BookBook vs Nana's Focus

Your books. Your reading rhythm. Your story. Organize your library, build a reading habit, and remember what you read. No BookBook account, no ads, no tracking. A LIBRARY THAT MAKES SENSE • Scan an ISBN or search by title or author to add books with covers. Manual entry is available too. • Track physical books and e-books, including multiple copies of the same title. • Record where books live: home, office, bookcase and shelf. • Organize series and reading lists, create genres, and find books with detailed filters. • Track purchases, spending, gifts, and books you lend or borrow. READ AT YOUR OWN PACE • Set daily page and yearly book goals, with clear progress rings and an optional reminder. • Choose daily or weekly streaks, and set how many days you want to read each week. • Time reading sessions and track pages, minutes and reading history. • Forgot to log? With Premium, add missed reading to an earlier day. SEE YOUR READING STORY • Explore reading calendars, monthly comparisons, genre breakdowns, author rankings and pace projections. • Discover your busiest reading days, fastest finishes, ratings and reading-session details. • Record where you finish books and revisit those places on a map. • Turn this month into a shareable reading summary, or any past month or year with Premium. KEEP THE WORDS THAT MATTER • Save page-linked notes and quotes, organize favorites, and scan text with your camera. • Turn favorite passages into quote cards with five themes: two free and three Premium. WITH YOU, ACROSS YOUR APPLE DEVICES • With Premium, Apple device sync keeps your books, notes and reading history up to date on every device using the same Apple Account. • Update pages and start, pause or finish timed reading sessions on Apple Watch. • Follow your goals and current book with Home Screen, Lock Screen and Apple Watch widgets. • Find books in Spotlight. Ask Siri for your current page, update progress or start a reading session. • Enjoy layouts designed for iPhone and iPad, in portrait and landscape. MAKE IT YOURS • Choose from eight accent themes, including “Match my book,” inspired by your current book's cover. • Customize library cards and use light or dark mode. Available in 18 languages. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR CONTROL • Keep your library on your device, with optional automatic iCloud backups and easy restore. • Add descriptions to backups and lock important ones. • Import from Goodreads, StoryGraph or Bookmory (up to 30 books per import on the free plan); export a BookBook backup or, with Premium, a CSV file. EXPLORE BEFORE YOU START Open Demo Mode from Profile to try sample books, notes and statistics without changing your own library. BOOKBOOK PREMIUM Start free with up to 50 books. Premium adds unlimited books, imports, notes, series and lists; unlimited gift and loan tracking; advanced statistics, past-period reports and full calendar history; past-day reading logs; CSV export; unlimited enhanced book search; Apple device sync; premium quote-card themes; and alternate app icons. Monthly and yearly subscriptions are available. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://gulac.github.io/TUPPs/BookBook/IOS/terms_of_use_en.html Privacy Policy: https://gulac.github.io/TUPPs/BookBook/IOS/privacy_policy_en.html Make room for your next good book. Start with BookBook today.

Nana's Focus is a reader for studying from your own texts. It does not promise you will read three times faster, because that would not be true. It looks after something plainer. Three pages in, you should still have the first one. Three ways to read, because different things slip away from different people. Spot: words arrive one at a time, in one place on the screen. Your eyes stop wandering, because there's nowhere to wander to. Line: the whole sentence in front of you, with a pointer leading your eye underneath. Traditional reading: a plain page at your own pace. This is where you drag your finger over what you need to know. A breath before reading. In through the nose, a short sip more on top, then a long breath out through the mouth. The out-breath has to be longer than both in-breaths together, because the whole thing rests on that proportion. One minute, three or five, and you can turn it off. Noise in the background, if it happens to help you. Steady pink noise, generated as it plays, so your ear never catches a loop. Here is the honest version of where this stands: in a 2024 pooling of thirteen studies, steady noise improved performance for people with ADHD and made it worse for people without. The gain was small, and it varied a lot between individuals. Turn it on for one session and see for yourself. Highlights become cards. Drag your finger across a sentence and pick what it is: a definition, a date, a key point, or "I don't get it". The app writes questions from the first three. From the last one it writes nothing, because there's no point cramming what you don't understand. Cards come back to fit the date. Give the app your exam date and it spreads the reviews so the last round lands before the exam, not after it. The closer the date, the more often the questions come back. The Study tab works out how much you have to read each day to get through the material in time. It leaves the final days for reviews alone, because a chapter read once isn't enough. Nine lessons called "How to study". Active recall, spaced repetition, desirable difficulty, prequestions and more. Each lesson says how much evidence stands behind it, and where the evidence is thin it says so. Six ways to remember. For the things that have to come back word for word, or in order. None of them will help you understand a text, and the first screen says so before you start. At the end of every sitting, one question: what stayed with you, in one sentence, out of your own head. That is how remembering works. Read your own: PDF, EPUB, FB2, MOBI, DOCX, txt, or text you paste in. That is what this app is for. One short text is waiting on the shelf to start with, "Evening in the building", the same passage you read during the reading test, so the shelf isn't empty on the first day. No account in the app, and no sign-in. Your texts, highlights, cards and progress stay on your phone, because there's no server for them to go to. What this app doesn't do: it doesn't speed your reading up and it doesn't claim to switch off the voice in your head. The popular advice about silencing that voice isn't backed by the research, and the app says so plainly. Trial and purchase You turn on seven days of the full version whenever you like, with no card and no account. Until then, the free version works. After that it's one purchase, once and for good: 29.00 USD. No subscription. The purchase unlocks the whole app. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://nanas.pro/legal/privacy