Comparison

Plume. vs SageReading

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

Head to head
About

Plume.

Features
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Plume. is a personal reading companion for people who take their books seriously. Track every book you read or listen to. Save the highlights that matter. See your reading life grow over time. YOUR LIBRARY Organize your books across four shelves - Reading, Finished, Want to Read, and Did Not Finish. Add books by search, ISBN scan, or manual entry. Track start and end dates, ratings, reviews, and reading progress. AUDIOBOOKS Track audiobooks alongside everything else you read. Add duration and narrator, log listening sessions, and watch your progress fill in automatically as you go. FOLLOWING Follow other Plume readers and see what they're reading - no traditional account required, just Sign in with Apple. Share your shelves and collections with a private code, and revoke access anytime. No public feed, no algorithm - just the people you choose to follow. READING SESSIONS Start a timer when you sit down to read or press play - Plume tracks the time, estimates your pace, and keeps a running history of every session, book by book. HIGHLIGHTS Import your Kindle clippings file or Kobo highlights in seconds. Scan a passage from a physical book using your camera. Or type one in manually. Every highlight lives alongside the book it came from. COLLECTIONS Group books your own way - a yearly reading goal, a genre kick, a book club list. Track completion, reorder by hand, and share a collection with one other Plume reader without exposing the rest of your library. STATS & STREAKS Set a daily goal for pages or listening time and track your progress with a monthly calendar view - reading and listening tracked separately, so you can follow whichever one is actually yours. See your total books read, pages turned, time listened, highlights saved, and streaks, all synced across your devices. REFLECTIONS Plume quietly surfaces a highlight you saved - a passage you underlined, a line that stopped you. A small ritual for the serious reader. NOTES Keep freeform notes alongside any book. Thoughts mid-read, questions to return to, things the book made you think about. IMPORT & EXPORT Bring your history over from Goodreads, StoryGraph, or a Reading List export. Take your library with you anytime - export everything as a spreadsheet, no lock-in. PRIVATE & LOCAL FIRST Your library lives on your device. No account required. Optional iCloud sync keeps everything across your devices - nothing is shared, sold, or sent anywhere else.

About

SageReading

This app helps avid readers manage their reading lists, discover new books based on mood or specific criteria, and visualize their reading habits. It allows users to log books, track progress, and connect with other readers.

Highlights
  • Personalized book recommendations
  • Search by mood or book similarity
  • Log reading status and format
  • Visualize reading taste and history
  • Follow other readers
  • Track yearly reading goals
Features
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wisdom grows with every page Sage is a reading companion built for people who read a lot and want a smarter way to keep up with it — what to read next, what you've already read, and what your taste actually looks like. Tell Sage what you're in the mood for Skip the endless scrolling. Describe a vibe, a trope, a mood, or "something like [book] but darker" — Sage searches your way and surfaces real matches, not generic bestseller lists. Ask again to refine, or revisit past searches instantly from your history. Discover what's actually worth reading Home brings together NYT Best Sellers and real-time Trending picks, so you always have something worth adding without hunting for it. Log every book, your way Mark a book Read, Currently Reading, Want to Read, or Did Not Finish. Rate it, note how you read it — print, eBook, or audiobook — and add your thoughts. Control exactly who sees each entry with per-book visibility settings. See your reading taste come alive Your profile turns your reading history into a real picture of your taste: a Genre Mix breakdown, an interactive Genre Map across 14 genres, your top favorite authors, and a full calendar of everything you've read by month and year — plus progress toward your yearly reading goal. Read together Find other readers, follow the ones whose taste you trust, and see what they're reading in your activity feed. Sage grows with your library. The more you log, the sharper its recommendations get — and the clearer your own reading story becomes.

Screenshots

Plume.4 screens
SageReading4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SageReading at none against Plume.'s 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Plume. sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SageReading asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Plume. versus SageReading: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlume.SageReading
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaren IrlenCaden Carney

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Plume.

One-time1
  • Plume. Pro$19.99
None

SageReading

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plume. free?
Plume. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SageReading free?
SageReading is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Plume. or SageReading have ads?
Neither Plume. nor SageReading shows ads.

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