Comparison

ReadTale vs Seekquel

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

Head to head
About

ReadTale

Features
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Create beautiful book review cards in seconds—then save, organize, and share your favorite quotes and thoughts as polished images. ReadTale turns your reading into share-ready cards. Pick a style, add your thoughts, and export an image perfect for social feeds and reading communities. What you can create: • Review cards — Star rating (1–5) plus an emotion meter (0–5) to capture how a book made you feel. • Quote cards — Highlight your favorite lines with matching typography. • Recommendation cards — Share your opinion with a clean, card-style layout. Make it yours: • Templates — Styles like Dark Academia and Fantasy to match your vibe. • Optional watermark — Add a subtle signature when sharing. • Your library — Cards stay on your device, editable anytime. Export & share: Save images to your Photos or share anywhere—perfect for BookTok, Bookstagram, or your personal reading journal. Whether it’s a five-star review or a quote you love, ReadTale helps you capture it in one tap. Create your next reading card today.

About

Seekquel

This app helps readers meticulously track their reading habits, organize their book collections, and discover new titles based on personalized recommendations. It allows users to log progress, set reading goals, and connect with a community of fellow book lovers.

Highlights
  • Track reading progress by page
  • Organize library with custom shelves and tags
  • Personalized book recommendations
  • Camera OCR for capturing quotes
  • Reading session timer and Focus Mode
  • Build reading habits with goals and challenges
  • Connect with other readers and buddy reads
Features
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Seekquel is a book tracker you set up yourself. There is a lot in it and none of it is compulsory: build your home screen from the parts you use, switch off the rest, and keep the community on its own tab. Plenty of readers run it as a plain reading log and never touch anything else. SET UP THE HOME SCREEN • More than thirty cards: currently reading, daily goals, your streak, recommendations, your reading calendar and more • Drag them into the order you want and switch off the ones you never use • Arrange your stats page and public profile the same way • 21 themes, from Dark Academia to Cottagecore, and more than twenty app icons • Home screen widgets, adjustable text size, reduced motion and reduced transparency DECIDE WHO SEES WHAT • Public, followers only, or private, then set each part of your profile on its own • Show your reviews but hide your stats, or turn a whole profile tab off • Choose who can message you and approve followers before they see anything • No ads, no data selling, and analytics you can decline • Export everything you have added, whenever you want TRACK YOUR LIBRARY • Add books by title, author, ISBN, or barcode scan • Want to Read, Reading, Paused, Read, and Did Not Finish • Log progress by page, percent, or time listened, in the edition you actually own • Custom shelves, shelves that fill themselves from rules you set, tags, and notes • Track what you own, what you borrowed, and what you lent out • Coming from elsewhere? Import from Goodreads, StoryGraph, or Hardcover, with your shelves, ratings and reviews SYNC YOUR E-READER • KOReader on Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook or Android sends your place, reading time, highlights and finished books • Readest and Xteink pocket readers connect too • Calibre keeps shelves, ratings, reviews and reading dates in step in both directions DISCOVER YOUR NEXT READ • A taste profile built from your genres, moods, themes and pacing • Browse by mood, trope and pace, not just broad genres • Pick For Me: a few quick questions, one considered recommendation • Shelve a book before it is published and hear the day it comes out • See the films and series a book was turned into • Mood, pace and content notes gathered from real reader reviews BUILD A READING HABIT • A reading timer, with ambient sounds like rain or a fireplace • Daily page or minute targets, and a streak with freeze days built in • Yearly goals and custom challenges, on your own or shared with friends • A monthly reading bingo card, and badges from Bronze to Platinum SEE YOUR READING • Books, pages, hours, streaks and genres at a glance • A Monthly Wrapped recap of the month just gone • Share cards for a finished book, a month or your whole year • With Pro: build your own charts, compare one period against another, and see reading heatmaps, pacing and mood trends THE COMMUNITY, ON ITS OWN TAB • Nothing social reaches your home screen unless you put it there • Rate books with stars, plus writing, plot, characters, atmosphere and impact • Follow readers, build shareable lists, and recommend books directly • Buddy reads with milestones and chat, and book clubs • Ask the community for a book and shelve their suggestions in one tap • Fix catalog mistakes yourself and build your reputation as a contributor Free on iPhone, Android and the web. Pro adds more themes, custom charts, deeper stats and higher limits. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://seekquel.app/privacy

Screenshots

ReadTale4 screens
Seekquel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ReadTale at daily against Seekquel's every 3 days. Seekquel's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ReadTale sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Seekquel sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ReadTale ships an update daily, Seekquel every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ReadTale versus Seekquel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReadTaleSeekquel
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—88.9% of reviews
Number of ratings—14 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHamza BoulahfaMohamed Sabri Ben Chaabane

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ReadTale

One-time1
  • Lifetime$4.99
3 purchases

Seekquel

Subscriptions2
  • Seekquel Pro (Monthly)14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Seekquel Pro Yearly14 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Seekquel Pro Lifetime$119.99

Questions

Is ReadTale free?
ReadTale is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Seekquel free?
Seekquel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ReadTale or Seekquel have ads?
Neither ReadTale nor Seekquel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ReadTale or Seekquel?
ReadTale ships an update daily, and Seekquel every 3 days. Most recently, ReadTale was updated on October 25, 2026 and Seekquel on October 25, 2026.

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