Comparison

BookPine vs Read Tracker

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

Head to head
About

BookPine

Track your reading, set personalized goals, and gain insights into your habits. Organize your library with custom shelves, genres, and tags. Connect with friends through reading circles and share your progress.

Highlights
  • Log books and track reading progress
  • Set reading goals and challenges
  • Organize library with custom shelves and tags
  • Join or create reading circles with friends
  • Track book series and progress
  • Customize book covers
  • Home screen widgets for quick access
Read full description

BookPine is a book tracker for readers who like to keep a record of what they read. Log your books, set goals that fit your life, and see real stats about your reading habits. Note: BookPine is not an e-reader, so you can’t read books inside the app. READING CIRCLES Read a book together with friends or other readers. Start a circle from any book, make it public or private, and choose how long it runs. Members write posts, comment, vote in polls and log their progress as they go. You can hide a post until readers reach a certain point in the book, or until they finish it, so nobody gets spoiled. SERIES TRACKING BookPine builds your series list from the books on your shelves. Each series shows its books in order, how many you've read, and which one comes next. Reading a series in another language? Set the language for that series and your progress only counts the books published in it. You can also mark a series as paused or abandoned. CUSTOM COVERS Don't like the cover on your edition? Change it. Pick one from another edition, upload your own image, or grab one from any web page. Only you see your custom cover, and it shows up everywhere you see that book in the app. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Keep your books on your home screen. Pick a grid of covers, a shelf of spines lined up like a real bookshelf, or the book you are reading now with your progress on it. Choose which shelf each widget shows, how it is sorted and which colors it uses. From the Currently Reading widget you can start the reading timer or update your progress. CUSTOM GENRES AND TAGS Sort your library with your own genres and tags: comfort read, slow burn, signed copy, book club, five-star prediction, whatever fits how you read. They are private to you, and you can filter your whole library by them, so any book is easy to find again. READING STATS AND INSIGHTS Track pages, finished books and reading time, with charts for your streak, monthly progress and yearly trends. It's an easy way to see how much you read and what you actually finish. BOOK TRACKER, LISTS AND SHELVES Shelve books as Currently Reading, Want to Read, Read or Did Not Finish. Rate with half stars, write reviews, and make your own shelves and lists. Add a book in seconds by scanning its barcode or searching by title, author or ISBN. READING GOALS AND CHALLENGES Set yearly, monthly or custom goals by books, pages, minutes or authors. Streaks and milestones help you keep the habit going. IMPORT FROM GOODREADS, STORYGRAPH AND LIBRARYTHING Import your books, ratings, reviews and shelves in one go, so your reading history comes with you. TRY IT AS A GUEST Open the app and start tracking without an email address. Create an account later if you want to keep going. AMBIENT SOUNDS Play rain, a crackling fireplace, cafe noise and more while you read. SOCIAL Follow friends, share reviews and see what other people are reading, along with their goals, shelves and wishlists. SHAREABLE BOOK CARDS Turn your current read, a favorite quote, a review or a reading milestone into an image you can post or send to friends. TRANSACTION LOG Keep track of the books you borrow, lend, buy or give away. PRIVATE BOOKS Some reads are just for you. Private books never appear on your public profile. ALSO INCLUDED • Dark mode, plus dark gray, high contrast, true black and sepia themes • Available in 16 languages • Half-star ratings and tags for more detailed reviews Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Read Tracker

This app helps you read more by tracking your reading sessions without pressure or complicated goals. It offers clear insights into your progress, allows you to organize your reading life, and syncs data across devices with a calm, focused design. Your reading data remains private and under your control.

Highlights
  • Track reading time with stopwatch/timer
  • Log sessions, pause, and resume
  • View weekly, monthly, and yearly stats
  • Track streaks, total time, and days read
  • Organize books with ratings and notes
  • Sync data across devices via iCloud
  • Privacy-focused with no accounts or data collection
Features
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Read Tracker is a simple way to read more—one session at a time. Reading doesn’t need pressure, streak anxiety, or complicated goals. Read Tracker keeps the focus where it belongs: opening a book and spending time reading. Whether it’s five minutes or an hour, every session is captured and turned into clear, meaningful insight. Track your reading time Use stopwatch or timer modes to log every reading session. Pause and resume anytime. Go past your goal—tracking continues so nothing is lost. Add optional notes to capture thoughts or highlights. See your progress clearly A completely redesigned Stats experience gives you a deeper look at your reading: • View reading time across weeks, months, and years • Tap charts to explore the actual data behind your progress • Track streaks, total time, and days read • See books finished by month, year, or all time • Understand your patterns with averages and trends Sync across your devices Your reading data stays with you. With iCloud sync, your sessions, books, and progress automatically stay up to date across your devices. Organize your reading life Keep track of what you’re reading and what you’ve finished. Add ratings and notes, and revisit your reading history anytime. Everything stays clean, simple, and easy to navigate. Calm, focused design Read Tracker is designed to feel warm, simple, and intentional. A clean interface with soft, neutral tones keeps distractions out of the way so you can focus on reading. Privacy first No accounts. No tracking. No data collection. Your reading stays private and under your control. One-time purchase Pay once and own it forever. No subscriptions, no ads, no upsells.

Screenshots

BookPine4 screens
Read Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Read Tracker at 100% against BookPine's 33%. Read Tracker also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). BookPine's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On ads 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

BookPine is free to download; Read Tracker costs $2.99 up front. BookPine sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Read Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Read Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BookPine has 86 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of BookPine's written reviews are positive against 100% of Read Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BookPine ships an update weekly, Read Tracker every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
BookPine versus Read Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookPineRead Tracker
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.8 (86 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings86 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDevpri SRLApps For Pilots

Customer experience

BookPine

All ratings86 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral4.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral11.1%
Negative55.6%

Read Tracker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

BookPine

Subscriptions2
  • BookPine Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • BookPine Pro7 Days trial$49.991 Year
None

Read Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BookPine free?
BookPine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Read Tracker free?
Read Tracker costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BookPine or Read Tracker?
Read Tracker is rated higher. BookPine averages 4.8 out of 5 from 86 ratings, while Read Tracker averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do BookPine or Read Tracker have ads?
Neither BookPine nor Read Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BookPine or Read Tracker?
BookPine ships an update weekly, and Read Tracker every 3 months. Most recently, BookPine was updated on November 13, 2026 and Read Tracker on November 5, 2026.

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