Mistbook vs Readendar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mistbook
Organize your entire reading life, track progress, and build reading habits. Discover insights into your reading patterns and share your literary journey with a community. Make reading a fun and engaging experience with challenges and gamified features.
- Organize books via search, ISBN scan, or manual entry
- Track reading progress, want-to-read, finished, and abandoned books
- Create custom lists and filter books by genre, trope, series, and more
- Import libraries from Goodreads, Bookmory, The StoryGraph, Babelio
- Log reading time and pages with a built-in timer
- View monthly, annual, and all-time reading statistics
- Rate books with stars and custom categories
- Share reviews, notes, and create collaborative lists
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Designed from the ground up with obsessive precision. Mistbook combines elegance with the depth your reading demands. Your entire literary universe, exactly as it should be. ORGANIZE YOUR READING LIFE • Add books via search, by scanning their ISBN, or by creating them manually. • Keep track of what you are reading, what you want to read, what you finished, and what you abandoned. • Create custom lists and find any book using filters for genre, trope, series, format, length, or rating. • Check book series and reading orders without missing a single volume. • Import your library from Goodreads, Bookmory, The StoryGraph, or Babelio. • Keep your library, notes, and progress synced across iCloud. BUILD A READING HABIT • Update your progress by page or percentage. • Log your time and pages for each session using the built-in timer. • Maintain your daily streak and set an annual reading goal. • Save each reread as a brand-new experience. • View your current book and progress from widgets, your Lock Screen, and Apple Watch. DISCOVER WHAT YOUR READING SAYS ABOUT YOU • Explore monthly, annual, and all-time statistics. • Discover your favorite authors, genres, and tropes, your reading pace, schedule, and many other patterns. • Visualize pages, time, sessions, streaks, and activity on reading calendars and maps. • Keep track of your financial investment in books. • Create and share your monthly or annual Wrap Up, or pitch your top reads against each other in a bracket tournament to crown the winner. REMEMBER EVERY STORY • Rate with stars and categories like romance, spice, tears, action, plot twists, or world-building. • Customize your own rating categories for each book. • Save notes, quotes, thoughts, photos, and spoilers. • Take a photo of a page and extract the exact text you want to keep. • Jot down your theories while reading and check back later to see which ones came true. • Customize the cover, spine, and edges to match your physical edition. READ AND SHARE WITH THE COMMUNITY • Create your reader profile, follow others, and discover their activity. • Share reviews and notes while maintaining full control over privacy and spoilers. • Discover curated collections created by the community. • Create collaborative lists with friends. • Host buddy reads with synced progress and a private chat. • Send letters that take time to arrive, just like old-school mail. MAKE READING A GAME TOO • Complete book bingos and reading challenges. • Unlock achievements, hold your streak, and collect stickers. • Build tier lists of your books and share them. • Create character and couple rankings and podiums. • Let Mistbook pick your next read when you cannot decide where to start. A BOOKSHELF THAT FEELS LIKE YOUR OWN Choose how to display your books, change the size and style of your shelf, add plants, candles, lights, companions, and special items, and transform the entire app with themes inspired by different worlds and seasons. Mistbook is free to use with zero ads. Mistbook EPIC unlocks advanced features, themes, decorations, and extra experiences through a subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mistbook.app/privacy.html
Readendar
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Organiza lo que lees en el teléfono, agrupa libros en listas, planifica para terminar a tiempo y guarda tus anotaciones. Sin cuenta: la biblioteca vive en el dispositivo. Cada libro, en su sitio. • Separa lo que quieres leer, lo que estás leyendo y lo que ya terminaste. Cada libro lleva su progreso, sus metas y sus fechas, y todas aparecen en un calendario lector claro. • Añade libros de Open Library y de la BNE, o importa un archivo: Goodreads, StoryGraph, Bookmory y Babelio. • La biblioteca vive en SQLite local. iCloud o la copia automática de Google pueden copiarla, si el sistema hace copia de la app. Listas a tu medida. • Crea listas con nombre, icono y color. Plantillas para por leer, club, regalos, relectura y préstamos, o una en blanco. Favoritos y Prestados vienen de serie. • Ordena los libros, oculta los terminados y comparte la lista. • Filtra la biblioteca por lista. Los libros siguen en su sitio. Termina los libros a tiempo. • Dinos las páginas y una fecha, o un ritmo diario, y Readendar reparte la lectura en hitos en tu calendario. Salta fines de semana u otras fechas y el plan se reordena solo. ¿Te retrasas? Replanifica el tramo que queda sin perder lo ya leído. • Progreso por páginas, capítulos o porcentaje. • Avisos configurables para cada fecha, con acciones rápidas. Guarda cada línea y cada nota que no quieres olvidar. • Captura notas, citas, teoría y preguntas con la cámara, la voz o escribiéndolas. Comparte una frase desde otra app, conviértela en tarjeta, recíbela como cita del día e importa tus subrayados de Kindle. • Diseños cuidados con la portada y el autor. • Una frase distinta cada día en tu pantalla de inicio, y como cita del día a la hora que elijas. Tu lectura, sin abrir la app. • Pon Readendar en tu pantalla de inicio: un widget con tus próximas fechas y libros en curso, y otro que rota tus citas favoritas. En iPhone y iPad, claro y oscuro. • Fechas de hoy y libros en curso, de un vistazo. Toca para saltar a la app. • Todas, favoritas o de un libro, a tu ritmo de rotación. Estadísticas • Tu ritmo, tus géneros y tus autores en un panel personal. Y además • Ruleta de libros, modo oscuro, temas visuales libres En tu dispositivo. Readendar guarda la biblioteca en el teléfono. No hay comunidad ni contenido en línea que publicar o denunciar. Tú decides las copias del sistema. Si aún tienes una biblioteca en la nube, puedes exportarla desde la app hasta el 15 de octubre de 2026 a las 12:00 UTC. Menos listas olvidadas. Más lecturas que de verdad avanzan.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Readendar at 15.5 against Mistbook's 18.0. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mistbook ships an update every 4 days, Readendar every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mistbook | Readendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (16 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Laia Vidal | Daniel Balastegui Julian |
In-app purchases
Mistbook
No in-app purchases
Readendar
No in-app purchases









