BookHoard vs Pagehour
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BookHoard
Easily catalog your book collection by scanning barcodes or photographing shelves. Track your reading, manage wishlists, and discover new books. Features include duplicate detection, lending tracking, and collection valuation.
- Barcode scanning for quick cataloging
- Shelf scanning to add multiple books at once
- Duplicate book detection
- Wishlist and want-to-read list management
- Lending tracker
- Mood-based book recommendations
- Collection value estimation
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BookHoard catalogs the books you own, and now it reads them too. A READER FOR BOOKS NO ONE CAN TAKE BACK Import the DRM-free EPUBs you already bought, one file or a whole folder, and read them right here. Your type size, your place, kept across every device you own. The files stay on your device; we never upload your books. Or open The Trove: hundreds of public-domain classics, free to read and yours to keep. No account wall, no borrowing queue, no expiry. Kindle and Audible files will not open. Not our choice, and not something we can engineer around. Those files are locked to Amazon's apps by design. A book you cannot move is a book you are renting. THE BANNED TAB Search a live index of 20,000+ challenged U.S. books. See how many of them are already on your own shelves, which states pulled them, and which school districts filed it. Share the count. CATALOG AT THE SPEED YOU COLLECT Scan a barcode. Done. It's in your library in seconds. Want to add a whole shelf at once? Photograph it. BookHoard reads the spines and adds every book. Built for readers who already own too many books and finally want to start owning them on purpose. ALSO IN YOUR HOARD • Duplicate detection so you don't buy the same book twice • Separate Want to Read + Wishlist + custom lists — keep them intentional • Lending tracker — know who has your copy of Beloved (it's Sarah; you lent it in October) • Series — how many books you own in a series, and exactly which volumes are still missing • Hoard Value — estimate your collection against real list prices, set your own value on the rare and signed ones, and export a PDF inventory for insurance • Mood-based picks drawn from your actual library • Nearest bookstores and libraries + Little Free Library finder • CSV import — bring your existing library along • Generate personalized Bookplates Four themes; Hoard, Prism, Dark Academia and Nocturne, and a shelf view that stands your books as spines, the way they sit at home. Photograph your own covers for the book club editions and battered paperbacks no database has heard of. YOUR LIBRARY IS YOURS We don't sell your data. We don't share what you read. No advertiser tracking, no algorithmic feed, no profile we make shareable by default. Your books used to live on your shelves. We think the digital version should feel the same. FREE TO START Catalog up to 100 books. Try every premium feature for 30 days. No card required. HOARD+ — $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr (save 33%) Unlimited library. Unlimited recommendations. Up to 50 shelf scans per day. Mood-based picks. Cancel anytime. We don't believe in lock-in. Terms of Use: https://bookhoardapp.com/terms
Pagehour
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Start a book. Read. Stop. Pagehour tells you your pace and your finish date before you put the phone down. Open your book, tap Start, read, tap Stop and enter the page you reached. That's the whole job. The moment you save, you see it: "31 pages · 23 min · finish Oct 9". STREAKS THAT DON'T CHEAT YOU A day counts as soon as it has real pages or a real minute of reading. Forgot to log? Add today or yesterday for free, any time. Sessions that run past midnight, daylight saving and time-zone travel are tested, not guessed at, so your streak never resets on its own. ONE SHELF FOR EVERYTHING YOU READ Reading, Want to read, Finished and Didn't finish. Search by title or author, or scan the barcode on the back of a book. Nothing found? Add it by hand. EVERY BOOK, ITS OWN NUMBERS Progress, time left and a finish date for each book. Notes, a session history you can edit, and a rating when you finish. Listening instead? Audiobook mode logs minutes instead of pages. YOU DECIDE WHEN A BOOK IS DONE Reaching the last page never marks a book finished for you. When you do finish, share a clean card of the book, your days and your pages to Stories or anywhere else. BRING YOUR GOODREADS SHELVES, FREE Export your library from Goodreads and import the file. Ratings, finish dates and your to-read pile come across in one go. It's duplicate-safe, so you can run it again later. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No account and no sign-in. Your library lives on your phone, and you can export all of it as CSV or JSON whenever you like. No ads, ever. FREE FOREVER Logging, the timer, unlimited books, streaks, Goodreads import, export and the last 30 days of stats. PAGEHOUR PRO - Full stats beyond the last 30 days: minutes, pages and books by month and year - Streak repair: log a missed day from the last 60 days - Streak freezes: earn one for every 7 days you read, and bank up to 3 for busy days Pro is optional. It's mentioned once, on your third day of reading; after that you only see it when you open a Pro feature. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Pagehour Pro is an auto-renewing subscription: Pro Yearly (1 year, with a 1-week free trial) or Pro Monthly (1 month). Prices are shown in the app in your local currency before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Any unused part of a free trial ends when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://pagehour.com/terms (Apple's standard EULA also applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/) Privacy Policy: https://pagehour.com/privacy Support: support@pagehour.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pagehour at every 3 days against BookHoard's weekly. 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
Both are free to download. BookHoard sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Pagehour sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BookHoard ships an update weekly, Pagehour every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | BookHoard | Pagehour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lynda Hartup | ACEFINA LLC |
In-app purchases
BookHoard
- Hoard+$4.991 Month
- Hoard+$39.991 Year
Pagehour
- Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year









