Comparison

My Book List vs eBooks Pro

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

Head to head
About

My Book List

Effortlessly catalog your personal book collection with this library organizer. Easily add books by scanning barcodes or searching online, and view your library with customizable sorting and filters. Keep track of reading status, ratings, and notes for each title.

Highlights
  • ISBN barcode scanning
  • Online book search
  • Customizable library views
  • Read status and ratings
  • Multi-device syncing
  • Import/export library data
Features
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Catalog your entire home library in an afternoon. Snap a photo of any shelf and the AI adds every title. No typing, no spreadsheets, no scattered notes. Trusted by 600+ readers and rated 4.1 stars on the App Store since 2011. • Catalog a 200-book shelf in five minutes. Point your camera. AI reads the spines and adds the books. • Add a single book in seconds by scanning the barcode on the back cover. • Bring your Kindle library across in one tap. No CSV juggling. • Find anything in plain English. "That biography about the architect" works. • AI sorts your shelves by genre, mood, and theme so you stop tagging by hand. • Read on iPhone, edit on iPad, look something up offline at the bookstore. Sync handles the rest. How it works: 1. Point your camera at a shelf and let AI populate your library. 2. Sort, tag, and mark books as Read, Reading, or To Read. 3. Pick up on any device. Share with friends, join a club, ask for a recommendation when you want one. Coming from another app or a spreadsheet? Import CSV, TSV, JSON, XLSX, BibTeX, or RIS files. Field mapping is built in. Real review: "I had a bunch of books I needed to inventory and the barcode scanner made it incredibly easy. Great app." BuckeyeCityCates, App Store review, 2024 Free to start with twenty books and three barcode scans. Open the app and add your first shelf. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions in your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when purchasing a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://BigBalli.com/privacy

About

eBooks Pro

This app allows you to read EPUB and PDF books with customizable reading settings, listen to books with a lifelike voice, and annotate your texts. It also features an AI assistant for summaries and translations, along with tools to organize your library and track reading progress.

Highlights
  • Read EPUB and PDF files
  • Lifelike text-to-speech
  • Highlight and annotate text
  • AI Assistant for summaries and translations
  • Organize books into folders
  • Track reading progress and goals
  • Import and export documents
Features
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Read EPUB books and PDFs, listen with a lifelike voice, and keep the passages that matter to you. eBooks Pro brings your library, notes and AI Assistant together on iPhone and iPad. FIND BOOKS • Browse Free Books: public-domain and openly licensed books, ready to download. • Add the book websites you like; EPUB and PDF links save straight to your library. • Import books from Files or download one from a link. READ YOUR WAY • Turn pages with a realistic page curl, slide them, or scroll. • Choose the font, text size, margins and a light, dark or sepia theme, with dark pages in Dark Mode. • On iPad, read one page in portrait and two side by side in landscape. • Reader Mode hides everything but the page. • See the time left in the chapter and the book, or the printed page numbers when a book has them. • Jump anywhere with Go To, then return to where you were with one tap. • Keep your place on the line with the Reading Ruler. • Tap or pinch a picture to see it full screen. LISTEN • Read Aloud from the toolbar or from any passage you select. • Books in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Japanese and Chinese can use a natural voice that runs on your device. HIGHLIGHT AND ANNOTATE • Highlight in six colors and add a note to any highlight. • Draw and add sticky notes right on the page. • Bookmark a page with one tap. • Share a passage as a quote card. • Look up words and review them later in your Vocabulary list. • Annotate PDFs, fill in forms, and insert text or images. UNDERSTAND THE STORY • Story So Far recaps what you've read, without spoilers. • People & Places lists the characters and places you've met so far. • Ask your AI Assistant about a book: its answers stay within the chapters you've read. • Get summaries and translate passages to read across languages. TRACK YOUR READING • Put books on your Want to Read, Reading and Finished shelves. • Set a daily reading goal, keep your streak going, and count the books you finish this year. • Add the Currently Reading widget to your Home Screen. • Pick up where you left off on your other devices with iCloud. • Up Next opens the next book in a series from your library as you finish one. ORGANIZE YOUR LIBRARY • Arrange books and documents in folders and subfolders. • Sort by author and see each book's series at a glance. • Make your collection easier to browse with custom covers. • Import and export through Files, including iCloud Drive and compatible cloud storage providers. OPEN AND EDIT MORE • Convert EPUB books to PDF. • Edit PDF, plain text, RTF, Markdown, HTML and TeX documents. • View other document formats, including Word, Pages, spreadsheets and presentations. • Open images, audio and video alongside your reading material. Privacy Policy http://www.noteswriter.com/Kairoos_Privacy_Policy.html Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

My Book List4 screens
eBooks Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: My Book List at Free against eBooks Pro's $4.99. My Book List also leads on ratings volume (643 vs 8) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 days). eBooks Pro's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.1). On review sentiment, 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

My Book List is free to download; eBooks Pro costs $4.99 up front. My Book List sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and eBooks Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

eBooks Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Book List has 643 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of My Book List's written reviews are positive against 50% of eBooks Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Book List ships an update every 4 days, eBooks Pro every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
My Book List versus eBooks Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Book ListeBooks Pro
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.1 (643 ratings)4.8 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews48.5% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings643 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB461 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBigBalli Consulting llcKairoos Solutions S.L.

Customer experience

My Book List

All ratings639 ratings
Positive78.1%
Neutral6.9%
Negative15.0%
Written reviews344 reviews
Positive48.5%
Neutral11.0%
Negative40.4%

eBooks Pro

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

My Book List

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Books disappearing from user libraries
  • Scanning and importing issues
  • Crashes and freezes when using certain features
  • Inconsistent behavior across iOS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to sort books by series or genre
  • Option to manually add book details
  • Offline access to book lists
  • Improved search and filtering capabilities
  • Sync across multiple devices

eBooks Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

My Book List

Subscriptions3
  • Full unlock$4.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly Offer$14.991 Year
  • Full unlock$24.991 Year
One-time5
  • 500 Tokens$4.99
  • 1000 Tokens$9.99
  • 10000 Tokens$49.99
Show 2 more
  • Lifetime Full Unlock$49.99
  • 20000 Tokens$79.99
3 purchases

eBooks Pro

Subscriptions2
  • eBooks Pro Full AI Assistant3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • eBooks Pro Annual3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • eBooks Pro Upgrade$3.99

Questions

Is My Book List free?
My Book List is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is eBooks Pro free?
eBooks Pro costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, My Book List or eBooks Pro?
eBooks Pro is rated higher. My Book List averages 4.1 out of 5 from 643 ratings, while eBooks Pro averages 4.8 from 8 ratings.
Do My Book List or eBooks Pro have ads?
Neither My Book List nor eBooks Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My Book List or eBooks Pro?
My Book List ships an update every 4 days, and eBooks Pro every 8 days. Most recently, My Book List was updated on November 10, 2026 and eBooks Pro on November 7, 2026.

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