Comparison

Month Read vs ReadFlow

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

Head to head
About

Month Read

Organize your reading with this comprehensive journal. Track progress, manage your library, set reading goals, and analyze your habits with detailed statistics. Enjoy features like a dark theme and customizable rating systems for a comfortable reading experience.

Highlights
  • Track reading progress with timers or manual entry
  • Organize books in your library
  • Create and manage TBR lists
  • Set daily, monthly, and yearly reading goals
  • Analyze reading statistics and summaries
  • Dark theme for comfortable night reading
  • Customizable rating systems (5 or 10 points)
Features
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Month Read is a convenient reading journal that helps you organize your reading. Track your reading progress, add books to your library, read with the app, make notes, and analyze your reading statistics. Track your reading progress: - Start a timer or manually enter a reading session to see how long it takes to finish a book. - Month Read predicts your reading completion date for convenience. Keep your reading journal: - Mark books as read. - Add books from your personal library. - Easily sort books by author, publisher, or even purchase date. Read more with Month Read: - Set goals for the day, month, or year. - Create your TBR list. - Add new books to your future reading list. - Participate in the 12-hour reading challenge. Analyze your progress: - View your reading statistics. - Always know how many books are on your shelves. - Mark gifted books and library books. - Track how much money you spend on books. - Earn rewards for your achievements. - Year-end summary for every book lover. Reading is easy with Month Read: - Dark theme—read comfortably even at night without eye strain. - Choose your rating system, either a 10-point or 5-point scale. - Record your progress in pages, percentages, or hours. Additional features available through a separate Month Read Premium subscription: - Advanced reading statistics (detailed analytics by genres and authors). - Summaries for previous months. - No ads. - Mood impressions. - Turbo Paws — a bonus feature that allows you to mark missed days in the reading marathon. - Unlimited advanced search usage without frequency restrictions. Subscription details: - Duration: 1 month with automatic renewal. - Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account upon purchase confirmation. - The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - You can manage your subscription and turn off automatic renewal in your Apple ID settings after purchase. - The subscription price is displayed on the subscription purchase screen in the app. You'll read more with Month Read. Privacy Policy - https://www.monthread.pp.ua/privacy-policy Terms of Use - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

ReadFlow

Easily track your reading progress across print, e-books, and audiobooks. Log sessions, save favorite quotes with your camera, and visualize your reading habits with insightful statistics. Organize your library with custom shelves and set personal reading goals.

Highlights
  • Track print, e-books, and audiobooks
  • Log reading sessions with notes
  • Save quotes using camera text recognition
  • Organize books into custom shelves
  • Set yearly or daily reading goals
  • Import from Goodreads/StoryGraph
  • View reading statistics
Features
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ReadFlow is a simple way to track your reading. Add your books, log your progress and see how much you read, whether you read print books, e-books or audiobooks. QUICK TO SET UP Scanning the ISBN barcode or searching by title adds a book with its cover, author and page count already filled in. If you have used Goodreads or StoryGraph before, your existing library can be imported from their export file in one step. TRACKING THAT FITS EACH FORMAT • Pages or percent for print books and e-books • Listening time for audiobooks • A reading timer for every session • A short note after each session • Half-star ratings for finished books YOUR LIBRARY AT A GLANCE Books can be viewed as spines, as covers or as a list, and organized into shelves you create yourself. Every book has a status, so it is always clear what you are reading now, what comes next and what you have already finished. QUOTES WITHOUT TYPING The camera recognizes text on a printed page, so a favorite passage can be saved in a few seconds. You can fix any word before saving, and every quote is kept in your journal, linked to the book it came from. YOUR READING IN NUMBERS • A yearly book goal or a daily page goal • Books finished each month • A calendar of the days you read • Your longest, shortest and fastest reads • Your highest-rated books of the year Download ReadFlow and start tracking your next book today.

Screenshots

Month Read4 screens
ReadFlow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ReadFlow at none against Month Read's 1. ReadFlow also leads on ads (none vs shown). Month Read's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and monetization model 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. Month Read sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. ReadFlow asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Month Read against 5.0 for ReadFlow. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Month Read versus ReadFlow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonth ReadReadFlow
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB8 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperYana OdnostebletsAlona Nesterenko

Customer experience

Month Read

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral11.1%
Negative11.1%

ReadFlow

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Month Read

Subscriptions1
  • Month Read premium for 1 month$2.991 Month
None

ReadFlow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Month Read free?
Month Read is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ReadFlow free?
ReadFlow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Month Read or ReadFlow?
Month Read and ReadFlow are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Month Read or ReadFlow have ads?
Month Read shows ads; ReadFlow does not.

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