Comparison

Book Tracker & Log vs Bookgeist

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

Head to head
About

Book Tracker & Log

This app helps you organize your entire reading life, track progress towards your reading goals, and discover new books. It offers visual bookshelves, detailed statistics, and daily reminders to encourage consistent reading.

Highlights
  • Visual bookshelf organization
  • Annual reading goal tracking
  • Detailed reading statistics
  • Book discovery via search and ISBN scan
  • Daily reading reminders
  • iCloud sync across Apple devices
Features
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Booxne is a book tracker built around one simple idea: every book you read deserves a place on your shelf. Add a book and its spine appears on your bookshelf, in the colors of its cover. Track your pages, keep your reviews, notes and quotes, and watch your shelf fill up all year long. YOUR BOOKSHELF Every book becomes a spine, colored from its cover. Filter by status, search your shelf, and sort by title, author or color for a beautifully ordered shelf. 5 STATUSES Reading, To Read, Finished, Wishlist and Abandoned. Read several books at once: they all wait for you on the home screen. EVERY PAGE COUNTS Add your pages in two taps. Booxne keeps your reading history day by day and builds your reading streak. CELEBRATE EVERY FINISH Finished a book? Rate it with half stars and write your review in a few words. NOTES AND QUOTES (PRO) Keep a little journal for each book: dated notes, with the page if you want, and your favorite quotes on their own cards. YOUR YEAR IN READING Set your yearly goal and watch it grow. See your streak, your reading calendar and, with Pro, all your stats: pages per day, genres, ratings and more. FIND ANY BOOK Search in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian, scan an ISBN barcode, or add a book by hand if it can't be found. A GENTLE REMINDER One reminder a day, at the time you choose. On days you've already read, Booxne stays quiet. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Your books stay on your iPhone and sync for free with your private iCloud. FREE AND PRO Booxne is free for up to 5 books. Booxne Pro unlocks everything with a single purchase: - Unlimited books - Notes and quotes - All statistics - Library export (CSV and JSON) - One-time payment, yours for life - No subscription, ever EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://booxne.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://booxne.com/terms

About

Bookgeist

Features
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Bookgeist is an app for organizing your books, tracking your reading, and preserving everything that happens along the way. But it’s much more than a library manager. You can organize books, collections, and series; track reading sessions and progress; save quotes; build your reading history; explore statistics, goals, and reading memories; and create a notebook that connects characters, places, theories, notes, and everything else you discover between the pages. Bookgeist tries to preserve something that usually gets lost: not just which books you’ve read, but what those books left with you. YOUR LIBRARY Organize all your books and create a space of your own for your collection. • A complete library with multiple views, filters, and search. • Manual and smart collections. • Series and sagas with their own dedicated space. • Favorites, TBRs, and personal lists. • Built to handle large libraries, too. YOUR READING Bookgeist stays with you while you read. • Track reading sessions and reading time. • Plan what you want to read next. • Follow your progress and reading streaks. • Explore your activity and reading calendar. • Keep a complete history for every book. • Discover statistics, goals, and your year in reading. • Track loans and purchases. THE NOTEBOOK This is where Bookgeist becomes a little less conventional. The Notebook isn’t just for writing notes. You can save quotes, characters, places, creatures, organizations, theories, images, audio, and other elements from your reading. And then you can connect them. Link characters to one another, connect places with events, build family trees, follow theories, or create a map of everything you’ve discovered inside a book. A book may end. Your notebook doesn’t have to. Bookgeist is free to download and use, with no limits on books or reading sessions. Bookgeist Studio unlocks advanced features through a subscription. BOOKGEIST STUDIO Studio expands Bookgeist for readers who want to take their library and reading much further. • Full series features, progress tracking, and notebooks shared across all books in a series. • Favorite quotes and books, rankings, Tier Lists, and Wrap-ups. • Upcoming releases and reminders. • Achievements, badges, and collectible items. • Your year in reading and special shelves: Hall of Fame, yearly reads, and your full library in alphabetical order. • More themes, fonts, and alternative views. • Detailed analysis of your library, reading habits, and spending. • AI-powered features: recognize books and entire shelves to import them into your library, generate images of characters from your own descriptions, and much more. PRIVATE. LOCAL. YOURS. Your books, notes, and reading history live on your phone. No account required, and the core features work offline. Your library isn’t a public profile, and your notes remain private unless you choose to share them with someone. It’s your library. It stays with you. AND GEISTY Geisty is the little spirit that lives inside Bookgeist. He’ll keep you company while you read and appear in different corners of the app. His name shares the same root as Bookgeist: Geist, the German word for “spirit.” Bookgeist also plays on the idea of Zeitgeist — the “spirit of an age” — to imagine something like the spirit of books. The one that lives within every book. The one that runs through our reading. And, above all, the one that stays with us long after we’ve finished. That’s the kind of place I’m trying to build in Bookgeist. A place for your books. For your reading. And for everything they leave with you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Book Tracker & Log4 screens
Bookgeist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Book Tracker & Log at every 6 days against Bookgeist's fortnightly. Bookgeist's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Book Tracker & Log sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Bookgeist sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $3.90 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Book Tracker & Log ships an update every 6 days, Bookgeist fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Book Tracker & Log versus Bookgeist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook Tracker & LogBookgeist
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB202 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAlessio MunziLuis Gonzalez Lopez

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Book Tracker & Log

One-time1
  • Booxne Pro - Lifetime Access$17.99
9 purchases

Bookgeist

Subscriptions2
  • Bookgeist Studio Monthly$3.901 Month
  • Bookgeist Studio Yearly$22.901 Year
One-time7
  • Buy me a coffee$1.99
  • Stamps 20$2.90
  • Stamps 40$3.90
Show 4 more
  • Movie night$8.99
  • Stamps 100$9.90
  • Treat me to a book!$17.90
  • Bookgeist Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is Book Tracker & Log free?
Book Tracker & Log is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bookgeist free?
Bookgeist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Book Tracker & Log or Bookgeist have ads?
Neither Book Tracker & Log nor Bookgeist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Book Tracker & Log or Bookgeist?
Book Tracker & Log ships an update every 6 days, and Bookgeist fortnightly. Most recently, Book Tracker & Log was updated on October 24, 2026 and Bookgeist on October 24, 2026.

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