Comparison

BookTree vs Read It Now

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

Read It Now

Features
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Read It Now is the app for people who love reading and want to track every book, every page, every bit of progress. Organize your library into three states — want to read, reading, finished — and never lose track of what you're reading. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Update pages read in real time, time your reading sessions, and watch your progress on a visual dial, book by book. ADD BOOKS IN ONE TAP Search by title, author, or ISBN and auto-import cover, publisher, page count, and details. Scan the barcode to add physical books in seconds. FULL STATISTICS See how many books you read, how many hours you spend reading, your favorite genres and authors, your reading speed, and your streaks. READING CHALLENGE Set a yearly book goal and track your progress with real-time projections. YEARLY WRAPPED At year's end, get your personalized recap — books read, hours, favorite genre — ready to share. NOTES & QUOTES Save the lines you love and your thoughts on every book, and share them in one tap. FULL ORGANIZATION Manage authors, genres, publishers, tags, and series — your library, organized your way.

Screenshots

BookTree4 screens
Read It Now2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Read It Now at Free against BookTree's $4.99. BookTree's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Read It Now is free to download; BookTree costs $4.99 up front. Read It Now sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BookTree asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BookTree ships an update every 4 weeks, Read It Now every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
BookTree versus Read It Now: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookTreeRead It Now
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.1 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB11 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperYoungwan ChoiFranco Torriani

In-app purchases

None

BookTree

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Read It Now

One-time1
  • Unlimited Books$3.99

Questions

Is BookTree free?
BookTree costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Read It Now free?
Read It Now is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BookTree or Read It Now have ads?
Neither BookTree nor Read It Now shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BookTree or Read It Now?
BookTree ships an update every 4 weeks, and Read It Now every 3 weeks. Most recently, BookTree was updated on October 29, 2026 and Read It Now on October 21, 2026.

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