Comparison

BookPine vs Lomo

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 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

Lomo

Track your reading with a private, offline journal. Log books, record reading sessions, and analyze your habits with detailed statistics. Set goals, save reviews, and share your reading journey.

Highlights
  • Add books with detailed information
  • Scan ISBN to auto-fill book details
  • Import libraries from Goodreads/StoryGraph
  • Reading session timer and history
  • Detailed reading statistics and recaps
  • Save reviews, quotes, and ratings
  • Set reading goals and reminders
  • Create shareable reading images
Features
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Lomo is your reading journal: track what you read, see your progress and build the library you always wanted, with every book on shelves you decorate. No accounts and no ads: everything lives on your phone. MY SHELF • All your books on shelves, like your real library • Drag them between shelves, stack them, lean them or show them face-out • Decorations, boards and backgrounds to make it yours • What you remove stays in the Trunk, ready to come back • Put it on your home screen with the shelf widget YOUR LIBRARY • Scan the ISBN and Lomo fills in the details and cover; add a photo of the spine • Paper, ebook or audiobook, each with its own unit • Create your own categories and filter with them • Import your library from Goodreads, StoryGraph or Bookmory • Reading by parts for anthologies, short stories and ongoing books • Rereads, pauses and abandoned books, each with its story READING SESSIONS • A timer that keeps going even if you close the app, with a Live Activity on your lock screen • Or log your sessions by hand STATS • Time, pages, speed, streaks and a reading calendar • Filter by genre, author or your categories • Your monthly and yearly reader recap EVERY BOOK'S SUMMARY • Build it with 20 blocks and 10 headers: journey, your time, versus your average and more • Share it as an image REVIEWS, QUOTES AND RANKING • Quarter or exact ratings, plus your own raters • Save quotes and impressions with their page • Your personal ranking, with a section per rating GOALS AND REMINDERS • Yearly, daily and per-book goals • Reminders so you don't break your streak YOUR STYLE • 14 light and dark themes, alternate icons and home screen widgets YOUR DATA IS YOURS • No account, no ads, no tracking • Sync and back up to iCloud, or to a file • Works offline Lomo is free with no limits. If it helps you, you can leave an optional tip; it never unlocks anything, because you already have it all. Made with love for people who love reading.

Screenshots

BookPine4 screens
Lomo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lomo at 100% against BookPine's 25%. Lomo also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). BookPine's advantage is ratings volume (83 vs 8). 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 Lomo sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lomo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BookPine has 83 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of BookPine's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lomo's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BookPine ships an update weekly, Lomo every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
BookPine versus Lomo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookPineLomo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (83 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings83 — better8
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB54 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDevpri SRLSEBASTIAN CASTANEDA

Customer experience

BookPine

All ratings74 ratings
Positive95.9%
Neutral4.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative62.5%

Lomo

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 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
3 purchases

Lomo

One-time3
  • support$1.99
  • big support$4.99
  • super support$9.99

Questions

Is BookPine free?
BookPine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lomo free?
Lomo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BookPine or Lomo?
Lomo is rated higher. BookPine averages 4.8 out of 5 from 83 ratings, while Lomo averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do BookPine or Lomo have ads?
Neither BookPine nor Lomo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BookPine or Lomo?
BookPine ships an update weekly, and Lomo every 8 days. Most recently, BookPine was updated on November 8, 2026 and Lomo on November 10, 2026.

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