Save Highlights free?
BookNotes | Save Highlights is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bookie or BookNotes | Save Highlights have ads?
Neither Bookie nor BookNotes | Save Highlights shows ads.

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