Bookly - TBR Book Tracker App Reviews

Great for keeping track of your goals!. I stumbled upon Bookly at the beginning of 2021 when I was looking for a way to help maintain and reach my reading goal for the year. I started using Bookly and fell in love with how I can keep track of the books I’ve read, put them into collections, set goals for the day and month and more! Being able to see how long a book can take me to finish is great once I start it since keeping time within the app helps determine my reading speed and estimates everything. I didn’t anticipate how useful this would be along with how satisfying seeing number of pages and hours read total. It’s soooo satisfying! I do wish there was a way to sign up for readathons within the app and track that time separately - like if you’re signed up those hours you read during the day are automatically tallied to the readathon. Having the ability to do readathons with friends would be fun too! Overall I LOVE this app!

Good app. I’ll be honest, I paid the $20 for a single year to get rid of the ads because they were driving me nuts. The reading timer is useful in seeing how long it takes you to finish a book but sometimes you don’t always want to mess with it. I LOVE the background noise you can play to drown out life while you read. My wife tends to talk and be loud while I read and using my noise canceling headphones with some rain sounds lets me get immersed in a book. One thing I wish the app did more of was let you set goals and track what books you read. I like that in good reads you can see a page with 3 categories, one for TBR, one for currently reading, and one for read. The currently reading section lets you go in and update your progress by just updating the page # or percentage which is nice because it doesn’t make you feel beholden to a timer. Overall it is a decent app and I will keep using it. I’ve been using it for 5 books now and I’ll keep using it. I can’t say much more than that as I’m still new to the stats and other features

Decent way to keep track of books. So I do like the calendar where I can get a visual representation of the books I’ve read that month, that is my main reason for using this app. It’s really neat to see how many books I can cram into a month and how long I spend on each book but the reason I’m giving this 3 stars and not 4/5 is because of the INCESSANT pop-up with the “yearly plus”. Literally every time I get on it’s there. Every time I add a reading session, it’s there. Every time I go to look at the calendar..it’s there! I understand I can pay to get the plus. I really do not need a constant reminder of it every time I scroll. Apart from things that should be a basic function of the free part of the app ( like adding characters and thoughts while reading ) I don’t mind the limited amount of things you can do on the app. Like I said I enjoy the calendar and it’s the whole reason I use the app to begin with. But for the love of all things Holy, please stop shoving the annual subscription on every single scroll! If the app hadn’t pushed it so hard I probably would have actually gotten it, but now absolutely not.

Absolutely amazing!. I downloaded book for the sole purpose of finding more motivation to read and I heard from a friend, and multiple ads to download this app. When I started they started off by asking my goals, how long I wanted to read for each day, and if I wanted to keep a streak. Amazing! This app has certainly motivated me to become a more active reader and it will even give you little gifts with gems to motivate you to read for a certain amount of days! I have not come across any glitches throughout the entire app and when logging in from the start, your “assistant” will help guide you throughout the app. You can even play ambient sounds like rain, or keep in the silence if you prefer. The one complaint I have about this app is that a lot of things are premium only and it will give you a lot of popups. Other than that, absolutely love the app and recommend it to anyone wishing to become a more avid reader.

Can’t explain how much I love this app. Okay so I usually NEVER write reviews. Like this is literally my first one I’ve ever written but I just can’t say enough good things about this app. I used to hate reading. And by hate I MEAN HATE!!!! If I told myself from a year ago that I would be reading for hours on end I would have laughed in my face. Truly. With the help of this app I have developed the habit of reading—and I love it! I’ve had the app for about a month and have already finished 7 books, about 4000 pages in total. I would have never thought this would ever happen. Along with making me want to read, it helps me track my thoughts and feeling about books in ways like never before. I love the quotes and thoughts you can add while reading and also getting to add characters. It’s super helpful to have my thoughts organized and easy to look back on. I also love all of the stats they offer and think it’s so cool to see how fast I’ll read fiction books compared to books in my field of study. So many interesting things I’ve learned about myself and my reading habits. In conclusion PLEASE get this app. I’m not joking. If you read at ALL (even fan fiction💋) you need this app to track it. It’s so helpful and my fave app.

Who came up with such great idea!. I needed something to know how many pages of a book I'm reading a day and track the progress of the book. Initially, I was using stopwatch and writing the minutes and pages down manually, but then I found this app and it made everything simple and easy. Really loved the idea of this app! You think about something and there is an app for that. I like so much about this app from the layout to colors, feel and esthetics. Visual data and graphs help me track my progress and encourage me to read more everyday. Finding titles online is really handy, you don’t need to fill up author name and title info or take the cover photo. For the future updates, we would love to see if there is something we could link this app with Goodreads. Now, there is something I don’t like, the pattern of subscription. How something so simple is a monthly subscription service? I understand that there are engineers constantly working on it, but there should be at a way to pay one time and may be get some extra features. Since I'm not a heavy book reader, I would not subscribe and then forget about it and keep paying for something I’m barely using. However, I would love to support the app if there is some onetime buying feature may be with just few extra features like the option of adding 10 more books. Again, thanks to the team for such great app and their work.

