Comparison

BookHabit vs Readro

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

Readro

Features
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Readro is a calm, beautiful home for your reading life. Build your library, read right inside the app, and turn reading into a daily habit — without the noise of a social network. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY • Add books in seconds: scan the barcode on the back cover, search by title or author, or add them manually — cover photo included • Organize with three shelves: Reading, Want to Read, and Finished • Rate the books you finish and keep private notes on every one READ INSIDE READRO • Import your own EPUB or PDF files and read them as real pages, with your choice of paper colour and text size — or have them read aloud • Download thousands of public-domain classics in fourteen languages from Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg and Wikisource, free and legal • The timer runs by itself while you read, so every session is recorded MAKE READING A HABIT • Start a session with one tap, or "just 5 minutes" from the Today screen • Keep your daily streak — one missed day a week is forgiven automatically • Three weekly quests with targets that follow how much you read, and badges for streaks, books, pages, time and quests • A reminder at the time you choose, and an evening nudge when your streak is at risk • See where you stand: "at this pace you'll finish in about 9 days" POCKET PAGES — READ WITHOUT THE BOOK Leaving the house without your book? Photograph the pages you're on (up to 30 at once, straight from camera or gallery). Readro converts them to clean, readable text you can enjoy anywhere — or have them read aloud to you while you commute. KEEP THE LINES YOU LOVE Tap sentences in the reader to save them as quotes, or type them in by hand. Share any quote as a card, and meet one of them again on your Today screen. KNOW YOUR READING SELF • A weekly chart of minutes or pages, a reading calendar, and your totals • A per-book report card: how long each book took and your pages-per-hour • A home screen widget with your streak, today's minutes and current book PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. Your library lives on your device. Readro speaks 11 languages — English, Turkish, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese and Chinese — and works with books in any language.

Screenshots

BookHabit4 screens
Readro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Readro at Free against BookHabit's $4.99. Readro also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). BookHabit's advantage is chart position (#198 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Readro 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, Readro every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
BookHabit versus Readro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookHabitReadro
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#198 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHyperJeff, IncFaize Nur OZGON

In-app purchases

None

BookHabit

No in-app purchases

None

Readro

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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