Comparison

Booklore vs Reading Habit

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

Reading Habit

Features
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Reading Habit helps you build a daily reading habit with tracking that’s easy to keep up. Mark the days you read, however much you read, and see your consistency grow. - Record today’s reading without counting pages, chapters, or minutes. Add detailed progress only if you want it. - Choose your own monthly book goal and see the books you finish add up. - Save book recommendations with the friends who suggested them, ready when you choose your next book. - Look back at the days you read and the books you’ve finished in your journal.

Screenshots

Booklore4 screens
Reading Habit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Booklore at fortnightly against Reading Habit's monthly. Booklore also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 27.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Booklore against 5.0 for Reading Habit. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Booklore ships an update fortnightly, Reading Habit monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Booklore versus Reading Habit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookloreReading Habit
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHazem AbdeltawabBrian Renshaw

Customer experience

Booklore

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

Reading Habit

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

In-app purchases

None

Booklore

No in-app purchases

None

Reading Habit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Booklore free?
Booklore is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Reading Habit free?
Reading Habit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Booklore or Reading Habit?
Booklore and Reading Habit are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Booklore or Reading Habit have ads?
Neither Booklore nor Reading Habit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Booklore or Reading Habit?
Booklore ships an update fortnightly, and Reading Habit monthly. Most recently, Booklore was updated on October 15, 2026 and Reading Habit on October 24, 2026.

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