Comparison

Read More vs Booklore

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

Head to head
About

Read More

Organize your reading life, track your progress, and discover new books with personalized recommendations and community features. Build custom shelves, log reading time, and connect with friends to share your literary journey.

Highlights
  • Organize books into custom shelves
  • Track reading time with built-in timer
  • Personalized book recommendations
  • Social activity feed and profiles
  • Search millions of titles
  • Clean, intuitive interface
Features
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Switching from another reading app? Paste your Goodreads profile link and your shelves import in seconds. Read More is the book tracker for people who love reading. Log your books, keep your current read on your home screen with a beautiful widget, and share recap cards your friends will actually want to see. Also: shareable recap cards, reading goals in books and hours, half-star ratings, a DNF shelf, edition switching, CSV import/export, dark mode, and private-by-default profiles!

About

Booklore

Track your reading privately and offline. Log books, update progress, rate finished titles, and add notes. Features include a reading timer with ambient sounds, habit-building tools like streaks and goals, and insightful year-end summaries.

Highlights
  • Offline reading log
  • Track reading progress
  • Rate and review books
  • Reading timer with ambient sounds
  • Reading streaks and goals
  • Import/export library data
  • Yearly reading summaries
Features
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Every book you read, one tap away. Booklore is a reading log for people who would rather be reading: add a book, log your page, close the app. No sign-up stands between you and your first book, and your library lives on your phone. On the shelf • Find books by title, author or ISBN, or scan the barcode on the back cover • Shelves for Reading, Want to Read, Read, Paused and Did Not Finish, plus your own shelves and tags • Rate in half-stars, from ½ to 5, and tag a book's mood and pace • Print books, e-books and audiobooks side by side, with rereads counted At the page • Log progress with one tap (¼, ½, ¾, Finished) or type the exact page • Reading an e-book or listening to an audiobook? Enter the percentage your reader or player shows • See how much reading time is left in a book, at your own measured pace • Time a session and add ambient sound: rain, ocean, forest, café, fireplace and more, generated on your device • A Live Activity keeps the running session on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Write notes and a review, and capture a quote straight off the page with your camera Over the year • A reading calendar that fills in every day you read • Streaks with a best-streak record, and a yearly goal that paces you from the day you set it • A daily reminder that skips the days you already read, scheduled on your device • Home Screen widget, Apple Watch app and Siri ("Start reading in Booklore") • Your Reading Year and monthly wrap-up cards to share, plus all-time stats Your library, your phone • Bring your library over from a CSV export and export everything whenever you like • Optional backup to your own iCloud • Book search and one-time cover downloads are the only network use, and cover downloads can be switched off • Your reading is never sold or used to build a profile of you Happy reading.

Screenshots

Read More4 screens
Booklore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Read More at every 3 days against Booklore's fortnightly. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Read More against 5.0 for Booklore. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Read More ships an update every 3 days, Booklore fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Read More versus Booklore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRead MoreBooklore
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKevin ConklinHazem Abdeltawab

Customer experience

Read More

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Booklore

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Read More

No in-app purchases

None

Booklore

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Read More free?
Read More is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Booklore free?
Booklore is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Read More or Booklore?
Read More and Booklore are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Read More or Booklore have ads?
Neither Read More nor Booklore shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Read More or Booklore?
Read More ships an update every 3 days, and Booklore fortnightly. Most recently, Read More was updated on October 31, 2026 and Booklore on October 31, 2026.

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