Comparison

Endleaf vs Book Memo

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

Head to head
About

Endleaf

Track your reading habits privately on your device. Log books, rate them with detailed sub-ratings, time your reading sessions, and analyze your reading year. Import data from other services and export your library anytime.

Highlights
  • Private reading tracker
  • Log and rate books
  • Reading session timer
  • Import from Goodreads/StoryGraph
  • Export to JSON/CSV
  • Barcode scanning for books
  • Quote saving
Features
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Endleaf is a reading tracker that keeps everything on your phone. Log what you read, rate in half and quarter stars, time your sessions, and find out where your reading year actually went. There is no account to make and no feed to scroll. PRIVACY Your library lives on your device and syncs only through your own iCloud. We never see it. No ads, no trackers, no analytics, nothing to sell. FREE, WITH NO CAPS - Unlimited books and unlimited reading sessions. - Half and quarter stars, plus optional sub-ratings for enjoyment, quality, characters, and plot. - Six statuses: Want to Read, Reading, Read, Did Not Finish, Paused, and Re-reading. - Approximate dates, for the book you finished "sometime in 2019". - A timer that counts pages or minutes, with a Live Activity on the Lock Screen. - Import from Goodreads and StoryGraph, covers included, and export to JSON or CSV whenever you want. - Core stats, a share card, Dark Mode, and everything works offline. - Add a book by scanning its barcode, searching for it, or typing it in. - Save quotes by typing them or by scanning the passage with the camera. - Rain, a fireplace, or plain noise under the timer, made on your phone. - Mark books as owned, borrowed, from the library, or wanted, and browse every series on your shelf in one place. - After an import, fill in missing page counts from the catalog in one tap. PREMIUM ADDS - A finish date for the book in hand, from your own pace: how long is left, and the day you'll close it if you keep reading like you have been. - A reading calendar: every day you read, with the cover of the book that took it. - Rewind: your year as a short story, made into a video for Stories. - Your Kindle and Apple Books highlights, imported into your quotes library. The file never leaves your phone. - Advanced stats: reading speed, genre and format breakdowns, and how your ratings shift over time. - Your Year in Review, built to share. - Extra share card themes. - Unlimited shelves and tags. - Your full quotes library. - The cover edition picker and the whole widget set, streak and Lock Screen included. Also in the app: yearly goals, reading streaks with a weekly grace bookmark, reminders that respect quiet hours, monthly wrap-ups, session logging on Apple Watch, and Siri ("log 30 minutes of reading"). Endleaf Premium is $3.99 per month or $24.99 per year with a 7-day free trial, or $69.99 once for lifetime access. The App Store shows the price in your local currency before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in Settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getendleaf.com/privacy/

About

Book Memo

Features
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Book Memo is a Japanese-language app. Every screen is in Japanese, and automatic cover lookup is designed for books published in Japan. Keep the books you have read on a wooden shelf, cover out, together with what you thought while reading them. - Type a title and the cover, author and publisher are filled in for you - Four views: shelf, spines, list and cards - Three kinds of notes (thoughts, summaries and quotes), each with a page number - Full-text search across every note, title, author and publisher - To-read, reading and finished, with 5-star ratings - When you finish a book, see other books by the same author on Rakuten Books (ad links) - Reading stats: books finished this year and the authors you read most - Export to Markdown (one file per book, handy for Obsidian) or CSV (for Notion), and restore from a backup file - No account and no email address needed. Your notes stay on your device Please note - Covers and book data come from Rakuten Books (Supported by Rakuten Developers). Lookup may be temporarily unavailable when busy, and books published outside Japan are often not found. You can always set a cover from your own photo, and your books and notes are never lost

Screenshots

Endleaf4 screens
Book Memo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Book Memo at none against Endleaf's 3. Book Memo also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). Endleaf's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Endleaf sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Book Memo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Endleaf ships an update every 2 days, Book Memo every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Endleaf versus Book Memo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEndleafBook Memo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHandler Labs LLCYuki Tagami

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Endleaf

Subscriptions2
  • Endleaf Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Endleaf Premium Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Endleaf Premium Lifetime$69.99
None

Book Memo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Endleaf free?
Endleaf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Book Memo free?
Book Memo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Endleaf or Book Memo have ads?
Neither Endleaf nor Book Memo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Endleaf or Book Memo?
Endleaf ships an update every 2 days, and Book Memo every 2 weeks. Most recently, Endleaf was updated on October 29, 2026 and Book Memo on October 29, 2026.

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