Reading Goals vs Marcus Aurelius Qotes
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.
Marcus Aurelius Qotes
Receive a daily quote from Marcus Aurelius, presented on a visually appealing reading card. Explore the full library, filter by theme, and save your favorite passages. Link directly to the source books for deeper reading.
- Daily quote delivery
- Source book attribution
- Searchable quote library
- Filter by theme
- Favorite quotes
- Light and dark modes
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Marcus Aurelius Quotes delivers one carefully chosen quotation from Marcus Aurelius each day, drawn from their books and shown on a calm, editorial reading card. • A new quote every morning at the time you choose • Every quote names the book it came from • Search the full library and filter by theme • Save your favorites • Light & dark reading palettes Link out to each source book to read more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Reading Goals at weekly against Marcus Aurelius Qotes's every 2 months. Reading Goals also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Marcus Aurelius Qotes's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Reading Goals holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Marcus Aurelius Qotes has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Reading Goals ships an update weekly, Marcus Aurelius Qotes every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reading Goals | Marcus Aurelius Qotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Ziehl | Epictetus LLC |
Customer experience
Reading Goals
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In-app purchases
Reading Goals
No in-app purchases
Marcus Aurelius Qotes
No in-app purchases
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