BookHabit vs Apollo Books Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Apollo Books Tracker
Organize your personal library by adding books through search or barcode scanning. Track reading progress, add notes, and filter your collection. Enjoy automatic iCloud sync and a customizable interface.
- Add books via search or barcode scan
- Track reading status
- Add and search book notes
- Filter and sort library
- iCloud synchronization
- Customizable interface
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Apollo Book Tracker is an iPhone and iPad app that helps you track your readings and build your digital books collection. With Apollo Books Tracker you can: * Add books to your library by searching books information on the internet. * Add books to your library by scanning a physical book barcode. * Set your books reading status to keep track of what you are reading, what you’ve already read, and what you will read. * Filter and sort your library to access the relevant information. * Add notes to your books and search them quickly. * Set books format to keep track of paper books, e-books and audiobooks. * Choose your favorite library layout. * Customise the app’s look-and-feel and choose your favorite accent color. * Take advantage of automatic iCloud synchronisation and access your library from all your mobile devices with no need to export and import your data. * Track book without being tracked in any way. Apollo Books Tracker does not collect your information and your privacy is never affected. Pricing: * Apollo Books Tracker is totally FREE and has no ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Apollo Books Tracker at Free against BookHabit's $4.99. Apollo Books Tracker also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 79%). BookHabit's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (9 vs 2). On 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
Apollo Books Tracker is free to download; BookHabit costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BookHabit holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of BookHabit's written reviews are positive against 100% of Apollo Books Tracker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
BookHabit ships an update every 3 months, Apollo Books Tracker every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BookHabit | Apollo Books Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (9 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HyperJeff, Inc | Antonio Stigliano |
Customer experience
BookHabit
Apollo Books Tracker
In-app purchases
BookHabit
No in-app purchases
Apollo Books Tracker
No in-app purchases
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