Comparison

Atlas vs Booklore

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

Head to head
About

Atlas

A private and calm digital space to organize your reading lists, track books, and discover new titles. Focuses on beautiful book covers and personal organization without gamification or social features. Syncs across devices via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Organize books into five reading lists
  • Drag and drop reordering of books
  • High-resolution book cover display
  • Search powered by Apple Books
  • Add custom books and covers
  • Import/export library data
  • iCloud sync across devices
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A calm, private space to track your books, navigate your reading lists, and get back to what you love: reading. No streaks, no goals, no ratings, no guilt. Not a habit tracker, not a stats dashboard, not a social network. Just your books, their beautiful covers, and the order you intend to read them. Organize - Five reading lists: Reading, Reading Next, Someday, Read, and Set Aside - Drag and drop to reorder books in the exact order you intend to read them - Bulk edit to move, favorite, or remove a stack of books at once - Mark books as owned to keep track of what's on your shelf Covers, front and center - Book covers are treated like the art they are - Tap the cover on its detail page to open it in full screen - Zoom in to discover details you've never noticed before - Displayed in high resolution throughout the app Find your next book - Search powered by Apple Books - Book detail pages with cover art, description, genres, and more from the author - Tap any author to view their full catalog - Follow any author to keep their catalog a couple taps away - Add books that aren't in Apple Books, with your own covers and details - A Coming Soon list that tracks upcoming releases automatically Reflect - Add notes on any book in your library - Review all the notes taken across your entire library in the Notes List - A reading timeline showing what you finished, and when - Start a re-read from any finished book, keeping your first reading intact - Favorite the books you loved, then drag and drop to rank them Browse your library - Masonry grid and list views - Filter and sort by genre, author, date, favorites, ownership, and availability - Search directly within your library and individual reading lists Bring your books with you - Import from Goodreads, StoryGraph, or CSV - Export your full library as CSV - iCloud sync across all your devices Designed for iOS - Built natively for iOS26+27 from the ground up with Liquid Glass and system styling - Feels like a cohesive, first-party Apple app - Light, Dark, and System themes Private by design, and no data collection - No accounts. No sign-up. No profile. - No analytics, no tracking, no data collection - Your library lives on your device and syncs through iCloud Atlas was built to highlight your covers, your lists, and the order you decide to read your books in. Reading doesn't need to be gamified, optimized, or made public. It just needs a quiet space to keep your books, plan what's next, and remember where you've been. Reading is one of the few things left that's slow, quiet, and entirely yours. Atlas is built to keep it that way.

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 Year in Books 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

Atlas4 screens
Booklore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Booklore at none against Atlas's 3. Booklore also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.2). Atlas's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Atlas sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Booklore asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Booklore holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Atlas has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Atlas ships an update every 3 weeks, Booklore fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Atlas versus Booklore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAtlasBooklore
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.215.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB7 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAustin Thompson-TruchanHazem Abdeltawab

Customer experience

Atlas

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Booklore

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

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Atlas

One-time3
  • Sticker Tip$1.99
  • Coffee Tip$4.99
  • Book Tip$9.99
None

Booklore

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Atlas free?
Atlas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Booklore free?
Booklore is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Atlas or Booklore?
Booklore is rated higher. Atlas averages 4.8 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Booklore averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Atlas or Booklore have ads?
Neither Atlas nor Booklore shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Atlas or Booklore?
Atlas ships an update every 3 weeks, and Booklore fortnightly. Most recently, Atlas was updated on October 24, 2026 and Booklore on October 25, 2026.

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