Comparison

Bookshelf vs Readpick

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bookshelf

Organize your entire reading life, tracking physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks. Set reading goals, log sessions, save quotes, and visualize your progress with detailed statistics and a reading habits heat map. Discover new books and connect with friends.

Highlights
  • Smart book organization with custom shelves
  • Reading timer and session tracking
  • Save quotes and notes with OCR
  • Flexible reading goals and progress tracking
  • Detailed statistics and insights
  • Reading habits heat map
  • Monthly and yearly recaps
  • Purchase and borrowing logs
Features
Currently charting
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The best reading tracker for physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks. Whether you're managing your TBR pile, tracking a BookTok recommendation, or building a reading habit - Bookshelf is the book journal, reading log, and library organizer you've been looking for. Switching from Goodreads or StoryGraph? Import your entire library in minutes. SMART BOOK ORGANIZATION Organize your books into Reading, To Read, Wishlist, Finished, and Abandoned shelves - or create unlimited custom shelves with your own icons and colors. Drag and drop books between shelves. Tag books with custom color-coded labels for easy filtering. Sort by title, author, rating, date added, start date, finish date, last read, pages, publication date, and more. Track series, editions, and co-authors. Add books by searching or by scanning ISBN barcodes - even in bulk scan mode. MULTIPLE VIEWS, YOUR WAY See your library the way you love it: a cozy 3D bookcase view, a flexible grid with adjustable cover size and spacing, or a detailed list. Customize progress indicators, goal badges, and shelf appearance down to the smallest detail. READING TIMER & SESSION TRACKING Start the built-in reading timer whenever you pick up a book. Use the stopwatch for open-ended sessions or set a countdown alarm for timed reading. Log pages read, reading percentage, and session duration. Track audiobooks with chapter-level, minute-precise listening sessions. Re-reading a favorite? Track multiple readings per book. Quick-start a session right from your home screen widget. QUOTES, NOTES & REVIEWS Save your favorite quotes by typing or scanning straight from the page with OCR text recognition. Attach photos to your notes for a richer book journal. Write reviews and rate every book you finish. FLEXIBLE READING GOALS Set goals for pages, reading time, or number of books across any date range - daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or anything in between. Pin your most important goals, show visual badges on book covers, and celebrate completions with animated confetti. DEEP STATS & INSIGHTS Explore your reading like never before: reading pace and velocity, rating trends, abandoned-book rate, genre and author distribution charts, a reading-pattern clock showing when you read best, milestones, history, and year-over-year comparisons. Unlock tiered achievements as your library grows. MONTHLY & YEARLY RECAPS Beautiful monthly summaries and full yearly recaps - your longest and shortest books, five-star reads, first and last finishes, top quotes, genre breakdowns, streaks, and month-by-month highlights. Like Spotify Wrapped, but for your reading life. Export and share as an image or PDF. PURCHASE LOGS Track purchases, borrowed books, and lending history. Set return-date reminders so you never forget to return - or get back - a book. Log price, location, and personal notes. READING FEED Follow friends and explore their shelves, reviews, and stats. Stay inspired with a feed of reading activity from people you follow and the global community. Control exactly what's visible on your public profile. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Keep your reading front and center with customizable home screen widgets for your current reads and reading timer. 18 STUNNING THEMES Choose from themes like Nordic, Forest, Cyberpunk, Lavender, Pink, and more - each in light and dark. Decorate your shelves with 50+ adorable book nooks across 11 categories. Personalize shelf size, spacing, progress indicators, and your profile widget layout. EASY IMPORT Import from Goodreads or StoryGraph with a CSV file, or scan your physical books with the built-in barcode scanner. Sync your reading across devices, with Kobo e-reader sync supported. Build your shelves. Set your goals. Track your reading streak. Fall in love with reading again. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Readpick

Features
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You already own the books. You just can't decide which one. Readpick does one thing: it names the single book you should read next, from the books already on your shelf. Two taps — how long you have, how much focus you have left — and it picks one and tells you why it fits right now. It never shows you a list. A list is the problem. WHAT IT DOES - Picks exactly one book from your own shelf - Says in one line why that book fits this moment - Gives you a small first step, so starting feels easy - Keeps your shelf and your picks on this iPhone — no account, no upload WHAT IT DOESN'T DO - No reading logs, no streaks, no reviews, no social feed - Never recommends books to buy. Your pile is long enough - No account, no sign-up PRIVATE BY DESIGN The choosing happens on your iPhone using Apple's on-device intelligence. Your shelf, your reading, and your reasons never leave the device. Book covers and genres are looked up from Apple Books when you add a title — nothing about you is sent with that lookup. READPICK PRO Free gives you one pick a day and an unlimited shelf. Pro removes the daily limit, lets you tune time and focus precisely, and shows how long each book has been waiting. ——— Readpick Pro Monthly: $2.99 · Yearly: $14.99 Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in Settings. Terms of Use: https://qtarou11111.github.io/readpick-web/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://qtarou11111.github.io/readpick-web/privacy.html

Screenshots

Bookshelf4 screens
Readpick4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Bookshelf at #147 against Readpick's unranked. Bookshelf also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bookshelf sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Readpick sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Bookshelf versus Readpick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookshelfReadpick
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (37 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings37 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
Best chart rank#147 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size171 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTiago AlmeidaRyutaro Nakano

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Bookshelf

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Features$2.991 Month
  • Premium Features$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime (promo)$99.99
  • Lifetime$199.99
2 purchases

Readpick

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Bookshelf free?
Bookshelf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Readpick free?
Readpick is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bookshelf or Readpick have ads?
Neither Bookshelf nor Readpick shows ads.

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