Comparison

PageMate vs ShelfMark

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

Head to head
About

PageMate

This app helps you track your reading progress, log pages and time, and save important notes and quotes. It provides insights into your reading habits and offers tools to help you read more consistently.

Highlights
  • Book tracking and shelf management
  • Page and time logging
  • Note-taking with OCR
  • Reading habit insights and stats
  • Shareable reading summaries
  • Reminders and focus tools
Features
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Page Mate is a reading companion that brings your reading time, pages, and notes into one clear flow. Add books, log your progress, and keep the lines and thoughts you want to return to. As your reading builds over time, so does a clearer picture of your habits, rhythm, and progress. Key features - Search for books or add them manually to build a shelf that fits the way you read. - Log pages and reading time, and see how much to read today based on your target finish date. - Save memorable lines and thoughts as notes, and capture text faster with photos or OCR when needed. - Reflect on your reading rhythm with streaks, stats, and insights built from your sessions, pages, and memos. - Turn each month into a shareable wrap-up with record cards and reading summaries. - Use reminders and focus tools to make it easier to return to your book. When you want to read more consistently, remember more clearly, and see your reading life take shape over time, Page Mate helps keep that momentum going. Page Mate is free to download, with full access available through an auto-renewable subscription. Subscription details, including title, duration, and price, are shown before purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://page-mate.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://page-mate.com/privacy/

About

ShelfMark

Features
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A quiet reading tracker for people who love books more than apps. ShelfMark keeps your reading life in one calm, paper-warm place. Log the page you are on, keep a streak alive, and save the lines worth keeping. No account, no feed, no noise. MADE FOR READERS - Three shelves: to be read, reading, and finished. Move a book with a tap. - Quick page updates with percent complete, pages a day, and time left at your current pace. - A daily page goal beside your grace-day reading streak. - Search your library, filter by genre, and sort by recency, title, author, or progress. - A quote wall with the book, page number, and an optional photo of the page. - A yearly reading goal and Wrapped view with pages, streaks, genres, fastest reads, and monthly activity. - A private Home and Lock Screen widget for your current book, pages today, goal, and streak. - A complete local backup, additive restore, and Delete All My Data control. FREE AND LIFETIME ShelfMark is free for up to 3 books and 5 saved quotes. Reading progress, streaks, daily and yearly goals, search, backup, restore, deletion, and the widget stay useful without paying. A single Lifetime purchase unlocks unlimited books and quotes, the 30-day Reading Pulse, finish-date pace plans, full Wrapped statistics, and the one-page Reading Year PDF. It is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Existing records always remain readable and editable. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your reading library stays locally on your iPhone or iPad. No account, no analytics, and no tracking. Widget content uses Apple's private on-device App Group storage and is marked privacy sensitive.

Screenshots

PageMate4 screens
ShelfMark4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: ShelfMark at none against PageMate's shown. PageMate's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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. PageMate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and ShelfMark sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PageMate ships an update every 5 days, ShelfMark weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
PageMate versus ShelfMark: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPageMateShelfMark
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size144 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeaceCodeInnovaLabWorks

In-app purchases

3 purchases

PageMate

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan$3.991 Month
  • Annual Plan$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$69.99
1 purchases

ShelfMark

One-time1
  • ShelfMark Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is PageMate free?
PageMate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ShelfMark free?
ShelfMark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PageMate or ShelfMark have ads?
PageMate shows ads; ShelfMark does not.
Which is updated more often, PageMate or ShelfMark?
PageMate ships an update every 5 days, and ShelfMark weekly. Most recently, PageMate was updated on October 31, 2026 and ShelfMark on November 5, 2026.

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