Leafed vs ReadBrew
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Leafed
This app provides a peaceful space to log your reading and listening habits. It offers features like quote saving, audiobook tracking, goal setting, and detailed reading insights without ads or a social feed.
- Log reading and audiobooks
- Save quotes via camera
- Import Kindle highlights
- Set reading goals
- Detailed reading insights
- Offline functionality
- Data export
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Leafed is a calm, friendly place to keep track of what you read and listen to. WHAT LEAFED WON'T DO - No feed, no followers, no algorithm deciding what you read next - No ads, ever - No AI reading your library - No paywall on your stats - Not owned by Amazon What's left is your books, your notes, and the pile you'll get to eventually. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Keep track of what you're reading, what you've finished, and what's waiting on the nightstand - Open to what matters: what you're reading, what's up next from your Want to Read shelf, and the books you looked at but haven't added yet - Find any book on your shelves fast: search ignores accents and capitals, matches authors, and takes an ISBN - Save a line you love by pointing your camera at the page. Leafed turns it into a quote you can keep - Bring in your Kindle highlights - See one of your saved quotes on Home each day - Audiobooks count too: mark a book as an audiobook, log where you stopped in hours and minutes, and rate the narration on its own - Own it twice? Note that you also have a book as an ebook or audiobook, and keep track of copies you sold, donated, or gave away - Set a goal for the year (books, pages, or hours), or a daily one in minutes or pages, and watch it fill up - Keep a streak without the guilt: every 7 days you read earns a freeze that covers a missed day - Sort books onto shelves that make sense to you, and add your own - Add a book in seconds by scanning its barcode - Tap a genre on any book to see what else is in it - Find your next read: what's trending, browse by genre, the New York Times bestseller lists, and indie books you won't see everywhere else - See your reading in Insights: pages read, hours listened, genres, favorite authors and narrators, a reading calendar, and your finished books as spines on a shelf - Read a written recap of your reading year, made on your phone from your own library - Keep what you're reading on your Home Screen with the Leafed widget - Share a book, a goal, a shelf, or your year as a card sized for Stories or feeds, saved to Photos or sent anywhere COMING FROM ANOTHER APP? Choose the file the other app gave you, and Leafed works out whether it came from Goodreads, StoryGraph, Bookmory, Audible, or Kindle. You see every change before anything is written; you can fill in or update books you already have, and rows that can't be imported come back as a file you can fix. Your shelves, ratings, and dates come with you, and StoryGraph's moods and pace come across too. And you can export everything anytime. Your books are yours, whether you're in or out. WHERE YOUR BOOKS LIVE IS UP TO YOU - On your phone only. That's the default; it works fully offline and requires no account. - iCloud backup, to keep your library safe across your Apple devices, still without an account. - A free Leafed account, if you'd like your library on every phone and tablet you read on, plus on the web at leafed.app. WHAT IT COSTS Nothing to track your reading. No paywall on your books or stats, no book limit, no subscription. If Leafed earns a spot on your nightstand, there's a tip jar, plus an optional one-time Supporter Pack of share card styles. Tracking, stats and sync stay free either way.
ReadBrew
Track your reading progress, set daily goals, and build reading streaks with this private companion. Organize your library, view motivating stats, and unlock advanced features with an optional Pro subscription.
- Daily page goal tracking
- Reading streak builder
- Library organization
- Reading timer
- Progress statistics
- Home Screen widgets (Pro)
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ReadBrew is your cozy, private reading companion. Log pages in seconds, hit your daily goal and watch your streak grow. READ A LITTLE EVERY DAY • Daily page goal with a progress ring • Streaks that celebrate every day you read • Reminders at the time you choose • Reading timer to time your sessions YOUR LIBRARY, ORGANIZED • Unlimited books, free • Shelves: Reading, Up Next and Finished • Search any book and add it with its cover • Yearly challenge: choose how many books to read this year STATS THAT MOTIVATE • Pages per day, reading speed and your best day • An estimate of when you'll finish each book PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No ads • Your reading history is yours READBREW PRO • Heatmap of your whole reading year • Full stats: month, year and all-time • Home Screen widgets • All themes: Rose, Ocean, Lavender and more • Challenges, badges and shareable cards Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Portuguese.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Leafed at free against ReadBrew's freemium. Leafed also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 11 days) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Leafed sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and ReadBrew sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Leafed against 5.0 for ReadBrew. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Leafed has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Leafed ships an update every 3 days, ReadBrew every 11 days. Both last shipped on November 9, 2026.
| Parameter | Leafed | ReadBrew |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 98 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mike Watson | Boolean and Bean Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Leafed
ReadBrew
In-app purchases
Leafed
- Small Tip$1.99
- Supporter Pack$4.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
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- Large Tip$9.99
- Box Set Tip$19.99
- First Edition Tip$49.99
ReadBrew
- Pro Monthly$2.491 Month
- Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year








