Comparison

Commonplace vs Pagehour

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

Head to head
About

Commonplace

Log books, magazines, and short fiction, track your reading progress, and capture notes. Visualize your reading year with stats and a timeline. Your library is private and syncs via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Log books, magazines, and short fiction
  • Track reading progress (To Read, Started, Finished)
  • Record start/finish dates and ratings
  • Capture notes before, during, and after reading
  • Yearly reading statistics and timeline
  • Private iCloud sync, no account needed
Features
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Commonplace is a personal reading tracker for books, science fiction/fantasy magazines, and short fiction. Log what you're reading, keep notes as you go, and look back on your reading year. BOOKS • Add books instantly by search, or share a link from Safari, Libby, or any bookstore page. • Track your pile: To Read, Started, Finished, Did Not Finish. • Record start and finish dates, rate books, and tag them print, audio, or digital. • Track the books you re-read. Commonplace can count and log multiple readings. MAGAZINES & SHORT FICTION • Import issues from Clarkesworld, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. • Track every story you read with its own rating and notes. • Add stories by hand or from an EPUB. NOTES • Capture thoughts during each phase of reading: before, during, and after. Commonplace will tag and sort them. • Search and filter notes across your whole library, and export them all as Markdown. YOUR READING YEAR • Yearly stats: books, stories, pages, ratings, and month-by-month charts. • A Reading Timeline that lays your whole year out visually. YOURS, PRIVATELY • No account. No ads. No tracking. Your library lives on your device and syncs privately through your own iCloud. • Import your history from Goodreads or Libby CSV exports; back up everything to JSON anytime. • Optionally connect micro.blog to share your bookshelves. Commonplace is for readers who want to remember what they read and how they felt about it.

About

Pagehour

Features
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Start a book. Read. Stop. Pagehour tells you your pace and your finish date before you put the phone down. Open your book, tap Start, read, tap Stop and enter the page you reached. That's the whole job. The moment you save, you see it: "31 pages · 23 min · finish Oct 9". STREAKS THAT DON'T CHEAT YOU A day counts as soon as it has real pages or a real minute of reading. Forgot to log? Add today or yesterday for free, any time. Sessions that run past midnight, daylight saving and time-zone travel are tested, not guessed at, so your streak never resets on its own. ONE SHELF FOR EVERYTHING YOU READ Reading, Want to read, Finished and Didn't finish. Search by title or author, or scan the barcode on the back of a book. Nothing found? Add it by hand. EVERY BOOK, ITS OWN NUMBERS Progress, time left and a finish date for each book. Notes, a session history you can edit, and a rating when you finish. Listening instead? Audiobook mode logs minutes instead of pages. YOU DECIDE WHEN A BOOK IS DONE Reaching the last page never marks a book finished for you. When you do finish, share a clean card of the book, your days and your pages to Stories or anywhere else. BRING YOUR GOODREADS SHELVES, FREE Export your library from Goodreads and import the file. Ratings, finish dates and your to-read pile come across in one go. It's duplicate-safe, so you can run it again later. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No account and no sign-in. Your library lives on your phone, and you can export all of it as CSV or JSON whenever you like. No ads, ever. FREE FOREVER Logging, the timer, unlimited books, streaks, Goodreads import, export and the last 30 days of stats. PAGEHOUR PRO - Full stats beyond the last 30 days: minutes, pages and books by month and year - Streak repair: log a missed day from the last 60 days - Streak freezes: earn one for every 7 days you read, and bank up to 3 for busy days Pro is optional. It's mentioned once, on your third day of reading; after that you only see it when you open a Pro feature. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Pagehour Pro is an auto-renewing subscription: Pro Yearly (1 year, with a 1-week free trial) or Pro Monthly (1 month). Prices are shown in the app in your local currency before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Any unused part of a free trial ends when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://pagehour.com/terms (Apple's standard EULA also applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/) Privacy Policy: https://pagehour.com/privacy Support: support@pagehour.com

Screenshots

Commonplace4 screens
Pagehour4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Commonplace at none against Pagehour's 2. Pagehour's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Pagehour sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Commonplace asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Commonplace versus Pagehour: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCommonplacePagehour
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTim LockridgeACEFINA LLC

In-app purchases

None

Commonplace

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Pagehour

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Commonplace free?
Commonplace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pagehour free?
Pagehour is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Commonplace or Pagehour have ads?
Neither Commonplace nor Pagehour shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Commonplace or Pagehour?
Commonplace ships an update every 3 days, and Pagehour every 3 days. Most recently, Commonplace was updated on October 31, 2026 and Pagehour on October 31, 2026.

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