Comparison

Bookmark vs My Library

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

Head to head
About

Bookmark

Organize your entire book life in one beautifully designed app. Track books, build reading habits, manage wishlists, and connect with other readers. Perfect for managing physical bookshelves, reading goals, and subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Track books owned and reading progress
  • Build daily reading habits and goals
  • Manage wishlists and upcoming releases
  • Organize physical bookshelves visually
  • Connect with other readers and join book clubs
  • Sync across all devices
Features
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Bookmark - The beautifully organised reading tracker. Bookmark is the all-in-one book tracker and reading companion for readers who want their entire book life organised in one calm, beautifully designed app. Track your books, build better reading habits, manage your wishlist, and connect with other readers. Perfect for readers who want to organise their physical bookshelves, reading goals, book clubs, subscriptions and preorders in one place. YOUR ENTIRE BOOK LIFE - IN ONE APP Bookmark helps you organise every part of your reading life: • Track the books you own • Log your reading progress • Build daily reading habits • Plan future book purchases • Track upcoming releases • Manage book subscriptions and release guesses • Connect with other readers • Join book clubs and discussions • Sync across all your devices BUILD YOUR PERSONAL LIBRARY Organise your books with rich details: • Track status: To Read, Reading, Read, or DNF • Scan barcodes or search by ISBN • Track series, special editions, formats, and condition • Rate books and add notes • Tag books for powerful filtering • Log multiple rereads • Record book loans, and what sold copies went for • Add custom cover, spine and edge photos • Import from Goodreads, StoryGraph or any spreadsheet in seconds YOUR BOOKSHELF, ON SCREEN See your collection the way it sits on the shelf: • A visual bookshelf built from your covers and spines • Custom shelves with your own order • Add books to a shelf with search, filters and multi-select • Wish list shelves for the books you want next DEVELOP READING HABITS Turn reading into a daily ritual: • Set yearly reading goals • Track pages, reading minutes, or listening minutes • Build reading streaks • Protect streaks with freeze days • Gentle reminders to keep reading • Home Screen widgets for streaks, goals and preorders • Celebrate milestones along the way ORGANISE YOUR NEXT READ Plan your future reading and purchases: • Wishlist with priorities, ranking and price tracking • Gift lists you can share with friends and family • Retailer links and discount codes for easy purchasing • Multi-currency support • Track preorders and upcoming releases • Release calendar and reminders TRACK BOOK BOXES AND SUBSCRIPTIONS Keep every book box, magazine and series in view: • Renewal dates, skips and cancellations • Spending charts across all your subscriptions • Guess the next release and see how you did • Curated release guesses from the community CONNECT WITH OTHER READERS Reading is better together: • Create your own reader profile • Follow friends and discover new readers • Activity feed showing what others are reading • Like and comment on reading updates • Private profiles and follower approvals • Built-in safety tools and reporting JOIN BOOK CLUBS Read together with the Bookmark community: • Create or join book clubs • Vote on the next book to read • Set reading schedules and milestones • Spoiler-safe chapter threads that unlock as you read • Link your library books to club reads SHARE YOUR READING LIFE Create beautiful shareable reading cards: • Currently Reading cards with your cover as the backdrop • Reading streak achievements • Monthly wrap summaries • Story and square sizes, with transparent export • Perfect for sharing on Instagram and BookTok DESIGNED FOR READERS Bookmark focuses on calm design and thoughtful details: • Clean, distraction-free interface • Powerful search and filtering • Reading statistics, year by year • Live multi-currency conversion • Cloud sync, backup and export Whether you’re building your dream bookshelf, chasing reading goals, or discovering your next favourite book, Bookmark keeps your reading life organised — beautifully. Terms of Use https://bookmarkapp.com.au/terms Privacy Policy https://bookmarkapp.com.au/privacy

