Comparison

Book Tracker vs Emberlitt

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

Head to head
About

Book Tracker

Organize your reading with custom shelves, track progress through timed sessions, and set reading goals. Log books via search, scan, or import from other platforms. Analyze your reading habits with detailed statistics.

Highlights
  • Organize books on custom shelves
  • Track reading sessions with timers
  • Set page, book, or hour goals
  • Import from Goodreads & Storygraph
  • Detailed reading statistics
  • Log notes with tags and page references
Features
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Auread – Your Reading Tracker & Journal Track your reading journey with library, goals, streaks, notes, and stats - all in one beautiful app. Library Organize books on four shelves: Currently Reading, To Be Read, Completed, Did Not Finish. Add via Google Books search, barcode/ISBN scan, manual entry, or bulk import. Import Goodreads & Storygraph CSV easily. Sort however you prefer. Reading Sessions Start stopwatch or timed sessions (15–60 min). Live Activity shows timer on Lock Screen & Dynamic Island. Log pages with a simple dial or manually. Get session-end notifications. Book Details Track progress, view all sessions, add notes (with tags & page refs) and vocabulary words. Share session or completion cards in story-style format (customizable light/dark/frosted). Goals & Streaks Set page, book, or hour goals (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly). Track consecutive reading days with current + best streak. Stats View pages, books, and hours read. See charts for Today, Week, Month, or Year.Premium unlocks • Unlimited books, sessions, notes, vocab & goals • Full stats access • iCloud backup & restore Light/dark theme • iPhone & iPad support • Haptics & smooth experience. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Emberlitt

Connect with others who share your passions in vibrant communities. Read books together, track your progress, and discover local meetups. Turn passive phone time into meaningful engagement and learning.

Highlights
  • Create and join interest-based communities
  • Start reading circles with friends
  • Access half a million free books and audiobooks
  • Highlight passages and create notes/flashcards
  • Discover local readers and events
  • Track reading progress and set goals
Features
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Emberlitt is a reading app for people who love books and love talking about them. READ Pick up where you left off. Read free classics from Project Gutenberg, listen to free audiobooks from LibriVox, or import your own EPUB and PDF books. Footnotes, search, text settings and Read Aloud are built in. KEEP PASSAGES Keep the lines that stay with you, with a note if you like. Your passages become your own commonplace book. THE MARGIN See the passages other readers kept in the same book, right where you are. Spoilers stay hidden until you get there. BONFIRES: READ TOGETHER Read one book with friends, chapter by chapter. Set a reading plan, talk about each chapter and invite people with a link. Open Bonfires of free classics take one tap to join. Start with the house read: Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. FIND READERS Find readers who read what you read, follow them and chat. Messages from people you don't follow arrive as requests. ASK EMBER Ask about what you're reading, or have a word defined or a passage explained or translated. Ember runs on your device, so your pages never leave it. YOUR CHOICE, YOUR SAFETY You choose who sees your passages, and report, block and mute are always one tap away.

Screenshots

Book Tracker4 screens
Emberlitt4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Emberlitt at none against Book Tracker's 2. Emberlitt also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). Book Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Book Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Emberlitt 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 Book Tracker against 5.0 for Emberlitt. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Emberlitt has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Book Tracker ships an update every 5 weeks, Emberlitt every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Book Tracker versus Emberlitt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook TrackerEmberlitt
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB68 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperElementra LLCAlejandro Marin

Customer experience

Book Tracker

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

Emberlitt

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Book Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Weekly3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
None

Emberlitt

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Book Tracker free?
Book Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Emberlitt free?
Emberlitt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Book Tracker or Emberlitt?
Book Tracker and Emberlitt are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Book Tracker or Emberlitt have ads?
Neither Book Tracker nor Emberlitt shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Book Tracker or Emberlitt?
Book Tracker ships an update every 5 weeks, and Emberlitt every 4 days. Most recently, Book Tracker was updated on October 30, 2026 and Emberlitt on October 31, 2026.

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