Comparison

Reading Tracker vs Daily Canon

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

Head to head
About

Reading Tracker

This app helps book lovers organize their reading life. Track books you want to read, are currently reading, or have finished. Add notes, set goals, and view statistics on your reading habits.

Highlights
  • Organize books into TBR, In Progress, Completed, Abandoned lists
  • Add notes, custom ratings, and tags
  • Set and track reading goals
  • Detailed reading statistics
  • Sync across devices with iCloud
Features
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ReadTracker is the ultimate tool for avid readers to organize, track, and enhance their reading experience. Whether you’re managing your to-be-read (TBR) list, keeping up with in-progress books, or reflecting on completed ones, ReadTracker helps you stay on top of it all. Add notes, set reading goals, categorize books with tags, and enjoy powerful statistics to visualize your progress over time. Key Features: • Organize books into TBR, In Progress, Completed, and Abandoned lists • Add personal notes, custom ratings (half-stars and emojis supported!), and tags to books • Set and track reading goals • Detailed statistics on pages read, time spent, and more (even more statistics on Pro version) • Seamless sync across devices with iCloud (Premium feature) Stay motivated, stay organized, and make every reading session count with ReadTracker. Link to standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Daily Canon

Discover classic literature with a curated selection of one novel, poem, play, or essay each day. Enjoy beautifully designed backgrounds, atmospheric soundscapes, and interactive reading guides to enhance your literary journey. The app also includes features to help you focus and build your personal reading canon.

Highlights
  • Daily curated literary works
  • Immersive atmospheric soundscapes
  • Interactive reading guides
  • Personalized reading paths
  • App blocker for focused reading
  • AI-powered reader for recommendations
  • Offline reading capabilities
Features
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Not a reading list you will never finish, and not a feed. One novel, poem, play or essay each morning, with a short piece written to make you want to read it, and the whole book waiting behind it if it takes. Some days it will not be for you. That is the point: keep your line in the water and one of them bites, and you have found a book you will press on everyone you meet. Hamlet on Shakespeare's birthday. Ulysses on Bloomsday. Dracula through October. Wuthering Heights on Valentine's Day, because love should always be a little unhinged. Thousands of works, four thousand years of writing, reaching well past the Western shelf to Diwali, Nowruz, Vesak and the lunar new year. TODAY'S WORK The day's work on a background painted by hand for that book alone: a blurb that sets the scene without spoiling it, a line worth keeping, and the gist in plain words for when the blurb leaves you guessing. THE LIBRARY Complete books, properly typeset and read inside the app, with more shelved every week: real page turns, hold a word for the dictionary, your place kept to the word. Download any and read with no signal at all. Many carry their original language beside the translation, switchable mid-chapter: Anna Karenina in Russian, Dante in Italian, the Odyssey in Greek. AMBIENCE Every book gets the weather it was written in. A storm for King Lear, the open sea for Moby-Dick, a fire and rain outside for a Russian winter. Rain, thunder, wind, fire, birds, a reading room after midnight: mix them yourself or leave it to the book. Nothing streams, and it plays on with the screen locked. THE APP BLOCKER Name the apps that eat your evening and The Daily Canon stands at the door. Open one and today's reading is offered first, with an honest fifteen minutes through if you really must. No guilt, no lecture. The feed will keep. BLOOMY A reader who has read the canon and, more usefully, your log. Ask what to read next, or what a passage is doing, or who else wrote like this. It answers in sentences, not links, and will shelve, log and rank things for you once you say yes. WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Put a book down three months ago? Say where you stopped and get back everything up to that point and not one word past it. READING GUIDES Warm, plain-spoken companions to the books that have beaten you before: Ulysses, Moby-Dick, Paradise Lost. READING PATHS Curated routes through the canon. The Russian Soul, through Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov. The American Century. Books That Were Banned. Required Reading, every set text the syllabuses share. READ-ALONGS Live inside one book for a while, alongside everyone who signed up. A chapter of Dracula a day to Halloween. YOUR GOAL One book, a little each day, logged by holding a button. A streak underneath it, a forecast for the finish, and a shelf of everything you have seen through. MY CANON Your own ranked canon, built by asking which of two books you liked more. Every ranking is a self-portrait. YOUR LIST AND YOUR LOG Shelves for what you intend to read, and a log of what you actually did. We keep both, and are far too polite to compare them. IT WORKS WITHOUT A SIGNAL Today's work, your log, your streak and every downloaded book live on your phone. Tomorrow turns over at midnight whether or not there is a signal to fetch it. ALSO INCLUDES The Commonplace Book, for every line you keep. Hundreds of authors with a page of their own. The world's literature, mapped. A literary word a day. What happened in literary history today, and the thought Tolstoy chose for it. Ten reading languages. Home and Lock Screen widgets. A reading timer in the Dynamic Island. Streaks, tiers and laurels. Your reading portrait, drawn from what you read. The Colophon, your year in reading, sealed and dated. Goodreads import. Spotlight search. Share cards. The Antipodes, a dare to the far side of your taste.

Screenshots

Reading Tracker4 screens
Daily Canon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Daily Canon at every 3 days against Reading Tracker's every 8 days. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Reading Tracker sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Daily Canon sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Reading Tracker against 4.7 for Daily Canon. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 285 and 253 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Reading Tracker's written reviews are positive against 90% of Daily Canon's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reading Tracker ships an update every 8 days, Daily Canon every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Reading Tracker versus Daily Canon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReading TrackerDaily Canon
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (285 ratings) — better4.7 (253 ratings)
Positive reviews89.1% of reviews90.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings285 — better253
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size372 MB667 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMario Luis Gutierrez AbedHENRY NICHOLAS WALL

Customer experience

Reading Tracker

All ratings284 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews92 reviews
Positive89.1%
Neutral5.4%
Negative5.4%

Daily Canon

All ratings245 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.0%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive90.3%
Neutral4.8%
Negative4.8%

Bugs and requests

Reading Tracker

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Issues with saving book details after editing
  • Problems with changing or deleting tags

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to add and track ARCs
  • Support for reading ebooks and audiobooks directly in the app
  • Annotation and highlighting features for ebooks
  • Batch editing of book formats (ebook, physical, audiobook)
  • Apple Watch app

Daily Canon

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Reading Tracker

Subscriptions6
  • Full Premium Access3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Full Premium Access2 variants$3.991 Month
  • Full Premium Access$4.997 Days
Show 3 more
  • Full Premium Access$5.991 Month
  • Full Premium Access7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • All Access$24.991 Year
One-time3
  • Large Coffee$7.99
  • Lifetime Premium access$49.99
  • Lifetime Premium access$69.99
6 purchases

Daily Canon

Subscriptions2
  • Daily Canon Premium$7.991 Month
  • Daily Canon Premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time4
  • One book from the library$1.99
  • Gift: One Year of Folio$29.99
  • Gift: Folio for Life$119.99
Show 1 more
  • Folio Lifetime$119.99

Questions

Is Reading Tracker free?
Reading Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daily Canon free?
Daily Canon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Reading Tracker or Daily Canon?
Reading Tracker is rated higher. Reading Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 285 ratings, while Daily Canon averages 4.7 from 253 ratings.
Do Reading Tracker or Daily Canon have ads?
Neither Reading Tracker nor Daily Canon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reading Tracker or Daily Canon?
Reading Tracker ships an update every 8 days, and Daily Canon every 3 days. Most recently, Reading Tracker was updated on November 4, 2026 and Daily Canon on November 5, 2026.

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