Comparison

My Book List vs Knihovnicka

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

Knihovnicka

Features
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Knihovnicka is a home for your entire library — audiobooks, ebooks and print books in one place, on iPhone, iPad and in your browser. It is not a store. It is your library: the books you already own, the files sitting on your disk or home NAS, and a clear record of what you have read and listened to. YOUR WHOLE LIBRARY AT A GLANCE Audiobooks, ebooks and print books with covers, genres, series, ratings and blurbs. Add a book by searching online, scanning its ISBN barcode, photographing a whole shelf at once, or by hand. Import an existing Goodreads library from a single CSV file. AUDIOBOOK PLAYER Chapters, bookmarks, timestamped notes, adjustable speed and pitch, quiet-passage boost, equalizer, sleep timer, and seamless resume exactly where you stopped. Works in CarPlay, on Apple Watch, on the Lock Screen and as a Home Screen widget. EBOOK READER EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, TXT, HTML, plus CBZ and CBR comics. Highlight with a finger or Apple Pencil, underline, take notes, turn pages, read in night mode, and open PDFs in landscape with zoom. Your position is remembered and synced. READ ALOUD IN A NATURAL VOICE Have any ebook read to you — either by the system voice or by the Piper neural voice, which sounds markedly more lifelike. Twelve languages: Slovak, Czech, English, German, Polish, Hungarian, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Ukrainian and Russian. A voice downloads once and then reads entirely offline, with no text ever leaving your device. Start reading from any sentence you choose. YOUR FILES STAY YOURS Connect a home NAS (QNAP, Synology, any WebDAV server), Google Drive, or send files over Wi-Fi straight from your computer. Download audiobooks for offline listening and see exactly what takes up space in Storage. Large files stay where they are — Knihovnicka keeps only metadata and reading state. SYNC The same library on iPhone, iPad and the web under your account. A change on one device shows up on the others right away. FRIENDS AND FAMILY If you want to, add friends, browse their libraries, lend books, exchange messages and recommend titles to each other. On the family plan you share a whole library while keeping any individual title private. Friendships and family invitations always require confirmation from both sides. STATS AND HISTORY How much you have read and listened to, when and what, monthly and yearly goals, a friendly competition with friends, and a shareable year-in-review card. ASK YOUR LIBRARY Ask a question in your own words — "which audiobooks did I start?", "something like that book about music" — and get an answer drawn from your own shelves. WHAT IS FREE Without a subscription you get unlimited library tracking, adding books, ratings, covers and sync. The reader opens half of each book and the player gives you 5 hours of listening so you can try them properly. SUBSCRIPTION Knihovnicka Plus unlocks the reader and player without limits, storage connectors, offline downloads, natural-voice read-aloud, lending, detailed statistics and AI features. Knihovnicka Family adds library sharing across your household. Subscriptions are monthly or yearly (yearly saves two months) and begin with a 14-day free trial. Payment is charged to your App Store account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it at any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://knihovnicka.app/podmienky-en.html Privacy Policy: https://knihovnicka.app/privacy.html We never sell your data or use it for advertising. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://knihovnicka.app/privacy-en.html

Screenshots

My Book List4 screens
Knihovnicka4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Knihovnicka at none against My Book List's 8. On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. My Book List sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Knihovnicka asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
My Book List versus Knihovnicka: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Book ListKnihovnicka
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (643 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews48.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings643 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB41 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperBigBalli Consulting llcrewrite s.r.o.

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

Knihovnicka

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
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  • Lifetime Full Unlock$49.99
  • 20000 Tokens$79.99
None

Knihovnicka

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is My Book List free?
My Book List is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Knihovnicka free?
Knihovnicka is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do My Book List or Knihovnicka have ads?
Neither My Book List nor Knihovnicka shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My Book List or Knihovnicka?
My Book List ships an update every 4 days, and Knihovnicka every 4 days. Most recently, My Book List was updated on November 10, 2026 and Knihovnicka on October 31, 2026.

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