FoxMark vs Slowburn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FoxMark
Organize your reading with custom shelves, track page progress, and discover new books. Get personalized yearly recaps of your reading habits and connect with other readers. Premium features offer advanced insights.
- Customizable reading shelves
- Page progress tracking
- Book discovery and search
- Personalized reading stats
- Yearly reading recaps
- Social reading features
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FoxMark is a reading tracker and book discovery app. Keep all your books in one place, track every page, and get a personalized recap of your year in books. YOUR SHELVES, YOUR WAY Sort everything you read into To Be Read, Currently Reading, Finished, and Did Not Finish. Did Not Finish gets its own shelf, because giving up on a book counts too. Never forget what you wanted to pick up next. DISCOVER YOUR NEXT FAVORITE BOOK Browse new releases and search millions of titles. Tap any book to see details, add it to a shelf, and start tracking right away. Add your own tags to track your reading trends and get personalized reports. TRACK EVERY PAGE Log your progress as you read, set start and finish dates, and leave ratings and reviews. Your whole reading history stays at your fingertips. SEE YOUR READING STATS Get yearly breakdowns of books finished, pages read, top genres, and your reading pace. Your numbers grow with every book you finish. YOUR YEAR IN BOOKS At the end of each year, get a personalized recap with your top genres, your most read author, and your own reader archetype. Share it with one tap. CONNECT WITH OTHER READERS See what your friends are reading, find out what the community is loving, and share your own reading activity. FOXMARK PREMIUM Take things further with an auto renewable Premium membership. Unlock a monthly reading report, advanced stats, and more. - Yearly: $19.99/year - Monthly: $2.99/month - Lifetime: $59.99/one-time Prices may vary by region. Upgrade anytime from within the app. Some features shown in the listing images may require a Premium membership. Privacy Policy: https://eggplant-carmesan.github.io/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://eggplant-carmesan.github.io/terms.html Apple Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ For support, contact wardcarmen91@gmail.com
Slowburn
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Some books ruin you. This is where you keep them. Slowburn is a reading journal built for romance readers, and for everything a five-star rating cannot hold. It records what a book did to you while you were still inside it, not just whether you finished. THE BURN One dial. Five levels, Cooling up to Ruined. Tap the one that matches how badly the book has you, whenever you pick it up. Slowburn keeps every reading and draws the curve: the slow build, the chapter that ruined you, the cooling after. When you finish, the curve is named. Slow burn, wildfire, flicker, steady, cooled. It becomes a card you can keep or share, and the card carries the shape. Never a word you wrote. A SHELF THAT LOOKS LIKE A SHELF Every book stands spine-out on a shelf that fills as you read, each one bound from its own cover. Ribbons hang from the books you are inside, tinted from wine to flame by the latest Burn. Covers and List views are there when you want the analytical face of the same library. THE JOURNAL, IN YOUR WORDS Status, rating, spice, tropes, moods, the line you keep, the private note nobody else reads. Thirty-eight romance tropes and an Other for the ones there is no word for yet. A spice scale with its own vocabulary. DNF with a cause of death. Content notes: what you noticed was in a book, private, in your own words. Progress is a page or a percent. Not a timer. Not a streak. YOUR READING, READ BACK TO YOU Your mood profile, your trope profile, and the spice gap between what you say you want and what you actually finish. Reading Identity reads ten insights off your journal, each a plain function of what you logged, each saying how many books it rests on. No generative AI writes your Reading Identity. No personality test. The Monthly Post-Mortem is a dossier rather than a dashboard: the body count, your type, the one that ruined you, the disappointment. Each section appears only when your month can support it. A FEW PEOPLE YOU CHOSE Circle is people you invited one at a time. No public profiles, no followers, no feed. A handle separate from your journal, and only what you hand over. Buddy Reads are one person, one book, two positions, with notes sealed at the page you leave them until the other reader gets there. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your journal is a database on your phone. There is no sign-up and no account to make. Your library is not synced anywhere and the company cannot read it. What leaves is what you deliberately hand over, and your book searches, which go to Open Library to find the book. Everything exports as one file, or your books as a spreadsheet, whenever you want it. Bring a Goodreads or StoryGraph export and Slowburn reads it on your phone. FREE AND PREMIUM Slowburn has a free journal tier with shelf, rating, spice, tropes, moods, notes, the Burn, stats, Circle, Buddy Reads, and every privacy feature. Premium is the deeper reading: the full Reading Identity rather than one insight, Compare, the whole Monthly Post-Mortem, the premium card families, and a vote on what gets built next. $29.99 a year or $4.99 a month, with fourteen days free on the annual plan. Nothing about privacy or safety is behind the paywall. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Slowburn Premium is an auto-renewing subscription: Slowburn Premium Annual at $29.99 a year with a fourteen day free trial, or Slowburn Premium Monthly at $4.99 a month. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews at the same price unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in your App Store settings at any time. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Our terms: https://myslowburn.com/terms
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Verdict
FoxMark and Slowburn are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. FoxMark sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Slowburn sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | FoxMark | Slowburn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | CARMEN MARIE WARD | Rolf Eriksen |
In-app purchases
FoxMark
- Bookmark'd Premium$2.991 Month
- Bookmark'd Premium$19.991 Year
Slowburn
- Slowburn Premium$4.991 Month
- Slowburn Premium14 Days trial$29.991 Year









