BookTree vs The Ardent Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BookTree
Organize your personal library with this app. Track books, manage your reading progress, and save your favorite highlights and notes. It also offers reading statistics and secure backup options.
- Manage books in various styles
- Scan barcodes to add books
- Save text and picture highlights
- Track reading statistics and goals
- Share book info and highlights
- Cloud backup and restore
- App passcode lock with biometrics
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"BookTree App supports your reading life via managing books and your underlines" MANAGE BOOKS • list books in table or in bookshelf style • collect books by your own category • filter books by own, borrowed, wanted, read or not • manage own book format (paper, ebook, audio book) SEARCH BOOKS • add book information easily via barcode scan or search title, author,ISBN or manually • view book information on online (Google Books, Amazon, Goodreads) WRITE NOTE, UNDERLINE • save text or picture what you want to get underline • highlight favorite passage on photo • list all underlines among books READING STATISTICS AND GOAL • view reading statistics by year or month and book list what you read • set reading goal and keep track of goal progress by monthly or annually • view badge count for unread, reading books SHARE •share book info. or underline via email , twitter, facebook, SMS BACKUP & RESTORE • backup database to cloud (dropbox, google drive, etc) • backup database via email • backup /restore database via iTunes Lock • lock your BookTree app with your passcode. • unlock with your device's Touch ID or Face ID. • Please refer to Help, if you lost passcode. * Please feel free to send us any inconveniences or suggestions at any time via Settings> About App > Contact Supports * Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
The Ardent Reader
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You keep track of your morning runs, the cities you have visited, places to shop and maybe even the various beers you have tried. So why not keep track of the books you read as well? The Ardent Reader is a handy companion for all avid readers, who would like to keep track of which books they have read, when they read them and where. Using Google Books' extensive database you can easily register a book's information by scanning the barcode or supplying the ISBN manually. Mark the book as one you have read or a title you would like to read later; save location and add you notes. You can use the map function to check where in the world you read your books or sort your readings in order to se when you read a book or how many you read last year.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: The Ardent Reader at Free against BookTree's $4.99. BookTree's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). 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
The Ardent Reader is free to download; BookTree costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BookTree ships an update every 4 weeks, The Ardent Reader every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and August 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BookTree | The Ardent Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 95.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Youngwan Choi | Jonatan Yde |
In-app purchases
BookTree
No in-app purchases
The Ardent Reader
No in-app purchases









