LitList vs ReadFlow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
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
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ReadFlow at none against LitList's 2. LitList's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. LitList sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. ReadFlow asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LitList against 5.0 for ReadFlow. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | LitList | ReadFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | +4 |
| Developer | merakistorms | Alona Nesterenko |
Customer experience
LitList
ReadFlow
In-app purchases
LitList
- LitList Plus Monthly$5.991 Month
- LitList Plus Annual$34.991 Year
ReadFlow
No in-app purchases









