Comparison

Mistbook vs Paperheart

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

Head to head
About

Mistbook

Organize your entire literary universe with this app. Track reading progress, create custom lists, and analyze your reading habits. Discover insights, remember every story with detailed notes, and engage with a community of readers.

Highlights
  • Add books via search, ISBN scan, or manual entry
  • Track reading status (reading, want to read, finished, abandoned)
  • Create custom lists with genre, trope, series, and format filters
  • Import libraries from Goodreads, Bookmory, The StoryGraph, Babelio
  • Sync library, notes, and progress across iCloud
  • Log reading time and pages with a built-in timer
  • Analyze reading statistics and patterns
  • Save notes, quotes, photos, and spoilers
Features
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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

About

Paperheart

Features
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Some people finish forty books a year. The rest of us mean to. Paperheart is the reading tracker that makes picking the book back up the best part of your evening — a shelf worth looking at, a streak worth keeping, and someone to talk to the moment you finish. A SHELF YOU'LL ACTUALLY OPEN Real covers, arranged like a real bookshelf. Reading, to-read, finished — and a small gold mark on every book you got to the end of. It looks like something you'd keep, because it is. LOGGING TAKES ONE TAP Type the page you're on. That's it. Paperheart works out the rest — how far through you are, how many pages today, how many days in a row. No forms, no fuss, nothing to maintain. A STREAK THAT'S KIND ABOUT IT Ten pages counts. So does one. The point isn't to perform reading, it's to keep going — and a streak you can actually hold is the one that lasts. SOMEONE TO TALK TO ABOUT IT Finish a book and there's finally someone to talk to about it at 1am. The reading companion knows the book, knows how far in you are, and will not spoil the ending. It'll even write your review for you when you can't find the words. AND IT KNOWS WHAT'S NEXT Ask what to read next and three books come back — the rest of the series first, then two that feel like the one you just closed. Real covers. One tap puts any of them on your shelf. EVERY WORD YOU MEET 86,000 definitions, built in and fully offline — look a word up mid-page without leaving the book, on a plane, anywhere. Keep the ones you love, and flashcards bring them back just before you'd have forgotten them. YOUR YEAR, MADE BEAUTIFUL Reading Wrapped turns your months and years into something worth sharing. Pages, books, streaks, the genres you leaned into, the one you couldn't put down. FREE FOREVER Tracking your reading is free, forever. Your shelf, your pages, your streak, your notes, your ratings — all of it, no trial, no countdown, no catch. Premium unlocks the rest of the magic: the companion whenever you want it, the dictionary and your words, recommendations, and Reading Wrapped. IT STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-up. No ads, ever, and nothing sold to anyone. Your shelf and everything in it lives on your device — the only thing that ever leaves is a chat message, and only if you say yes first. Made for people who love books and would quite like to read more of them. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/898d8fea-62c5-4532-8d29-c3d9d0831eb7

Screenshots

Mistbook4 screens
Paperheart4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Paperheart at daily against Mistbook's every 4 days. Paperheart also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Mistbook sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Paperheart sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mistbook ships an update every 4 days, Paperheart daily. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Mistbook versus Paperheart: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMistbookPaperheart
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (18 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size216 MB26 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperLaia VidalLUCA JACK THOMAS DENNISON

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Mistbook

Subscriptions2
  • EPIC Monthly$2.991 Month
  • EPIC Annual$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Licencia de por vida$49.99
2 purchases

Paperheart

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Mistbook free?
Mistbook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Paperheart free?
Paperheart is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mistbook or Paperheart have ads?
Neither Mistbook nor Paperheart shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mistbook or Paperheart?
Mistbook ships an update every 4 days, and Paperheart daily. Most recently, Mistbook was updated on November 11, 2026 and Paperheart on November 10, 2026.

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