Duckreads vs Bookmarked
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.
Bookmarked
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Bookmarked — your personal library of books you've read. Read a lot, but six months later can't remember what a book was about? Jot down short notes, and the story comes back in seconds. • Books grouped by author, quick search and an alphabet index • A note, date read and star rating for every book • Want to Read — friends' recommendations and finds, with Up Next on top • Add books from a cover photo or by sharing from Safari and Telegram • New releases from your favorite authors (optional) • Syncs through your own iCloud — your books move with you to a new iPhone • Back up to a file and restore from it No ads, no sign-up, nothing extra — just your books and your thoughts about them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bookmarked at 5.0 against Duckreads's 4.0. Bookmarked also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Duckreads's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bookmarked holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Duckreads ships an update weekly, Bookmarked every 5 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Duckreads | Bookmarked |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dmitry Ivashina | Urban Andrei Ivanovich, IP |
Customer experience
Duckreads
Bookmarked
In-app purchases
Duckreads
No in-app purchases
Bookmarked
No in-app purchases
