Bookleap vs Shelfroom
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bookleap
This app helps you track your reading habits, set goals, and monitor your progress. It allows you to easily add books, time your reading sessions, and save favorite quotes and notes. Achieve your reading goals and rediscover your love for books.
- Reading timer with Live Activity and Apple Watch support
- Daily and yearly reading goals with streaks
- Detailed reading statistics (pages, time, pace)
- Save quotes and notes from books
- Organize library with shelves, TBR, and wishlist
- Track paper, e-books, and audiobooks
- Home Screen widgets and dark mode
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Fall back in love with reading — and finally keep the habit. Bookleap is the reading tracker and book journal that makes every page count: time your sessions, hit your goals and watch your streak grow. Add books in seconds: scan a whole stack by ISBN or bring your library from Goodreads. WHY READERS LOVE BOOKLEAP • Reading timer with Live Activity and Apple Watch • Daily and yearly goals, streaks and rewards that keep you going • Beautiful stats: pages, time, pace, reading calendar and spending • Quotes and notes, so the best lines never get lost • Your library your way: shelves, TBR, wishlist and half-star ratings • Paper books, e-books and audiobooks — track pages, minutes or percent • Home Screen widgets, dark mode and custom app icons • Sync and backups, so your reading history is always safe START IN SECONDS Point your camera at a stack of books: each one is found by ISBN and added to your library automatically. Coming from Goodreads, Bookshelf or Bookmory? Bring your whole library with you. SEE YOUR PROGRESS No more guessing how much you read. Every session turns into clear stats, so you can see your week, your month and your best reading year yet. KEEP WHAT MATTERS Save quotes, thoughts and characters for every book and come back to them anytime. Whether you read every day or want to get back into reading, Bookleap makes it easy to start and hard to stop. Download Bookleap and start your next chapter today. Privacy Policy - https://www.bookleap.app/en/privacy Terms of Use - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Shelfroom
Design a visually appealing digital bookshelf to showcase your book collection. Track reading progress, save favorite quotes, and share your curated shelves as images. The app focuses on creating a personal, atmospheric space for your reading life.
- Customizable digital bookshelf scenes
- Track reading progress and consistency
- Save and share favorite book quotes
- Import books from library exports
- Offline core experience
- Create shareable shelf images
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Your reading life deserves more than a grid of covers. Shelfroom makes your shelf the heart of the experience: a full-screen personal space where the books you own and love become part of a scene that grows with you. Start with a thoughtfully designed template or a blank canvas, then make it unmistakably yours. A shelf, not another catalog Arrange your books with intention and shape the atmosphere around them. Build a shelf for a favorite series, a mood, a season, or your whole collection. The result feels less like inventory and more like a place you will want to return to. Bring your reading life with you Starting fresh should not mean starting over. Scan a stack of books, find the edition you own, add an unusual title yourself, or bring your collection from a supported library export. Shelfroom gets you from a list of books to a personal shelf without hours of rebuilding everything by hand. A calmer way to keep reading When you open a book, start a focused reading session and let Shelfroom keep the thread. Pick up where you left off, see your progress take shape, and look back on the time and consistency behind every finished book—without turning reading into a chore. Keep the lines that stay with you Capture a passage from a page, refine it, and keep it connected to the book it came from. Your favorite quotes remain easy to revisit, collect, and share as beautiful cards. Made to share. Designed to stay yours. When your shelf feels right, save the current composition or the entire scene as a clean, share-ready image. Your library and creations live on your device. No account is required to begin, and the core experience remains available offline after your books are saved. Online book search requires a connection. Shelfroom has no ads. Create a shelf you want to return to—and a reading story that grows with it. --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Shelfroom at none against Bookleap's shown. Shelfroom also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). Bookleap's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and iOS requirement 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. Bookleap sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Shelfroom sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bookleap ships an update fortnightly, Shelfroom every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bookleap | Shelfroom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pashchenko Volodymyr | Yurii Solomakha |
In-app purchases
Bookleap
- Weekly Premium3 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Monthly Premium3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Yearly Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Shelfroom
- Premium Monthly$7.991 Month
- Premium Annual$39.991 Year









