Bookmarkk vs SlowRead
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bookmarkk
This app helps you build a consistent reading habit through interactive chapter quizzes and rewards. Track your progress, gain insights into your reading patterns, and connect with a community of readers. Earn coins redeemable for physical books to expand your personal library.
- Chapter quizzes for rewards
- XP and coin earning system
- Personalized reading insights
- Connect ideas across books
- Community and friend features
- Monthly reading recaps
- Redeem coins for physical books
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Bookmarkk turns your good intentions into a real reading habit. READ WITH PURPOSE: Every chapter comes with a quick quiz. Earn XP, reflect on what you've read, and make every chapter feel rewarding. YOUR NEXT BOOK, ON US: Every quiz earns XP, helps you rank up the leaderboard and earn coins. Redeem your coins for physical books and grow your library while you read. PERSONALIZED READING INSIGHTS: Discover your reading patterns, favorite genres, time spent reading, quiz accuracy, goals, and monthly recaps. CONNECT IDEAS ACROSS BOOKS: Bookmarkk builds a personal knowledge layer from your reading, helping you revisit insights and discover connections between books over time. READ TOGETHER: Follow friends, join a community of fellow readers, compare progress, and stay motivated together. Reading is better with company. MONTHLY READING WRAPPED: Look back on what you read, what you learned, and how your reading habit evolved each month. Whether you're trying to finish your first book in months or your fiftieth this year, Bookmarkk helps you keep turning pages. — Bookmarkk Book Club subscription required — A Bookmarkk Book Club subscription is required to use the reading tracker, take chapter quizzes, earn XP, build streaks, and access weekly leaderboards. • Terms of Use (EULA): https://bookmarkk.ai/terms • Privacy Policy: https://bookmarkk.ai/privacy
SlowRead
This app helps you build a visually appealing digital bookshelf and encourages focused reading sessions by blocking distracting apps. Track your reading progress, organize your library, and create a personalized reading ritual.
- Customizable 2.5D digital bookshelf
- Distraction-blocking focus sessions
- Reading streak tracking
- TBR and library organization
- Effortless book addition (scan, search, photo)
- Import from Goodreads (CSV)
- Private, local-first library
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SlowRead is the book tracker with a bookshelf you will want to show off. Every book you read stands on your own shelf, with its real spine and cover. Keep your TBR, your reading journal and your reading log in one place, and share your bookshelf on BookTok and Instagram. YOUR BOOKSHELF • Every book stands on the shelf as a spine or as a cover. • Photograph your own copy to show its real spine, cover and sprayed edges, or use a photo another reader already shared. • Arrange your books by hand, lay them flat in piles and keep a series together. • Decorate with plants, candles, lights and more, and pick a theme for the wall and the wood. • Share a picture of your bookcase to your Stories on TikTok or Instagram. • Get a public profile at slowreadapp.com/@you with the bookcases you choose to show. BOOK CLUBS • Create a club or join one and read the same book together. • Talk in a channel for each part of the book, so nobody spoils what comes next. • Hide the parts of a message that are spoilers. • Vote on the club's next book. YOUR READING YEAR • Monthly and yearly wrap ups: cards to swipe through and share. • Your reader type, worked out from the books you finish. • A yearly reading challenge, and your year next to the last one. • Stats for pages, time and books, your reading speed and your top genres. • A reading streak, with past days you can fill in by hand. TRACKING WITHOUT EFFORT • Search millions of books or scan the barcode to add one in seconds. • Import your library from Goodreads, The StoryGraph, Bookmory, Fable or Libib. • Paperback, ebook and audiobook, even for the same book. • Track library loans with the due date and a reminder the day before. • Series grouped together, with your progress through each one. • Notes, quotes scanned from the page with your camera, and characters with a portrait and their relationships. • Half star ratings, rereads and did not finish. WIDGETS • Your bookshelf, what you are reading, your streak, your challenge and a daily quote on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. READING SESSIONS • Start a timed session from any book and log the page where you stop. • If you want, block the apps that distract you while you read, with Screen Time. All features described above require a subscription. A free trial is included, so you can try everything before paying. TERMS: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bookmarkk at 100% against SlowRead's 26%. Bookmarkk also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). SlowRead's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, 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. Bookmarkk sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and SlowRead sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $8.39 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bookmarkk holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SlowRead has 793 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Bookmarkk's written reviews are positive against 26% of SlowRead's.
Bookmarkk ships an update every 2 weeks, SlowRead every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Bookmarkk | SlowRead |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.6 (793 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 25.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 793 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #31 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noah Martins | Adrian Martinez Moreno |
Customer experience
Bookmarkk
SlowRead
In-app purchases
Bookmarkk
- Bookmarkk Book Club$3.997 Days
- Bookmarkk Book Club$9.991 Month
- Bookmarkk Book Club3 Days trial$69.991 Year
SlowRead
- Premium Weekly$8.397 Days
- Premium Annual Offer$32.991 Year
- Premium Annual3 Days trial$44.991 Year
- Lifetime access to Slowread$149.99









