Comparison

BookWorm 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

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

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

BookWorm4 screens
My Library4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: BookWorm at 4.8 against My Library's 4.5. BookWorm also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 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 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

BookWorm 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

BookWorm ships an update every 9 days, My Library every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
BookWorm versus My Library: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookWormMy Library
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdam MarkockiMANUEL NOVO LOPES

In-app purchases

3 purchases

BookWorm

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

My Library

One-time1
  • My Library Unlimited$4.99

Questions

Is BookWorm free?
BookWorm 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, BookWorm or My Library?
BookWorm is rated higher. BookWorm averages 4.8 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while My Library averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do BookWorm or My Library have ads?
Neither BookWorm nor My Library shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BookWorm or My Library?
BookWorm ships an update every 9 days, and My Library every 5 days. Most recently, BookWorm was updated on November 5, 2026 and My Library on November 5, 2026.

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