Book Tracker vs Marca
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Book Tracker
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Set a yearly book goal, log every chapter, watch your ring fill — a minimal offline reading tracker. • Yearly book goal with progress ring • Log chapters or whole books • Up to 3 active books free • Unlimited books and year history (Pro) • Themes: paper, dark, sepia (Pro) Who it's for For readers chasing a yearly goal who don't want a social or cloud-tracked app. Subscription Premium is available as a weekly, monthly, or yearly subscription, with pricing shown in the app before you buy. Subscriptions auto-renew unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period. You can cancel anytime in your Apple ID Subscription Settings — no charge on the first day if you cancel during the introductory window. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Privacy: everything stays on your device by default. No analytics SDKs, no cross-app tracking. Privacy policy at https://bestpaid.app/legal/privacy. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Marca
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Track every book you read and build a daily reading habit. Your TBR, today's pages and your streak, in one calm place. Read a little every day: a 10-minute goal, a reading timer, and a streak that forgives a busy day. Want to scroll less? Marca can lock your social apps until you've read for 10 minutes. TRACK YOUR READING - Add any book in seconds: search millions of titles or scan the barcode - Shelves for your TBR, what's on your shelf, what you're reading, finished and set aside - Pages and minutes read today, progress, ratings and notes - Save the quotes worth keeping, on the page you found them BUILD THE HABIT - A tiny daily goal: 10 minutes or 10 pages - A calm reading timer with a Live Activity on your Lock Screen - A forgiving streak with a free skip each week - Your reading month as a calendar of covers, a yearly challenge, and Home Screen widgets READ BEFORE YOU SCROLL (optional) - Choose the apps that eat your evenings - Marca locks them with Apple's Screen Time until you've read today's goal, then they stay open until midnight - Need something urgent? Two five-minute passes a day, and a pass opens only that one app - Strict Mode (Marca+) removes the passes - Marca never learns which apps you chose: Screen Time keeps that private SEE YOUR READING - Books, pages, hours, streaks and reading pace - How many days reading opened your apps - A shareable card for every finished book PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No feed. No ads. Your reading life stays on your device. MARCA+ Strict Mode, unlimited quotes, the full stats, two daily goals and every theme. - A monthly or yearly subscription, or pay once for lifetime access - Payment is charged to your Apple ID; subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://adabastudio.github.io/marca/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://adabastudio.github.io/marca/privacy.html Read a little every day.
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Verdict
Book Tracker and Marca are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Book Tracker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Marca sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Book Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Marca every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Book Tracker | Marca |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Vasilii Polovnikov | Adrien Guinard |
In-app purchases
Book Tracker
- Premium · 1 week$2.997 Days
- Premium · 1 month$3.991 Month
- Premium · 1 year$5.991 Year
- Premium · Lifetime$7.99
Marca
- Marca+ Monthly$4.991 Month
- Marca+ Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Marca+ Lifetime$49.99