Great Motivator!. Update 3/6/22 - After nearly a year since signing up, I’m still loving Bookly; it’s definitely one of my top 5 “must do’s” every day. I’ve logged 222 days so far in my most recent streak and will be crushed now if I miss a day. I’ve realized that I have several classics I’ve never read for some reason. The motivation to reach goals helps me wade through some selections I might have been more tempted to abandon prior to using the app. Once it’s part of the stats, it needs to count toward the yearly goal, etc., so I’m loathe to quit one after starting. Keep doing the good stuff Bookly! I love this app. Have always been a “reader,” but since installing this app, I’ve “always got my nose in a book” according to my bestie. 🤓 I enjoy tracking my consecutive days read, and will avoid chores all day in order to not break my streak. 🤷‍♀️ By keeping a record of the books I’ve read, I no longer waste time rereading a book I read a couple of years ago that has slipped from memory, as I’ve done many times before I started using Bookly Pro. I can also revisit favorite passages by adding quotes to that title’s record, and my vocabulary has benefitted from the ability to note new/unfamiliar words and definitions as well. Very much worth the price annually, would definitely recommend.

download it, download it now. I used to be a very avid reader but found myself in a huge reading rut after graduating grade school 4 years ago. this year I really wanted to try to get back into reading but I really couldn’t find a way to keep myself motivated. I’m the the of person that needs to use some sort of log or tracker to stay on top of things so I figured that if I did that with reading, I would be more likely to keep reading. turns out I was absolutely right. I’m able to log how much time I read, how many pages I read, how many books, quotes, thoughts, I can set goals – there’s so much that I do that keeps me motivated and I absolutely will not read without using this app. I’m constantly motivated to read everyday and have been so successful in my want to get back into reading. I’m on my 17th book of the year since I downloaded it, pretty big for me since I’ve probably only read about 10 books in the last 4 years alone. my only thing I wish that the app had was a way for the user base to communicate internally through the app like some sort of community page. overall, I absolutely love this app and highly recommend it to anyone who is already an avid read or wants to become one.

I’ll Be That Guy!. I’ll Be That Guy! I never review! Ever! Ever! Ever! At least not apps. And yet I find myself having used this app for four and a half months to be LIFE CHANGING! I love it. Before Bookly I read one or two books a year and that’s if I was lucky! It was inconsistent and based on flourishes of wonder and excitement! I now have read for 104 consecutive days. 15 books. 111 hours. And 3691 pages. And this is AFTER I deleted my logged sessions for DogMan books because they felt morally incorrect! (No shame to anyone who keeps these or logs these or tracks these) The streak feature has pushed me to pick up a book every single day and read, no matter what when or how; reading has become apart of my life more than I could have hoped for! It is totally worth the subscription. I can’t express this enough! There are some user interface things I would alter to make the app more present and attractive. But this doesn’t get in the way of my overall experience. Love Bookly.

I Love Bookly…. I downloaded Bookly about a year ago and began using it for the first time. I didn’t sign up for the premium edition but am already pleased with the features it included and the pleasant user interface. I have tried a few reading tracker apps and quickly dropped them due to messy or hard to look at lay outs. Bookly doesn’t have this issue and while it is purely cosmetic in nature it is one of the most important aspects of an app. Many features of the Bookly app I haven’t been able to find elsewhere despite how basic some are. Bookly will attempt to calculate how long you will have to read in order to finish your book. If you add a desired end goal date it will tell you how much you should read to finish by time. You can create daily, monthly and yearly reading goals. You can also join “readathons” and have a personal assistant you can buy outfits for with diamonds (earned while reading.) I don’t use these features as much but I admire the Bookly team for adding them in as they differentiate the apps. The app’s icon has additional customizations in the shop available for diamonds as well. The main draw of Bookly is how they analyze your reading habits and what information they offer you. This information is locked behind the pay wall but after using Bookly I have no doubt my money, when I buy the subscription, is going to a good place and I will get my money’s worth.

