Comparison

Reading Goals vs MindShelf

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

Head to head
About

Reading Goals

Display your reading progress directly on your iOS Home Screen with customizable widgets. Track books read this year, total books, and pages consumed, with a five-year history available in the companion app.

Highlights
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Reading goal progress
  • Books read this year
  • Total books read
  • Pages read tracking
  • Five-year history
Features
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Reading Goals is a iOS app built primarily to place useful, bookish widgets on your Home Screen. After you confirm a public reading profile, it saves only the essential reading statistics on-device so widgets can show reading-goal progress, books read this year, total books read, and—in the largest summary—pages read and whether you are on pace; the companion app provides manual refresh, optional daily updates, and a swipeable five-year history.

About

MindShelf

Features
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MindShelf helps you remember what you read. Build your personal shelf of books, save meaningful notes, capture quotes, and return to ideas that matter. Instead of losing highlights in screenshots, notebooks, or scattered notes apps, MindShelf gives every book its own clean space for your thoughts. Features • Build your personal digital bookshelf • Search and add books instantly • Save notes, quotes, lessons, and reflections • Organize thoughts by book • View reading insights and patterns • Beautiful minimal design built for focus • Secure sync across devices Why MindShelf? Reading creates ideas. MindShelf helps you keep them. Whether you read self-development, business, fiction, or philosophy, MindShelf becomes your private library of knowledge and memories. Download MindShelf and start building a shelf worth revisiting.

Screenshots

Reading Goals4 screens
MindShelf3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Reading Goals at weekly against MindShelf's every 6 months. On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Reading Goals against 5.0 for MindShelf. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reading Goals ships an update weekly, MindShelf every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Reading Goals versus MindShelf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReading GoalsMindShelf
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB83 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrew ZiehlFawaz Alkhodier

Customer experience

Reading Goals

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

MindShelf

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Reading Goals

No in-app purchases

None

MindShelf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Reading Goals free?
Reading Goals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MindShelf free?
MindShelf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Reading Goals or MindShelf?
Reading Goals and MindShelf are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Reading Goals or MindShelf have ads?
Neither Reading Goals nor MindShelf shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reading Goals or MindShelf?
Reading Goals ships an update weekly, and MindShelf every 6 months. Most recently, Reading Goals was updated on October 19, 2026 and MindShelf on October 24, 2026.

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