Hardcover.app vs Fearless Change
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hardcover.app
This app helps you organize and discover books. Track what you've read, create custom lists, and see what friends are reading. Set reading goals and share your thoughts on books.
- Track read and to-read books
- Organize with lists and tags
- See friends' reading activity
- Discover trending books
- Rate and review books
- Set reading goals
- Track reading statistics
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Hardcover is a book tracking app with a social side, built for readers, not algorithms. Add books you’ve read or want to read. Keep your library tidy with lists and tags. See what your friends are reading, explore trending picks, and discover hidden gems through curated lists. Rate, review, and share your thoughts. Make your profile public, private, or friends-only—your reading, your rules. Set goals, track your stats, and find your reading rhythm. We use Apple's standard Terms of Service (EULA). https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Fearless Change
Access concise summaries of change leadership patterns from popular books. Organize strategies, mark favorites, and take notes to support your change initiatives.
- Summaries of 60+ change leadership patterns
- Mark favorite strategies
- Take personal notes
- Group strategies for organization
- Companion to "Fearless Change" books
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Fearless Change is your go-to mobile companion to the insightful "Fearless Change" and "More Fearless Change" books by esteemed authors Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising. The app offers concise summaries for each of the 60+ change leadership patterns in the books. Additional functionality allows you to mark favorites, take notes, and group the strategies, making it the ideal companion during your change journey.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fearless Change at 100% against Hardcover.app's 52%. Fearless Change also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). Hardcover.app's advantage is ratings volume (66 vs 1). 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. Hardcover.app sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Fearless Change sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fearless Change holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hardcover.app has 66 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Hardcover.app's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fearless Change's.
Hardcover.app ships an update every 6 months, Fearless Change every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hardcover.app | Fearless Change |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (66 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 66 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hardcover LLC | David Best |
Customer experience
Hardcover.app
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In-app purchases
Hardcover.app
- Supporter - Monthly$4.991 Month
- Supporter - Yearly$49.991 Year
Fearless Change
- All Patterns$4.99
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