Comparison

Turning Pages Book Companion vs Gloss

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

Head to head
About

Turning Pages Book Companion

Organize your entire book library, track reading progress, and build consistent reading habits. Effortlessly add books by scanning barcodes or searching, and stay motivated with visual statistics and reading streaks. Syncs across devices and offers home screen widgets.

Highlights
  • Organize library with smart categories
  • Track reading progress with visual bars
  • Add books via barcode scan or search
  • Build reading streaks and view stats
  • Sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
  • Home screen widgets and Siri Shortcuts
Features
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Track your reading journey with Turning Pages – the beautiful, intuitive book tracker designed for book lovers. Whether you're a casual reader or a bookworm with an ever-growing TBR pile, Turning Pages helps you organize your library, track your progress, and build lasting reading habits. **ORGANIZE YOUR ENTIRE LIBRARY** - Manage your books with smart categories: Currently Reading, Want to Read, and Completed - Create custom tags and locations to organize books by shelf, room, or any system you prefer - Sort and filter by genre, author, rating, or favorites - Search your entire collection instantly **TRACK YOUR READING PROGRESS** - Update your current page with a single tap from the dashboard - Visual progress bars show how far you've come - Half-star ratings let you rate books precisely - Add personal notes and reviews to remember your thoughts **ADD BOOKS EFFORTLESSLY** - Scan barcodes with your camera for instant book lookup - Search by title, author, or ISBN - Enter ISBN manually for quick additions - Create manual entries for any book **BUILD READING STREAKS** - Track daily reading habits with the streak calendar - See pages read each day at a glance - Stay motivated with visual reading statistics - View comprehensive reading stats and insights **WIDGETS & APPLE WATCH** - Home screen widgets show your reading progress - Apple Watch app lets you update pages from your wrist - Watch complication displays progress at a glance - Siri Shortcuts for hands-free page updates **SYNC ACROSS ALL DEVICES** - iCloud sync keeps your library updated everywhere - Available on iPhone, iPad today - Mac version coming soon! - Export your library to CSV anytime **THOUGHTFULLY DESIGNED** - Clean, modern interface that puts your books first - Dark mode support - Optimized for all screen sizes Start with 100 free books, then upgrade to Premium for unlimited library storage with a one-time purchase. No subscriptions, no recurring fees – just a simple upgrade that lasts forever. Download Turning Pages today and rediscover the joy of tracking your reading journey.

About

Gloss

Features
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Gloss turns anything you read into a conversation with its author. Highlight any passage — in a book, a PDF, an article you saved, or your own notes — and a margin note appears, explaining it more deeply in a voice informed by the author's style (or a thoughtful guide when there's no single author). Ask a follow-up and the note answers, staying right beside the text. The AI lives in the margins, never as a chat window — it reads like a thoughtful annotation, beside the text. Read anything: • EPUB books (DRM-free) — your files, Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, author-direct. (Kindle and Apple Books DRM files aren't supported.) • PDFs — papers, manuals, anything you've saved. • Articles — paste a link and Gloss pulls the readable text to annotate. • Your notes — write or paste text and gloss it like a book. • Select text → Gloss, Go deeper, Define, or Ask — the note streams into the margin (a side column on iPad, an anchored card on iPhone). • Distraction-free reading — three themes (light, sepia, dark), adjustable font, size, spacing, and margins. • Your highlights and notes are saved on your device and travel with each document. Reading is free forever. Your first 10 glosses are free; Gloss Unlimited ($5.99/month or $49.99/year) unlocks unlimited notes. Your files stay on your device — only the highlighted passage and a small amount of surrounding text are sent to generate a note. Author "voices" are an AI interpretation, not the real author, and may be inaccurate. Gloss Unlimited is an auto-renewable subscription: $5.99/month or $49.99/year. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at purchase confirmation. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://gloss.nyrai.ai/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://gloss.nyrai.ai/privacy.html

Screenshots

Turning Pages Book Companion4 screens
Gloss4 screens

Verdict

The call

Turning Pages Book Companion and Gloss are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Turning Pages Book Companion sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Gloss sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Turning Pages Book Companion versus Gloss: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTurning Pages Book CompanionGloss
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB13 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJohn JacobsenNYRAI LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Turning Pages Book Companion

One-time1
  • Premium Upgrade$3.99
2 purchases

Gloss

Subscriptions2
  • Gloss Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Gloss Yearly$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Turning Pages Book Companion free?
Turning Pages Book Companion is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gloss free?
Gloss is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Turning Pages Book Companion or Gloss have ads?
Neither Turning Pages Book Companion nor Gloss shows ads.

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