I love this app. This app is great for avid readers who just like to read and keep track of books read. I wouldn’t recommend this to someone who is a note taker. That said, the Quote, Thought, and Word Definitions features are great. I do pay for Pro; the free version is decent to use if your goal is to track your reading and add books. That’s about it. You can’t delete books, or see your infographics without pro. There is very little you can do without pro, actually. Alas, with my having the pro version, I love this app. I love the basic elements that are easily laid out, allowing me to keep focus on the book I’m reading and not be distracted by the complicated features most other apps seem to use. I can easily add a quote or thought, or look up a word definition and enter it without much thought at all; it’s all on the same page. I love the Store, being able to earn diamonds to buy app covers or new “assistant” skins. I am a bit disappointed that you don’t earn some small amount of diamonds when you complete an Achievement. I feel like we’re a bit jipped out of currency there, as you can only earn diamonds by reading (specifically how long you read each session). Overall, I think this is a great app to have, especially if you’re just getting back into reading for fun.

So far so good. I’ve been using Bookly for a week. Figuring out how to use it is easy. I think I am reading more now. I don’t care for it constantly asking you to post your reading progress to social media. I read for hours a day so it would be a nuisance to others. Plus it’s nobody’s business what I read. I wish you could turn it on and off. Maybe if you were in a reading group it would be useful keeping the others posted. But for everyday use it’s annoying. Update: I’m impressed, the developer replied telling me how to turn off the social media option. Perhaps I was a little unfair earlier. When the app asked me to review I had just finished my 3rd or 4th reading session that day and was exasperated with it constantly wanting me to post. It’s been a few days and I am truly enjoying the app. Too bad they can’t partner with Kindle to integrate into my Oasis. I’m definitely reading more and enjoying seeing my progress. I would definitely recommend this app to anyone wanting to keep track of their reading. I’ve updated my rating to 5 stars from 4.

A little upset and annoyed. I downloaded this a few months ago but only started getting into using it this week. I did not realize that there was a limit in books and I had added books that I had already read just to rate them and keep track of what I’ve read in the past. Well, I started reading a book series this week and I had finished the first two and went to add the next book so I could start tracking it. I put in all the information in and went to add it but it wouldn’t let me unless I got pro. So I though that maybe I could delete the books that I read before I got the app. But of course I couldn’t unless I got pro, which is a load of bull crap. I’m very annoyed. I then thought maybe if I delete and redownload the app I could only add the books I’m currently reading but then I would lose all of the reading I had already done. Like I said I’m very annoyed, mad and upset. I’m only giving it three stars because I still think the app is great but mad about the book limit. I think the limit should be at least higher. Or at most 100 or something.

Enjoyable!. This app is my favorite reading tracker to date and even once in a while has book marathons that you can participate in to win prizes (which i wish happened more often). The only reason this book isn’t full 5 stars is because you need to pay to use this app. The app makes you delete after you reach a capacity of 5 books and it feels only free as a trial run. After that it’s 5$ a month! Which to me is pretty steep, I wish it was a one time payment of 10$ or something to that capacity. I do pay for the app but I wish there was a student option for 1-3$ to help out college or even high school students. There are also diamonds that you earn in the game for reading and completing goals that I wish you could do more with besides just buy app appearances. Maybe include gift cards or a one month off coupon because after a while you just start accumulating diamonds that prove useless. But overall, this app has a lot of useful tools and in depth personal reading statistics that makes reading more fun for me and encourages me to read more by beating my previous stats! I often find myself referring this app to friends, with the precautions mentioned above.

Love this app! But the monthly subscription is kinda pointless to me. I have just began to love reading again but was always curious of a few things. How long it takes me to read a page. If I set a goal how long/ much do I have to read per day to achieve that goal. And plenty more. This app does that exactly. I’ve come to realize that overtime my reading becomes quicker and all. And I have never been able to finish books in such short times before. But now using Bookly I can read the recommended amount per day or more (usually more since I’m hooked) and I will finish a book in about a month for the first time! The only thing I would really just complain about is the subscription that’s a pricey amount just to have unlimited books and extra features. When in reality Bookly already satisfies me thankfully. I don’t know I just don’t see a point signing up for the subscription when I’m already pleased. To whoever is reading this, have fun reading! And accomplishing things way easier:)

Great App but not for all Kindle Books. I love Bookly—it has helped improve my reading habits demonstrably. Just getting your personal library listed in the app is a great motivator for me to get to books I want to read but never seem to get to. The only reason I don’t give it 5 Stars is that none of the great progress-tracking features work with the many Kindle or other e-books that provide “locations” rather than page numbers, especially when the same ebook contains multiple volumes or “books” within it. Often one can’t know if an ebook purchase will provide true pagination or only location numbers. It is next to impossible to keep track of progress on Bookly with these sorts of ebooks. If the latter, you can’t track your progress on Bookly. Is there a chance of adding an option to track reading progress by location? (The app does allow tracking of progress by percentage, but that is of little help since, in longer books, 1% can amount to many pages, sometimes more than a single reading session.). Thanks.

