Plume. vs ReadMiles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Plume.
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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.
ReadMiles
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Every page is a mile. ReadMiles keeps the page you stopped on, shows how far you have come and works out when you will arrive. No feed, no accounts โ your road is yours. TWO WAYS TO LOG A PAGE Start a timer when you sit down with a book. Or tap the page you reached and get on with your day. Pages and days on the road count the same either way. The timer adds what a mark cannot hold: the time you spent, and with it your reading speed. WHEN YOU WILL FINISH Every book carries the pages left and the date you reach the last page. Read with the timer and your pace on that book shows up next to them. The forecast follows your last two weeks, so it moves when you do. +10 PAGES FROM THE HOME SCREEN The interactive widget adds pages without opening the app. Set the step to +5, +10 or +25 โ progress, streak and today's goal update on the spot. Two more widgets keep the current book and your days on the road in sight, and a compact one lives on the lock screen. YOUR ROAD, NOT A LEADERBOARD Days on the road instead of a flame. A heatmap of the last twelve months. Pages, hours and sessions by day, week, month and year โ and the miles of text you have laid end to end, because 500 pages make about one book mile. SIGNS ALONG THE WAY Twenty-nine milestones for what you have read โ the road, days on the road, books, how you read, and finds nobody names before you reach them. They are worked out from your history and dated by the day they happened, so an import puts them in the years they belong to. A wall in stats holds the whole road behind you, sign by sign. Nothing to unlock, nothing to chase: no currencies, no levels, no shops. GOALS THAT DO NOT NAG A route for the year, in books or in pages. A daily goal, in pages or in minutes. One evening nudge that stays quiet when today's goal is already met. BRING YOUR HISTORY Import a CSV from Goodreads or StoryGraph: statuses, ratings, reviews and finish dates come along. Not what you expected? Undo the whole import in one tap โ nothing else in your library changes. ALSO IN THE APP โข Paper, e-book and audiobook, each measured its own way โข Catalogue search in English and Russian, or scan the ISBN on the back cover โข Rare editions added by hand, with a cover from your camera or library โข Past sessions logged later, for the evening you read on a plane โข A private rating and a few words for yourself when a book is done โข No limit on the number of books โข iCloud sync with no account and no password โข Light and dark, English and Russian, no ads and nothing to buy PRIVACY Everything you read and write lives on your devices and in your iCloud. No account, no server of ours, no analytics, no ads. The app goes online for two things only: to look a book up in the catalogue and to fetch its cover.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ReadMiles at none against Plume.'s 1. On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Plume. sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ReadMiles asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Plume. | ReadMiles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daren Irlen | Kirill Prokopenko |
In-app purchases
Plume.
- Plume. Pro$19.99
ReadMiles
No in-app purchases









