Book Tracker vs Papyrus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Papyrus
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Papyrus turns everything you've read into a warm, real bookshelf — right on your iPhone home screen. A cozy private library you actually want to look at. BRING YOUR LIBRARY HOME Every book you've read, standing on a beautiful shelf you can glance at without opening anything. As you finish books, the newest ones slide to the front — so your home screen quietly tells the story of what you've been reading, all year long. Still fully customizable, move the books around how you want, make changes to the shelf and background. THE WIDGET One of our premium paid features is to add the Papyrus widget in small, medium, or large. Your shelf lives on your home screen, gorgeous and glanceable. If you aren't interested in seeing the books then you can see your reading statistics - how many books and pages you've read this year. IMPORT IN SECONDS Bring your reading history over from Goodreads, StoryGraph, or any CSV in a single tap. Your past library fills your shelf instantly. No problem if you don't have any accounts - you can add books individually from our massive library. THREE WAYS TO SEE YOUR SHELF - Spine view with procedurally illustrated, cover-matched spines - Cover view to show off your front covers - A 3/4 perspective "crate" mode that feels like a real shelf Press and scrub to browse, and drag to reorder your books exactly how you like them. STATS THAT FEEL LIKE A FOLIO, NOT A DASHBOARD See how you rate, your fiction vs. nonfiction split, the decades you read across, and your favorite authors and genres — all rendered in big serif numerals with room to breathe. Look back on your year with Reading Wrapped. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Export your whole library any time — as a spreadsheet (CSV/XLSX) or a self-contained offline webpage. Free or Pro, your library is always yours to take with you. FREE TO START Try everything with up to 10 books in your collection — a real, full-fidelity trial, not a locked demo. Your wishlist is always unlimited and free. Upgrade to Pro to remove the collection cap and unlock your full library. Upgrade to Pro to unlock the full experience: - Unlimited collection — shelve every book you've ever read, no cap - Your complete library on every widget size and display mode - Full reading stats and Reading Wrapped across your entire history - Export your whole library any time — CSV, XLSX, or a self-contained offline webpage - No ads, no tracking, and your data is never sold — free or Pro Built by one person who wanted their bookshelf on their home screen. No ads. Your data is not sold. Just a beautiful place to keep the books you love. Bring your library home. Terms of Use (EULA): https://papyrus-b03fd.web.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://papyrus-b03fd.web.app/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Papyrus at Free against Book Tracker's $0.99. Book Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and chart position (#79 vs unranked). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Papyrus is free to download; Book Tracker costs $0.99 up front. Papyrus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Book Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Book Tracker | Papyrus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #79 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 147 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Wheatley | Tyler Nam |
In-app purchases
Book Tracker
No in-app purchases
Papyrus
- Papyrus_monthly$1.991 Month
- papyrus yearly$14.991 Year
- papyrus lifetime$39.99









