Comparison

BooksRUs vs Simple Book Manager

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

Head to head
About

BooksRUs

Organize your personal book collection with this app. Easily catalog books by taking photos, recording details like author and genre, and tracking lending status. Quickly find any title with fast search and synchronization across your Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Catalog books with cover photos
  • Track title, author, genre, and condition
  • Manage lending status
  • Search library quickly
  • Synchronize across Apple devices
  • Import/export library data
  • Duplicate book records
Features
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BooksRUs is your personal library, beautifully organized. Catalog every book you own, remember who borrowed what, and find any title in seconds, all on your iPhone and iPad. SNAP IT, SAVE IT Take a cover photo with your camera and add up to four photos per book. Front cover, back cover, spine, or that signed title page: keep them all. TRACK WHAT MATTERS Record the details that make your collection yours: • Title, author, and genre • Condition and shelf location • Lending status, so you never lose a book to a friend again • Your own star rating and written review • What you paid for it FIND ANYTHING, FAST Search across all your fields at once: title, author, genre, location, and more. Drag along the A–Z index scrubber to leap to any letter in a long list, just like Contacts. BUILT FOR iOS 27 BooksRUs uses a modern Liquid Glass design. On iPad, see your list and book details side by side. On iPhone, it collapses into a clean, simple flow. SIRI AND SHORTCUTS Say the word and add a new book, or open the app, using Siri or the Shortcuts app. Your hands stay free for holding the book. USE iCloud to SYNCHRONIZE WITH ALL DEVICES The app synchronizes all data across all iOS, iPadOS devices that have the same Apple ID User signed into iCloud. IMPORT AND EXPORT YOUR LIBRARY Moving from a spreadsheet? Import your collection from a CSV file. Want a backup, or a copy for Excel or Numbers? Export your entire library (except photos) to CSV any time. Imports are verified with checksums, and each import is tracked as a batch, so you can undo an import cleanly if something looks wrong. For modern backup and restore, use the backup to JSON file format and restore from JSON file format from any disk location your Apple ID has permissions to read/write. DUPLICATE WITH ONE TAP Own several editions or a series with similar details? Duplicate a record and edit only what differs. BUILT-IN HELP A full help section with illustrated topics explains every feature, so you can get started quickly. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR DATA Your books are stored on your device with Apple's SwiftData. There are no accounts to create and no ads. Whether you have fifty books or five thousand, BooksRUs keeps your shelves in order.

About

Simple Book Manager

Features
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"Do I already own this book?" Have you ever had that experience in a bookstore? With this app, you can log the books you own and search for them by title or author's name, so you can quickly check if you already have a book. The app is simple overall, so adding books is easy. There is also a favorites feature, so you can favorite books you want to read again and easily find them. Some features of this app are available via subscription. By subscribing, you can use the following features: ・Unlimited registration of book covers ・AI auto-input feature ・Unlimited registration of books ・No ads Monthly Subscription Monthly: $2.99 Annual Subscription Yearly: $29.99 Terms of Use https://www.sparkleand.store/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy https://www.sparkleand.store/vr-privacy-policy

Screenshots

BooksRUs4 screens
Simple Book Manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BooksRUs at none against Simple Book Manager's 2. BooksRUs also leads on ads (none vs shown). Simple Book Manager's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 27.0). On price, update cadence and device support 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. Simple Book Manager sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. BooksRUs asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BooksRUs ships an update every 3 months, Simple Book Manager every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
BooksRUs versus Simple Book Manager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBooksRUsSimple Book Manager
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS27.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohn GrauelSPARKLE AND, K.K.

In-app purchases

None

BooksRUs

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Simple Book Manager

Subscriptions2
  • MonthlySubscription$2.991 Month
  • annual subscription$29.991 Year

Questions

Is BooksRUs free?
BooksRUs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simple Book Manager free?
Simple Book Manager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BooksRUs or Simple Book Manager have ads?
Simple Book Manager shows ads; BooksRUs does not.
Which is updated more often, BooksRUs or Simple Book Manager?
BooksRUs ships an update every 3 months, and Simple Book Manager every 2 months. Most recently, BooksRUs was updated on November 4, 2026 and Simple Book Manager on October 30, 2026.

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