Comparison

BookHabit vs Book Pile!

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

Head to head
About

BookHabit

This app helps you organize your personal library, track reading progress, and gain insights into your reading habits. It allows you to make notes, export bibliographies, and visualize your reading history over time. Designed for all types of readers, it supports a vast collection of books and ensures your data is secure.

Highlights
  • Organize reading lists
  • Add books by barcode or search
  • Track reading progress and history
  • Custom lists and sorting
  • Make and search notes
  • Export bibliographies
  • Visualize reading habits
Features
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BookHabit is the highest-quality reading and book tracker, library organizer, notetaker and reading companion for iOS. For anyone from casual to avid readers, students, self-learners, parents & kids, book clubs, eBook readers, closet librarians, etc. Gain insights into your reading habits. Finish books more quickly, get back to books you've set aside, organize your library, and learn more about what and who you love to read. Develop a rich history of your reading life, visualize your life in books over the years, bring up notes easily, pass book suggestions to friends. Features include: • Many ways to organize your reading lists • Easily add books by barcode or author / title search • Track your reading progress and history • Organize and sort books with custom lists • Make notes and easily find & search • Export professional bibliographies (APA, MLA, etc.) • Graphs charting your reading history • Sophisticated but simple to use book search • Hierarchical lists • Visualize and improve your reading habits • Rate books while you read • Track books by kind (paper, eBooks, reference) • Create libraries of thousands of books • Complete backup & transfer system • Inverted screen support / dark theme • Support for all iPhone sizes • Support for all iPads—from Minis to Pros! BookHabit is NOT an eBook reader, but it can be used with ALL types of books — including electronic books — to organize and track your reading progress. Information you collect over time in BookHabit is intended to last! Great care is taken to make sure you never lose that information. None of your personal data is shared with third parties. No ads, no promotions, just you and your books.

About

Book Pile!

Organize your reading list and track your progress. Never forget what you've read, what's next, or upcoming releases from your favorite authors. This app helps manage your growing collection of books.

Highlights
  • Track books to read
  • Manage read books
  • Monitor reading progress
  • Never miss release dates
  • Organize favorite authors
Features
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If you're a reader, you probably have a pile of books just waiting to be read. The trouble is, sometimes that pile gets a little uh... long. It can be hard to remember what you've read, what you wanted to read next, and what you've been waiting for, but forgot you were waiting for! Book pile is here to solve those problems. Easily find and track books from the authors you love, and never miss a release date again! Having trouble keeping track of how many books you've read this year? We'll keep track of it for you! Have any books that you've been meaning to read, but that book pile just keeps getting longer, and longer, and now you've forgotten which ones you planned to read next? We've got that covered too. Just add it to the book pile.

Screenshots

BookHabit4 screens
Book Pile!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Book Pile! at Free against BookHabit's $4.99. Book Pile! also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 79%). BookHabit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On ratings volume, ads 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

Book Pile! is free to download; BookHabit costs $4.99 up front. Book Pile! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BookHabit asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Book Pile! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of BookHabit's written reviews are positive against 100% of Book Pile!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BookHabit ships an update every 3 months, Book Pile! every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
BookHabit versus Book Pile!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookHabitBook Pile!
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (9 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Vision Pro
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHyperJeff, IncMichael Grant

Customer experience

BookHabit

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive79.3%
Neutral10.3%
Negative10.3%

Book Pile!

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

BookHabit

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Book Pile!

One-time1
  • Unlimited Book Pile$4.99

Questions

Is BookHabit free?
BookHabit costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Book Pile! free?
Book Pile! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BookHabit or Book Pile!?
Book Pile! is rated higher. BookHabit averages 4.8 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Book Pile! averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do BookHabit or Book Pile! have ads?
Neither BookHabit nor Book Pile! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BookHabit or Book Pile!?
BookHabit ships an update every 3 months, and Book Pile! every 6 days. Most recently, BookHabit was updated on November 1, 2026 and Book Pile! on November 3, 2026.

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