BookSmartApp vs Afterglow
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.
Afterglow
Experience ebooks with a personalized ambiance. This reader intelligently creates unique themes from book cover art, offering a clean interface with customizable typography and layout for comfortable reading.
- Ebook reading interface
- Cover Tone themes
- Custom ambiance per book
- Typography controls
- Layout controls
- Light and dark modes
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A beautiful way to read ebooks. With Afterglow, give each book it's own ambience with Cover Tone themes, intelligently created from the book's cover art. Key features • Ebook reading with a clean, focused interface • Custom ambience for each book • Typography and layout controls for comfort and style • Light and dark reading options
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BookSmartApp at daily against Afterglow's every 6 days. BookSmartApp also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.4). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
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 Afterglow. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
BookSmartApp ships an update daily, Afterglow every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BookSmartApp | Afterglow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeff Chandler | Mohammad Qureshi |
Customer experience
BookSmartApp
Afterglow
In-app purchases
BookSmartApp
No in-app purchases
Afterglow
No in-app purchases
