StoryGraph vs HopeScroll
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StoryGraph
Track your reading habits with insightful stats and personalized book recommendations powered by AI. Discover new books based on mood, pace, and genre, and connect with friends for shared reading experiences.
- Import Goodreads data
- Personalized book recommendations
- Track reading habits with stats
- Discover books by mood and pace
- Read with friends (buddy reads)
- Custom reading challenges
- Content warnings for books
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Import your Goodreads data: We will import all of your currently-reading, read, to-read, and did-not-finish shelves. Any custom shelves will be mapped to a custom tag on The StoryGraph. Simple tracking and insightful stats: Easily track and learn about your reading habits with our wide range of charts and graphs. See how your reading develops over time and use that to help you pick better books. Get smart personalized recommendations: Our machine learning AI is like your trusted go-to friend for book recommendations. It'll understand your reading preferences and find the best books for you. Discover books by mood: In the mood for something adventurous, funny, and fast-paced? What about a darker, slower, more emotional read? Mix and match our comprehensive set of filters to choose your next perfect book. Read with friends: Add live reactions to specific parts of the book without fear of spoilers. Comments are locked for other participants until they reach that point in their reading. Don't have people to read with? We’ve got machine learning-powered suggestions for great reading buddies. Reading Challenges: Want to read one book from every country in the world? Or how about read a book per week across a range of genres? Our reading challenges feature help you set up personal goals or join in with others. Custom Tags: Enhance your book tracking and discovery by making use of our custom tags feature. You can search and filter books by your tags and share curated lists with friends. Content Warnings: When you review a book, you can let us know if there's any content within it that might be triggering for others. Then, when searching for your next read, all of this information is at your disposal. Features: • Import your Goodreads account • Reading charts and graphs • Streaks • Favorites • Buddy reads • Readalongs • Book Clubs • Personalized machine learning recommendations • Follow your friends to see what they're reading • Annual reading, page, and listening goals • Search/browse books by mood, pace, and more • Custom tags • Lists to share with your friends or the public • Create your own reading challenge or join in with others • Dark Mode • Barcode Scanner • Giveaways • Browse similar books • Find similar users • Half and quarter star ratings • Built-in DNF (Did Not Finish) functionality (including tracking pages read) • Progress updates with built-in reading journal • Author-approved and user-submitted content warnings Want to support an independent, Goodreads alternative? Consider upgrading to Plus! • Keep the platform ad-free: You'll help The StoryGraph stay independent! • Custom Charts: Create your own pie and bar charts. • Extra Stats Filters: Filter down your stats to a custom time period, or view stats for your fiction or nonfiction reads, your custom tags, any particular mood or genre, and more. • Custom Wrap-Up Graphics: Pick any custom date range and instantly generate shareable graphics for your reading. • Compare Stats: Compare any two stats segments of your StoryGraph library, whether that's a particular year against a custom time period, your To-Read Pile against your owned books, or a combination of several other options. You can also compare any stats segment with any segment from any other user — mix and match however you like. • Exclusive Charts: When comparing your reading across two different years, see exclusive year-on-year charts on the number of books read and their genres. • Shape the roadmap: You get to vote and comment on upcoming features as well as submit official requests for new ones • Priority Support: Your support tickets and requests for book information updates will be handled first Privacy Policy: https://app.thestorygraph.com/privacy Terms of Service:https://app.thestorygraph.com/terms-of-service
HopeScroll
This app offers an offline, ad-free scripture reading experience with a unique scrolling interface. It includes a daily scripture game, customizable reading plans, and tools for highlighting, note-taking, and sharing verses. An optional studio feature allows for creative verse sharing.
- Offline scripture access
- Daily scripture quest game
- Customizable reading plans
- Verse highlighting and notes
- Scripture sharing tools
- Home screen widget support
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Doomscrolling, redeemed. HopeScroll takes the one thing the endless feed got right — the effortless scroll — and puts scripture in it. One verse fills the screen. Swipe up for the next. Nothing autoplays, nothing interrupts, and there is no feed but scripture. ALL FIVE VOLUMES, FULLY OFFLINE 41,995 verses across 87 books: Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price. Every word ships inside the app. No account, no sign-in, no network. It works on a plane, in a canyon, or with the wifi off. SCRIPTURE QUEST — A DAILY GAME A new quest every morning, the same for everyone. Read a verse and find where it lives: the book and the chapter. Five questions, from a warm-up to really hard, with a quest for each volume — plus Scripture Stories, where you get a story, event, or person from anywhere in the scriptures and find the chapter it happens in. Every guess scores out of 100, getting close still counts, and each one gets a reaction, some kind and some a little sassy. Share your score with friends as an image or a row of colored squares without spoiling the answers, then keep your streak going tomorrow. READING, NOT INTERFACE Tap once to bring up the controls and again to send them away, so nothing sits over the words while you read. Drag the rail on the left to scrub through a chapter. Read in New York, Iowan Old Style, Georgia, or San Francisco, and switch between light and dark with one tap. Verses, chapters, and books check themselves off as you go — you never have to tell it what you read. DISCOVER 70 themes in 10 groups — faith, hope, repentance, covenants, temples, the Atonement, trials, family, and more — each a hand-checked list of passages rather than a raw word search. Open a theme and it becomes its own scroll. Search every volume at once, by phrase or by theme name. MAKE IT YOURS • Highlight any run of words in five colors • Write a note on any verse • Named bookmarks you move along as you read • Favorite what you want to come back to • Pin any verse to a home screen widget • Share any verse as a clean image, text, or link A PLAN YOU CAN ACTUALLY KEEP Choose a volume and either a date to finish by or an amount to read each day. HopeScroll works out the rest and tells you where to start — not where you stopped. See the month at a glance, with the chapter to reach printed on every day, your streak, and anything still left behind you. QUIET PROGRESS A ring for each volume. A streak that is honest about the days you missed. And a badge each time you finish a volume, earned by reading the last verse rather than handed to you for showing up. HOPESCROLL STUDIO Turn any verse into something worth sharing. More than 30 fonts, colors, gradients, textures, over 120 photographs or your own, and sizes for posts, stories, and wallpapers. Studio is a single optional purchase — no subscription — and shared with your family through Family Sharing. Everything else in HopeScroll is free. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No accounts. No ads. No trackers, no analytics, no third-party SDKs of any kind. Your highlights, notes, progress, and quest scores live on your device and nowhere else. Export them to a file whenever you want, and bring them back on a new phone. HopeScroll is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HopeScroll at 5.0 against StoryGraph's 4.5. HopeScroll also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 70%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). StoryGraph's advantage is ratings volume (3.5K vs 4) and chart position (#32 vs unranked). 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. StoryGraph sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and HopeScroll sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
HopeScroll holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StoryGraph has 3.5K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of StoryGraph's written reviews are positive against 100% of HopeScroll's.
StoryGraph ships an update every 3 weeks, HopeScroll every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StoryGraph | HopeScroll |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (3.5K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.5K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #32 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The StoryGraph | MARCUS DANIEL WILLIAMS |
Customer experience
StoryGraph
HopeScroll
Bugs and requests
StoryGraph
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes or freezes when trying to update reading progress
- Incorrect book details and page counts
- Login issues where users get logged out frequently
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to track re-reads and multiple editions of books
- More robust social features like following friends, liking reviews
- Barcode scanning to easily add books
- Customizable reading challenges and goal tracking
- Dark mode option
HopeScroll
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
StoryGraph
- The StoryGraph Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
- The StoryGraph Plus Annual$49.991 Year
HopeScroll
- HopeScroll Studio$6.99








