Comparison

BookHabit vs VoBooks

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

VoBooks

Features
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Take your reading with you with VoBooks: organize your library, read your EPUBs and listen to them using your device’s voices. LISTEN TO YOUR BOOKS Import compatible, well-structured, DRM-free EPUB books. VoBooks uses iOS voices to read the text aloud. Adjust the speed, set a sleep timer and keep listening with the screen locked. Listen offline once your book and voice are available on your device. Reading quality depends on the EPUB and the selected voice. VoBooks does not include a book catalog. ORGANIZE ALL YOUR READING Add books with an associated EPUB or create manual entries to track printed books and other reading. Organize your library with tags and reading statuses. Find books using search and filters, save notes and explore your statistics to follow your reading habits. MAKE IT YOUR OWN • Choose your reading voice and speed. • Customize how words are spoken with pronunciation rules. • Set a sleep timer. • Continue automatically between chapters. • Resume reading from your saved position. • Discover the features with the guided tutorial and built-in help. YOUR LIBRARY STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE VoBooks does not require an app account and contains no advertising or advertising trackers. Your books, notes and reading history are stored locally and are not sent to the developer’s servers. Purchases and subscriptions are handled by Apple. External help and privacy links open in your browser. ENJOY IT FREE OR CHOOSE PREMIUM Without a subscription, you can keep up to 3 books in your library and enjoy 15 hours of listening per month. VoBooks Premium removes the book and listening time limits while your subscription is active. Choose a monthly or annual plan. The price and duration are displayed before you confirm your purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel the renewal. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account subscription settings. Restore Purchases restores access to an active subscription associated with the same Apple Account; it does not restore your books or library data. Privacy policy and terms of use: https://sites.google.com/view/vobooks-ios-policy-terms/en Apple Standard End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

BookHabit4 screens
VoBooks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: VoBooks at Free against BookHabit's $4.99. VoBooks also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months). BookHabit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#199 vs unranked). On 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

VoBooks is free to download; BookHabit costs $4.99 up front. VoBooks sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. BookHabit asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BookHabit ships an update every 3 months, VoBooks every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
BookHabit versus VoBooks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookHabitVoBooks
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#199 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHyperJeff, IncNiusvel Acosta Mendoza

In-app purchases

None

BookHabit

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

VoBooks

Subscriptions2
  • VoBooks Premium Monthly$0.991 Month
  • VoBooks Premium Annual$9.991 Year

Questions

Is BookHabit free?
BookHabit costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is VoBooks free?
VoBooks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BookHabit or VoBooks have ads?
Neither BookHabit nor VoBooks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BookHabit or VoBooks?
BookHabit ships an update every 3 months, and VoBooks every 4 days. Most recently, BookHabit was updated on November 6, 2026 and VoBooks on November 6, 2026.

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