BookQuest vs Marca
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
Marca
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Track every book you read and build a daily reading habit. Your TBR, today's pages and your streak, in one calm place. Read a little every day: a 10-minute goal, a reading timer, and a streak that forgives a busy day. Want to scroll less? Marca can lock your social apps until you've read for 10 minutes. TRACK YOUR READING - Add any book in seconds: search millions of titles or scan the barcode - Shelves for your TBR, what's on your shelf, what you're reading, finished and set aside - Pages and minutes read today, progress, ratings and notes - Save the quotes worth keeping, on the page you found them BUILD THE HABIT - A tiny daily goal: 10 minutes or 10 pages - A calm reading timer with a Live Activity on your Lock Screen - A forgiving streak with a free skip each week - Your reading month as a calendar of covers, a yearly challenge, and Home Screen widgets READ BEFORE YOU SCROLL (optional) - Choose the apps that eat your evenings - Marca locks them with Apple's Screen Time until you've read today's goal, then they stay open until midnight - Need something urgent? Two five-minute passes a day, and a pass opens only that one app - Strict Mode (Marca+) removes the passes - Marca never learns which apps you chose: Screen Time keeps that private SEE YOUR READING - Books, pages, hours, streaks and reading pace - How many days reading opened your apps - A shareable card for every finished book PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No feed. No ads. Your reading life stays on your device. MARCA+ Strict Mode, unlimited quotes, the full stats, two daily goals and every theme. - A monthly or yearly subscription, or pay once for lifetime access - Payment is charged to your Apple ID; subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://adabastudio.github.io/marca/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://adabastudio.github.io/marca/privacy.html Read a little every day.
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Verdict
BookQuest and Marca are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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 Marca sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BookQuest | Marca |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Leanne Calderwood | Adrien Guinard |
In-app purchases
BookQuest
- BookQuest Pro - Monthly$6.991 Month
- BookQuest Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
Marca
- Marca+ Monthly$4.991 Month
- Marca+ Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Marca+ Lifetime$49.99









