Comparison

Book Tracker vs WoodWork Bookshelf

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

Head to head
About

Book Tracker

Log your reading progress page by page and capture your thoughts with notes tied to specific books or chapters. This app helps you build a personal library and visualize your reading habits over time with a quiet journal and calendar view.

Highlights
  • Personal library with book details
  • Page-by-page reading progress tracking
  • Notes attached to books, chapters, or pages
  • Reading journal and calendar view
  • Customizable sorting and favorites
  • Nocturne-themed dark interface
Features
Currently charting
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Lexi turns your reading into a bookshelf you'll want to look at every night. Every book stands on the shelf spine-out, drawn from its own cover or photographed from your own copy, with a gold line rising up the spine as you read. Decorate the room around it, rank your reads on a silly tier list, rate the spice, tag the tropes, and read along with friends. YOUR SHELF, YOUR ROOM • 30 looks and 32 rooms to stand your shelves in: a Positano terrace, a fae palace, dragon cliffs, a Regency ballroom, an old library, a cherry-blossom study and more • 16 decorating collections, each with its own book nooks, bookends and curios: Witch & Wizard, Ancient Worlds, Storybook Classics, Space & Stars, Cozy Cottage, Dark Academia, Fae & Romantasy, Starlit Court, Dungeons, Mars, Dragon Riders, Glass Castle, Regency Romance, Highlands, Heist City and Italy • Lifelike book nooks, lamps and curios that stand between your books, and your own things too: photograph them and Lexi cuts them out • Real William Morris wallpaper, brick, tartan, shiplap and café tiles, with shelves of oak, walnut, marble, brass or iron • Books as thick as their page count, each spine drawn from its cover • Photograph your own copy's spine (Lexi finds it and takes the picture), or see the real spine of your edition from Lexi's shared spine library • Shelves that wrap like a bookcase, or scroll sideways, and books you arrange by hand on the shelf or in the grid RATE, RANK AND REVIEW • Rate in whole, half or quarter stars, and write a review • Tiers: rank your reads from Book Hangover and Up Til 3am! down to Wall Book and The Guilt Pile, arrange each row by hand, and share it as a picture • Paused and Did Not Finish shelves, with a note on why you stopped, and Read Again for rereads CHOOSE WHAT TO READ NEXT • Rate every book's spice, from Clean to Scorching • Tag tropes such as enemies to lovers, found family, fated mates and slow burn, or add your own • Filter your library by spice and trope, and watch the shelf light up the matches • See more by any author, including their next release READ AND KEEP TRACK • Log the pages you read each night and watch the gold line rise • A yearly reading goal, and a date to finish a book by • Focus Reading: a timer with rain, fireside or waves, and how long the rest of the book will take you • Notes on a whole book, a chapter or a single page, and passages shared as beautiful cards • A calendar showing the books you read each day, on their own shelf • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets that show your shelf; tap a book to open it ADD BOOKS YOUR WAY • Scan a barcode, photograph a cover, or read a whole shelf of spines from one photo • Bring your Goodreads library over in one step READ TOGETHER • Add a friend with their code: one of you adding the other is enough, with no accounts and no strangers • Share a book and your friend gets an invitation to read it with you • See where they are in a book you share, and trade notes that stay sealed until you reach their page • Chat, and start a book club with its own shelf • Report or block anyone, any time PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account and no sign-up. Your library lives on your device. What you share with friends, and spine photos if you choose to share them, travel through Apple's iCloud. No ads, no tracking.

About

WoodWork Bookshelf

Features
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WoodWork turns your ebook library into a living bookshelf on your iPhone Home Screen. Each book appears as a physical spine, with thickness based on its page count. Shuffle your shelf to rediscover forgotten books from your collection. • Combine books from Calibre, Apple Books, Kindle, and library files • Import directly from a Calibre Content Server over Wi-Fi • Add up to six widget shelves with different books and layouts • Choose from four visual themes • See the books currently displayed by each widget • Open a random book from your complete library • Tap a title to open it in its reading app • Import privately with WoodWork Scanner for Mac or a library file Imports merge into one shelf without changing your source libraries. Calibre integration is one-way: WoodWork reads book metadata without modifying your Calibre library. WoodWork has no accounts, advertising, analytics, or tracking. Your library stays yours.

Screenshots

Book Tracker4 screens
WoodWork Bookshelf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: WoodWork Bookshelf at Free against Book Tracker's $0.99. Book Tracker's advantage is chart position (#79 vs unranked). On update cadence, 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

WoodWork Bookshelf is free to download; Book Tracker costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Book Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, WoodWork Bookshelf monthly. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Book Tracker versus WoodWork Bookshelf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook TrackerWoodWork Bookshelf
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#79 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size147 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRichard WheatleyJoseph Ruocco

In-app purchases

None

Book Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

WoodWork Bookshelf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Book Tracker free?
Book Tracker costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is WoodWork Bookshelf free?
WoodWork Bookshelf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Book Tracker or WoodWork Bookshelf have ads?
Neither Book Tracker nor WoodWork Bookshelf shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Book Tracker or WoodWork Bookshelf?
Book Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and WoodWork Bookshelf monthly. Most recently, Book Tracker was updated on November 10, 2026 and WoodWork Bookshelf on November 10, 2026.

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