Comparison

Booklore vs Catechized

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

Head to head
About

Booklore

Track your reading privately and offline. Log books, update progress, rate finished titles, and add notes. Features include a reading timer with ambient sounds, habit-building tools like streaks and goals, and insightful year-end summaries.

Highlights
  • Offline reading log
  • Track reading progress
  • Rate and review books
  • Reading timer with ambient sounds
  • Reading streaks and goals
  • Import/export library data
  • Yearly reading summaries
Features
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Every book you read, one tap away. Booklore is a reading log for people who would rather be reading: add a book, log your page, close the app. No sign-up stands between you and your first book, and your library lives on your phone. On the shelf • Find books by title, author or ISBN, or scan the barcode on the back cover • Shelves for Reading, Want to Read, Read, Paused and Did Not Finish, plus your own shelves and tags • Rate in half-stars, from ½ to 5, and tag a book's mood and pace • Print books, e-books and audiobooks side by side, with rereads counted At the page • Log progress with one tap (¼, ½, ¾, Finished) or type the exact page • Reading an e-book or listening to an audiobook? Enter the percentage your reader or player shows • See how much reading time is left in a book, at your own measured pace • Time a session and add ambient sound: rain, ocean, forest, café, fireplace and more, generated on your device • A Live Activity keeps the running session on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Write notes and a review, and capture a quote straight off the page with your camera Over the year • A reading calendar that fills in every day you read • Streaks with a best-streak record, and a yearly goal that paces you from the day you set it • A daily reminder that skips the days you already read, scheduled on your device • Home Screen widget, Apple Watch app and Siri ("Start reading in Booklore") • Your Year in Books and monthly wrap-up cards to share, plus all-time stats Your library, your phone • Bring your library over from a CSV export and export everything whenever you like • Optional backup to your own iCloud • Book search and one-time cover downloads are the only network use, and cover downloads can be switched off • Your reading is never sold or used to build a profile of you Happy reading.

About

Catechized

Features
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The Church Fathers in your pocket. Catechized brings the great voices of the Christian tradition into a beautiful reading, study, and devotional experience built around the primary sources themselves. ASK THE CHURCH FATHERS Ask questions about Scripture, prayer, theology, virtue, Christian life, and more. Catechized searches the writings of the Church Fathers and builds answers grounded in the tradition, with citations you can open and read for yourself. Follow the sources. Read the Fathers themselves. Don’t settle for an answer when you can see the texts behind it. SCRIPTURE WITH COMMENTARY FROM THE FATHERS Read the Bible alongside the Christian tradition. Select a passage and discover commentary drawn from patristic sources, with citations connecting you directly to the writings behind each insight. Highlight Scripture, take notes, and ask the Fathers about the passage you are reading. READ THE PRIMARY SOURCES Build your own library of the Fathers and read works from Augustine, John Chrysostom, Ignatius of Antioch, Athanasius, Basil the Great, Cyprian, Justin Martyr, and many more. Catechized is built around ad fontes — back to the sources. Primary texts, not merely modern summaries. BUILD A LIBRARY WORTH PASSING DOWN • Read works from the Church Fathers • Listen to available audiobooks • Highlight passages and take notes • Track your reading progress • Follow the Catechized Book Club • Build a growing digital library of the Christian tradition A DAILY LIFE ROOTED IN THE TRADITION Discover devotional resources alongside your reading, including: • Saints and feast days • Sacred icons • Liturgical calendar resources • Devotional material • Reading and study tools Catechized is designed for Christians who want more than quotations about the Fathers. Read their words. Search their writings. Study Scripture with them. Let the tradition speak. Ad fontes. Some content and features may require a Catechized membership or subscription.

Screenshots

Booklore4 screens
Catechized4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Booklore at none against Catechized's 2. On price, ads, 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. Catechized sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Booklore asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Booklore versus Catechized: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookloreCatechized
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHazem AbdeltawabCatechized LLC

In-app purchases

None

Booklore

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Catechized

Subscriptions2
  • Catechized Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Catechized Annual$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Booklore free?
Booklore is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Catechized free?
Catechized is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Booklore or Catechized have ads?
Neither Booklore nor Catechized shows ads.

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