Comparison

Booktime vs Smoulder

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

Head to head
About

Booktime

Explore thousands of beautifully illustrated fiction and non-fiction books for children. This app brings stories to life with imaginative audiovisual storytelling, stunning illustrations, and high-resolution photography, all completely free.

Highlights
  • Beautiful illustrations
  • Fiction and non-fiction books
  • Audiovisual storytelling
  • High-resolution photography
  • Classic titles
  • Offline reading and listening
Currently charting
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Thousands of beautifully illustrated fiction and non-fiction books for children! Booktime brings fact and fiction to life through imaginative audiovisual storytelling, beautiful illustrations, and high-resolution photography. All completely free! ---------------------------------- With Booktime you get: • Beautiful illustrations • Fiction books including classic bedtime stories • Nonfiction books about animals, vehicles, places, and more • Content for children and young readers • Classic titles such as Little Red Riding Hood and Aladdin • High quality narrations • Offline reading and listening A book for everyone • Relax with a bedtime story or spark your curiosity with astonishing facts about the natural world and human achievements. Exciting illustrations • Each book includes beautiful and unique illustrations or high-resolution photos. A beautiful and immersive experience • Bold visual designs and optional audio narrations make every story easily accessible and highly interactive. ---------------------------------- Download Booktime to access a world of creative and visual storytelling. If you’re enjoying Booktime, please leave a review to help spread the word. We also love feedback! If you have any suggestions or see something we don’t have, feel free to email booktime@booktime.org.

About

Smoulder

This app is a reading journal designed for romance readers. It allows users to log finished books with details like ratings, tropes, and memorable quotes. Users can also track characters, manage series, and discover their next read.

Highlights
  • Reading journal for romance readers
  • Log books with ratings, tropes, and quotes
  • Track book characters and archetypes
  • Manage and sort book series
  • Discover next reads with a card draw
  • Import Goodreads data
  • Home screen widget for current reads
Features
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Smoulder is a reading journal for romance readers. Finishing a book should feel like something. In Smoulder it does: close a book and you get a ceremony, then a reading receipt — a card with the cover, your rating, the tropes, and the line you kept. Save it, share it, or keep it to yourself. Every receipt you have ever been given is kept. THE SHELF Finished books stand on shelves by year, as covers, with your rating under each spine. A year of reading you can actually see. LOGGING BUILT FOR ROMANCE Rate in stars and log the spice. Tag the tropes that got you — enemies to lovers, only one bed, fated mates, touch her and die. Note how it left you: in tears, in a puddle of fluff, or both. Keep the lines worth keeping. THE ROSTER A card for every character you would risk it all for. Add his photo from your own library, his archetype, who you would cast, and the line that did it. Numbered, collected, yours. SERIES, SORTED Smoulder knows which book comes next. Start a series and it tells you what to pick up, so you never lose your place halfway through a trilogy again. THE DRAW Cannot choose? Let the cards choose. A tarot-style draw picks your next read from the books already on your shelf. GET YOUR BOOKS IN, FAST Search by title, or scan a paperback's barcode and watch the cover fill itself in. Bringing a library across? Import your Goodreads export in one go. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN A widget for whatever you are reading now: the cover, and how far in you are. Your library lives on your device. No account required.

Screenshots

Booktime4 screens
Smoulder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Booktime at 169 against Smoulder's 1. Booktime also leads on chart position (#187 vs unranked) and device support (4 vs 1). Smoulder's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Smoulder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Booktime has 169 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Booktime versus Smoulder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBooktimeSmoulder
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (169 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings169 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#187 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB4 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperHindawi FoundationCroftware LLC

In-app purchases

None

Booktime

No in-app purchases

None

Smoulder

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Booktime free?
Booktime is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Smoulder free?
Smoulder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Booktime or Smoulder?
Smoulder is rated higher. Booktime averages 4.7 out of 5 from 169 ratings, while Smoulder averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Booktime or Smoulder have ads?
Neither Booktime nor Smoulder shows ads.

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