Amazing app but…. Don’t get me wrong it’s a very good app and it’s definitely got me reading a lot more. Like the features to add my thoughts and quotes from book it’s amazing and the sounds that are provided for you to listen to are just spectacular even though I can only afford the free one. To be honest my main problem is the fact lot of the things is pay for access. Everything else I’m fine with is like the access to the assistant or the other things yeah OK I get that but the thing that bugs me the most is the fact that I can’t add more than 10 books and I can’t delete books. Because I don’t wanna a book that I just finished to just be taking space when I could add another book but I can’t delete it is only for pro. I respect the hustle but you at least let us non-pro people be able to delete books. There are other features that bug me like I can’t use diction to type out quotes, thoughts, and vocabulary words and I have to manually type it out. The fact that I can’t delete a book after I finish reading it most definitely bugs me the most so if you could just change that a little bit would be greatly appreciated. But don’t it let you stop from download the app because if you wanna become a reader I think it’s a really good app to helps you in a pretty fun except for that one annoying feature. But you know that’s my opinion and you have yours so yeah.

Good app, needs improvement. I’m enjoying this app, but it still needs a lot of fixes in the pro version. The Goodreads import isn’t seamless, if you have a large library (like in the 500+) it’s a PITA to organize. It doesn’t automatically get the the covers so you have to manually do it. Also some of the books from the import are incorrect. This wouldn’t be an issue if you could mass delete the books you don’t want. So a mass delete option is needed. The app also crashes with large library imported. You’ll be scrolling though the books added and it just crashes. Searching to add a book doesn’t always come up with the right book. Adding it manually sometimes doesn’t have the right cover, which results in you having to find it online, save the cover to your device and upload yourself. It’s a great app if you want to use it in real time (no retroactively adding stuff). The stat tracking info graphs are a lot fun, especially if you like sharing that kind of stuff on social media. Overall I’ll keep an eye on the updates and continue using the free version. As it is, pro feels like it’s still in beta. I could see myself paying if it becomes more stable and refine the import system.

Adorable and almost perfect. I really like using Bookly and would probably pay for and use it forever if there were two major differences: 1. Tracking of audiobooks is a little clunky. It would be nice if you could input their total time the way you can input the total page count for a physical book. Then, when you use the timer it would actually track your progress in the book and the cute infographics would have more meaning. 2. I wish there were a social component. Goodreads is such a disappointment and I would love to have an app where I can track what I read and see what my friends are reading, too. Maybe we could challenge each other to reading sprints or recommend books to each other. It would also make having all those adorable little costumes for Bloo more fun because then someone else would be seeing them. That being said, I think the app is super user friendly and I love that I can add widgets to my home screen and watch.

Helped me back into reading!. This is probably the only app review I’ve ever left out of just sheer desire to do so because I absolutely love this app. I used to be a huge reader, and of course, life kinda got in the way, and I found myself really missing that sense of adventure and excitement that books used to bring me. I also didn’t particularly like the idea of reading on my phone, and I usually used that as an excuse to not read as much. One of many, at least. Not enough gas to get to the library, oh I forgot to stop by the book store, my phone’s never charged, I just don’t have time, blah blah blah. And then I can’t remember what made me download Bookly, but now I’ve read three books so far this year AND joined two book clubs 😅 Keeping up with my reading and trying to reach my goal every day (there’s my competitive side) has been the kickstart I needed to regain the passion I once had for books and literature. Thank you guys! My only critique, and I do understand that it just is what it is, but I do wish Bookly pro was free 😭 I’m sure it’s worth it, and hopefully I will one day be able to afford it, but ya win some ya lose some, huh?

The update makes makes the difference. Edit update: the update makes this way more user friendly and I have little to know trouble with it, though I wish the were more rewards lol It won’t count any books that I read without this on in the back round and won’t count audiobooks either properly either of those get workers out this could be a fun way to keep track of all books from all book reading apps. Update: it’s able to track how many hours + pages read u just have to add by adding the hours each reading session ur self. The 50 diamond limit per reading session is kinda annoying u only get 4hr & 10mins worth of diamonds before it stops logging the points so if binge read 5-6 hour and want the diamonds for all of it u have to literally stop @ 4hr mark the restart. But I admit I am pretty much read to much and it would be so much easier to just collect the reading time in one go.

