BookNote vs MargiNotes

Transform every finished book into a timeless collection of personal insights. Track your reading sessions and write down the ideas you want to apply in your life or save for the future. BookNote is the ultimate reading companion. ORGANIZE YOUR BOOKS - Add books by searching for a title, scanning ISBN or picking from our themed collections - Categorize books as currently read, finished, paused, or on wishlist (TBR) - Sort your books by newest, oldest, or last read TRACK YOUR READING - Set a daily goal for how much you would like to read, and a yearly goal for how many books you plan to finish. - Use the built-in timer to track every reading session with page counts and duration - View all your past sessions with detailed history of what you've read and when CAPTURE YOUR THOUGHTS - Easily scan favorites highlights from book pages - Write notes while reading or after finishing a session - Organize your notes using tags - Link notes to specific books and sessions - Easily search across all your notes BUILD A HABIT - Maintain daily reading streaks and watch your consistency grow - Earn ranks from Bronze to Diamond as you hit reading milestones - Revise a few of your notes every daily to solidify the learning - Get inspired with daily motivational quotes about reading VISUALIZE YOUR PROGRESS - See detailed statistics of your reading patterns - Track total books finished, pages read, and time spent - Monitor your progress toward yearly book goals BookNote is free to download and use. Upgrade to BookNote Pro to unlock the full experience: - Unlimited book storage (Free version limited to 10 books) - Advanced note formatting with bold, italic, underline and headings - Import your full collection from Goodreads and StoryGraph - Attach photos and drawings to your notes Important: BookNote is a book TRACKING and NOTE-TAKING app. You cannot read or download actual books inside this app. Terms of Use: https://booknote.app/#terms Privacy Policy: https://booknote.app/#privacy

MargiNotes is a calm reader and note-taking app for PDF, EPUB, and paper books. Its difference is simple: a note can keep a path back to the book it came from. Import a highlight from Kindle or Apple Books, or capture a quote from a printed page. If the matching PDF or EPUB is in your library, MargiNotes can search that book on your device and relink the note to its real place. No guessed links. If MargiNotes cannot find a reliable match, it says so clearly. READ AND CAPTURE • Read PDF and EPUB books with adjustable themes, typography, layout, and reading settings. • Highlight while you read and keep each note with its book. • Capture quotes from printed books with on-device OCR. • Scan a barcode to fill in a paper book's title, author, and cover. • Add comments, tags, and voice notes alongside what you read. FIND YOUR WAY BACK Search inside a book and your own notes appear first, next to the book's own sentences. Search quotes, comments, tags, and transcripts across your whole library, or find a note straight from iPhone search. Ask your notes a question and the answer is built only from them — and always shown with the notes it came from. Writing the answer needs Apple Intelligence; without it, MargiNotes still finds the notes closest to your question. YOUR NOTES, PORTABLE Create shareable quote cards, follow your reading with simple statistics and widgets, and export to Markdown, PDF, or an Obsidian vault where every note keeps its links. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account • No ads • No analytics • No cloud AI — text recognition, transcription, and answers run on your device • Sync only through your own iCloud The app never goes online by itself. The one exception is the barcode lookup you start yourself, which sends only the ISBN — and you can switch it off. Your books stay yours. MargiNotes is built to help you remember not only what you saved, but where it came from.