Meet New Books vs Read Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meet New Books
Discover your next favorite read with personalized book suggestions based on your past favorites. Explore recommendations by genre, keyword, or trope, covering a wide range of popular categories.
- Personalized book suggestions
- Recommendations by genre
- Discover by keyword
- Trope-based discovery
- Wide genre coverage
Read full descriptionHide full description
Looking for more reads that vibe with your favorites? We'll serve up suggestions based on books you've loved before. Not sure where to start? Discover recommendations by genre, keyword, or trope. Whether it's romance, fantasy, paranormal, or more - we've got it.
Read Tracker
This app helps you read more by tracking your reading sessions without pressure or complicated goals. It offers clear insights into your progress, allows you to organize your reading life, and syncs data across devices with a calm, focused design. Your reading data remains private and under your control.
- Track reading time with stopwatch/timer
- Log sessions, pause, and resume
- View weekly, monthly, and yearly stats
- Track streaks, total time, and days read
- Organize books with ratings and notes
- Sync data across devices via iCloud
- Privacy-focused with no accounts or data collection
Read full descriptionHide full description
Read Tracker is a simple way to read more—one session at a time. Reading doesn’t need pressure, streak anxiety, or complicated goals. Read Tracker keeps the focus where it belongs: opening a book and spending time reading. Whether it’s five minutes or an hour, every session is captured and turned into clear, meaningful insight. Track your reading time Use stopwatch or timer modes to log every reading session. Pause and resume anytime. Go past your goal—tracking continues so nothing is lost. Add optional notes to capture thoughts or highlights. See your progress clearly A completely redesigned Stats experience gives you a deeper look at your reading: • View reading time across weeks, months, and years • Tap charts to explore the actual data behind your progress • Track streaks, total time, and days read • See books finished by month, year, or all time • Understand your patterns with averages and trends Sync across your devices Your reading data stays with you. With iCloud sync, your sessions, books, and progress automatically stay up to date across your devices. Organize your reading life Keep track of what you’re reading and what you’ve finished. Add ratings and notes, and revisit your reading history anytime. Everything stays clean, simple, and easy to navigate. Calm, focused design Read Tracker is designed to feel warm, simple, and intentional. A clean interface with soft, neutral tones keeps distractions out of the way so you can focus on reading. Privacy first No accounts. No tracking. No data collection. Your reading stays private and under your control. One-time purchase Pay once and own it forever. No subscriptions, no ads, no upsells.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Meet New Books at Free against Read Tracker's $2.99. Meet New Books also leads on ratings volume (25 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). Read Tracker's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). On rating, 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
Meet New Books is free to download; Read Tracker costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Meet New Books against 5.0 for Read Tracker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meet New Books has 25 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Meet New Books's written reviews are positive against 100% of Read Tracker's.
Meet New Books ships an update every 7 months, Read Tracker every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meet New Books | Read Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Whimzera INC. | Apps For Pilots |
Customer experience
Meet New Books
Read Tracker
In-app purchases
Meet New Books
No in-app purchases
Read Tracker
No in-app purchases









