Comparison

Dwellum vs My Library

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

Head to head
About

Dwellum

Organize your reading lists, track your books, and discover new titles with a focus on beautiful cover art and a private, guilt-free experience. This app offers custom lists, author catalogs, and import/export options, all synced via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Customizable reading lists
  • Drag and drop reordering
  • Bulk book editing
  • High-resolution cover art display
  • Search powered by Apple Books
  • Import/export library data
  • iCloud sync
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A calm, private home 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 - Edit the cover and details of any book in your library - 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

My Library

Easily catalog your book collection by scanning barcodes or searching manually. Track your reading progress, organize books into collections, and save favorite passages. Visualize your reading habits with smart statistics.

Highlights
  • Barcode scanning for book entry
  • Manual book entry with photos
  • Reading progress tracking
  • Virtual bookshelf visualization
  • Book collections by author/series
  • Save and extract favorite passages
  • Detailed reading statistics
Features
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Your entire bookshelf in your pocket. My Library makes cataloging your books a pleasure: point the camera at a book's barcode — one beep, and it's in. Title, author, cover and page count are filled in automatically. No barcode? Search by title, or add it by hand with a photo of the cover. TRACK YOUR READING • Start and finish books with one tap, and see how long each one took • Set the page you're on and watch the progress bar move • See what percentage of your library you've read, and how long it'll take to read it all A SHELF THAT FILLS WITH COLOR Your books appear as spines on a virtual shelf. Unread books stay gray; every book you finish adds color. Share your shelf as an image with one tap. COLLECTIONS Group your books by author and series. See what percentage of an author's best-known works you own, and which volumes are still missing from a series. KEEP THE PASSAGES YOU LOVE Photograph a page and the text is extracted automatically. Crop it to the quote you want, add the page number, done. Mark the best ones to memorize and review them in their own tab. SMART STATS Charts of books and pages finished per week, month or year. Average time per book, time per 1,000 pages, reading speed, top authors, books by genre — and an estimate of how long your whole library will take. YOURS, TRULY No account. No cloud. No subscription. Your library lives on your iPhone, and you can export it to a file anytime for backup. The free version holds 50 books — a single one-time purchase unlocks unlimited.

Screenshots

Dwellum4 screens
My Library4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Dwellum at free against My Library's free with in-app purchases. Dwellum also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). My Library's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). 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. Dwellum sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and My Library sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dwellum holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dwellum ships an update every 3 weeks, My Library every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Dwellum versus My Library: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDwellumMy Library
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAustin Thompson-TruchanMANUEL NOVO LOPES

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Dwellum

One-time3
  • Sticker Tip$1.99
  • Coffee Tip$4.99
  • Book Tip$9.99
1 purchases

My Library

One-time1
  • My Library Unlimited$4.99

Questions

Is Dwellum free?
Dwellum is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Library free?
My Library is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dwellum or My Library?
Dwellum is rated higher. Dwellum averages 4.8 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while My Library averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Dwellum or My Library have ads?
Neither Dwellum nor My Library shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dwellum or My Library?
Dwellum ships an update every 3 weeks, and My Library every 5 days. Most recently, Dwellum was updated on October 31, 2026 and My Library on October 25, 2026.

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