Comparison

BookTree vs The Ardent Reader

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

The Ardent Reader

Features
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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.

Screenshots

BookTree4 screens
The Ardent Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
BookTree versus The Ardent Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookTreeThe Ardent Reader
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.1 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYoungwan ChoiJonatan Yde

In-app purchases

None

BookTree

No in-app purchases

None

The Ardent Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BookTree free?
BookTree costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Ardent Reader free?
The Ardent Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BookTree or The Ardent Reader have ads?
Neither BookTree nor The Ardent Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BookTree or The Ardent Reader?
BookTree ships an update every 4 weeks, and The Ardent Reader every 4 months. Most recently, BookTree was updated on September 26, 2026 and The Ardent Reader on August 4, 2026.

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