Softcover vs Niovela

Your favorite book tracking companion is here! Softcover brings the power of Hardcover to your iPhone with a beautifully designed, native iOS experience. Track Everything You Read Manage your Currently Reading, Want to Read, and Finished lists with ease. Update your progress by page, percentage, or time—perfect for both books and audiobooks. Stay Connected Follow friends, explore trending titles, discover curated community lists, and engage with book discussions. Join a vibrant community of passionate readers. Beautiful Home Screen Widgets Keep your reading progress at your fingertips with elegant widgets showing your current books and reading goals. Smart Features • Detailed reading statistics and annual goals • Release notifications for anticipated titles • Comprehensive book search with ratings and reviews • Edition selection Seamlessly Syncs with Hardcover All your reading data stays perfectly in sync with your Hardcover.app account across all your devices. Requires a free Hardcover.app account.

Niovela is a calm, private place for your reading life. Log the books you read, follow your progress, keep the lines worth keeping and watch your year in books take shape. Your life in books. It is free, with no ads and nothing to upgrade to. You don't need an account to start: your library lives on your device. YOUR LIBRARY • Reading, finished, want to read or abandoned: every book in its place • Page progress, start and finish dates, star ratings, emotions and private notes • Rereads count as new reads, without losing the first one • Search by title, author or ISBN, or scan the barcode with your camera • Book pages with synopsis, similar books, more by the same author and the rest of the series PROGRESS WITHOUT PRESSURE • A yearly reading goal that fills as you go • A daily reading streak and an activity heatmap • Statistics for all time, a year, a month or a week: books, pages, pace, genres, authors and ratings • A year-in-review card and achievements that show how close you are to the next one Niovela celebrates what you read. It never makes you feel behind. REVIEWS, QUOTES AND LISTS • Write a full review or a single line, with spoiler warnings • Save your favorite quotes and share them as an image • Create your own lists, or save Niovela's curated lists with one tap • Read together: invite friends to a shared list and see where each of you is • Follow authors and readers, and translate reviews written in other languages BRING YOUR BOOKS WITH YOU • Import the CSV you export from Goodreads, The StoryGraph, Bookstats or Babelio, or a list of ISBNs; shelves become private lists and reviews arrive private • Export everything as JSON or CSV whenever you want • Your library, stats and streak work offline PRIVACY YOU CONTROL Without an account, your library stays on your device. With one, you choose what your profile shows: reviews, quotes and who you follow each have their own switch, and any review can stay private. A free account is optional: create one with Apple, Google or email to sync between devices, publish reviews and read with friends. You can delete your account from the app at any time. 8 LANGUAGES English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, Polish and Dutch. Dark, light or automatic theme.