Now Reading vs Readgio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Now Reading
Track your current reads, archive finished books, and organize your future reading list. This app offers beautiful book cover displays and allows you to share your reading progress with friends.
- Track current reads
- Archive read books
- Organize to-read list
- Display original book covers
- Share reading progress
- Widget support
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Introducing Now Reading - a simple yet crafted book journal app. You can add what you're reading, archive what you already have read, and books you'd like to read in the future. This app displays the original book cover (direct attachment needed) or with the custom designed beautiful original book covers. Share what you read with your friends by swiping through books you logged or through the widget.
Readgio
This app allows you to read your EPUB and PDF files, tracking your reading progress, time, and speed automatically. Save meaningful passages, adjust text for PDFs, and sync your data across devices. It also supports manual logging for physical books.
- EPUB and PDF reading
- Automatic reading progress tracking
- Estimated chapter time
- Adjustable PDF text size
- Highlight and save quotes
- Manual logging for physical books
- iCloud sync
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Read your own EPUB and PDF books in Readgio. See whether you have time for another chapter, save meaningful passages and track your progress without keeping a manual log. • One more chapter? See an estimate of the minutes left in your EPUB chapter, based on your reading pace. • PDFs without the tiny print. Reader Mode adapts the text to your screen and lets you adjust the font size. The original page layout is always available. • Statistics that track themselves. Reading time, progress, speed and streaks — just read and see yourself getting closer to your goal. • Quotes you can find again. Highlight passages, search your saved quotes and revisit favourite ideas through reminders and a widget. • Paper books count too. Use the timer or log sessions manually to keep your whole reading history together. Read offline. Sync your progress, bookmarks and highlights between iPhone and iPad with iCloud. PDF Reader Mode is available for files with selectable text. Some features require Readgio Pro. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Now Reading at none against Readgio's 3. Now Reading also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Readgio's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 2) and iOS requirement (18.5 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Readgio sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Now Reading asks for nothing beyond the download.
Now Reading holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Now Reading's written reviews are positive against 93% of Readgio's.
Now Reading ships an update weekly, Readgio fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Now Reading | Readgio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.7 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 92.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Minsang choi | Anna Sadnova |
Customer experience
Now Reading
Readgio
In-app purchases
Now Reading
No in-app purchases
Readgio
- Pro: monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Pro: annual7 Days trial$13.991 Year
- Pro: lifetime$19.99









