Bookus vs Minerva
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bookus
This app helps you build a consistent reading habit by tracking your progress, reading time, and daily streaks. Visualize your reading activity with charts and keep your current book front and center with widgets.
- Track reading sessions and time
- Log page progress
- Build daily reading streaks
- Personal library collection
- Stats and insights on reading habits
- Reading activity charts
- Home screen widgets
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Bookus is a minimalist reading tracker designed for people who read physical books and want to see real progress. • Read with intention Start a session when you open a book and log your progress when you finish. Bookus tracks your reading time so nothing gets lost. • Track your progress Log pages and see how far you’ve come. Stay motivated by watching your book progress grow. • Build your streak Read every day and keep your streak alive. A simple system that actually works. • Your personal library Add books and build your own collection of what you’ve read. • Stats and insights See how long it took you to finish a book, how often you read, and your most productive days. • Reading charts Visualize your reading activity by day and week. • Widgets Keep your reading front and center with widgets showing your current progress. — Bookus helps you turn reading into a consistent habit and read more. Terms of Use: https://apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://chiapp.tech/bookus/privacy/index.html
Minerva
Track your reading progress, log pages or minutes, and discover what friends are reading. Connect with others, join book clubs, and get reading insights.
- Log reading progress (pages, minutes, percentage)
- Scan barcodes to add books
- Sync with KOReader for automatic logging
- View reading statistics and streaks
- Follow friends and see their reading activity
- Create and manage book clubs
- Import reading history from other platforms
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Minerva is a reading log you share with your friends. Log the days you read, rate and review the books you finish, and see what your friends thought of the same books. Log your reading - Log pages, minutes, or a percentage in a couple of taps, or just mark that you read today. - Scan a barcode to add a book. - If you read with KOReader on a Kobo or PocketBook, connect it once and Minerva logs your reading days for you. - Put the book you're reading on your home screen with a widget. - Turn on a daily reminder if you want one. Look back - See your year: how many books, pages, and days you read, and your longest streak. - Read a book again and it gets its own entry, with its own dates. - Open an author to see which of their books you've read and how you rated them. - On the 1st of each month, flip through a few cards about the month before, and share any of them as a picture. Friends - Follow people you know and see what they finish and what they think of it. - See which books you and a friend agree on, and which you don't. - Recommend a book to a friend. Book clubs - Start a club, choose books by vote or by turns, and compare ratings when everyone finishes. Import - Bring your history from Goodreads or StoryGraph. Buy a copy - Tap a book's title to find it on Bookshop.org, which supports independent bookstores. Minerva earns a commission. Only readers you let follow you can see your shelf. Nobody else can see your reading log.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Minerva at none against Bookus's 2. Minerva also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Bookus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Minerva asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bookus against 5.0 for Minerva. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Bookus ships an update every 8 days, Minerva every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Bookus | Minerva |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chi App Prodiction | Julia Chou |
Customer experience
Bookus
Minerva
In-app purchases
Bookus
- Monthly bookus plus$5.991 Month
- Yearly bookus plus7 Days trial$59.991 Year
Minerva
No in-app purchases









