Bookary vs BookRecall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bookary
This app serves as a personal reading journal to track books, write notes, and organize your reading progress. It offers features like character profiles, relationship maps, and visual reading statistics to enrich your reading experience.
- Organize bookshelf (to-read, reading, finished)
- Character profiles
- Relationship maps
- Visual reading statistics
- Book finish celebrations
- Write notes on books
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Track the books you read, write notes, and celebrate every finish. Bookary is your personal reading journal and book tracker — simple, warm, and always with you. • Organize your bookshelf: to-read, reading, and finished • Character profiles & relationship maps • Visual reading stats at a glance • Gentle celebration when you finish a book Go beyond a log — build a reading life full of memories and insights. Start your personal reading journey today with Bookary. Privacy Policy: https://finepocket.app/bookary-privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
BookRecall
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BookRecall helps you remember what you read. Capture meaningful passages from physical books, save the idea behind them, and let them return later when they are worth revisiting. Instead of collecting forgotten notes, BookRecall turns your reading into a personal memory you can search, organize, and ask questions about. Scan a page, choose the paragraph that matters, and save it with its book, tags, collection, and original photo. BookRecall can help detect book details, find covers, and organize your highlights into calm shelves. When you want to reflect, ask your reading memory: “What did I save about change?” “Show me the most important ideas from this book.” “What keeps returning around presence?” BookRecall answers from your saved highlights, so your books stay useful long after you close them. Features: • Scan physical book pages with OCR • Save highlights, notes, book details, and page photos • Automatically organize ideas with tags and collections • Revisit saved ideas with a gentle recall rhythm • Ask questions across your personal reading memory • Back up your highlights securely across devices • Keep books, insights, and collections in one calm library BookRecall is for readers who want more than a book tracker. It is for remembering ideas, connecting insights, and carrying your best reading into daily life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BookRecall at none against Bookary's 2. BookRecall also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Bookary sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. BookRecall asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bookary ships an update every 4 days, BookRecall daily. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bookary | BookRecall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fine Pocket | Primoz Cigoj |
In-app purchases
Bookary
- Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
BookRecall
No in-app purchases









