Books Tracker vs Canto

Books Tracker keeps your personal library organized, beautiful, and always in sync across your devices. No account required. No subscription. Just your books. SYNC ACROSS DEVICES Connect via Google Drive and your entire library stays up to date on every phone or tablet you own. Changes sync automatically in the background — add a book on one device, find it on the other. Your data is stored in a private app-only folder: no one else can see it, not even in your Drive. YOUR WHOLE LIBRARY Add books manually, search online by title, author or ISBN, or scan a barcode with your camera. Every book can carry a cover, rating, reading status, notes, genre, publisher, page count, series info, and more. TRACK YOUR READING Three reading states: To Read, Reading, and Read. Reading start and end dates are recorded automatically. See how long it took you to finish a book — hours, days, weeks, or months. COLLECTIONS & SERIES Organize your books into as many collections as you like. Number them, detect missing entries, manage your wishlist. Group books into series and browse all volumes in one place. READING STACK Your personal "to read next" list. Reorder by drag and drop, move books up or down, and always know what's coming next. FIND ANYTHING FAST Real-time search by title or author. Filter by rating or reading status. Switch between list, compact, and grid view. Everything persists across restarts. MAKE IT YOURS 12 color themes, two header styles (Bold or Subtle), and full light/dark/system mode support. The entire app adapts instantly — colors, gradients, cards, everything. IMPORT & EXPORT Back up your library or move it to another app with CSV export. Import from a file with a full preview before committing — choose how to handle conflicts book by book. No ads. No tracking. No subscription. Books Tracker is built and maintained by a solo developer who loves books.

Canto is a reading companion with no feeds, no followers, and no public reviews. It is not a social network about books. It is a private record of your reading life, and it gets more personal the longer you use it. HOW IT WORKS When you finish a book, Canto asks you a few questions. Not generic prompts. Questions written for you, shaped by this specific book, what you hoped to find in it, and what you've written about books before it. Answer in a sentence or a paragraph, whatever you have. Then Canto writes you a short reflection: something specific enough that it could only be about you and this book. Every reflection you write makes the next one better. That's the whole idea. CHOSEN FOR YOU After you write about a book, Canto picks three to read next: one from your want-to-read list, one that matches the feeling of what you wrote, and one outside what you usually read. Each pick comes with a reason tied to your own words. Three at a time, no infinite feed, and every earlier set stays in Past sets. GOING DEEPER With Canto+, you don't have to stop at the first few questions. Keep reflecting on a book in one sitting, guided by a lens you choose (characters, themes, writing style, personal impact) or writing freely. However far you go, a book is always one reflection in your history. READER'S DNA After your fifth reflection, Canto writes a portrait of you as a reader. Not stats. Not a genre pie chart. Actual prose about the patterns in what you read and how you respond to it, with an archetype that names what kind of reader you are. It regenerates as you keep reading, so it changes as you do. WHILE YOU READ Capture a passage the moment it stops you. Set an intention before you start a book, and Canto will remember what you were hoping to find when you finish. Canto sends two kinds of notification, both rare and both about the book: a quiet check-in while you're partway through, and one question two weeks after you finish about how it's sitting with you. BRING YOUR LIBRARY Import your Goodreads or StoryGraph export in about a minute. Your read, reading and want-to-read shelves come with you. Ratings and reviews stay behind. WHAT'S FREE AND WHAT'S NOT Reflections, passages, your library and import are free, forever. They are the heart of the app and will never be gated. Every reader gets Canto+ for 30 days, with nothing charged. After that, Canto+ is $39.99 a year or $6.99 a month, and adds Chosen, extended reflection sessions, cross-book insights, and Reader's DNA. Everything you write stays yours either way. NOT SOCIAL, NOT FOR SALE Your reflections are yours. There is no feed for them to appear in, no followers to perform for, and nothing is public unless you choose to share a single line yourself. Canto stores your library and reflections so the app can work for you and remember what you've written. To write your reflections, your Reader's DNA, and your book picks, Canto sends the relevant parts to Anthropic's Claude, which does not use them to train its models. Your data is never sold, never used for ads, and never shown to another user. BUILT FOR EVERYONE Full VoiceOver support, including a custom rotor action to hear an entire reflection read continuously. Voice Control supported. Reduce Motion respected throughout. Nothing relies on color alone to convey meaning. Strong color contrast in both light and dark mode, checked against WCAG standards. Dynamic Type everywhere. Canto is made by one person who thinks a reading app should know you better every month you use it, and should never ask you to perform your reading for an audience. Your books. Your words. No feed. No followers. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/