Comparison

BookHabit vs BooLi

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
Currently charting
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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

BooLi

Features
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Manage your books, scan, track them (lent to who?), organise them (put them in lists, series, ...), share your book lists with your friends (you need to allow access), nobody or with the world (public lists). Follow friend's booklists (find them and request access to their lists).

Screenshots

BookHabit4 screens
BooLi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BooLi at Free against BookHabit's $4.99. BookHabit's advantage is chart position (#193 vs unranked). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

BooLi is free to download; BookHabit costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BookHabit ships an update every 3 months, BooLi every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
BookHabit versus BooLi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookHabitBooLi
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#193 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHyperJeff, IncCoppieters

In-app purchases

None

BookHabit

No in-app purchases

None

BooLi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BookHabit free?
BookHabit costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is BooLi free?
BooLi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BookHabit or BooLi have ads?
Neither BookHabit nor BooLi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BookHabit or BooLi?
BookHabit ships an update every 3 months, and BooLi every 7 months. Most recently, BookHabit was updated on October 15, 2026 and BooLi on October 5, 2026.

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