Duckreads vs Bukon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Duckreads
Track your reading progress and build a personal library. Log pages read, rate books, and earn experience points. Save notes and reviews to keep all your reading history and thoughts in one organized place.
- Personal library building
- Reading progress logging
- Book rating system
- Experience point system
- Note and review saving
- Reading history consolidation
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An app for tracking books and reading progress. Build your personal library, log the pages you've read, rate books, and level up by earning experience for reading. Save notes and reviews. All your reading history and thoughts — in one place.
Bukon
Easily manage your reading lists. Track books you've read and those you want to read. Search online, scan ISBNs, or add manually, then rate and organize your collection.
- Track read books
- Track books to read
- Search and add books online
- Scan ISBN codes
- Manually create books
- Rate books
- Export lists
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Bukon lets you track and manage your books: • Track books you've read • Track books you want to read • Manage the two lists of books Bukon is an intentionally simple book tracker: No accounts. No social features. No statistics. No ads. Just the books you’ve read and the ones you want to read. What Bukon offers • Track books you’ve read • Track books you want to read • Search for books online and add them to your lists • Scan ISBN codes to add books even quicker to your lists (Pro-Feature) • Manually create books and add them to your lists • Rate books • Maintain a read date for the books you've read • Move books between lists • Search for books in your lists • Share books • Share lists and export lists to multiple formats • Store the lists on iCloud or locally • Have the two lists always with you on your Apple Watch What Bukon does not offer • No social features • No statistics or gamification • No ads or tracking To help you finding books, Bukon connects to Open Library and allows you to search its wide library of books. Book-information from Open Library like descriptions and cover-images can be used in Bukon.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bukon at 5.0 against Duckreads's 4.0. Bukon also leads on iOS requirement (18 vs 26.0). Duckreads's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Bukon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Duckreads asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bukon holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Duckreads ships an update weekly, Bukon every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Duckreads | Bukon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dmitry Ivashina | Marc Menges |
Customer experience
Duckreads
Bukon
In-app purchases
Duckreads
No in-app purchases
Bukon
- Bukon Pro$2.99