About

My Library

Features
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My Library is the reading tracker built for people who take their books seriously and their privacy even more so. No account, no sign-in, no server. Everything you log lives only on your device, exactly where it belongs. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN The book you're reading, cover, title and a progress bar, or your streak and this year's goal. Pin a book, or leave it to follow whatever you picked up last. Small and medium sizes. YOUR LIBRARY Scan the barcode on the back of a book and it's on your shelf in seconds and it says straight away if you've already read it, and how you rated it. No signal in the shop? It saves the book anyway and fills in the details next time you're online. Or search Google Books, or type it in by hand. Four shelves built in, plus a favourites heart and as many of your own as you like. Track series, and see which books you're missing. TRACK AS YOU READ Log your page straight from the home screen, two taps, no digging. Track by pages, percentage, or both at once. Rate in half stars, write reviews, save quotes, attach notes to a chapter or page. Reviews and notes save themselves as you write, so an interrupted thought is still there when you return. Re-read something and it counts again without losing the first time. MY CONTENT Every quote, note and review you've written, in one searchable place. Search runs across the words and the book, so "clarke labyrinth" finds a passage that never names its author. SESSIONS & STATS Start the timer when you sit down and stop when you're done. Every session becomes stats that mean something: reading time, pages per hour, current and longest streak, a 52-week heatmap, a genre breakdown, and how long the book in your hands has left. At the end of the year, a shareable recap of the whole thing. GOALS & CHALLENGES Set a yearly target and a weekly page goal, and see whether you're on pace. Take on challenges, ten decades, five genres, three ways of reading, each checked against your library, so the count means what it says. BADGES 114 badges, most levelling from Bronze to Diamond: books read, pages turned, streaks held, genres explored, authors discovered, series completed. Plus one-off feats for the unusual, a book finished in a day, five quotes from one title, three different languages. Seasonal badges arrive with the world's reading days and the turn of the seasons, wherever you are. BRING YOUR LIBRARY WITH YOU Import from Goodreads or StoryGraph, shelves, ratings, reviews, dates, series and re-reads all come across, and anything already on your shelves is skipped rather than duplicated. Kindle highlights import from My Clippings.txt and find their own books. EXPORT & BACKUP Export as a CSV or a formatted PDF reading log, or back everything up to a JSON file and restore it whenever. Delete a book by mistake and it waits 30 days in Recently Deleted, with everything that belonged to it. BUILT TO BE READABLE Five text sizes, bold text, and a high-contrast mode that goes further than the usual. An Easier Reading setting switches to an simpler font. Ten accent colours, Reduce Motion respected, and built with screen readers in mind. On iPad in landscape, your library and the book you're reading sit side by side. PRO — ONE PAYMENT, YOURS FOREVER Pro unlocks unlimited books and quotes, My Content, the reading timer and session history, full stats and heatmap, Year in Reading, challenges, seasonal badges, custom shelves, weekly goals, daily reminders, and the three imports. One purchase, no subscription. Bought it already? Restore Purchase in Settings. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No backend, no analytics, no network access beyond looking a book up. Your reading history cannot be sold, mined, or lost in someone else's breach. Erase All Data in Settings does exactly that. This is not a service. It's software. It works offline, it works forever, and it belongs entirely to you.

Screenshots

Bookmark4 screens
My Library4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: My Library at 16.4 against Bookmark's 26.2. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Bookmark sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and My Library sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Bookmark versus My Library: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookmarkMy Library
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (43 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings43 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.216.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDean McGrathAchievoEDU PTY LTD

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Bookmark

Subscriptions2
  • Bookmark Pro$2.991 Month
  • Bookmark Professional$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Bookmark Founding Members$399.99
1 purchases

My Library

One-time1
  • My Library Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Bookmark free?
Bookmark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Library free?
My Library is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bookmark or My Library have ads?
Neither Bookmark nor My Library shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bookmark or My Library?
Bookmark ships an update every 3 days, and My Library every 3 days. Most recently, Bookmark was updated on October 31, 2026 and My Library on October 31, 2026.

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