Ahlulbayt Library vs Second Reading
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ahlulbayt Library
Access and search a comprehensive collection of Islamic texts. Save your reading progress, bookmark pages, and categorize books with custom labels. Enjoy fast downloads and offline search capabilities, with personalized appearance settings.
- Searchable Islamic texts
- Save reading status
- Add bookmarks
- Categorize books with labels
- Fast book downloads
- Offline search
- Personalize appearance
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Key features: - Easy access to read and search within all texts. - Saving the current status in lists and reading pages. - Continuous read pages. - Label chips to categorize books by user. - Adding bookmarks for quick reference to pages. - Register & Login system for saving user information. - Fast books download with automatic indexing. - Search within downloaded books (offline) or online. - Personalizing the appearance by custom colors & fonts.
Second Reading
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You read something great on your Kindle and highlighted it. Now what? Second Reading imports the highlights you saved on your Kindle and gives them somewhere to live: a customizable Home Screen widget, a searchable library, and a cozy daily page worth returning to. Every highlight arrives on a color of its own, so no two quite feel the same. No account is needed. No analytics collected. Your library stays on your device and on your other devices too, through your own iCloud, if you turn it on. HOME SCREEN WIDGET Small, medium, or large. Rotates hourly or daily, in your choice of four typefaces, and shifts color as it goes. Pin a single shade if you would rather it sat still beside your wallpaper, or pick a neutral and have no color there at all. Tap a highlight to open it in the app. Show only your favorites if you would rather see only a few quotes. TODAY One highlight, full page, nothing competing for attention — on a field of color that changes along with it. Pull another whenever you like, mark a favorite, or share it. YOUR LIBRARY Every book you have highlighted, sorted by title, author, or most recently read. Turn a book off to keep it out of the rotation without deleting anything — or turn off a single highlight and leave the rest of the book showing. SEARCH Full-text search across everything you have imported, including books you have switched off. RE-IMPORTING IS SAFE Import your clippings file as often as you like. Second Reading works out what is genuinely new, leaves the edits you have made alone, and asks which version to keep only in the rare case where it cannot tell. QUOTES OF YOUR OWN Type in a line from a paper book and keep it alongside the rest. BUILT FOR IPHONE AND IPAD One app, both devices, with a layout that uses the space it is given. CROSS-DEVICE SYNC Off until you switch it on. Turn it on and your highlights, notes and favorites stay in step across your iPhone and iPad, through your own iCloud account with no server of ours in the middle. PRIVACY Second Reading is privacy focused. There is no server, no account, no tracking, and no third-party SDK collecting anything. Nothing you import ever leaves your device unless you choose to sync with your iCloud account. Free. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no advertising. Second Reading is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Amazon. "Kindle" is used only to describe the highlights file the app reads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Ahlulbayt Library at 15.6 against Second Reading's 17.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ahlulbayt Library against 5.0 for Second Reading. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Ahlulbayt Library ships an update every 10 days, Second Reading every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ahlulbayt Library | Second Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 141 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mohamad Mountasser Kourani | Nicholas Kinloch |
In-app purchases
Ahlulbayt Library
No in-app purchases
Second Reading
No in-app purchases
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