Comparison

Book Tracker vs Now Reading

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

Head to head
About

Book Tracker

This app helps you organize your book collection, track your reading progress, and build a reading habit. It features a visually stunning interface with customizable themes and advanced tracking options. Capture insights, set reading challenges, and visualize your reading journey.

Highlights
  • Book tracking and digital bookshelf
  • Customizable themes and Liquid Glass design
  • Reading journal with notes and quotes
  • Reading challenge and progress tracking
  • Advanced metadata and custom properties
  • Year-in-books visualization
Features
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Bookie: Book Tracker is your ultimate reading companion, a powerful book tracker, reading journal, and digital bookshelf. Experience a world-class app where accountability meets stunning, next-generation design. Whether you're planning your next reading challenge or capturing insights from your latest novel, Bookie: Book Tracker makes it effortless to stay organized and inspired. The Next Evolution of Design: Liquid Glass & Themes Stop settling for plain interfaces. Bookie: Book Tracker introduces two revolutionary features that transform your digital bookshelf: Liquid Glass Design: Experience a minimalist, immersive UI built on frosted, semi-transparent layers that subtly shift with your content, giving your app depth and modern elegance. Requires iOS 26. Themes: Go beyond light and dark mode. Personalize every corner of your reading life with deeply customizable themes that let you control colors, backgrounds, and accents for a look that is uniquely yours. Master Your Library & Reading Challenges Go deeper than just tracking. Bookie: Book Tracker gives you the control and motivation to master your reading habits and library data: Effortless Tracking: Easily log books you're currently reading, finished, or want to read next with quick search and barcode scanning. Advanced Properties: Take total control. Add custom metadata, manage multiple editions, private tags, and track specific progress metrics for every title. Reading Challenge: Set yearly reading targets and track your progress against the Annual Reading Challenge. Bookie provides the motivation and visualization to crush your goals. Organize Your Way: Keep your wishlist, TBR pile, and completed reads in one streamlined place with custom bookshelves, genres, and statuses. Capture Knowledge & Reflect on Success Bookie is built to maximize your retention and reward your efforts with beautiful insights: Reading Journal: Log reading sessions with dates, times, and personal notes. Capture Every Insight: Save favorite quotes, write reviews, and mark memorable passages for easy recall. Your Year in Books (Lookback): Visualize your entire reading journey with insightful trends, detailed statistics, and a beautiful, shareable year-end summary. Sync, Read, and Upgrade Sync & Read Anywhere: Enjoy seamless syncing across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro. Distraction-Free Experience: Maintain focus with a clean, minimalist design built for concentration. Upgrade with Bookie+ Unlock the full power of Bookie: Book Tracker with Bookie+: Add unlimited books to your shelf. Use genres, dynamic filters, and advanced search to find books, notes, and quotes in seconds. Deeply customize your reading experience for ultimate control and clarity. Download Book Tracker: Bookie: Book Tracker today—the best way to log books, build a lasting reading habit, and experience the future of digital bookshelf design. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Now Reading

Track your current reads, archive finished books, and organize your future reading list. This app offers beautiful book cover displays and allows you to share your reading progress with friends.

Highlights
  • Track current reads
  • Archive read books
  • Organize to-read list
  • Display original book covers
  • Share reading progress
  • Widget support
Features
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Introducing Now Reading - a simple yet crafted book journal app. You can add what you're reading, archive what you already have read, and books you'd like to read in the future. This app displays the original book cover (direct attachment needed) or with the custom designed beautiful original book covers. Share what you read with your friends by swiping through books you logged or through the widget.

Screenshots

Book Tracker4 screens
Now Reading4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Now Reading at 100% against Book Tracker's 29%. Now Reading also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 12). Book Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (107 vs 2) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads 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. Book Tracker sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Now Reading asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Now Reading holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Book Tracker has 107 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Book Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Now Reading's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Book Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Now Reading weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Book Tracker versus Now Reading: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook TrackerNow Reading
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (107 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews29.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings107 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size202 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJakub MilcarzMinsang choi

Customer experience

Book Tracker

All ratings107 ratings
Positive75.7%
Neutral5.6%
Negative18.7%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive29.0%
Neutral19.4%
Negative51.6%

Now Reading

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Book Tracker

Subscriptions9
  • Bookie+ (Monthly)3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Bookie+ Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Bookie+ Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
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  • Bookie+ Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Bookie+ (Monthly)3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Bookie+ Weekly3 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • Bookie+ (Annual)$12.991 Year
  • Bookie+ Annual$19.991 Year
  • Bookie+ (Annual)$24.991 Year
One-time3
  • Bookie+ (Lifetime)$24.99
  • Bookie+ Lifetime$39.99
  • Bookie+ (Lifetime)$49.99
None

Now Reading

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Book Tracker free?
Book Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Now Reading free?
Now Reading is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Book Tracker or Now Reading?
Now Reading is rated higher. Book Tracker averages 4.1 out of 5 from 107 ratings, while Now Reading averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Book Tracker or Now Reading have ads?
Neither Book Tracker nor Now Reading shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Book Tracker or Now Reading?
Book Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Now Reading weekly. Most recently, Book Tracker was updated on October 26, 2026 and Now Reading on October 30, 2026.

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