Reading Goals vs MindShelf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Home Screen widgets
- Reading goal progress
- Books read this year
- Total books read
- Pages read tracking
- Five-year history
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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.
MindShelf
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
Reading Goals ships an update weekly, MindShelf every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reading Goals | MindShelf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Ziehl | Fawaz Alkhodier |
Customer experience
Reading Goals
MindShelf
In-app purchases
Reading Goals
No in-app purchases
MindShelf
No in-app purchases








