Comparison

BookWorm vs Readistry

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

Head to head
About

BookWorm

This app helps you build a consistent reading habit by tracking books, ebooks, and audiobooks. Set daily goals, maintain streaks, and organize your library. It offers gentle reminders and progress insights to encourage more reading.

Highlights
  • Daily reading goals (pages/minutes)
  • Reading streak tracking
  • Log print books, ebooks, and audiobooks
  • Organize library (Reading, To Read, Finished)
  • Reading timer
  • Monthly progress recaps
  • Shareable reading stats
Features
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Turn "I should read more" into a daily habit. BookWorm is a calm, beautiful reading tracker for books, ebooks and audiobooks. Set a daily goal, build a streak and watch your reading grow. BUILD A READING HABIT • Set a daily goal in pages or minutes • Keep your streak alive and earn reading quests • See every reading day on your calendar • Gentle reminders, at the time you choose BOOKS AND AUDIOBOOKS, IN ONE PLACE • Log pages for print books and ebooks • Log listening time for audiobooks • Both count toward the same daily goal YOUR WHOLE LIBRARY • Organise your shelf: Reading, To Read and Finished • Import your existing library from a CSV file • Add notes to every book STAY FOCUSED • Start the reading timer with one tap • Pick up right where you left off from Home SEE YOUR PROGRESS • A Monthly Recap of every month you read • Books finished, pages read and hours listened • Your best streak and favourite genres SHARE WHAT YOU READ • Beautiful share cards for every finished book • Share your Monthly Recap in one tap BUILT FOR EVERY SCREEN • Optimised for iPhone Duo: your shelf and your book, side by side • iPhone and iPad, synced with iCloud • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Four themes: Light, Dark, Retro and Marginalia • Available in 9 languages Made by an independent developer. If you love BookWorm, an optional tip helps keep it growing.

About

Readistry

Features
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A private library card catalog for your reading life. Log the book, log the pages, log the minutes — and nothing else. Coming from Goodreads? Bring your library with you. No feed. No followers. No algorithm deciding what you read next. Readistry is the quiet shelf your reading actually lives on. THE SHELF Every book gets a card: a colored spine, a class mark, an accession number and a progress bar that fills page by page. Three books on the desk at once, or as many as you like with Premium. THE SESSION LOG Tap LOG READING and enter the page you stopped on. With Premium, add the minutes too. That is the whole ritual, and it takes about four seconds. COMING FROM GOODREADS Export your library on goodreads.com (My Books → Import and export) and open the CSV file in Readistry. A preview shows how many books are new and how many are already on your shelf, before anything changes. The import is free: titles, authors, page counts and read dates come across, the books you are reading land on your desk, your to-read list waits on its own To Read shelf, and books already in your library are skipped, never duplicated. Start any book on the shelf with one tap. THE LEDGER Books finished, pages turned, pages per day and your current streak. Premium adds the genre breakdown, the streak calendar and the full record of every book you have finished. A QUIET GOAL Set how many books you want this year. Readistry shows your pace and then leaves you alone. "14 to go. No rush." WHY IT IS DIFFERENT - Private by design. No public profile, no followers, nothing to share. - Not owned by a bookseller. Nothing here is trying to sell you your next book. - Built like an object. Cream card stock, book-cloth spines and library date stamps, in light and dark. - At most one gentle reminder a day, and only if you ask for one. FREE - Three books on the desk at once - Unlimited reading sessions - A yearly reading goal - Books, pages and your current streak - Import your library from Goodreads PREMIUM — $2.99/month or $19.99/year - Unlimited books - Genre breakdown and the streak calendar - The full record of every book you have finished - Session length on every reading log Readistry is a log, not a social network. Add a book and start the card. SUBSCRIPTION Readistry Premium is an auto-renewable subscription: $2.99 per month or $19.99 per year. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://readistry.app/privacy Readistry is not affiliated with Goodreads.

Screenshots

BookWorm4 screens
Readistry4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Readistry at 15.1 against BookWorm's 17.2. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. BookWorm sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Readistry sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BookWorm ships an update every 9 days, Readistry weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
BookWorm versus Readistry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookWormReadistry
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.215.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdam MarkockiDJUMP, MB

In-app purchases

3 purchases

BookWorm

One-time3
  • An espresso$2.99
  • Coffee & croissant$4.99
  • A week of coffee$9.99
2 purchases

Readistry

Subscriptions2
  • Readistry Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Readistry Premium Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is BookWorm free?
BookWorm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Readistry free?
Readistry is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BookWorm or Readistry have ads?
Neither BookWorm nor Readistry shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BookWorm or Readistry?
BookWorm ships an update every 9 days, and Readistry weekly. Most recently, BookWorm was updated on November 5, 2026 and Readistry on October 31, 2026.

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