Bookdot vs Comma Reading App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bookdot
Manage your personal library, track reading progress, and improve comprehension with notes and highlights. Set reading goals and visualize your growing collection. Ideal for building consistent reading habits.
- Easy book management
- Track reading progress
- Note taking and highlights
- Rate and review books
- Customizable themes
- iCloud sync
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Bookdot – Build Reading Habits Bookdot helps you nurture a flourishing reading habit, manage your personal library, and better retain what you read, whether it’s physical books or e-books. Tracking your reading progress with Bookdot is simple, motivating, and fun. Set personalized goals, explore insightful statistics, and capture key takeaways with notes and highlights to remember what you’ve read. Grow your personal “Bookdot” by adding books to your virtual shelf, fostering your reading habit with daily goals, and watching as your library branches out with each completed book. Features: • Easy Book Management: Quickly add books through search and seamlessly organize your library, whether it’s physical or digital. • Track Your Progress: Log your reading time with the built-in timer and track the number of pages you read in each session. • iCloud Sync: Keep your data safe and accessible across all your devices with iCloud synchronization. • Note Taking & Highlights: Capture your favorite quotes and insights by writing notes and highlighting passages in your personalized reading journal. • Rate and Review: Reflect on your reading experience by leaving ratings and reviews after finishing a book. • Customize Your Experience: Personalize the app with unique themes that match your reading style and preferences. Bookdot is designed for readers who are passionate about growing their love for books while tracking their progress in an engaging, insightful way. As you continue reading and expanding your knowledge, watch your Bookdot thrive. Stay tuned for more exciting features on the horizon! For customer support, contact: trilliwon.work@gmail.com Terms & Conditions at https://trilliwon.com/apps/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy at https://trilliwon.com/apps/privacy-policy
Comma Reading App
This app offers a minimalist and private reading experience for EPUB and PDF files. It uses on-device AI for intelligent organization, chapter summaries, and text explanations, transforming your digital library into a beautiful, distraction-free collection.
- On-device AI for organization and summaries
- Automatic book categorization
- Chapter summaries and text explanations
- Full-screen distraction-free reader
- Customizable reading experience
- Privacy-focused, no data collection
- Import EPUB and PDF files
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A beautiful home for your EPUBs & PDFs. Lifelike read-aloud voices, smart organisation, highlights & excerpts. All private, all on-device. Sync with Pro. Comma is a minimalist EPUB and PDF reader for people who value simplicity, privacy, and focus. Built with Apple's latest technologies, it turns your digital library into a beautiful, organised collection while staying out of the way when you read. Library - Import EPUB and PDF files with ease - Add free, public-domain books from Standard Ebooks, built right in - Smart categorisation and custom categories - Search by title or author - Immersive Library Explorer for browsing and discovery - Home Screen widget for the books you're reading Apple Intelligence - Automatic book categorisation - Chapter summaries for quick understanding - All processing happens on-device for complete privacy Reading - Clean, distraction-free reading experience - Multiple themes, fonts, and layout options - Paginated or scrolling reading modes - Automatic position saving - Highlights, notes, and full-text search - Save memorable passages to the Excerpts Wall - "More Info" sheet with cover, description, publisher, and page count Listen (Read Aloud) - Natural, expressive neural voices that run entirely on-device Six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish - Over 25 voices with previews, plus built-in system voices - Adjustable speed, and listening continues in the background Comma Pro (One-Time Purchase) - iCloud Sync across your Apple devices - Sync library, reading progress, highlights, notes, and excerpts - Offload books to save storage while keeping your reading data More Features - Long-press any cover for quick actions - Per-book reading preferences - Adaptive reading controls - Reading progress tracking - Duplicate detection - Optimised for iPhone and iPad Privacy First - No ads. No tracking. No accounts. Your library stays yours. Apple Intelligence features require iOS 18.2 or later and a supported device (iPhone 15 Pro or newer, or iPad with M1 chip or later). Unsupported devices use smart fallback categorisation while keeping full reading functionality. Neural Read Aloud voices download separately and require a recent device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bookdot at 95% against Comma Reading App's 0%. Bookdot also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (18 vs 26.0). Comma Reading App's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). 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. Bookdot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Comma Reading App sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bookdot ships an update weekly, Comma Reading App every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and August 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bookdot | Comma Reading App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (64 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 94.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TRILLIWON, Co. | Saleh Kayyali |
Customer experience
Bookdot
Comma Reading App
Bugs and requests
Bookdot
Reported bugs
9 issues- Book covers overlap on the calendar view when multiple books are read on the same day
- Unable to change the read date after entry
- ISBN scanning frequently fails, requiring manual entry
- Search page lacks a back button, forcing app exit
- Notes not syncing to Notion (reported by multiple users)
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- Page editing errors
- New books added go into 'will read' and are inaccessible
- Books on reading list go blank when tapped
- Small keyboard bug sometimes
Requested features
14 requests- Allow half-star ratings
- Add functionality to log re-reads of the same book
- Improve sorting options for completed books (by rating or date)
- Display multiple book covers clearly when more than two are read on the same day
- Provide a guide for Notion integration
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- Add iCloud sync functionality
- Support for audiobook logging
- Ability to customize lists into categories
- Mac sync functionality
- Store quotes within book entries
- Add a back button to the search page
- Improve ISBN scanning accuracy
- Allow editing of read dates
- Add more themes or make them discoverable
Comma Reading App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bookdot
- Bookdot Plus - Monthly$1.991 Month
- Bookdot Plus - Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Bookdot Pro$9.99
Comma Reading App
- Comma Pro$2.99
Questions
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