Casebound vs Book Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Casebound
Organize your physical and digital book collection with detailed tracking of ownership, formats, and reading progress. Visualize your library on a customizable bookshelf and track reading sessions with detailed statistics. Capture new books quickly via barcode or cover scanning.
- Separate library and custom lists
- Track multiple formats per book
- Customizable bookshelf visualization
- Session-based reading time and page tracking
- Barcode and cover scanning for fast entry
- Book club and lending features
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For serious readers and library builders. People with real shelves who want to know exactly what they own, track their reading honestly, and enjoy the collection they have built. LIBRARY AND LISTS, FINALLY SEPARATE Most book apps blend your shelves, your reading state, and your custom lists into one jumble. When you own 500 books across overlapping shelves, you cannot cleanly answer "what do I actually own?" Casebound keeps your library, a real catalogue with ownership, format, and reading status, separate from your lists, which are tags you layer on top. A book lives in your library once. Lists are zero or many tags applied to it. ONE BOOK, EVERY FORMAT Own the hardcover. Listening to the audiobook. Halfway through the Kindle. That is one library entry with three format records, each tracked separately. Ownership lives on the format, so you can own the hardcover and borrow the audiobook from the library. Stats stay honest: hours for audio, pages for physical, locations or percent for ebooks. No lossy conversion between them. Books finished counts any format. A SHELF WORTH SHOWING Your library is not just a spreadsheet. Arrange it on a real bookshelf, in a floating or framed case, with spine widths that scale to actual page counts. Stack books the way you do at home. Photograph your real spines and see them on the shelf. Earn decor as you read and place it where you like. SESSIONS THAT COUNT Track reading time and pages session by session. Pause, resume, or log a session you forgot to start. See weekly, monthly, yearly, and lifetime stats, plus a reading calendar built from your book covers and a year in review when the year closes. Goals are measured in pages and time, never in book counts. CAPTURE A LIBRARY FAST Scan a barcode and Casebound looks up the metadata automatically. Point the camera at a cover when there is no barcode. Pair a Bluetooth scanner and add a whole shelf in one sitting. Quick add drops a book in with a single tap. Found a wrong page count? Fix it once and the correction improves the shared record for everyone. READ WITH OTHER PEOPLE, OR DO NOT Follow readers whose taste you trust and see what they are finishing. Rate and review books, and read reviews from everyone else. Start or join a book club with real discussion threads. Lend a book and track who has it and how far along they are. Send a book straight to a friend when you know it is for them. None of it is mandatory. Privacy is per book, there is no public profile by default, and you decide what, if anything, is visible. FREE IS USEFUL. PRO IS POWER. Free includes your unlimited library on every device you sign in on, session tracking, streaks and goals, ISBN and cover scanning, reviews, following, lending, friend recommendations, import and export, per-book privacy, and up to 5 custom lists. Pro ($4.99/month or $29.99/year) unlocks unlimited custom lists, advanced stats and insights, unlimited book clubs, the customizable bookshelf, and the Sepia theme. OPINIONATED Casebound measures reading in pages and hours, not in books finished, because book-count goals quietly push people toward shorter books. Your library and your lists stay separate structures, because collapsing them is what broke every app that came before. If those choices are not for you, this is not the right app, and that is okay. Casebound is a product of Pixel Master Technologies LLC. Contact: support@pixel-master.com Casebound Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase and renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://casebound.co/privacy
Book Tracker
Log your reading journey with this app designed for romance novel enthusiasts. Rate books by spice level, tag favorite tropes, and track your reading progress. Share your literary adventures with beautifully designed social media cards.
- Spice rating (0-5 peppers)
- Trope tagging
- TBR and current reading management
- Reading log with notes
- Reading Bingo
- BookTok share cards
- Stats dashboard
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Book Tracker: Spicy Shelf is the reading companion built for romance readers who rate their books on spice, tag tropes, and share their reads on BookTok. Your personal library lives entirely on your device — no account required, no ads, no data shared. FEATURES • Spice Rating — rate every book 0–5 peppers for steaminess • Trope Tags — tag your favorites: enemies to lovers, forced proximity, dark romance, and more • TBR Shelf — manage your To Be Read list and track what you're currently reading • Reading Log — log finish dates, star ratings, and personal notes • Reading Bingo — fill community bingo cards as you read • BookTok Share Cards — generate gorgeous recap cards to share on social media • Stats Dashboard — visualize your reading year at a glance SHELF PLUS Unlock unlimited books, custom trope tags, and advanced stats with a Shelf Plus subscription. • Monthly or yearly — cancel any time • Free 1-week trial on the yearly plan No algorithms. No social feed. Just you and your books. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Casebound and Book Tracker are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Casebound sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Book Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Casebound against 5.0 for Book Tracker. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Casebound | Book Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Pixel Master Technologies LLC | Diego Cortes |
Customer experience
Casebound
Book Tracker
In-app purchases
Casebound
- Casebound Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Casebound Pro Annual$29.991 Year
Book Tracker
- Shelf Plus (Monthly)$3.991 Month
- Shelf Plus (Yearly)7 Days trial$24.991 Year









