Comparison

Booklore vs ReadCount

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

ReadCount

Easily log your reading progress, organize books on custom shelves, and save memorable quotes. This app offers a clean, native experience for tracking your reading journey across devices.

Highlights
  • Log reading progress by pages or percent
  • Organize books with auto-generated shelves
  • Save and display favorite book quotes
  • Search, scan, or manually add books
  • Sync library across iPhone and Mac
  • Export entire library data
  • Widgets for current reading and quotes
Features
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A reading tracker that stays out of the way. Log what you read, see where you are, and get on with the book. ReadCount is deliberately simpler than other trackers: just you, your shelves and your numbers, in a clean, native app. And your library has no limit: every book, every session and every quote is free. SEARCH, SCAN, OR TYPE IT IN Find a book by title or author, or point the camera at its barcode and it's in your library in a second. Millions of titles, so even an obscure edition turns up. Covers arrive automatically, and you can always pick a different one, or use a photo of your own. PROGRESS IN PAGES OR PERCENT Track paper books by page, and ebooks or audiobooks by percent. Drag the dial to where you are and your reading log builds itself. Forgot to log yesterday? Back-date it. Got it wrong? Edit or delete any session, any time. SHELVES THAT ORGANISE THEMSELVES Every author, category, collection, series, format and ownership state is already a shelf. Categories arrive filled in from the book data and stay editable. Arrange the groups, hide the ones you don't want, and pick grid or list per shelf. QUOTES WORTH KEEPING Save the passages you want to remember, and come back to them long after the book is closed. Bring your highlights with you, straight from your ereader, and put a rotating quote on your home screen. WIDGETS What you're reading now, with progress. A quote that changes through the day. A lock-screen dial. And a square for every day you read. READ IT AGAIN Finishing a book doesn't close the book. Start another read-through and it gets its own dates, sessions and dial, while the first stays exactly as you left it. YOUR LIBRARY IS YOURS Export everything, any time, free: one file holding your books, your reading history, every session, your collections, your quotes and all your cover art. Moving from Reading List or Book Tracker? Import straight from their exports. MADE FOR iPHONE, MAC AND APPLE WATCH Clean monochrome typography, light and dark done properly, and a design that gets out of the way. A real native Mac app is included, not sold separately. With Supporter, there's an Apple Watch app too, for logging pages with the Digital Crown. --SUPPORTER-- ReadCount's reading log is free and unlimited: every book, every session, every quote, and your library is always yours to export. Supporter adds sync, backups, stats and the Apple Watch app. - Sync your library between your iPhone and your Mac, privately, in your own iCloud. The Mac app is included: ReadCount is one purchase, everywhere - The Apple Watch app: see the books you're reading, log pages with the Digital Crown, and put your current book on your watch face - Automatic daily backups to iCloud Drive, where you can pick the file up in Files - Statistics: a reading calendar, pages over time, streaks, and every book you've finished broken down by category, rating and length - The Reading Activity widget: a square for every day you read - Six alternate app icons, including three Pride designs Supporter is a small monthly or yearly subscription, with a 7-day free trial on the yearly plan. There's also a one-off lifetime unlock if you'd rather never subscribe. No ads. No account. No data collected. Privacy Policy: https://readcount.app/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://readcount.app/terms/

Screenshots

Booklore4 screens
ReadCount4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Booklore at free against ReadCount's freemium. Booklore also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Booklore ships an update fortnightly, ReadCount every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Booklore versus ReadCount: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookloreReadCount
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, Mac, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHazem AbdeltawabDane Rich

Customer experience

Booklore

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ReadCount

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Booklore

No in-app purchases

None

ReadCount

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Booklore free?
Booklore is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ReadCount free?
ReadCount is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Booklore or ReadCount have ads?
Neither Booklore nor ReadCount shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Booklore or ReadCount?
Booklore ships an update fortnightly, and ReadCount every 3 weeks. Most recently, Booklore was updated on October 15, 2026 and ReadCount on October 19, 2026.

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