Comparison

BookMatcher vs Seekquel

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

BookMatcher

Discover your next favorite book with AI-powered quizzes that match your mood, personality, and reading style. Organize your reading life with library management, progress tracking, and custom lists. Set goals and analyze your reading habits.

Highlights
  • AI-powered book quizzes
  • Personalized recommendations with match scores
  • Build and manage your digital library
  • Track reading progress and streaks
  • Customizable reading lists and goals
  • Detailed reading statistics and insights
  • Goodreads import functionality
Features
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Find books you'll actually finish — not another endless "top 100" list. BookMatcher learns your taste, then turns your whole reading life into one calm, beautiful place: discover, track, and look back. No popups. No spam. Just books. DISCOVER WHAT TO READ NEXT • Take a quick taste quiz and get picks matched to your mood and reading style — with match scores that show why each one fits. • Browse one clean feed of the lists worth reading: BookTok favorites, award winners, NYT, trope packs, and curated collections. • Search millions of titles by name, author, or barcode. TRACK YOUR WHOLE READING LIFE • Log paper, ebook, and audiobook — switch formats and keep one continuous record per book. • Build a reading streak that respects your pace, with goals by book or page. • Rate in half and quarter stars, and journal notes and quotes that stay with the book. • Watch your reading year add up: pace, genre breakdowns, streaks, and a wrapped-style recap. • Keep your current book and progress on your Home Screen and Lock Screen with widgets. BRING YOUR LIBRARY WITH YOU • Import from Goodreads in a few taps — your shelves, ratings, and dates come along. PHONE AND WEB, IN SYNC Sign in once and pick up where you left off. Your account, library, shelves, and reading progress stay in sync between your iPhone and BookMatcher on the web — log a book on your phone, plan your next reads on your laptop. FREE TO START Search, build your library, track your reading, log formats, rate, and journal — all free, with AI quizzes to discover your next read. BookMatcher Premium unlocks unlimited AI quizzes, advanced insights & streaks, flexible goals, and Home Screen widgets — $3.99/month or $29.99/year, with a 7-day free trial. Your reading data stays yours. We don't sell your information or share it with advertisers. Download BookMatcher and find your next favorite book. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Seekquel

This app helps readers meticulously track their reading habits, organize their book collections, and discover new titles based on personalized recommendations. It allows users to log progress, set reading goals, and connect with a community of fellow book lovers.

Highlights
  • Track reading progress by page
  • Organize library with custom shelves and tags
  • Personalized book recommendations
  • Camera OCR for capturing quotes
  • Reading session timer and Focus Mode
  • Build reading habits with goals and challenges
  • Connect with other readers and buddy reads
Features
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Seekquel is a book tracker you set up yourself. There is a lot in it and none of it is compulsory: build your home screen from the parts you use, switch off the rest, and keep the community on its own tab. Plenty of readers run it as a plain reading log and never touch anything else. SET UP THE HOME SCREEN • More than thirty cards: currently reading, daily goals, your streak, recommendations, your reading calendar and more • Drag them into the order you want and switch off the ones you never use • Arrange your stats page and public profile the same way • 21 themes, from Dark Academia to Cottagecore, and more than twenty app icons • Home screen widgets, adjustable text size, reduced motion and reduced transparency DECIDE WHO SEES WHAT • Public, followers only, or private, then set each part of your profile on its own • Show your reviews but hide your stats, or turn a whole profile tab off • Choose who can message you and approve followers before they see anything • No ads, no data selling, and analytics you can decline • Export everything you have added, whenever you want TRACK YOUR LIBRARY • Add books by title, author, ISBN, or barcode scan • Want to Read, Reading, Paused, Read, and Did Not Finish • Log progress by page, percent, or time listened, in the edition you actually own • Custom shelves, shelves that fill themselves from rules you set, tags, and notes • Track what you own, what you borrowed, and what you lent out • Coming from elsewhere? Import from Goodreads, StoryGraph, or Hardcover, with your shelves, ratings and reviews SYNC YOUR E-READER • KOReader on Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook or Android sends your place, reading time, highlights and finished books • Readest and Xteink pocket readers connect too • Calibre keeps shelves, ratings, reviews and reading dates in step in both directions DISCOVER YOUR NEXT READ • A taste profile built from your genres, moods, themes and pacing • Browse by mood, trope and pace, not just broad genres • Pick For Me: a few quick questions, one considered recommendation • Shelve a book before it is published and hear the day it comes out • See the films and series a book was turned into • Mood, pace and content notes gathered from real reader reviews BUILD A READING HABIT • A reading timer, with ambient sounds like rain or a fireplace • Daily page or minute targets, and a streak with freeze days built in • Yearly goals and custom challenges, on your own or shared with friends • A monthly reading bingo card, and badges from Bronze to Platinum SEE YOUR READING • Books, pages, hours, streaks and genres at a glance • A Monthly Wrapped recap of the month just gone • Share cards for a finished book, a month or your whole year • With Pro: build your own charts, compare one period against another, and see reading heatmaps, pacing and mood trends THE COMMUNITY, ON ITS OWN TAB • Nothing social reaches your home screen unless you put it there • Rate books with stars, plus writing, plot, characters, atmosphere and impact • Follow readers, build shareable lists, and recommend books directly • Buddy reads with milestones and chat, and book clubs • Ask the community for a book and shelve their suggestions in one tap • Fix catalog mistakes yourself and build your reputation as a contributor Free on iPhone, Android and the web. Pro adds more themes, custom charts, deeper stats and higher limits. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://seekquel.app/privacy

Screenshots

BookMatcher4 screens
Seekquel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Seekquel at every 3 days against BookMatcher's every 6 weeks. Seekquel also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (14 vs 4). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BookMatcher sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Seekquel sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BookMatcher against 4.9 for Seekquel. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 14 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BookMatcher ships an update every 6 weeks, Seekquel every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
BookMatcher versus Seekquel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookMatcherSeekquel
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.9 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews—88.9% of reviews
Number of ratings414 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB76 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperCodeHarmonic, LLCMohamed Sabri Ben Chaabane

Customer experience

BookMatcher

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Seekquel

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

BookMatcher

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
3 purchases

Seekquel

Subscriptions2
  • Seekquel Pro (Monthly)14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Seekquel Pro Yearly14 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Seekquel Pro Lifetime$119.99

Questions

Is BookMatcher free?
BookMatcher is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Seekquel free?
Seekquel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BookMatcher or Seekquel?
BookMatcher is rated higher. BookMatcher averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Seekquel averages 4.9 from 14 ratings.
Do BookMatcher or Seekquel have ads?
Neither BookMatcher nor Seekquel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BookMatcher or Seekquel?
BookMatcher ships an update every 6 weeks, and Seekquel every 3 days. Most recently, BookMatcher was updated on October 7, 2026 and Seekquel on October 28, 2026.

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