BookSmartApp vs Book Briefs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BookSmartApp
This app helps you remember and engage with your physical books. Save highlights, get daily reminders, and use an AI assistant to answer questions, create social posts, or generate images based on your reading.
- Save and organize book highlights
- Daily highlight reminders
- AI assistant for questions and content generation
- Generate images from book passages
- Share highlights and generated content
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A reading assistant for your physical books. - Save highlights to help you remember important points - Get a daily reminder on the highlights of your choice. - BookBot will answer any questions, create a social post, or create a joke about any piece of text or page from your book. - Search or generate images based on passages from your book. - Share highlights, generated text, or images.
Book Briefs
Access concise summaries of popular books to quickly grasp key ideas. Ideal for busy individuals looking to expand their knowledge across various genres without extensive reading time.
- Concise book summaries
- Key idea extraction
- Multiple genres covered
- Time-saving learning
- Knowledge expansion
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Discover the key ideas from the world's best books in just a few minutes! Our app offers concise, easy-to-read summaries that help you save time while staying informed and expanding your knowledge. Whether you're into self-improvement, business, fiction, or any other genre, we've got you covered. Perfect for busy readers who want to learn quickly and effectively.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BookSmartApp at daily against Book Briefs's every 3 days. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BookSmartApp against 5.0 for Book Briefs. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
BookSmartApp ships an update daily, Book Briefs every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BookSmartApp | Book Briefs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeff Chandler | Sedat Barlin |
Customer experience
BookSmartApp
Book Briefs
In-app purchases
BookSmartApp
No in-app purchases
Book Briefs
No in-app purchases
