Comparison

BookSmartApp vs OnlyBooks

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

OnlyBooks

Features
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Your books deserve a better home than a spreadsheet. OnlyBooks turns your reading life into a beautiful virtual bookshelf — every book you own or have read, arranged as spines just like a real shelf. Add a book in seconds, watch your collection grow. A shelf that looks the part Books are rendered as spines with their real cover art and colours. Customise the wall, adjust shelf colours, and make it yours. Track what matters Log when you started and finished a book, or simply mark it as read if you can't remember the dates. Your stats page shows how many books you've read each month and how many pages you've powered through. Find any book instantly Search the Open Library catalogue of millions of titles to add books with cover art, author, year, and page count filled in automatically. Add several books at once with multi-select. Stay organised Tag books by genre, series, or anything else. Filter your shelf by tag, reading status, or month to find exactly what you're looking for. Your data, your device Everything is stored locally — no account, no cloud, no tracking. Export your entire library as a backup and import it on any device.

Screenshots

BookSmartApp4 screens
OnlyBooks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: BookSmartApp at daily against OnlyBooks's every 5 months. On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BookSmartApp ships an update daily, OnlyBooks every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
BookSmartApp versus OnlyBooks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookSmartAppOnlyBooks
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB51 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJeff ChandlerDevin Smith

In-app purchases

None

BookSmartApp

No in-app purchases

None

OnlyBooks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BookSmartApp free?
BookSmartApp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OnlyBooks free?
OnlyBooks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BookSmartApp or OnlyBooks have ads?
Neither BookSmartApp nor OnlyBooks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BookSmartApp or OnlyBooks?
BookSmartApp ships an update daily, and OnlyBooks every 5 months. Most recently, BookSmartApp was updated on October 13, 2026 and OnlyBooks on October 7, 2026.

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