Comparison

iShook vs My Book Guru

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

Head to head
About

iShook

Organize and enjoy your ebook collection with this app. Browse titles, manage a wishlist, and keep your reading progress synced across devices. Customize your reading experience with adjustable fonts and page-turn styles.

Highlights
  • Browse and collect ebooks
  • Organize books on a reading table
  • Save reading progress and add notes
  • Offline reading for downloaded books
  • Customizable fonts and reading appearance
  • Search within books
Features
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Read, collect and enjoy ebooks with iShook. Browse the catalog, keep a wishlist and organize your books on your Reading Table. Continue from your saved place and add personal notes, highlights and bookmarks. Supported annotations and reading positions sync with your iShook account when online. Download available owned books for offline reading. Adjust fonts, reading appearance and page-turn style, search within a book and use its contents to navigate. Online account verification is required periodically for offline access. Available titles support Apple in-app purchases inside the app. Restore Apple purchases from your account. Availability varies by title and region.

About

My Book Guru

Features
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My Book Guru learns what you love and turns it into recommendations you'll trust each one scored for fit, so you stop guessing and start reading. No more bottomless bestseller lists built for everyone but you. Set your taste once and every pick arrives with a match score and a plain-English reason it belongs on your shelf. FIND YOUR NEXT GREAT READ Tell My Book Guru the genres and styles you love, then let it work. Get a short, high-signal set of picks save what fits, pass what doesn't, mark what you've already read. The more you use it, the sharper it gets. ASK YOUR LIBRARY Your shelf is smarter than a search bar. Ask in plain language "what should I read next?", "something practical and short", "a deep dive on history" and get answers drawn from your books, notes, and taste profile. DISCOVER ON YOUR TERMS Browse curated shelves tuned to your taste when it helps. Want something practical, a deep dive, or a surprise? One tap. Explore Latest Finds, Popular Now, or take a stretch Outside Your Taste. TRACK WHAT MATTERS Keep a clean library of what you're reading, what you've finished, and what's next. Capture notes and ratings as you go and watch your reading life add up. READ TOGETHER Book Club brings in the people whose opinions you trust. Share your reading activity, compare ratings, follow friends, and join clubs with privacy controls you decide. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT - Every recommendation scored for fit, not hype - Ask your own library anything in plain English - Curated discovery, tuned to your taste - Simple, beautiful tracking - A book club built on trust, not noise - Private by default you choose what to share Whether you read a book a month or keep a 200-title library, My Book Guru helps you spend less time choosing and more time reading. Download My Book Guru and find your next favourite book. Privacy Policy: https://bookguruapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://bookguruapp.com/terms

Screenshots

iShook3 screens
My Book Guru4 screens

Verdict

The call

iShook and My Book Guru are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. iShook sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and My Book Guru sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
iShook versus My Book Guru: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriShookMy Book Guru
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB10 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperiShook Inc.Nerdy Executive Labs Inc.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

iShook

One-time10
  • A Dog's TaleFree
  • A Boy CrusoeFree
  • DraculaFree
Show 7 more
  • Taking the BastileFree
  • Comic ArithmeticFree
  • Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946Free
  • Stories of Robin HoodFree
  • The Senses and The MindFree
  • William the ConquerorFree
  • IPR Right Magazine issue 8Free
3 purchases

My Book Guru

Subscriptions3
  • Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Founding Reader$14.991 Year
  • My Book Guru - Plus Annual$24.991 Year

Questions

Is iShook free?
iShook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Book Guru free?
My Book Guru is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do iShook or My Book Guru have ads?
Neither iShook nor My Book Guru shows ads.

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