Readiary Reading Diary vs My Pocket Library App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Readiary Reading Diary
Track your reading progress, save favorite quotes, and record memories associated with books. Set reading goals and generate a yearly review of your reading habits. Connect with friends to share recommendations and discuss titles.
- Add books via barcode scan or search
- Track reading progress and set goals
- Save and share book quotes
- Attach memories to book entries
- Generate Year in Review reports
- Connect with friends for recommendations
- Import libraries from Goodreads/StoryGraph
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Readiary is where your reading life lives — not just what you finished, but what it left with you. KEEP YOUR BOOKS Scan a barcode or search by title to add a book in seconds. Track what you're reading, what you've finished, what you want next, and what you set down. Set a page and watch the progress fill. KEEP THE LINES Photograph a passage and Readiary lifts the text off the page. Every quote you save collects in your Quote Book, ready to share as a card. KEEP THE MEMORY A book isn't only its pages — it's where you were when you read it. Attach a memory to any title and it stays there. SEE THE YEAR Reading goals, session logs, and a Year in Review that turns twelve months of reading into something worth looking at. READ WITH PEOPLE Add friends, recommend books, and talk about a title in a thread of its own. COMING FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE Bring your library over from Goodreads or StoryGraph with a CSV. Covers fill in automatically. READIARY PLUS Everything above is free and stays free. Plus adds unlimited photo quotes, Year in Review every year, advanced reading stats, unlimited lists, and a founding member badge. Monthly or yearly, cancel any time in your App Store account. Readiary Plus is an auto-renewing subscription, offered monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getreadiary.com/privacy Designed and built by Musawir Raji — forgedbyraji.com
My Pocket Library App
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Your books deserve more than a list. My Pocket Library turns your reading into a personal, hand-arranged bookshelf. Add the books you own, place them exactly where you want, photograph their covers and spines, write notes on index cards, track every page, decorate your shelves, and watch your reading carry you across the Earth and out through the universe. BUILD YOUR OWN BOOKCASE Your library begins as an empty bookcase. Every book has its own position. Move it. Leave a gap. Stack it flat. Turn it face-out. ADD A BOOK YOUR WAY - Scan the barcode with your camera. Real book identifiers only, and scanning a book you already own opens it rather than quietly making a second copy. - Type an ISBN, checked before anything is fetched. - Photograph the cover with the document scanner, then crop it. A guided camera does the same for spines. - Enter everything by hand. Google Books and Open Library are both consulted and their answers combined: title, author, pages, publisher, year, description, subjects and cover art. Nothing is added until you press Place on Shelf. CHOOSE THE COVER THAT MATCHES YOUR BOOK Every candidate cover is tested before it is offered, and your own photograph is always an option. OPTIONAL AI COVER READING Cover recognition starts on your device. If it cannot settle the book, you may press Ask AI to Read the Cover. Only then is the image sent for AI-assisted reading, and the result is checked against the catalogues before being offered to you. MAKE EVERY BOOK LOOK LIKE YOUR BOOK Photograph the cover, spine and back. Your spine photograph can appear on the shelf itself, or design the spine yourself: label, thickness, height, colour and binding style. TRACK WHAT YOU ARE READING Reading, Completed, Want to Read, On Hold or DNF, with progress by page. Rate books out of five and mark favourites. Write notes styled as ruled index cards, each with an optional page number and date. DECORATE YOUR LIBRARY Hundreds of illustrated objects, from plants, lights and art to curios, book nooks, music and travel pieces, placed wherever you like. Choose the bookcase wood, the room frame, shelf backgrounds, lighting and fairy lights, shelf labels and your default binding. Rename and reorder shelves, and invent your own categories. SEASONS AT WINTERLIGHT Around Christmas the library dresses for the season: snow on the shelves, frost on the frame, a countdown to a gift on Christmas Day and a best-library contest. Turn the Christmas look off in Profile at any time. YOUR TOP SHELF ON THE HOME SCREEN Add the widget and your first shelf, photographs included, sits on the home screen. FIND ANYTHING Search by title, author or shelf. Filter by status or shelf. Sort by shelf order, date added, title, author, progress or rating, without losing the layout you arranged by hand. WISHLIST, STATS AND READING LOG Want to Read books collect in your Wishlist. Stats show books finished, reading now, pages read, average rating, favourites and your shelf mix. The Reading Log keeps a dated timeline. THE ATLAS Pages you finish become distance. Your journey begins around the Earth and continues into space, past the Moon and the planets and on toward the edge of the observable universe. New drives unlock as distances grow, and milestones earn badges in a Mission Log. Start from your own location, or choose a city. WORKS OFFLINE, SYNCS EVERYWHERE Add books, move things and write notes with no connection; everything syncs when you return. Sign in on another device and your library is there. The app speaks more than 30 languages; choose yours in Profile. FREE AND PRIVATE BY DESIGN Free to use, with no purchases. No public feed, no messaging, no advertising. Measurement and notifications run only if you allow them, and you can change your mind any time in Profile. Camera, photos and location are asked for only when needed. Terms of use: https://mypocketlibrary.com/terms.html Privacy policy: https://mypocketlibrary.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: My Pocket Library App at none against Readiary Reading Diary's 2. My Pocket Library App also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Readiary Reading Diary sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. My Pocket Library App asks for nothing beyond the download.
Readiary Reading Diary ships an update every 2 weeks, My Pocket Library App every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Readiary Reading Diary | My Pocket Library App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 158 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Rachael Fleharty-Strevig | DNA TECHBASE SRL |
In-app purchases
Readiary Reading Diary
- Readiary Plus Monthly$6.991 Month
- Readiary Plus Yearly$59.991 Year
My Pocket Library App
No in-app purchases
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