Story Tracker vs Shooglebox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Story Tracker
Easily manage your submitted creative works, from short stories to scripts. Track submissions to various markets, store details about your writing and potential publishers, and monitor your income. Never lose track of where your work is or when to expect a response.
- Track submissions of all writing types
- Store market and submission details
- Add story information (title, word-count, genre)
- View income earned per story/submission
- Monitor submission status and deadlines
- Passcode protection and data backup/export
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Story Tracker makes keeping track of your submitted stories, novels, poems, scripts, and articles easy. Never wonder again where or when you submitted your work. The information is all right there on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch! Whether you're a working freelance writer, a hobbyist, or something in-between, Story Tracker is a valuable addition to your writing toolbox. Many magazines, journals, or other markets for your work don't allow simultaneous submissions. When you're juggling dozens or even hundreds of stories, it's easy to make an embarrassing mistake. Keeping track of it all can soon become a nightmare. Here's what you can do with Story Tracker: * Track submissions of all your writing: stories, poetry, novels, articles, scripts, screenplays, and more. * Store details and guidelines for any market accepting written submissions: magazines, book publishers, journals, agencies, websites, movie studios, or even one-off writing competitions or anthologies. * Add details for each story, including title, word-count, genre, and notes. * View total income earned for each story. * 'Trunk' stories to hide them from the story list when creating submissions. * View the submission history for each story, sorted by date. * Displays story status icons. * Add details for each market, including title, genre, editor, deadline and more. * Launch email or phonecalls directly from market details. * Highlights approaching market deadlines on the market list. * Hides closed markets from the market list when creating submissions. * View submission history for each market, sorted by date. * View response times for each submission. * Add details for each submission, including story, market, sent/response due/response dates, withdrawn status, and notes. * Response due dates are calculated automatically based on market response time and submission sent date, or can be overridden. * Past due submissions are flagged with an exclamation mark on the story and submission screens. * Past due submissions are highlighted on the submission list. * Store income earned for each submission. * Database statistics. * Protect your data with a passcode lock. * Database backup, restore, import and export over WiFi to your computer's web browser, Story Tracker for Mac, and Story Tracker for PC. - Transfer the complete database between devices (iPad / iPhone / iPod) over WiFi via Story Tracker SDBI-format support and AirDrop. - Supports iTunes file-sharing to transfer the database between device and computer. * CSV format support to import/export your Story Tracker database to and from desktop spreadsheet applications. * iPad support at no extra charge! Please visit http://andrewnicolle.com/storytracker for more information on Story Tracker, including contact details to ask questions, request features, or report any issues. Join the Facebook page to discuss Story Tracker with other fans.
Shooglebox
This app helps individuals and teams collect and analyze content from various sources, transforming it into shareable insights. It's ideal for spotting social media trends, conducting research, and collaborating on projects.
- Gather content from multiple apps
- Explore diverse content types
- Collaborate with teams
- Spot social media trends
- Create shareable outputs
- Organize content into cards
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Shooglebox helps teams and individuals gather and explore content and insights from multiple sources – and create inspiring at-a-glance outputs to share with others. Marketing and PR teams use Shooglebox service to spot, understand and act on fast-moving TikTok trends – and tap into what their customers are seeing, saying and doing across social media. Researchers, writers and creators use the Shooglebox iPhone and iPad app to save content directly from other apps – Safari, Facebook, TikTok, Reddit, Instagram, X, YouTube, Photos, Maps and more – and build on the things they gather. Shooglebox turns everything you gather into cards with an at-a-glance front and full material, embeds and notes on the back. You can use the iOS app to review and edit your cards – or switch to a web browser on a larger-screen device to explore them and see the bigger picture. Shooglebox is an indispensable tool for: • Gathering and building on research material fast • Exploring different types of content in one place • Collaborating across marketing, PR and other teams • Spotting emerging TikTok and social trends • Discovering insights from social conversations • Getting your heads round hot topics and opportunities • Reviewing live social feeds to track hot topics • Creating inspiring outputs to share with others
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Shooglebox at Free against Story Tracker's $7.99. Shooglebox also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 5 months). Story Tracker's advantage is review sentiment (92% vs 75%). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Shooglebox is free to download; Story Tracker costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Story Tracker against 4.5 for Shooglebox. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 12 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Story Tracker's written reviews are positive against 75% of Shooglebox's.
Story Tracker ships an update every 5 months, Shooglebox every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Story Tracker | Shooglebox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (24 ratings) | 4.5 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.3% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 118 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Nicolle | IMP Media Ltd |
Customer experience
Story Tracker
Shooglebox
In-app purchases
Story Tracker
No in-app purchases
Shooglebox
No in-app purchases