Great App but... It's a fantastic app that has definitely encouraged me to read more. the features that allow me to contribute my ideas and book quotes are fantastic, and the noises that are offered for you to listen to are simply incredible. Since many items require payment for access, that is, to be honest, my primary issue. I understand having to pay for access to some things but to have to pay to delete books or be able to track more than 10 books bugs me. I'm okay with everything else, such as having access to the assistant or other stuff, I understand that. I appreciate the app, it’s incredibly useful and has got me reading more again. But not being able to delete books without paying us a bit annoying. I’m here are many books that I’ve put on there and had the intention of reading but then found other more interesting books that I can’t add. If you really like to read you can go through 10 books rather quickly. Other aspects, such as the inability to use dictation to type out quotes, ideas, and vocabulary terms, I find really great and have helped explain to others the different things about the book and share my thoughts without having to reread it. It annoys me the most because I can't delete a book once I've finished reading it, so any changes you could make there would be greatly appreciated.

Lovely app. I really do enjoy using this app. I think it’s very pleasing to use and look at. I also love that it really can motivate me to read more books. I get little reminders throughout the day to meet my goal. One of my other favorite features is telling me how many pages per minute I read. As well as how much time it will take me to finish the book in entirety. I am giving this review a five star because in my mind it really is a great app, the best one I’ve found anyways. However the one drawback would be the separation between the free version and the premium. I just can’t justify spending that much for the premium features even though I would love to. I still get everything I want out of the free version however the advertising of premium features can be a little annoying. I highly recommend that you download Bookly if you find yourself needing more motivation to read or you like to track all of your reads!

Amazing app •*a issue with iOS widgets*•. Love the app and it’s even better that there are widgets. I have no complaints for the app itself, just download it, I have pro as well, and it’s so helpful having the assistant. Though, with the widget feature there is an issue for me. I know the brand is a blue color, but when my whole iPhone aesthetic is different colors and my Bookly widgets are a bright blue, it gets annoying. Also as reader that doesn’t base progress on time I read. Yes, I like to track it and see if I’m getting faster, but especially since each book has bigger/ smaller pages or more/less words, I don’t compare pages to time. Therefore, having the only widget options be the average TIME I read this week, the amount of TIME I read this week, and/or the amount of time it takes, is a little disappointing for me. My main suggestion is to maybe add a few more color variety. But, MAINLY adding page progress to the widgets. Seeing my progress in pages is what motivates me and only being able to see that in my bullet journal is kinda sad. This is just a personal pet peeve and is definitely not something that makes me dislike the app more.

Genuinely so awesome. I've tried to find alternatives for this app because I think $10 a month for an app that gives you stats is crazy. But honestly, the features you get for free are great. If you pay that premium price, there's some select cool stuff you can do, but I don't think it significantly changes the use of the app if you don't have it. It works on the apple watch too. I love having this info about my reading habits and so far, there really is not anything I would change about it. It takes a little bit to get used to if you're a reader who just jumps into a book whenever and wherever. You have to make a conscious effort to start the timer and stop it. It can also lead to being hyper focused on reading faster or more pages to change your stats, which is a bit of a double edged sword for me. The widgets are SO CUTE. I do think a web version of this would be awesome for the quotes and character list section. It would just be a lot faster. But this is great

Great app idea with very poor execution. I have been using the full (shockingly expensive) lifetime subscription of this app since the beginning of this year. The app is fun and it is vaguely achieving its purpose for me—but it absolutely does not live up to the sticker price for the full subscription. The quality and ease of use on the app is seriously lacking. It is neither smooth nor intuitive. The reading reports sometimes come an entire month late and I often get notifications for them several times even after I have viewed them. For some reason I can’t update my daily reading reminder time (I’ve tried changing it over and over and it always resets to the first time I set it to back in January). The input for audiobooks is woefully lacking and it has resulted in an inaccurate count of my reading progress so far this year. If I could get my money back, I would delete the Bookly app and use LibraryThing instead (which is free, has way cooler data, and is very straightforward). The best thing, by far, about this app is the white noise options on the reading timer page. This was the main reason that I went for the full subscription even though you can actually play all of the different sounds without even paying…

Encouraging, Informative Tool for Reading. I’ve always been an avid reader, from a toddler whose punishment was to have her bookcase turned around, to a school aged kid who devoured all the books teachers threw at her to a college graduate with a BA in literature. Books are essentially my personality. But then a lot of real life happened, a lot of adult stuff and work stuff and mental health stuff that put me in the worst reading slump of my life. For the first time reading felt like a chore. In a last ditched effort to bring books back into my life I consumed as much BookTok and Bookstagram I could, I started my own LGBTQIA+ book club, bulked up my TBR, and introduced audiobooks into my life. But still I was looking for a single app that could not only track all my books, but also be used as an inventory, allow me to rate, and encourage me to read. Bookly is all of that and more! I love getting the reminders on my phone everyday to read. I love the infographics that are created after I finish a book. I love the goal visualization and the countdown of how many days I’ve read, and the fact I can listen to white noise all within the same app! Whether you are a seasoned reader or just trying to get into it, this book will support and encourage you with healthy reading habits with enough cuteness to keep you tethered!

