Understory vs BookWorm

Understory is a reading tracker, book tracker, and social reading app designed to help you track books, log reading progress, set reading goals, and stay consistent. Whether you’re organizing your bookshelf, building a reading habit, or joining a book group, Understory brings together everything you need in one place with a fun plant aesthetic. Join the Understory bookish community to build a better reading habit and build a better world! GROW REAL-LIFE TREES: Watch your garden bloom in Understory and meet monthly objectives to grow real-world trees! Visit friends’ gardens daily to help their trees grow! INTERACT WITH FRIENDS: Join book groups where you and your friends can read different books! Like and comment on reviews in the social feed! TRACK YOUR READING: Review your books with half stars, audiobook tags and private reads! Manage your library with custom reading lists including a Did Not Finish (DNF) list! LEVEL UP YOUR READING: Improve your reading habit with leaderboards for books read, reading streaks, and XP level! Earn XP by logging reading and interacting with other users! SHARE BOOK RECS: See your friends’ favorite and highly rated books and share book recommendations directly with your friends! SEE YOUR STATS: Get insights on your reading history and social interactions through shareable stats and graphs and our signature Library Card graphic! Understory is perfect for readers who want to: - Track books and reading progress in one place - Build a daily reading habit and reading streak by growing a fun garden that doesn’t feel like a chore - Log books, reviews, and ratings (with half stars!) - Organize a TBR (to be read) list - Track audiobooks and ebooks - Join a social book community - Discover new book recommendations Terms of Use: https://www.understory-app.com/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://www.understory-app.com/privacy-policy Content and Copyright Policy: https://www.understory-app.com/content-copyright-policy

BookWorm is your personal reading companion: a beautiful, private home for every book you read, own or want to read. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY • Add books in seconds: search online, scan the ISBN barcode with the camera, or enter them by hand • Covers, authors, publishers, genres, series and sagas, with the edition's year and the year of first publication • Organize with collections, or let smart collections fill themselves from rules you define • Import your library from Goodreads or Book Tracker, and export it to CSV at any time TRACK YOUR READING • Log reading sessions with a timer or by hand, by page or by percentage, with a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Keep your current page, notes, ratings and reviews for every book • Set reading goals and follow your streak • Re-read a book and keep every reading in its history SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE • Statistics and charts: books per month, pages, reading time, genres and more • A reading diary and a calendar of the covers you finished • Achievements, levels and badges to keep you motivated MAKE IT YOURS • Widgets for your Home Screen and controls for Control Center • Reader Cards: beautiful, shareable cards for the books you love • Light and dark appearance, with the accent color you prefer PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no tracking • Your data stays on your device and syncs through your own iCloud • Back up and restore your whole library whenever you want FREE TO START, YOURS FOR GOOD Start free: build your first shelf, with a custom collection and a smart collection, and every essential tool for tracking your reading. When your library grows, a single one-time purchase unlocks BookWorm Premium forever: no subscription, no renewals. It lifts the limits and adds advanced statistics, achievements, widgets, Reader Cards and cover maintenance tools.