Reading Memory vs 積DROP
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reading Memory
This app helps you record and deepen your reading experience through chat-based notes and AI interactions. It allows you to track reading goals, analyze habits, and revisit your thoughts on books.
- AI-powered chat memos
- Mood tagging for emotional depth
- Card-swipe review format
- Smart book search and barcode scanning
- Reading goal setting and habit tracking
- AI summaries of chat memos
- Reading statistics and analysis
- Achievements and reading milestones
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For re-readers, not just readers. You read 30 books a year, but can barely remember 5 of them. The note app you tried felt too noisy. Goodreads felt like Instagram for books. You just wanted a quiet place to read, write, and remember. Reading Memory is a slow, private reading journal built around one belief: reading is not about finishing books. It's about what you carry with you afterwards. PER-BOOK "READ TODAY" CHECK One tap on each book you're reading. Your streak grows. Your reading becomes a daily habit, not a guilty pile of unfinished tomes. Per-book checks mean you always know what you read today, not just "did I read." CHAT-STYLE NOTES Capture fleeting thoughts as you read, in a conversation flow. No character limits. No public feed. No reactions. Just you and the book, in writing. REFLECTION CARDS Reading Memory's quiet superpower. Past notes resurface as cards you swipe through. "I remember this," "This still hits," "I had forgotten." Your reading lives on, instead of fading. Forgetting is the default. Reflection is the antidote. MOOD TAGS Eight emotional textures — moved, excited, thought-provoking, comforting, fun, enlightening, melancholic, confusing — to revisit "the books that moved me" when the right moment comes. BEAUTIFUL BOOKSHELF Cover-first grid and list views. Want-to-read, reading, finished, on-hold — your bookshelf becomes a quiet record of who you've been as a reader. SMART BOOK SEARCH & BARCODE Add books in seconds. Search by title or scan barcodes. Powered by Google Books and OpenBD for accurate metadata. READING GOALS & STREAKS Set a monthly or yearly goal. Watch your streak grow. Quiet celebration, no leaderboards. ACHIEVEMENTS Nine subtle badges that mark milestones in your reading life. Earned, not displayed. DESIGNED FOR iOS 26 Built fluently in SwiftUI with Liquid Glass throughout. A reading app that feels like part of your phone, not a website inside it. — MEMORY PLUS — Premium plan Reading Memory's core experience is fully free, including unlimited chat-style notes, reflection cards, mood tags, the bookshelf, and reading streaks. You can register up to 10 books on the free plan. Premium unlocks: ◆ Unlimited book registrations ◆ AI Chat Notes (premium only) A book-aware AI you can have a conversation with about each individual book, with the context of your past notes. ◆ AI Summary (premium only) AI summarizes your chat notes for any book, surfacing the key threads without re-reading everything. ◆ Detailed Statistics (premium only) Genre distribution, mood patterns, calendar heatmap, and pace analytics. Pricing: Monthly: $2.99 / month Yearly: $24.99 / year (save 30%) AI features and detailed statistics are available only with Memory Plus. — WHO THIS IS FOR · People who re-read more than they read · Quiet readers who left Goodreads after the social fatigue · Knowledge workers who want to remember what they've learned · Note-taking minimalists who tried Notion and Obsidian and just wanted something simpler · iOS aesthetes who care about Liquid Glass and craft Indie developer made. No ads. No tracking. No social feed. No Amazon. Read it. Write it. Re-discover it. — Feedback and bug reports: please use the in-app "Feedback" button.
積DROP
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Got a stack of books you bought but haven't read? Same. TsunDrop is a reading app that stacks every book you buy into a physical tower — powered by a real 2D physics engine. You don't have to read them. Just stack. That's the whole point. — Just stack. That's it. — Every time you add a book, it falls from the top and lands on your tower, sized by its format (bunko, shinsho, hardback, A5). The physics engine makes every stack a little different. Same book, different lean. Reading apps love to make you feel guilty. TsunDrop doesn't. Buying books — even ones you'll never get to — is a perfectly valid hobby. We're here to celebrate it. — Who it's for — - People who buy books faster than they can read them - Anyone who hears "your tsundoku is too big" and thinks "let it grow" - Readers who want to see their pile, not just a number on a screen - Folks burned out by every other reading tracker — Inside — ▸ Stack (the main thing) Scan a barcode or type a 13-digit ISBN. TsunDrop pulls bibliographic data from openBD and Japan's NDL Search. Manual entry works too. Books fall in, get stacked, lean against each other. Add more and the pile grows taller, genre colors mixing into a mosaic. Whether that's "too many" or "looking great" is entirely your call — set the overflow warning to "none" and stack as much as you want. ▸ Height Rank The total spine width of every book — read or unread — is measured against a real-world scale. An apple → a milk carton → a ruler → a cat → a guitar → an adult → a phone booth → a giraffe → a house → a big tree → Tokyo Tower → Mt. Fuji → Everest. Buy and stack: rank goes up. Read: rank goes up. Both count, equally. ▸ Read one when you feel like it Tap a book, hit "Finish & shelve." It moves to your Finished Shelf, sortable by date, title, or color. The books resting on top tumble down in physics. That moment is satisfying — but it's a side dish, not the main course. ▸ Numbers Tower view: unread count / pages left / pages read Shelf view: total pages read / books finished / shelf width (cm) Pages stack up like XP. Set a monthly goal if you want. Skip it if you don't. ▸ Share Export your tower as a 1080×1080 image and post it. "Yeah, I haven't read most of these." — Details — - Genre colors (literature, history, philosophy, tech, business, other) - 3 text sizes, 4 themes (Green, Ink, Navy, Grape) - Haptic feedback - Notes on every book (up to 2000 characters) - Export and import for backup — Privacy — All your book data stays on your device. No account required. TsunDrop only contacts openBD and NDL Search for bibliographic lookups. Nothing else leaves your phone. The camera is used solely to scan ISBN barcodes. — You might be here because — Your shelf is overflowing. You buy too many e-books and forgot what you have. You want a break from "you really should read more." If so: just stack. Read when you feel like it. Stack first. Read later (if ever). Bibliographic data: openBD / NDL Search Licenses: Matter.js (MIT) / Noto Serif JP, Noto Sans JP (SIL OFL 1.1)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: 積DROP at every 9 days against Reading Memory's every 3 months. 積DROP also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Reading Memory sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and 積DROP sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Reading Memory ships an update every 3 months, 積DROP every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reading Memory | 積DROP |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kyoichi Taniguchi | ForeGroove Inc. |
In-app purchases
Reading Memory
- メモリープラス月額プラン$3.991 Month
- メモリープラス年額プラン$39.991 Year
積DROP
- A Small Coffee$0.49
- A Light Meal$2.99
- A Lunch$5.99
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- A Dinner Treat$11.99









