Comparison

Literari vs Marca

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

Head to head
About

Literari

This app helps you build a consistent reading habit by tracking your daily progress and encouraging you to reach your annual book goals. Log your pages, capture thoughts, and maintain a reading streak. Connect with friends to see what they're reading without social pressure.

Highlights
  • Build reading streaks
  • Log every page and capture thoughts
  • Set annual book reading goals
  • Read with friends privately
  • No social pressure or algorithms
Features
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Literari is the reading journal that keeps you accountable — one page, one day, one book at a time. Most readers don't have a reading problem. They have a consistency problem. You pick up a book, life gets in the way, and two weeks later you've lost the thread. Literari fixes that. BUILD A READING STREAK Read every day, keep the chain alive. Literari tracks your consecutive days and celebrates milestones so that opening a book stops feeling optional. LOG EVERY PAGE Mark your progress as you go. Capture thoughts, insights, and favourite lines while they're fresh — not weeks later when you've already forgotten them. SET YOUR ANNUAL GOAL Decide how many books you want to read this year. Watch the number climb. There's something quietly satisfying about a goal that's actually within reach. READ WITH FRIENDS See what the people you trust are reading right now. No feeds, no follower counts, no noise — just a nudge that someone you know is 200 pages into something great. Literari is built for readers who are serious about the habit — not the highlight reel. No algorithm. No social pressure. Just you, your books, and a streak worth protecting. This app is subject to Apple's standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Marca

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Literari4 screens
Marca4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Literari at 16.4 against Marca's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Literari sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Literari ships an update weekly, Marca every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Literari versus Marca: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiterariMarca
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB7 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAdvyth AshokAdrien Guinard

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Literari

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan$4.991 Month
  • Annual$49.991 Year
3 purchases

Marca

Subscriptions2
  • Marca+ Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Marca+ Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Marca+ Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Literari free?
Literari is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Marca free?
Marca is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Literari or Marca have ads?
Neither Literari nor Marca shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Literari or Marca?
Literari ships an update weekly, and Marca every 2 weeks. Most recently, Literari was updated on October 24, 2026 and Marca on October 25, 2026.

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