iReadItNow HD vs Lock Notes Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iReadItNow HD
This app helps you meticulously track your reading journey, archiving books, noting your progress, and capturing personal reflections. Visualize your reading habits with insightful graphs and timelines, and share your literary discoveries with friends.
- Archive books (read, unread, want to read)
- Barcode scanner for easy book addition
- Custom book collections
- Track reading check-in/out dates
- Attach notes, excerpts, reviews, and snapshots
- Visualize reading life with graphs and timelines
- Discover new books
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Welcome to iReadItNow HD. Much loved reading log app got even more powerful features. iReadItNow is not just an book-archive app. iReadItNow focuses on recording your reading life in rich context. When you read it, how you read it, every proses that touched your heart, and so on, you can keep all these records in a simple and organized way. Don't forget anything about what you read. This is your own history. With iReadItNow HD, you can : - Archive books you read, not read, or want to read - Add new books with easy to use barcode scanner - Create your own custom book collections - Check in/out the date when you read a book - Attach excerpts, notes, review, even snapshots on each book - Enjoy beautiful graphs and timeline that shows your reading life - Discover new books from various sources - Automatically share with friends what you read over Twitter, Facebook - Synchronize data over multiple devices (*) - Manage separate accounts for your family, friends in a single app (* iPad only for now) (*) requires Premium Membership, which is free for 3 months and $2.99/year after You need to sign up at least Free Membership to use this app. Membership is a mandatory because iReadItNow app automatically sync your data to iReadItNow server to backup your data safely. If you think privacy means keeping all data in your local device only, this is not the app for you.
Lock Notes Pro
Securely store and protect your private notes with password or Touch ID access. This app allows you to keep sensitive information like passwords, secrets, and diaries safe from unauthorized viewing. It offers features like iCloud backup and syncing, image insertion, and printing.
- Password and Touch ID protection
- iCloud backup and sync
- Insert images and photos
- Print notes
- Sort and customize notes
- Security question recovery
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A SINGLE PURCHASE COVERS ALL YOUR IPHONE AND IPAD DEVICES. FINALLY AN APP FOR ALL YOUR PRIVATE NOTES! Keep your most valuable, private, and secret notes away from prying eyes. Keep them all totally secret and safe. Store passwords, secrets, contacts or just keep your diary private. KEY FEATURES: • Use Touch ID or passcode to safely lock access to your private notes. • Set a security question and answer in case you forget your passcode. • Safely Backup your valuable notes to iCloud. • Quickly Sync notes between iPhone & iPad with iCloud. • Sort notes list by name, date or manual. • Select notes font style and size. • Insert images & photos into notes. • Print your notes. • Send notes via text message or email. • Save notes to Camera Roll. • Support for Emoji Emoticons. Terms of use: http://www.katans.com/terms-of-use Privacy policy: http://www.katans.com/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: iReadItNow HD at Free against Lock Notes Pro's $9.99. Lock Notes Pro's advantage is review sentiment (82% vs 39%) and rating (4.6 vs 3.4). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
iReadItNow HD is free to download; Lock Notes Pro costs $9.99 up front. iReadItNow HD sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Lock Notes Pro sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lock Notes Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lock Notes Pro has 270 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of iReadItNow HD's written reviews are positive against 82% of Lock Notes Pro's.
iReadItNow HD ships an update monthly, Lock Notes Pro every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iReadItNow HD | Lock Notes Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 3.4 (5 ratings) | 4.6 (270 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews | 82.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 270 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wonjae Choi | JulyApps Ltd |
Customer experience
iReadItNow HD
Lock Notes Pro
Bugs and requests
iReadItNow HD
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Lock Notes Pro
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes after iOS updates
- Unable to edit or update notes without losing data
- Syncing issues between devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add checklist functionality
- Implement a recycle bin for deleted notes
- Improve syncing and backup options
- Add more customization options for font, layout, etc.
In-app purchases
iReadItNow HD
- One Year Premium Membership$2.99
Lock Notes Pro
- Auto Backup$14.991 Year
Questions
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