BookQuest vs ReadMaze
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BookQuest
Gamify your reading with rewards, streaks, and challenges to conquer your book list. Track progress, earn coins, unlock achievements, and compete with friends. Features an AI companion for book discussions and quizzes.
- Track reading time and pages
- Set daily and yearly reading goals
- Earn coins and unlock achievements
- AI companion for book discussions
- AI-generated chapter quizzes
- Detailed reading statistics
- Compete with friends on leaderboards
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BookQuest helps you build a reading habit that sticks — with daily streaks, goals, and a gentle nudge when the phone is winning, so you finally make a dent in your TBR pile. Most reading apps just track. BookQuest helps you show up: log a session or a few pages, hit a small daily goal, and keep your streak alive. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Track reading time, pages, and daily streaks - Search and add any book to your library - Set daily and yearly reading goals - Save quotes and notes as you read - View detailed reading stats and insights - Earn coins by reading and completing quests - Unlock achievements for milestones and finished books - Compete with friends on the leaderboard - Follow friends and share progress in your feed - Create and customize your own avatar BOOKQUEST PRO Remember more of what you read: - Key ideas for every book - Recall quizzes after you read - Unlimited AI Book Coach - Scan pages with your camera - Ambient background sounds - Exclusive app themes Download free and build a reading habit today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://bookquest.app/termsofuse Privacy Policy: https://bookquest.app/privacypolicy
ReadMaze
This app gamifies your reading habit by tracking sessions, rewarding progress, and building streaks. It offers AI-powered book analysis, note-taking, and a digital bookshelf to organize your entire library.
- Gamified reading habit tracker
- AI chat for book analysis
- Digital bookshelf organization
- Reading streak building
- XP, badges, and achievements
- Built-in ebook reader
- Quote and note capture
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ReadMaze is a reading tracker you can actually read in. Most book apps ask you to log reading you did somewhere else. ReadMaze lets you open the book, read or listen to it, and keeps the record for you. READ AND LISTEN IN THE APP Import your own EPUB and PDF files and read them in a clean, distraction-free reader. Prefer to listen? Built-in read-aloud turns any book into an audiobook, and your listening time counts toward your streak, stats and goals automatically. TRACK EVERY BOOK Search millions of titles, scan a barcode, or add a book by hand. Import your existing library from Goodreads or StoryGraph in one step. Track by pages, chapters, percentage or time. BUILD THE HABIT Reading streaks, levels, daily goals and achievements make coming back easy. Streak freezes protect the days life gets in the way. REMEMBER WHAT YOU READ Save notes, highlight quotes and build a personal vocabulary list with a built-in dictionary. Coming back to a book after a break? ReadMaze writes you a spoiler-free recap from your own notes. SEE YOUR READING Detailed statistics, a reading calendar, weekly recaps and a yearly wrap-up show how your year has actually gone. Home screen widgets keep your current book one glance away. NO ADS. NO ACCOUNT. NO FEED. ReadMaze has no advertising anywhere. There is no sign-up, no social feed and no follower count. Your library, notes and reading history stay on your device, with optional private iCloud sync across your own devices. Export everything whenever you want. AVAILABLE IN SEVERAL LANGUAGES English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Korean and Japanese. ReadMaze Premium unlocks unlimited AI assistance, extra themes and advanced statistics. The reading tracker itself is free. Terms of Use : https://readmaze.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://readmaze.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ReadMaze at 5.0 against BookQuest's 4.4. ReadMaze also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). BookQuest's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. BookQuest sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and ReadMaze sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ReadMaze holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BookQuest has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of BookQuest's written reviews are positive against 100% of ReadMaze's.
BookQuest ships an update every 2 weeks, ReadMaze every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BookQuest | ReadMaze |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.5.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Leanne Calderwood | Habibullah Abdulsalam |
Customer experience
BookQuest
ReadMaze
In-app purchases
BookQuest
- BookQuest Pro - Monthly$6.991 Month
- BookQuest Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
ReadMaze
- Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$34.991 Year