Great for ADHDers!. I am a college student who has very bad ADHD and I struggle to read all the time. Bookly is amazing because of the features you can use during your reading session! I really love listening to the rain noise when I’m reading because it helps me focus. I am currently reading for a book for the first time in over a month, and I read for an hour and fifteen minutes. It’s really helpful. Additionally, Bookly also has a discord server where you can meet other book lovers, and do challenges! Each month they host a Book of the Month event with each month being a different theme, and this month’s theme is murder mysteries! I HIGHLY recommend this app. It doesn’t force you to read every day, and when you do read you get experience and can level up. It’s a great app for people who struggle to focus during reading, and need an app that can help guide them into reading more but not direct them if that makes sense!

Loved it until my reading progress was ERASED. I have downloaded a number of books apps, and really felt that this app was going places. There are some features like Goodreads, such as the book challenges and tracking how far you've read. But what I liked about Bookout was being able to keep track of how long I'd taken to read a book and the average number of pages per session. Those analytics were so helpful and fun. Unfortunately, it seems like this app can't be trusted to actually log your progress. I finished a book a day ago and not only in input it as 100% read, I marked it as completed. The app even gave me the badge of completion for finishing the book. Imagine my surprise when I opened the app just now and discovered that my last reading session and progress with the book has been completed wiped! It's infuriating and irritating. Furthermore, as someone who paid to unlock features and support the developers, it's disheartening.

Great! Aside from a paywall for features and full screen ads.. Just found out about this app and thought I'd try it. Love the idea of stat tracking for reading. UI I think is well made and everything that the app is specifically designed to do I think is awesome. What's not so awesome is the business model. I understand needing ads for revune when you offer a free product, but full page ads are ridiculous especially when I simply want to just add a book. Secondly the price with what's locked behind the price. For such minuscule feature that do nothing more than expand what's already offered I see no reason why someone couldn't copy everything and, with what's offered for the pro version, and make it free. Or at the very least charge a one time fee. $30 a year for an app is pretty steep when I haven't read anything about the developers planning to add more content through the life of the app. Bug fixes don't count that's should be a given. There isn't anything the app offers that I couldn't do myself with a pen and paper, it's just math. Again I think the idea is great and I'd love to use it and would be willing to buy it once for a single rate fee. But with the ads that take over the entire screen, and simple, easily replicated features locked behind a paywall, it wasn't worth my continued use. If they decide to change their business model I would definitely give it another shot. Until then...I'll stick to doing everything the app offers myself but for free.

Buggy import, can’t find help. My thoughts — day 1 AM: “This is so cool! I love all the different features and it’s going to help me keep up with reading instead of forgetting about it when I get busy.” day 1 PM: “OK, let’s upload my Goodreads export. Hmm, it keeps closing the app. OK, I’ll try to troubleshoot.” [many attempts later] “So it closes the app when I try to upload it on both my iPad and iPhone. And it’s saying my file has double the books from what it actually has. Maybe my file is too big. I’ll try splitting it up tomorrow.” day 2 — “OK, the file is now in 2 parts. Let’s try it.” [app still closes itself on both iPad and iPhone] “What if I try a file that just has 50 books?” [app still thinks it has 100 books, and it still closes itself] “Time to contact them for help. Let’s see…I don’t see a place to do that on the app. Let me look at the web site…hmm, I don’t see a place to do that there, either. OK, I’ll use Google to look for the specific terms ‘help’ or ‘support’ on that site…that didn’t work either. I guess I shouldn’t have paid that subscription.” 😔 I really wanted to love this, but I’m at a frustrating impasse now.

Best App for Readers. I’ve been using Bookly (formally known as Bookout) for years now, and I can’t say that I really use another app more. I’m a huge reader, and Goodreads is nice but this is honestly way better. It lets me keep track of all my books read in a super easy format and the in for graphics of my reading stats are amazing. I have a long streak that I’m trying to keep up, because this app makes me WANT to read more and more. The quotes feature and thoughts feature are both awesome and hilarious looking back after you finish a book. The only suggestions for the developers I have would be to allow a book to be reread, and maybe even implementing a social feature like Goodreads where you can add other readers and see their books/stats! But beyond that, the developers are awesome and are constantly updating the app to make it better. Some may see the paywall as annoying, but it’s paid for itself hundreds of times over in my opinion, and if you’re a reader this app is the best thing for us!

