ReadingClock vs Resident Pocketbook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ReadingClock
This app helps you build a consistent reading habit by tracking your daily and weekly reading time and progress. Visualize your journey and set personal reading goals to witness your transformation as a reader.
- Daily reading tracking
- Progress visualization
- Set reading goals
- Manage reading logs
- Cultivate reading habits
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ReadingClock is a simple app to track your daily and weekly reading time and progress. By cultivating a consistent reading habit, you will witness your transformation. Features: - Daily Reading Tracking - Progress Visualization - Set Reading Goals - Add, Delete, or Edit Reading Logs Why I built ReadingClock? This app was built by Grace, a mother of two. My children have a daily reading habit and track their reading progress. Although their school requires only 20 minutes of daily reading, my kids typically read for 40 minutes to an hour each day. Observing their significant progress in reading and writing over time inspired me to create this app. It's designed to systematize and assist other readers in following a similar routine. My children gave me a lot of feedback on this app. It would not be here without them! "I love ReadingClock! I use it for my reading time at home and for my homework. " - my son "ReadingClock is so helpful! Also my mom always takes my feedback to make the app better! " - my daughter
Resident Pocketbook
A quick-access tool for internal medicine residents on inpatient service. It provides common bedside scoring tools, conversion charts, and algorithms for medical calculations and references.
- Bedside scoring tools
- Conversion charts
- Medical algorithms
- Quick access favorites
- Inpatient service assistance
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This app is designed to assist internal medicine residents on inpatient service. It is meant to be a quick-access tool for common calculations and references on inpatient service. The app contains commonly used bedside scoring tools such as CHADS2-VASc, HEART, Well's Scores etc... There are also commonly used conversion charts for steroids, opioids, statins, beta blockers and algorithms for ACLS, sodium, acid/base and pre-op cardiovascular risk. Users can store favorites for quick bedside access.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Resident Pocketbook at none against ReadingClock's 1. Resident Pocketbook also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). ReadingClock's advantage is ratings volume (142 vs 5) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). On price, review sentiment 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. ReadingClock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Resident Pocketbook asks for nothing beyond the download.
Resident Pocketbook holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ReadingClock has 142 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of ReadingClock's written reviews are positive against 100% of Resident Pocketbook's.
ReadingClock ships an update fortnightly, Resident Pocketbook every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ReadingClock | Resident Pocketbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (142 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 142 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Le Huang | Dmitriy Scherbak |
Customer experience
ReadingClock
Resident Pocketbook
In-app purchases
ReadingClock
- Remove Ads$6.99
Resident Pocketbook
No in-app purchases
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