Lamplit vs ReadFlow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lamplit
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Lamplit is a reading tracker designed for people who love books. Track your reading sessions, organize your library, build streaks, and explore your stats — all in a warm, beautifully themed experience. TRACK YOUR READING Start a timed reading session and see it live on your Dynamic Island. Log pages for physical books, ebooks, or audiobooks. Pause, resume, and review session summaries with pages-per-minute stats. Focus mode with ambient reading sounds helps you stay in the zone — rain, fireplace, coffee shop, forest, ocean, or library. BUILD YOUR LIBRARY Organize books by status — currently reading, want to read, finished, paused, or did not finish. Create custom shelves, track series in order, and import your existing library via CSV. Scan barcodes to add books instantly, or search and enter them manually. STATS & STREAKS See your reading trends with charts: pages per month, genre breakdowns, reading speed over time, and more. Set annual reading goals and track your progress. Build reading streaks and earn achievements along the way. RATE, TAG & DISCOVER Rate books with half-star precision. Add spice ratings, content warnings, tropes, and mood tags. Track point of view, pacing, and genre-specific ratings like fluff, angst, and humor. Use AI-powered vibe search to find books in your library by feel — search "cozy autumn mystery" and get results that match. Or choose Clean & Simple mode and see only the essentials. READ TOGETHER Start a reading session with friends on FaceTime via SharePlay. See each other's progress in real time and keep each other accountable. Or create an async reading group where everyone reads at their own pace. SHARE YOUR HIGHLIGHTS Generate shareable social cards: your Top 4 books, Currently Reading spotlight, Year in Books recap, and Monthly Wrap — ready to share on social media. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from seven handcrafted color themes — Lamplit, Ember, Sage, Bloom, Cobalt, Aurora, and Inkwell — each with light and dark modes. Lamplit looks the way reading feels: warm, inviting, and personal. WIDGETS & SHORTCUTS Home Screen widgets show your current book and goal progress. Lock Screen widgets keep your reading stats at a glance. Control Center button to jump straight into a session. Siri Shortcuts let you log reading time hands-free. Works with Spotlight search across your entire library. PRIVACY FIRST No accounts required. No ads. No third-party SDKs. Your reading data syncs privately via iCloud and stays yours. Export your full library as CSV at any time. MORE · Barcode scanner for quick book entry · Book notes and favorite quotes · Character tracker for complex series · Series tracking with reading order · OCR page scanning to update progress from a photo · Reading challenges with custom goals · Image Playground backgrounds for social cards · AI-powered vibe search — find books by feel, not just genre (iOS 26) · Control Center button to start reading instantly · CSV export of your full library with 18 data columns · Physical book, ebook, and audiobook format tracking · 7 color themes with dark mode support Free to use. No subscription required.
ReadFlow
Easily track your reading progress across print, e-books, and audiobooks. Log sessions, save favorite quotes with your camera, and visualize your reading habits with insightful statistics. Organize your library with custom shelves and set personal reading goals.
- Track print, e-books, and audiobooks
- Log reading sessions with notes
- Save quotes using camera text recognition
- Organize books into custom shelves
- Set yearly or daily reading goals
- Import from Goodreads/StoryGraph
- View reading statistics
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ReadFlow is a simple way to track your reading. Add your books, log your progress and see how much you read, whether you read print books, e-books or audiobooks. QUICK TO SET UP Scanning the ISBN barcode or searching by title adds a book with its cover, author and page count already filled in. If you have used Goodreads or StoryGraph before, your existing library can be imported from their export file in one step. TRACKING THAT FITS EACH FORMAT • Pages or percent for print books and e-books • Listening time for audiobooks • A reading timer for every session • A short note after each session • Half-star ratings for finished books YOUR LIBRARY AT A GLANCE Books can be viewed as spines, as covers or as a list, and organized into shelves you create yourself. Every book has a status, so it is always clear what you are reading now, what comes next and what you have already finished. QUOTES WITHOUT TYPING The camera recognizes text on a printed page, so a favorite passage can be saved in a few seconds. You can fix any word before saving, and every quote is kept in your journal, linked to the book it came from. YOUR READING IN NUMBERS • A yearly book goal or a daily page goal • Books finished each month • A calendar of the days you read • Your longest, shortest and fastest reads • Your highest-rated books of the year Download ReadFlow and start tracking your next book today.
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Verdict
Lamplit and ReadFlow are too close to call on the numbers: across 7 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Lamplit against 5.0 for ReadFlow. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Lamplit | ReadFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Adrian Stoyanov | Alona Nesterenko |
In-app purchases
Lamplit
No in-app purchases
ReadFlow
No in-app purchases









