Comparison

Excerpta vs AI Book Reader

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

Head to head
About

Excerpta

Track your reading progress, journal your thoughts, and capture favorite quotes with this comprehensive book companion. It supports various reading formats and offers insightful statistics about your reading habits.

Highlights
  • Capture quotes via camera, photos, or typing
  • Track reading progress and daily habits
  • Organize books on custom shelves
  • Read EPUBs and comics within the app
  • Sync library and progress across devices
  • Import data from other reading platforms
  • Analyze reading statistics and trends
Features
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Excerpta is a book tracker that doubles as a reading journal. Every book gets its own timeline: the lines that stopped you, the notes you wrote, the pages you read each day, and how it all felt. Point your camera at a page to keep a quote. It keeps the rest too: your shelves, where you left off, and how your year in reading is going. KEEP THE WORDS – Capture quotes with the camera, from photos (a few pages at once), or by typing. The text is read on your phone. – Tap a paragraph to keep it whole, or drag the highlighter across just the words you want. – Pick one of six highlight colors, add a note, and mark the page or chapter. – Tag the character who said it and add how it made you feel. Your moods can go to Apple Health too. – Quotes that don't belong to any book land in your Commonplace book. READ YOUR EPUBS AND COMICS Add an EPUB or a comic (CBZ, CBR) to any book and read it here, with search, six themes, and your own font. Manga reads right to left. Keep a passage or a panel as a quote, and the reader logs your reading for you. HOWEVER YOU READ Print, e-book, or audiobook. Owned, borrowed, or gifted. They all share the same shelves. – Add books by searching, scanning the barcode, or typing them in yourself. – Browse by book, author, character, or series. Series fill themselves in, or build your own. – Make as many shelves as you like. A book can sit on several. – Rate in half or quarter stars, write a review, and start a reread with a fresh timeline. – Add a new release as Upcoming and get a note the day it's out. KNOW WHERE YOU LEFT OFF – Start the reading timer and pause it from the Lock Screen, or set your page, your percent, or the time left in an audiobook. – Give a book a finish date, or your whole year a goal. – The Calendar shows each day you read as a cover, ringed by your mood, with your streak up top. SEE HOW THE YEAR IS GOING Stats shows what your reading looked like: Books Read, Pages Read, Genres, Mood, Top Authors, and more. Reading Nooks gathers the photos you took and maps the places you read. Pick the cards, then look at a month, a year, or all time. FIND THE NEXT ONE Discovery brings in the Apple Books charts, by genre. Connect Hardcover for what's trending, the most anticipated books, and your own Vibes, plus each book's moods and similar books. BRING YOUR BOOKS ALONG – Import from Goodreads, StoryGraph, Kindle highlights, Kobo, Apple Books, or a spreadsheet. – Sync between your devices with iCloud. – Sync your library and shelves both ways with Hardcover, and your progress with KOReader. – Export any time, as one Markdown file per book, ready for Obsidian, Bear, or Notes. Export is always free. AROUND YOUR PHONE – Widgets for a quote, your current book, and your reading calendar, on the Home Screen and Lock Screen. – Screen Saver plays your quotes on a slow loop while your phone charges. – Capture a quote from Shortcuts or the Action button. – Share a quote as an image card, or send a friend a link to a book. – Ten reading fonts and an app icon in your highlight color. YOURS TO KEEP Your library lives on your phone and in your own iCloud. Pick a plan and add your first book. That's the whole sign-up. Your next favorite quote is waiting to be remembered. EXCERPTA UNBOUND Excerpta Unbound opens up everything above. Try it free for 7 days with the yearly plan, go monthly, or pay once and keep it for good. Family Sharing included. If your plan ends, your library stays readable and export stays free. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Any unused part of a free trial ends when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://excerpta.ink/privacy

About

AI Book Reader

Features
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AI Book Reader is a full-featured EPUB reader with built-in AI. Open any EPUB book, highlight a word or passage, and a smart context menu appears — translate, explain, generate an illustration, or run any custom AI action you've created. Whether you're reading fiction, studying textbooks, learning a language, or exploring non-fiction — AI Book Reader gives you the tools to understand, visualize, and engage with every page like never before. HIGHLIGHT ANY TEXT — GET AI INSTANTLY Select any word, sentence, or paragraph and the AI context menu appears right away. No switching apps, no copy-pasting. The AI works directly inside your book. BUILT-IN AI ACTIONS • Translate — instantly translate any passage to your language • Explain — get a clear, simple explanation of complex text • Illustrate — generate an image to bring a scene or character to life BUILD YOUR OWN AI ACTIONS This is where AI Book Reader goes beyond any other reader. Create completely custom AI actions tailored to your reading style — rewrite text in simpler language, identify all characters in a scene, generate study flashcards, write a critical analysis, or anything else you can think of. Your actions are saved and available in every book. Your first AI generation is free. Continued access to AI features requires a subscription. CLEAN READING EXPERIENCE • Distraction-free interface designed for long reading sessions • Adjustable font size, line spacing, and themes • Full EPUB format support • Reading progress saved automatically AI Book Reader is for curious readers, students, language learners, and anyone who wants more from the books they read. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Excerpta4 screens
AI Book Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Excerpta at every 6 days against AI Book Reader's every 2 months. AI Book Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.2). 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. Excerpta sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and AI Book Reader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Excerpta ships an update every 6 days, AI Book Reader every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Excerpta versus AI Book Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExcerptaAI Book Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.215.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTrevor TarakjianKanat Magdanov

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Excerpta

Subscriptions2
  • Excerpta Unbound Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Excerpta Unbound Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Excerpta Unbound Forever$49.99
2 purchases

AI Book Reader

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Premium$7.997 Days
  • Monthly Premium$29.991 Month

Questions

Is Excerpta free?
Excerpta is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AI Book Reader free?
AI Book Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Excerpta or AI Book Reader have ads?
Neither Excerpta nor AI Book Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Excerpta or AI Book Reader?
Excerpta ships an update every 6 days, and AI Book Reader every 2 months. Most recently, Excerpta was updated on November 10, 2026 and AI Book Reader on November 8, 2026.

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