Page Tracker vs Leaf & Spine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Page Tracker
This app helps you finish your books and build a reading habit with a visual burn-down chart. Set a target date and follow the ideal pace line by logging your daily page progress. It offers stress-free logging, reminders, and iCloud sync.
- Visual progress chart
- Stress-free page logging
- Calendar view of reading logs
- Reminder notifications
- iCloud data sync
- Ad-free experience
- Social sharing
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Are your unread books piling up? It’s time to cure your "Tsundoku"! Page Tracker is a highly visual, stress-free reading pace management app designed to help you finally finish your books and build a steady reading habit. Unlike traditional reading trackers that focus on the pressure of "how many pages you read," our app uses a simple burn-down chart approach. Just set a target date, and the app draws an ideal pace line. All you have to do is keep your daily progress along that line! You will intuitively know exactly how much you need to read today without feeling overwhelmed. Key Features Visual Progress Chart: Compare your planned pace vs. actual progress at a glance. Just follow the line! Stress-Free Logging: Simply enter the page number you reached. The app automatically calculates how many pages you read today. Calendar View: Review your daily reading log and track your habit-building journey. Reminder Notifications: Stay on track and never forget to log your progress. iCloud Sync: Seamlessly sync your data across your iPhone and iPad. Beautiful & Clean UI: 100% Ad-free experience with a sleek Dark Mode design. Social Sharing: Easily share your reading progress or a beautiful "Finished!" card image to social media. Highly Recommended For: Curing your "Tsundoku" (the Japanese word for buying books and never reading them) Managing study schedules for exams or textbooks Building a daily reading habit without pressure Pacing yourself to finish a book by a specific deadline
Leaf & Spine
Enhance your reading experience with a distraction-free app that supports various formats like PDFs, EPUBs, audiobooks, and comics. Build daily reading habits with powerful tools, track your progress with detailed analytics, and personalize your digital library.
- Supports PDF, EPUB, CBR, CBZ, and Audiobooks
- Smart EPUB annotation and note-taking
- Text-to-Speech for audiobooks
- Customizable themes and 3D bookshelf
- Daily reading habit tracking and analytics
- Immersive focus sessions with ambient environments
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Your library, your shelf, your reading habit. Leaf & Spine is a calm, distraction-free home for your EPUBs, PDFs, comics and audiobooks. Arrange them on a 3D bookshelf, read with highlights, notes and drawings, listen with the screen off, and watch a daily reading habit take shape. Read for free, or upgrade to Premium for stats, focus sessions, backups and your own servers. BRING IN YOUR BOOKS • Read EPUB, PDF, CBZ and CBR, and listen to audiobooks. Audiobooks require Premium. • Add a whole folder at once, or pick files yourself. • Discover free public-domain books and audiobooks from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and LibriVox. • Connect your own server (Premium): Calibre, Calibre-Web, Kavita, Komga, Audiobookshelf, or a WebDAV folder such as Nextcloud or a NAS. Browse it, search it as you type, and download books to read offline. READ YOUR WAY • Highlight, take notes, draw with pen, pencil and highlighter, and look words up in the dictionary or translator. • Listen: the page is read aloud with the sentence lit up, using natural voices made on your device, and an EPUB that comes with a recording plays the narrator. • Focus mode for reading a sentence at a time, and a reading ruler. • Presets, typefaces (including Atkinson Hyperlegible and OpenDyslexic), heading styles and page-turn speed. Premium readers can import their own fonts. AUDIOBOOKS THAT KEEP PLAYING • Keep listening with your phone locked or while you use another app, with play, pause and skip on the lock screen. • Chapters, bookmarks, notes, speed and a sleep timer that works with the screen off. ORGANISE YOUR SHELF • A 3D bookshelf with categories, sub-categories, tags and series, sorted and grouped by author or series, with bookends you can fold into a box set. • Spines take their colour from each book's cover, or customise spines, patterns and covers yourself. • A page for every book: progress, the next in its series, description, chapters and your marks. • Fix a book's details, or fill them in from Open Library (Premium). • The Notebook gathers every highlight, note, drawing and looked-up word from your whole library, and one search covers it all. BUILD A HABIT • Goals in minutes a day or days a week, reminders at a time you choose, and streak freezes so one missed day doesn't erase months. • Home follows the series you are reading, and finishing a book offers the next one. • Home screen widgets with your current book and a highlight worth rereading. • Premium stats: time read and listened, pages, chapters, books finished, genres, highlights and words looked up, by week, month, year or all time. FOCUS SESSIONS (Premium) • Set a timer and read inside an immersive environment: a fireplace, a beach, a waterfall or a rainy window, each with its own ambience and music, which keep playing with the screen locked. YOUR PLACE, EVERYWHERE (Premium) • Back up automatically to iCloud or Google Drive, and keep your place across your devices. • Sync your progress with Audiobookshelf, Komga, Kavita and KOReader. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account or sign-up needed to start reading. • Your books, highlights, notes and progress stay on your device. Backups go to your own iCloud or Google Drive, never to our servers. • Six themes, light and dark (two free), and the app in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. PERFECT FOR • Students who highlight, draw and track study time. • Fiction readers who want EPUBs and audiobooks in one place. • Comic and manga readers with CBZ and CBR collections. • Anyone with a Calibre, Kavita, Komga or Audiobookshelf library. CONTENT NOTICE Leaf & Spine does not sell or host books. Discover lists free public-domain titles from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and LibriVox; everything else is your own files and your own servers. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Page Tracker at 100% against Leaf & Spine's 55%. Leaf & Spine's advantage is price (Free vs $3.99) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, 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
Leaf & Spine is free to download; Page Tracker costs $3.99 up front. Page Tracker sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Leaf & Spine sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Page Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Leaf & Spine every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Page Tracker | Leaf & Spine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 4.4 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 54.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 119 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryota Kando | Aqeeb Rizwan |
Customer experience
Page Tracker
Leaf & Spine
In-app purchases
Page Tracker
- Tip1$0.49
- Tip2$1.99
- Tip 3$2.99
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- Tip 4$5.99
- Tip 5$19.99
- Tip 6$29.99
- Tip 7$39.99
- Tip 8$59.99
Leaf & Spine
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Teal Stripes$0.79
- Teal Hearts$0.99
- Teal Duotone$0.99
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- Teal Diamonds$1.49
- Teal Stars$1.49
- Teal Leaves$1.49
- Teal Spiral$1.99
- Premium Unlock$14.99