Excellent App. I love this app more than I thought I would! I don’t even mind paying the subscription for the extra ratings and more books. I even enjoy the reading session timer which I didn’t think I would use because I didn’t download this app to try and read more I read plenty. That being said there still isn’t a book app that does what a bookworm would love for it to do. The carousel on the homepage is annoying and I would like it better if I could just catalogue my books (especially on a little bookshelf I could organize because the collections in this app are great!!) and mark which ones I own (there is a borrow/lent feature but I would like to see which books I have so I don’t accidentally buy them again which I have done 😅) also as much I love the info graphic I would like to see my reviews and thoughts more. Then I could share it with more meaningful info than how many pages I read. I like seeing the stats but I don’t think my friends care that I read a page a minute. I would like an overall thoughts because I love the reflection but maybe like a comment section with my rating.

If fixes are made then the app will be great!. There are so many things I love about this app. But, there are two things that are very frustrating to deal with. 1) When categorizing a book, you have to choose all of the categories you want each time. Why can’t you simply add (check) or remove (uncheck) categories for a book? It is annoying to have to check so many categories when you simply wanted to add or remove one. It is even more annoying for a book that hasn’t been read yet and you can’t always remember what categories are needed for the book. 2) If you have two categories that each have the same word in it then books added to one will automatically be added to the other. This was so frustrating to deal. At first, I thought the app was glitching and accidentally added books to random categories, but I realized the issue later on. I have niche categories that I want to place my books in and it should be possible to have two categories that each have the word “paranormal” in it. Please please please fix these issues! I would love to continue using this app, but these issues are making it hard to use.

Exactly what I was looking for. This app keeps track of all the books you’ve read, along with all of the stats (how many pages, how long it takes you to read etc) I really like how it keeps an online library for your personal selection to include the title, author and artwork of the book. I love how you can change the artwork if there’s more than one cover for the book. The only recommendations I am making for this app is that they give the option to search by category for either genre, author name or title. Also, the feature of adding a book that you have read in the past (before downloading the app) for some reason when you input the finish date, it counts it as a book that was finished for the date that you’re saving it. So I would update that so the book counts for when you actually finished reading it. other than that, it is perfect and is exactly what I was looking for!

Great! Even just using the free version.. I was looking for an app to simply count my pages per day read but this does so much more! FOR FREE! Ya there’s a pro version and I may eventually want to get it but the free version lets you track pages, time read, & pages to go. Also let’s you see the % of the book you’ve read so far AND if the app incorrectly has the number of total pages of the book, you can edit that as well. Also there is a little white noise feature with a few different options. You can jot down thoughts, quotes from the book, give yourself a countdown timer, and take note of a new word you learned & the definition. ALL FOR FREE!!!! You can earn gems (points) too by reading or watching ads and you can edit the icon of the app (yes I watched like 20 ads to change the icon to the one I liked best). Overall, I love it! You can also use the earned gems to add books to track in the app since the free version starts with only giving you 10 books you can track. 10/10 recommend

Book covers - connecting to other apps. So far I can see that this app has potential but so far I have learned that searching for book covers through the app doesn't pull anything up just a blank page. When you move your books over from goodreads it just brings over titles and author and where they were no books I had saved has a cover picture they are just swirls of colors. To me the app seems generic not user friendly but has a lot of potential. I do see a few things I like like the timer to keep up with time reading. But if I'm reading on the kindle app and I highlight with goodreads it puts that to the book in the app where on this app I have to copy and paste between kindle and this app takes time away from my reading. The adds I seen hyped this app up to be so much better but I aint seeing it at this point. -_- I like how you can build characters like main and secondary so you can keep up with who and what they are doing and their part in the book and also anything that describes their appearance just there a lot that I feel this app lacks. As I get further in with this app if I feel it gets better I'll update but right now it's not what it's hyped to be IMO.

Annoying notifications and no refund. I purchased a one year subscription of Bookly so I could use this app to track books. I love the spinning wheel of books and the ease of editing your added books, despite a clunky process to add start and finish dates. But that’s where the good ends for me. First? The goodreads import did not impress, it took a lot of time to get my books sorted. If I added any book photos during the process, all my stats got deleted (read dates, star rating). Then I got annoying notifications to log my reading time and use the app, despite not once being asked first. Finally, I didn’t realize this app has game features, which encourages me to upgrade my avatars and app with diamonds, additional available for purchase too of course. But whatever. All things I can get over. So I decided to cancel since this app isn’t for me, but could not get a refund. Heads up entrepreneurs- when you make the annual subscription price the best deal, it would just be good manners to offer a full refund within two weeks of purchase if someone isn’t satisfied with the app. Guess you just want everyone to pay for your app regardless of the costs. Won’t be repurchasing. Lesson learned.

