Comparison

BookPine vs Enchanted Reads

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 journey with detailed stats, custom lists, and reading goals. Easily import your library from other platforms and discover ambient sounds for focused reading. Share your progress and connect with a community of book lovers.

Highlights
  • Detailed reading stats and insights
  • Custom lists and shelves for organization
  • Personalized reading goals and challenges
  • Import from Goodreads, StoryGraph, LibraryThing
  • Ambient sounds for focused reading
  • Social features to follow friends and share reviews
  • Transaction log for borrowed, lent, or purchased books
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BookPine is a free 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. If you're coming from Goodreads, you can bring your whole library with you and pick up right where you left off. There's no subscription and nothing is locked behind a paywall. 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

Enchanted Reads

Transform your reading experience with a magical tracker. Log books, monitor progress, organize your library, and gain insights into your reading habits. Features gamified elements, personalized recommendations, and community connection.

Highlights
  • Track reading progress and status
  • Organize books with custom shelves
  • Detailed reviews and notes
  • Reading analytics and reports
  • Gamified reading with XP and challenges
  • AI-powered book recommendations
  • Connect with a reader community
Features
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Enchanted Reads is a reading tracker bound as a living grimoire. Log every book, arrange your bookcases by hand, write reviews and save quotes — and watch your reading grow into a world of its own. Version 3.0 redraws every screen, and the ? button on 29 of them opens a page guide. A GRIMOIRE FOR EVERY SEASON Fifteen seasonal themes, each with its own living particles, in light and dark. Let the calendar choose, pin the one you love, or switch the particles off. Pop-ups and sheets wear the season too: an ornamental frame over a blurred background. YOUR LIBRARY, THREE WAYS Browse your books as shelves, spines or a grid. Arrange your bookcases by hand, keep track of what you are reading, what is on your TBR, what you finished and what you put down. Add books with the ISBN scanner or by import, and narrow the list by rating, genre, series or trope. EVERY BOOK, EIGHT RIBBONS Each book opens to eight ribbon tabs: annotation, main characters, supporting cast, your review, quotes, tropes, gallery and discussion. Character cards carry portraits, and a relationship map shows who is connected to whom. Rate with stars and a spice level, and keep series and collections in order. SERIES AND COLLECTIONS See how far you are in every series and collection — 3 of 7 read — with your average rating and the community average, when there is one. Filter and sort by rating, and the books you have read are marked inside. ONE SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING Search your books, series, collections, tropes, genres and the catalog at once, and open any result. If you already own a book from the catalog, Open book takes you straight to it. READ WITH A LITTLE MAGIC A reading timer with ambient sounds. A reading fire that keeps your streak warm. A journal with templates and daily quests. On iPhone your session sits on the Lock Screen, and home-screen widgets show your book and your quote of the day. YOUR REALM Every book you finish adds to your Realm World, a small living world that grows with your reading. Find collectibles, place decorations, raise your companion, earn XP, achievements and titles. READ TOGETHER Add friends, join book clubs, start a buddy read, follow the activity feed and take on reading challenges. Report content and block readers whenever you need to; reports stay private. THE ORACLE An AI companion that learns your taste and suggests what to read next. READING REPORTS How much you read, when, and in which genres — as statistics and as cards you can share. ON IPAD AND MAC Books and the book form open as full pages, and layouts are built for landscape. TWELVE LANGUAGES English, Українська, Русский, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano, Polski, हिन्दी, 中文, 한국어, 日本語. PLANS Start free. Paid plans raise the limits for books, bookcases, AI features and storage. You can delete your account at any time in Settings. Open your grimoire. SUBSCRIPTIONS Enchanted Reads is free to use. Optional paid plans are auto-renewable subscriptions, billed monthly or yearly to your Apple Account. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://enchantedreads.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://enchantedreads.app/privacy

Screenshots

BookPine4 screens
Enchanted Reads4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: BookPine at 4.8 against Enchanted Reads's 3.0. BookPine also leads on review sentiment (29% vs 0%) and ratings volume (73 vs 1). Enchanted Reads's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BookPine sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Enchanted Reads sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BookPine holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BookPine has 73 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of BookPine's written reviews are positive against 0% of Enchanted Reads's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
BookPine versus Enchanted Reads: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookPineEnchanted Reads
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (73 ratings) — better3.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings73 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB87 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperDevpri SRLEnchanted Reads

Customer experience

BookPine

All ratings73 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral2.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral14.3%
Negative57.1%

Enchanted Reads

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

BookPine

Subscriptions2
  • BookPine Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • BookPine Pro7 Days trial$49.991 Year
6 purchases

Enchanted Reads

Subscriptions6
  • Mage — Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Archmage — Monthly$11.991 Month
  • Grand Wizard — Monthly$22.991 Month
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  • Mage — Annual$59.991 Year
  • Archmage Annual$119.991 Year
  • Grand Wizard — Annual$229.991 Year

Questions

Is BookPine free?
BookPine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Enchanted Reads free?
Enchanted Reads is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BookPine or Enchanted Reads?
BookPine is rated higher. BookPine averages 4.8 out of 5 from 73 ratings, while Enchanted Reads averages 3.0 from 1 ratings.
Do BookPine or Enchanted Reads have ads?
Neither BookPine nor Enchanted Reads shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BookPine or Enchanted Reads?
BookPine ships an update weekly, and Enchanted Reads weekly. Most recently, BookPine was updated on October 24, 2026 and Enchanted Reads on October 22, 2026.

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