Koob vs LitList
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Koob
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Koob is your home library, made digital. Put your real bookcases on your phone, collect your reading life in stamps and notes, and help build a book catalog made by readers. It all runs on your device, so it keeps working with no signal at all. YOUR SHELVES, MADE DIGITAL • Scan an ISBN barcode and the book lands on its shelf, with cover, author and details filled in automatically • Build bookcases and shelves that mirror your home: the office, the bedroom, the pile by the bed • Moving from Goodreads? Drop in your CSV export, we match your books by ISBN, and you shelve them with a live preview • Mark every book as To read, Reading, Read or Did not finish, and find any title at a glance • No signal on the metro, in the stacks or on a plane? Your shelves glow on. Browse, shelve, take notes and log your reading as always A READING LIFE YOU COLLECT • Your milestones are issued as stamps in a collector's album, one series to a page. Each series climbs from bronze through silver, gold and platinum to diamond, and you watch the next tier ink in as you read toward it • Every month you finish books in is bound into a volume you can keep • Keep the quotes and thoughts you want to remember, private to you • Set a yearly goal in books or pages, log your reading sessions, and see in your reading stats whether you're ahead or behind • Rate and review the books you finish READ WITH FRIENDS Add friends and start a reading challenge: race to the last page, read the same book together, guess the book from its cover, or solve a riddle hunt. A LIBRARY BUILT BY READERS Koob's catalog grows with the people who read from it. When a book is missing, add it: scan the spine, snap the cover, fill in what you know. Once a reviewer accepts it, it's in the catalog for good, and every reader who comes looking for it finds it because of you. That includes the local and older editions that are hard to find elsewhere. EARN TOKENS, SPEND THEM ON WHAT YOU NEED Accepted books earn tokens, with a bonus for a spine photo. Fix a typo, add a missing cover, complete an entry: accepted fixes earn tokens too. Prefer not to contribute? Watch an optional ad for free tokens every day. Spend them on Super Search, which digs past our shelves for rare editions and obscure printings, or on Koob+ months. FREE, WITH KOOB+ WHEN YOU WANT MORE Koob is free to use, with no forced ads: the only ads are optional ones you watch for free tokens. Koob+ adds: • Sync across all your devices, so the library you build on one is waiting on the next • A monthly token allowance for Super Search • Scanning a whole stack of books in one go • Special stamp series for your books, your genres and your bookcases • Unlimited private challenges with friends Every book you add helps the next reader. Start building with Koob. Terms of Use (EULA): https://ko-ob.ro/mobile/en/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy Policy: https://ko-ob.ro/mobile/en/privacy-policy/
LitList
Organize your reading life with this app. Track books, rate spice, tag tropes, and discover new reads tailored to your taste. Features include audiobook support, smart search, and social reading with friends.
- Log reading status and streaks
- Audiobook tracking
- Smart library search and filtering
- Trope and spice tagging
- Personalized book recommendations
- Buddy reads and social sharing
- Goodreads library import
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The reading tracker that actually gets readers. Built for how BookTokers think: spice ratings, trope tagging, series tracking. Made for every reader.. Track any book, any genre, any format. TRACK YOUR READING - Log books as Reading, Read, Want to Read, or DNF/soft DNF - Reading streaks, daily goals, and session timer with page tracking - Audiobook support with listening hours and narrator info - Journal entries with mood tracking for each session YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY - Beautiful cover grid with smart search - Filter by status, genre, and vibes (tropes & moods) - Series tracking with reading progress and book order - Spice ratings and trope tags — because BookTok gets it - Content warnings, half-star ratings, and spoiler-tagged reviews DISCOVER YOUR NEXT READ - Today's Pick — a free daily recommendation curated to your taste - Mood Match — tell it your craving and it picks from your own TBR - Browse by tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Slow Burn, Found Family, and more - Filter by spice level from mild to explicit - New in Your Series — never miss a release READ WITH FRIENDS - Buddy reads with real-time progress sharing - Friends system with activity feed - Send book recommendations to friends - Shareable stats cards, reading challenges, and goals FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY - Create a reading profile for your child under your account - Track their books and milestones together - No ads ever shown to child profiles IMPORT & GET STARTED FAST - Import your Goodreads library in under 2 minutes — shelves, ratings, and read dates transfer automatically - Import from any reading app or CSV - Instant cover art, metadata, and series detection - Scan barcodes to add books in seconds, or batch-scan a whole stack GO FURTHER WITH LITLIST PLUS - Picked For You — unlimited personalized recommendation batches - Mood Match for your TBR - Search by theme, mood, or vibe - Premium stats card designs & Year in Review - All vibe themes — Romantasy, Cottagecore & Dark Academia - Unlimited reading challenges - Unlimited family profiles Built independently in Canada by a reader, for readers. No ads. No data selling. Just your reading life, beautifully organized. Terms of Use (EULA): https://litlist.ca/terms Privacy Policy: https://litlist.ca/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: LitList at none against Koob's shown. LitList also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Koob sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and LitList sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Koob ships an update monthly, LitList weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Koob | LitList |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Sebastian Jipa | merakistorms |
In-app purchases
Koob
- Premium 1 Month$4.991 Month
- Premium 6 Months$24.996 Months
- Premium 12 Months$44.991 Year
- Mini$2.99
- Plus$6.99
- Max$14.99
LitList
- LitList Plus Monthly$5.991 Month
- LitList Plus Annual$34.991 Year









