Readwise Books vs BookWorm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Readwise Books
This app allows you to buy, read, and track all your books in one place. It automatically logs your reading sessions and provides detailed metrics to help you improve. Share your reading progress with friends in a low-pressure social feed.
- Unified book library
- Automatic reading session logging
- Detailed reading metrics
- Print book tracking
- Highlighting and note-taking
- Optional social feed
- EPUB audiobook playback
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Readwise Books is invite-only for now. You'll need an invite code from a friend to create an account. (If you're an existing Readwise subscriber, you already have early access.) A reading app unlike any other. Buy, read, and track all your books in one beautiful place. ONE PLACE FOR EVERY BOOK Read the ebooks you buy or upload. Track the rest, whether print, audio, or ebooks from elsewhere. Import your shelves from Goodreads and your Kindle library to start. THE STRAVA OF READING Every page flip is logged automatically, the way a pedometer counts steps. Pages roll up into reading sessions. Sessions roll up into weeks, months, and years. METRICS THAT MATTER Visualize rich reading data like words read, time read, pace, depth, immersion, and more. That which is measured is improved. EVERY BOOK COUNTS Reading on paper? Capture your starting and ending page, then save your session. Highlight print books with your camera. READING, ELEVATED Beautiful typography, light and dark modes, pagination or scroll, and best-in-class highlighting, notes, and tags. READING ALONE IS BETTER, TOGETHER Your sessions post to a light feed where friends can see that you're reading. No likes to chase, nothing to perform. More coffee shop than social network. And only if you want to. LISTEN, TOO Upload any DRM-free EPUB and listen with lifelike voices while the text follows along. READWISE ECOSYSTEM One account across Readwise Books, Reader, and Highlights. Every highlight syncs instantly. Terms of Use: https://readwise.io/books/terms-of-service
BookWorm
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BookWorm is your personal reading companion: a beautiful, private home for every book you read, own or want to read. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY • Add books in seconds: search online, scan the ISBN barcode with the camera, or enter them by hand • Covers, authors, publishers, genres, series and sagas, with the edition's year and the year of first publication • Organize with collections, or let smart collections fill themselves from rules you define • Import your library from Goodreads or Book Tracker, and export it to CSV at any time TRACK YOUR READING • Log reading sessions with a timer or by hand, by page or by percentage, with a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Keep your current page, notes, ratings and reviews for every book • Set reading goals and follow your streak • Re-read a book and keep every reading in its history SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE • Statistics and charts: books per month, pages, reading time, genres and more • A reading diary and a calendar of the covers you finished • Achievements, levels and badges to keep you motivated MAKE IT YOURS • Widgets for your Home Screen and controls for Control Center • Reader Cards: beautiful, shareable cards for the books you love • Light and dark appearance, with the accent color you prefer PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no tracking • Your data stays on your device and syncs through your own iCloud • Back up and restore your whole library whenever you want FREE TO START, YOURS FOR GOOD Start free: build your first shelf, with a custom collection and a smart collection, and every essential tool for tracking your reading. When your library grows, a single one-time purchase unlocks BookWorm Premium forever: no subscription, no renewals. It lifts the limits and adds advanced statistics, achievements, widgets, Reader Cards and cover maintenance tools.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BookWorm at daily against Readwise Books's every 4 days. Readwise Books's advantage is chart position (#31 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Readwise Books sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $44.99 per year and BookWorm sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Readwise Books ships an update every 4 days, BookWorm daily. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Readwise Books | BookWorm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (187 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 97.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 187 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | #31 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Readwise, Inc | Biagio Paolino |
In-app purchases
Readwise Books
- Books Membership$44.991 Year
BookWorm
- BookWorm Premium Lifetime$12.99









