Comparison

Blek App vs Bookgeist

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

Head to head
About

Blek App

Features
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Do you feel like you read less than you'd like? Do you lose track of the books you've finished or wish you had someone to talk to about that novel that blew your mind? Blek is the solution. Blek is not just a book tracker — it's your personal library, your reading journal, and your virtual book club, all in one app designed to make you fall in love with reading again. Track your books, write reviews, set reading goals, discover new titles, and join book clubs with readers who share your taste. Upgrade to Premium for unlimited clubs and exclusive features. Terms (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Bookgeist

Features
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Bookgeist is an app for organizing your books, tracking your reading, and preserving everything that happens along the way. But it’s much more than a library manager. You can organize books, collections, and series; track reading sessions and progress; save quotes; build your reading history; explore statistics, goals, and reading memories; and create a notebook that connects characters, places, theories, notes, and everything else you discover between the pages. Bookgeist tries to preserve something that usually gets lost: not just which books you’ve read, but what those books left with you. YOUR LIBRARY Organize all your books and create a space of your own for your collection. • A complete library with multiple views, filters, and search. • Manual and smart collections. • Series and sagas with their own dedicated space. • Favorites, TBRs, and personal lists. • Built to handle large libraries, too. YOUR READING Bookgeist stays with you while you read. • Track reading sessions and reading time. • Plan what you want to read next. • Follow your progress and reading streaks. • Explore your activity and reading calendar. • Keep a complete history for every book. • Discover statistics, goals, and your year in reading. • Track loans and purchases. THE NOTEBOOK This is where Bookgeist becomes a little less conventional. The Notebook isn’t just for writing notes. You can save quotes, characters, places, creatures, organizations, theories, images, audio, and other elements from your reading. And then you can connect them. Link characters to one another, connect places with events, build family trees, follow theories, or create a map of everything you’ve discovered inside a book. A book may end. Your notebook doesn’t have to. Bookgeist is free to download and use, with no limits on books or reading sessions. Bookgeist Studio unlocks advanced features through a subscription. BOOKGEIST STUDIO Studio expands Bookgeist for readers who want to take their library and reading much further. • Full series features, progress tracking, and notebooks shared across all books in a series. • Favorite quotes and books, rankings, Tier Lists, and Wrap-ups. • Upcoming releases and reminders. • Achievements, badges, and collectible items. • Your year in reading and special shelves: Hall of Fame, yearly reads, and your full library in alphabetical order. • More themes, fonts, and alternative views. • Detailed analysis of your library, reading habits, and spending. • AI-powered features: recognize books and entire shelves to import them into your library, generate images of characters from your own descriptions, and much more. PRIVATE. LOCAL. YOURS. Your books, notes, and reading history live on your phone. No account required, and the core features work offline. Your library isn’t a public profile, and your notes remain private unless you choose to share them with someone. It’s your library. It stays with you. AND GEISTY Geisty is the little spirit that lives inside Bookgeist. He’ll keep you company while you read and appear in different corners of the app. His name shares the same root as Bookgeist: Geist, the German word for “spirit.” Bookgeist also plays on the idea of Zeitgeist — the “spirit of an age” — to imagine something like the spirit of books. The one that lives within every book. The one that runs through our reading. And, above all, the one that stays with us long after we’ve finished. That’s the kind of place I’m trying to build in Bookgeist. A place for your books. For your reading. And for everything they leave with you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Blek App4 screens
Bookgeist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Bookgeist at none against Blek App's shown. On price, in-app purchases, 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. Blek App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Bookgeist sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $3.90 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Blek App versus Bookgeist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlek AppBookgeist
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB181 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperJustine PanartLuis Gonzalez Lopez

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Blek App

Subscriptions2
  • Blek Premium Mensual$6.991 Month
  • Blek Premium Anual$44.991 Year
9 purchases

Bookgeist

Subscriptions2
  • Bookgeist Studio Monthly$3.901 Month
  • Bookgeist Studio Yearly$44.901 Year
One-time7
  • Buy me a coffee$1.99
  • Stamps 20$2.90
  • Stamps 40$3.90
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  • Movie night$8.99
  • Stamps 100$9.90
  • Treat me to a book!$17.90
  • Bookgeist Lifetime$79.90

Questions

Is Blek App free?
Blek App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bookgeist free?
Bookgeist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Blek App or Bookgeist have ads?
Blek App shows ads; Bookgeist does not.

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