Reading Tracker vs Slowburn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Slowburn
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Some books ruin you. This is where you keep them. Slowburn is a reading journal built for romance readers, and for everything a five-star rating cannot hold. It records what a book did to you while you were still inside it, not just whether you finished. THE BURN One dial. Five levels, Cooling up to Ruined. Tap the one that matches how badly the book has you, whenever you pick it up. Slowburn keeps every reading and draws the curve: the slow build, the chapter that ruined you, the cooling after. When you finish, the curve is named. Slow burn, wildfire, flicker, steady, cooled. It becomes a card you can keep or share, and the card carries the shape. Never a word you wrote. A SHELF THAT LOOKS LIKE A SHELF Every book stands spine-out on a shelf that fills as you read, each one bound from its own cover. Ribbons hang from the books you are inside, tinted from wine to flame by the latest Burn. Covers and List views are there when you want the analytical face of the same library. THE JOURNAL, IN YOUR WORDS Status, rating, spice, tropes, moods, the line you keep, the private note nobody else reads. Thirty-eight romance tropes and an Other for the ones there is no word for yet. A spice scale with its own vocabulary. DNF with a cause of death. Content notes: what you noticed was in a book, private, in your own words. Progress is a page or a percent. Not a timer. Not a streak. YOUR READING, READ BACK TO YOU Your mood profile, your trope profile, and the spice gap between what you say you want and what you actually finish. Reading Identity reads ten insights off your journal, each a plain function of what you logged, each saying how many books it rests on. No generative AI writes your Reading Identity. No personality test. The Monthly Post-Mortem is a dossier rather than a dashboard: the body count, your type, the one that ruined you, the disappointment. Each section appears only when your month can support it. A FEW PEOPLE YOU CHOSE Circle is people you invited one at a time. No public profiles, no followers, no feed. A handle separate from your journal, and only what you hand over. Buddy Reads are one person, one book, two positions, with notes sealed at the page you leave them until the other reader gets there. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your journal is a database on your phone. There is no sign-up and no account to make. Your library is not synced anywhere and the company cannot read it. What leaves is what you deliberately hand over, and your book searches, which go to Open Library to find the book. Everything exports as one file, or your books as a spreadsheet, whenever you want it. Bring a Goodreads or StoryGraph export and Slowburn reads it on your phone. FREE AND PREMIUM Slowburn has a free journal tier with shelf, rating, spice, tropes, moods, notes, the Burn, stats, Circle, Buddy Reads, and every privacy feature. Premium is the deeper reading: the full Reading Identity rather than one insight, Compare, the whole Monthly Post-Mortem, the premium card families, and a vote on what gets built next. $29.99 a year or $4.99 a month, with fourteen days free on the annual plan. Nothing about privacy or safety is behind the paywall. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Slowburn Premium is an auto-renewing subscription: Slowburn Premium Annual at $29.99 a year with a fourteen day free trial, or Slowburn Premium Monthly at $4.99 a month. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews at the same price unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in your App Store settings at any time. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Our terms: https://myslowburn.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Reading Tracker at 3 against Slowburn's 1. Slowburn's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 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
Both are free to download. Reading Tracker sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Slowburn sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Reading Tracker | Slowburn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (284 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 89.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 284 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 372 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Mario Luis Gutierrez Abed | Rolf Eriksen |
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
Slowburn
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Reading Tracker
- Full Premium Access3 Days trial$1.997 Days
- Full Premium Access2 variants$3.991 Month
- Full Premium Access$4.997 Days
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- Full Premium Access$5.991 Month
- Full Premium Access$19.996 Months
- Full Premium Access7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- All Access$24.991 Year
- Small Coffee$1.99
- Medium Coffee$3.99
- Large Coffee$7.99
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- Lifetime Bookworm access$9.99
- Lifetime Premium access$49.99
- Lifetime Premium access$69.99
- Lifetime Premium access$199.99
Slowburn
- Slowburn Premium$4.991 Month
- Slowburn Premium14 Days trial$29.991 Year
Questions
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