Comparison

Bookjournal.app vs Loëly

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

Head to head
About

Bookjournal.app

Easily log books you've read, record ratings, thoughts, and notes. Enhance your entries with stickers and share your favorite reads with others. This app offers a convenient digital alternative to traditional reading journals.

Highlights
  • Track read books
  • Record ratings and notes
  • Add stickers to entries
  • Share favorite books
  • Digital reading journal
Features
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Keep track of all the books you've read, capture your ratings, thoughts and notes, add stickers and more. Share your favorite books with family, friends and colleagues. As avid readers, we craved a seamless way to journal, track, and share our literary experiences. Traditional journaling, though enjoyable, can be tedious and time-consuming. We wanted our journals accessible anytime, anywhere - from waiting rooms to school pick-ups. That's why we built BookJournal.app. Join us for an effortless and enjoyable reading journey! Link to our End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Loëly

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With Loëly, step into a complete poetic space. READ Access a library of classics, from 14th-century sonnets to the early 20th century. Read, reread, or discover the great names of international poetry. Explore poems by other users: everyday, metaphysical, pop, descriptive, rhymed, melancholic, or joyful. Support them, comment on them, save them to your readlists. Readlists are like playlists for poems. Choose a theme, gather the texts that speak to you, share your selections with other users. Download your favorite poems to read offline, anywhere, anytime — on the subway, while traveling, or simply to give yourself a moment without a connection. Through our blog articles, rediscover forgotten poets, poetic techniques from other cultures, or the daily lives of users deeply engaged in their poetic work. WRITE Write your poems in simple mode, like jotting a line in a notebook, or in canvas mode, where text is placed freely on the page — for those who love composing form as much as words. Keep your texts as drafts for as long as you need. Come back to them, rework them, publish them when they're ready. Choose what you do with them: publish to the entire app for other users to discover, or keep them in a private group shared with people close to you. SHARE Create private groups to share your poems with friends, writing circles, and literary friendships. Suggest other users to your followers, and discover in turn who the people you follow recommend — a chain of transmission, rather than an algorithm. Show what moves through you: your inspirations on your profile, your readlists offered to others' eyes, the poems that accompany you. Share your poetic events — readings, open mics, gatherings — to make them known to the Loëly community. RESPECT Take control of your feed. Choose chronological, random, or exploratory mode — set for yourself how much discovery you want to let in. You're the one holding the algorithm. No poem is promoted because it has many likes or comments. No popularity contest, no hidden ranking. What you read comes from your choices, and from the sincere recommendations of other users. Comments require mutual following and a 24-hour delay before publication, so that words take the time they deserve — and to protect you from impulsive reactions and unnecessary conflict. Hide your likes, your followers, your following if you prefer to keep them to yourself. And make the opposite choice for others: not seeing their likes, not showing their counts. Everyone sets their own sliders, everyone finds their own right measure. FREE WITH ADS Loëly is free, supported by advertising. Optional subscriptions allow you to reduce or remove ads, and to access more features. ABOUT Loëly is published by Poe&Me SAS, based in Paris. For any questions: contact@loely.io End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://loely.io/privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

Bookjournal.app4 screens
Loëly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Bookjournal.app at none against Loëly's shown. Bookjournal.app also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, 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

Both are free to download. Bookjournal.app sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Loëly sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bookjournal.app ships an update weekly, Loëly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Bookjournal.app versus Loëly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookjournal.appLoëly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (250 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews44.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings250 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB99 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRowan TrollopePoe&Me

Bugs and requests

Bookjournal.app

Reported bugs

18 issues
  • Deleted books reappear
  • Goodreads import does not work
  • Incorrect book titles/covers after import
  • Duplicate books
  • App crashes
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  • App won't open or stay open
  • Error message when trying to cancel
  • Messages marked as undeliverable on Discord
  • Journal entries not saving or updating
  • App refuses to open since update
  • Books disappear after adding
  • App not working after transfer
  • Cannot add and save books read
  • Reading goal reverts to 50
  • No connection on home screen
  • No results for searches
  • App crashes immediately on opening
  • Unable to access rating and date options

Requested features

13 requests
  • Connect with friends
  • Add timer for reading tracking
  • More information like a timer
  • Audiobooks as a selection
  • Add friends
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  • Integrate Goodreads list without re-adding
  • Fix journal saving/updating
  • Fix series organization
  • One-time payment option for premium
  • More premium features for the price
  • Dark mode option
  • Improve search functionality
  • Fix connection issues

Loëly

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bookjournal.app

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly$49.991 Year
4 purchases

Loëly

Subscriptions4
  • Complet$1.991 Month
  • Integral$3.991 Month
  • Complet$14.991 Year
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  • Integral$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Bookjournal.app free?
Bookjournal.app is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Loëly free?
Loëly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bookjournal.app or Loëly have ads?
Loëly shows ads; Bookjournal.app does not.
Which is updated more often, Bookjournal.app or Loëly?
Bookjournal.app ships an update weekly, and Loëly every 2 weeks. Most recently, Bookjournal.app was updated on October 21, 2026 and Loëly on October 19, 2026.

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