Comparison

BookPine vs ZooBook

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

ZooBook

Features
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ZooBook is your own little library, filled with the books you've read. Every time you add a book, your shelf fills up as delightfully as a zoo. [Key Features] - A shelf you fill with covers Scan an ISBN barcode or search by title or author, and the real book cover lands on your shelf. - Drag covers to reorder Press and hold a cover, then drag it one spot at a time to exactly where you want it. Sort books into shelves like "Fiction," "Study," and "Essays," and rearrange them freely. - Reading records and habits Track pages read, time spent reading, star ratings, and status (Owned · Reading · Finished), and review it all at a glance with statistics and a calendar. - Quote collection Photograph a passage with your camera, and ZooBook recognizes it as text and gathers it into your personal quote collection. - Sticky-note memos Jot down the thoughts that come to you for each book. - Home Screen widgets Check the book you're reading, your shelf covers, reading statistics, and recently added books right from widgets. - Atmospheric themes Choose a bookshelf theme you love, such as Warm Oak, Walnut Study, Sage Gallery, and Lavender Atelier. - Safe backup and restore Back up your entire library to iCloud Drive and Files, and restore it anytime. - Export Export your library to Google Sheets or publish it as a web shelf. ZooBook supports both English and Korean, and you can switch languages right inside the app. Whether paper books or e-books, gather the books you've read one by one and build a library that's truly your own.

Screenshots

BookPine4 screens
ZooBook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ZooBook at daily against BookPine's weekly. BookPine's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BookPine ships an update weekly, ZooBook daily. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
BookPine versus ZooBook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookPineZooBook
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (60 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings60 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB11 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDevpri SRLSangwook Joo

In-app purchases

None

BookPine

No in-app purchases

None

ZooBook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BookPine free?
BookPine is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ZooBook free?
ZooBook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BookPine or ZooBook have ads?
Neither BookPine nor ZooBook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BookPine or ZooBook?
BookPine ships an update weekly, and ZooBook daily. Most recently, BookPine was updated on October 12, 2026 and ZooBook on October 4, 2026.

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