BookMiles vs MargiNotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BookMiles
Organize your personal library and reading lists with a powerful book tracker. Set reading goals, scan barcodes to add books, and extract text for notes and quotes. Track your reading habits and celebrate achievements.
- Organize TBR, current, and completed books
- Extract text from books via photo
- Set and track reading goals
- Use reading timer and calendar view
- Scan book barcodes for easy adding
- Track reading stats and favorite authors
- Rate and review books
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Never forget what you’ve read & want to read! Use a powerful book tracker to organize your library and build your bookshelf - Track Your Reads, Love Your Books. Manage your library with BookMiles. Track your want-to-read list, current reads, and completed books on a realistic bookshelf. Use the reading tracker to set goals, view past reads in a calendar, and scan barcodes to add books. Extract text from books by photo and write notes effortlessly. Features: • Keep track of all the books you're reading, including TBR, current reads, read books, and abandoned books. • Extract text from books by taking a photo, making it easy to save quotes or write down your thoughts. • Set and track your reading goals annually, and add read books to your bookshelf on BookMiles. • Use the Reading Timer to track your reading time and build a consistent reading habit. • View your read books in the calendar view to track your reading progress over time. • Participate in the Monthly Reading Challenge to stay motivated. • Scan book barcodes in bookstores to easily add books to your "To Read" list. • Keep all your quotes and thoughts in one place — reminding you of what you read and felt. • Track your reading stats: books, pages, favorite authors, top publishers, and preferred genres, and more. • Rate and review the books you've read. • Import your current book tracking list to BookMiles. • Start reading or return it on time with helpful reminders. • Manage all types of books, including paper books, e-books, and audiobooks. • Celebrate your reading achievements. - Instagram : @bookmilesapp - TikTok : @bookmiles --------------------------- Unlock premium features for the best reading experience. Upgrade to BookMiles Plus today! Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your account will be charged monthly or yearly for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. It will not be possible to immediately cancel a subscription. You can manage subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your account settings after purchase. Refunds are not available for unused portions of a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://wishupon.app/bookmiles/privacy-policy.html Terms: https://wishupon.app/bookmiles/terms.html
MargiNotes
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MargiNotes is a calm reader and note-taking app for PDF, EPUB, and paper books. Its difference is simple: a note can keep a path back to the book it came from. Import a highlight from Kindle or Apple Books, or capture a quote from a printed page. If the matching PDF or EPUB is in your library, MargiNotes can search that book on your device and relink the note to its real place. No guessed links. If MargiNotes cannot find a reliable match, it says so clearly. READ AND CAPTURE • Read PDF and EPUB books with adjustable themes, typography, layout, and reading settings. • Highlight while you read and keep each note with its book. • Capture quotes from printed books with on-device OCR. • Scan a barcode to fill in a paper book's title, author, and cover. • Add comments, tags, and voice notes alongside what you read. FIND YOUR WAY BACK Search inside a book and your own notes appear first, next to the book's own sentences. Search quotes, comments, tags, and transcripts across your whole library, or find a note straight from iPhone search. Ask your notes a question and the answer is built only from them — and always shown with the notes it came from. Writing the answer needs Apple Intelligence; without it, MargiNotes still finds the notes closest to your question. YOUR NOTES, PORTABLE Create shareable quote cards, follow your reading with simple statistics and widgets, and export to Markdown, PDF, or an Obsidian vault where every note keeps its links. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account • No ads • No analytics • No cloud AI — text recognition, transcription, and answers run on your device • Sync only through your own iCloud The app never goes online by itself. The one exception is the barcode lookup you start yourself, which sends only the ISBN — and you can switch it off. Your books stay yours. MargiNotes is built to help you remember not only what you saved, but where it came from.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MargiNotes at none against BookMiles's 3. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. BookMiles sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. MargiNotes asks for nothing beyond the download.
BookMiles ships an update every 10 days, MargiNotes every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BookMiles | MargiNotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WishUpon, Inc. | Emirhan Ayaz |
In-app purchases
BookMiles
- BookMiles Plus$4.991 Month
- BookMiles Plus Trial7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- BookMiles Plus$29.991 Year
MargiNotes
No in-app purchases









