DiscernApp vs Readiary Reading Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DiscernApp
Discover your next favorite book and connect with friends over literature. This app lets you see what your friends are reading, share discussions, and receive personalized reading suggestions. It also supports local bookstores.
- Track friends' reading habits
- Discuss favorite books
- Get personalized recommendations
- Support local bookstores
- Discover new reads
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Support local bookstores and discover your next great read! Discern is an app that helps you keep track of what your friends are reading, discuss your favorite books, and get personalized recommendations on what you should read next.
Readiary Reading Journal
Track your reading progress, save favorite quotes, and record memories associated with books. Set reading goals and generate a yearly review of your reading habits. Connect with friends to share recommendations and discuss titles.
- Add books via barcode scan or search
- Track reading progress and set goals
- Save and share book quotes
- Attach memories to book entries
- Generate Year in Review reports
- Connect with friends for recommendations
- Import libraries from Goodreads/StoryGraph
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Readiary is where your reading life lives — not just what you finished, but what it left with you. KEEP YOUR BOOKS Scan a barcode or search by title to add a book in seconds. Track what you're reading, what you've finished, what you want next, and what you set down. Set a page and watch the progress fill. KEEP THE LINES Photograph a passage and Readiary lifts the text off the page. Every quote you save collects in your Quote Book, ready to share as a card. KEEP THE MEMORY A book isn't only its pages — it's where you were when you read it. Attach a memory to any title and it stays there. SEE THE YEAR Reading goals, session logs, and a Year in Review that turns twelve months of reading into something worth looking at. READ WITH PEOPLE Add friends, recommend books, and talk about a title in a thread of its own. COMING FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE Bring your library over from Goodreads or StoryGraph with a CSV. Covers fill in automatically. READIARY PLUS Everything above is free and stays free. Plus adds unlimited photo quotes, Year in Review every year, advanced reading stats, unlimited lists, and a founding member badge. Monthly or yearly, cancel any time in your App Store account. Readiary Plus is an auto-renewing subscription, offered monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getreadiary.com/privacy Designed and built by Musawir Raji — forgedbyraji.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Readiary Reading Journal at 100% against DiscernApp's 0%. Readiary Reading Journal also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). DiscernApp's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Readiary Reading Journal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Readiary Reading Journal has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of DiscernApp's written reviews are positive against 100% of Readiary Reading Journal's.
DiscernApp ships an update every 4 weeks, Readiary Reading Journal fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DiscernApp | Readiary Reading Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jennelle Nystrom | Rachael Fleharty-Strevig |
Customer experience
DiscernApp
Readiary Reading Journal
In-app purchases
DiscernApp
No in-app purchases
Readiary Reading Journal
No in-app purchases
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