Leero vs Second Reading
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Leero
This app helps you log books, track reading sessions, and build a reading journal. Set goals, build streaks, and view stats to stay motivated and remember what you read. Organize your library and enhance your reading habit.
- Log books (want to read, reading, finished)
- Track reading sessions (pages, time)
- Set daily reading goals
- Build reading streaks
- Save notes and quotes
- View reading statistics
- Add books via search or scan
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Leero is a simple reading tracker that helps you log books, track your reading progress, and keep a beautiful reading journal. It is designed for readers who want to stay consistent, set reading goals, and remember more of what they read. With Leero, you can: • Track books you want to read, are currently reading, and have finished • Log reading sessions by pages, chapters, or time • Set daily reading goals • Build consistency with streaks • Save notes, thoughts, and favorite quotes • View reading stats, trends, and progress reports • Add books by search, barcode scan, or manual entry • Import your existing book library from supported sources • Focus on reading without ads, banners, or popups Leero helps you stay motivated without making reading feel like work. It keeps your library organized, shows how your reading grows, and helps you remember what each book gave you. It is free to use with all essential features included. If you want deeper insights and more tools to support your reading habit, you can upgrade to Leero Premium. Premium features: • Unlimited notes and quotes: Save as many thoughts, favorite lines, and questions as you want • Monthly and yearly goals: Set bigger reading goals and track long-term progress • Advanced statistics: Explore your reading habits in more detail with deeper insights and reports • Sync and daily backups: Keep your library up to date across your devices and restore from backups when needed Leero is more than a book tracker. It is a simple reading companion that helps you stay motivated, build consistency, and remember every book long after you finish it. No ads. No clutter. Just a better way to read. --- About Premium plan billing Your subscription will automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store settings. The subscription will remain active until the end of the paid period. TERMS OF SERVICE: https://leero.app/terms-of-service PRIVACY POLICY: https://leero.app/privacy-policy --- If you have any questions or suggestions, contact hello@leero.app
Second Reading
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You read something great on your Kindle and highlighted it. Now what? Second Reading imports the highlights you saved on your Kindle and gives them somewhere to live: a customizable Home Screen widget, a searchable library, and a cozy daily page worth returning to. Every highlight arrives on a color of its own, so no two quite feel the same. No account is needed. No analytics collected. Your library stays on your device and on your other devices too, through your own iCloud, if you turn it on. HOME SCREEN WIDGET Small, medium, or large. Rotates hourly or daily, in your choice of four typefaces, and shifts color as it goes. Pin a single shade if you would rather it sat still beside your wallpaper, or pick a neutral and have no color there at all. Tap a highlight to open it in the app. Show only your favorites if you would rather see only a few quotes. TODAY One highlight, full page, nothing competing for attention — on a field of color that changes along with it. Pull another whenever you like, mark a favorite, or share it. YOUR LIBRARY Every book you have highlighted, sorted by title, author, or most recently read. Turn a book off to keep it out of the rotation without deleting anything — or turn off a single highlight and leave the rest of the book showing. SEARCH Full-text search across everything you have imported, including books you have switched off. RE-IMPORTING IS SAFE Import your clippings file as often as you like. Second Reading works out what is genuinely new, leaves the edits you have made alone, and asks which version to keep only in the rare case where it cannot tell. QUOTES OF YOUR OWN Type in a line from a paper book and keep it alongside the rest. BUILT FOR IPHONE AND IPAD One app, both devices, with a layout that uses the space it is given. CROSS-DEVICE SYNC Off until you switch it on. Turn it on and your highlights, notes and favorites stay in step across your iPhone and iPad, through your own iCloud account with no server of ours in the middle. PRIVACY Second Reading is privacy focused. There is no server, no account, no tracking, and no third-party SDK collecting anything. Nothing you import ever leaves your device unless you choose to sync with your iCloud account. Free. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no advertising. Second Reading is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Amazon. "Kindle" is used only to describe the highlights file the app reads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Second Reading at 5.0 against Leero's 4.4. Second Reading also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5). Leero's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). On price, ads, 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. Leero sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Second Reading asks for nothing beyond the download.
Second Reading holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Leero has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Leero ships an update every 3 days, Second Reading every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Leero | Second Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vladimir Sevastianov | Nicholas Kinloch |
In-app purchases
Leero
- Premium$4.991 Month
- Early Adopter$19.991 Year
- Premium$39.991 Year
- Early Adopter Lifetime$39.99
- Premium Lifetime$79.99
Second Reading
No in-app purchases









