Italic Type vs Now Reading
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Italic Type
Organize your reading life with this book tracker. Import data, manage your reading queue, and take private notes on books, quotes, and new words. Share recommendations and create virtual book clubs.
- Import Goodreads data
- Manage reading queue
- Add context labels
- Private book board for notes
- Track quotes and new words
- Recommend books to friends
- Create virtual book clubs
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Italic Type is the simple, beautifully-designed book tracker loved by avid readers and authors. Easily import your Goodreads data. Email us to help with a custom spread sheet. Add books you want to read to your queue. Add a context label to remember why you want to read it or who recommended it. Keep track of your reading and take notes in your own private book board. Keep track of quotes you love, new words you find, or add links for the things you look up. Recommend books to friends and start pop up virtual book clubs. Review books with keywords and expressions to capture what you thought. https://www.italictype.com/privacy/ https://www.italictype.com/terms/
Now Reading
Log books you are currently reading, have finished, or want to read. Display original or custom book covers and share your reading progress with friends through widgets or by swiping through your logged books.
- Track current reads
- Archive finished books
- Manage wishlist
- Display book covers
- Share reading progress
- Widget support
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Introducing Now Reading - a simple yet crafted book journal app. You can add what you're reading, archive what you already have read, and books you'd like to read in the future. This app displays the original book cover (direct attachment needed) or with the custom designed beautiful original book covers. Share what you read with your friends by swiping through books you logged or through the widget.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Now Reading at weekly against Italic Type's every 3 months. Now Reading also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Italic Type's advantage is ratings volume (30 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Now Reading holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Italic Type has 30 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Italic Type's written reviews are positive against 100% of Now Reading's.
Italic Type ships an update every 3 months, Now Reading weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Italic Type | Now Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (30 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Italic Type LLC | Minsang choi |
Customer experience
Italic Type
Now Reading
In-app purchases
Italic Type
No in-app purchases
Now Reading
No in-app purchases
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