Reading time bug. I love this app and I’ve been using it since January to track my reading this year. The only problem I’m noticing recently (and I haven’t found any customer support or email to contact any app devs about this?) is that after I finish a reading session, it doesn’t save the time I read - for example, I JUST finished reading for 32 minutes but when I clicked “end session” it said I read 0 minutes. And this doesn’t just happen when I finish a session, it’s also happened whenever I’ve had to pause a session and then resume it; sometimes the timer wont resume in the app but the widget on my Lock Screen that appears during a reading session shows the timer is still going. It’s definitely not a huge problem, just annoying because now for this most recent session that wasn’t recorded, I now have to start a season and just wait 32 minutes again to end it so it doesn’t throw off my data on my reading speed or how much time I have left to read until my book is done.

LOVE this app!. This is the perfect app for anyone who loves to read. It tracks how long you read a session, gives you stats like how long it would take you to finish a book based on how fast you’ve read however many pages, and so much more! You can also add characters and their details like death, physical traits, how they interact with the main character, and descriptions. Without premium you can only add a few characters to a book so it’s kinda limiting depending on how many characters there are in the book you read. You can set goals and earn diamonds to customize your app look and little character that they have. And also, you can add words and the meaning so that’s also really cool. I really recommend getting premium because 1. The app can be pretty limiting without it, 2. You can unlock so many cool features like a pdf where it summarizes your books for you based on all the thoughts you added, etc. DEFINITELY spend money on this app if you can, it’s extremely worth it for all book lovers. The only flaw I’ve seen so far but not really a flaw is that I wish for the reading marathons you can add the books in so when you start to track your progress on one it actually automatically puts it into the readathon for you with stats as well but other than that I love it!

Great for encouraging more reading. I saw this app via IG and was immediately intrigued. I love reading but don’t make the time to like I should. This app has made me consistent and excited again about reading regularly. The stats are fun to share and I like how you can edit the details of the book as needed. My favorite features are being able to snap pics of quotes I read and highlight them, add my notes and comments and list the page number and the daily pop up reminder to read. Love it! I purchased a year subscription pretty quickly but was surprised to see that it doesn’t sync across devices. Very odd. Sometimes I’m reading an actual book other times on my iPad or phone. Was very frustrated not to be able to pick up across devices. Oddly there is no log in, hence maybe why no syncing.? It’s tied to a device? I’d also suggest being able to put in Roman numerals when you stop the app and need to list your page number. Some book introductions are a bit lengthy and usually label those pages with Roman numbers. I spend time reading towards my goal on a new book but couldn’t enter my page number accurately. That bothers the data nerd in me! Overall, I highly recommend this app if you want to level up your reading and be consistent.

Pretty Cool App. I was looking for a reading journal for a while and this is the only one I’ve been enjoying so far. I have the premium version which is really the only way to use the app because the 10 book limit is not nearly enough. The search feature is nice but I wish it worked more regularly because even when for surely connected to the internet, it will sometimes just not cooperate. Another side note is that books you read before getting the app don’t count towards your page count stats even if the dates input are for this year, but I guess that’s okay cause there’s no previous data for it in their system. Also a suggestion would be for the “add word” feature, it’s be nice if it would provide a definition of the word from the web or something of the sort. The interface works quite well (with Premium) and I will continue to use it in the future. Overall a good paid app that I’d recommend over a physical reading log due to ease of access. Thanks.

Awesome way to keep track of reading.. I adore this app and recommend it to everyone I know who likes reading. It helps me feel like I’m progressing through my long backlog of books I own but haven’t read yet. My two small complaints are that there’s no way to resort the order of collections, which would be very helpful as I have quite a few. Even if it was just alphabetical, at least that would make sense, rather than just in order of when you created it, as I’ve begun reading new genres since downloading the app over a year ago. Also, I wish that the quotes feature was reverse chronological, newest first, as I often like to use recent quotes in journals and have over 200 quotes. Besides those two things, which are small problems for me, I am obsessed with this app. I really like that it shows your speed of reading, and the weekly and monthly rundowns are very nice for remembering progress has been made. In over a year of using this app regularly, I’ve never had a bug or problem with it. Highly, highly recommend. P.S. This is not a venue in which to read ebooks, rather to track progress of books you own in other forms, as I’ve seen multiple rather rude reviews who seem to be misinformed on the subject.

Great app! Looking forward to improvements. This is a great app! Easy to use, clean displays, nice and simple. I've only used it for a couple of books but it really motivated me to make time for a hobby that I don't have as much time for anymore. I tend to have a slower reading pace than most, so the infographics were pretty interesting. And it's great being able to see the progress I'm making, especially when I'm reading a 700+ pg book. There was a tiny bug I noticed when I had to delete an incorrectly recorded reading session (that was my fault), and the page numbers on the page for the book's overall info and the page for the book's reading sessions didn't sync up right. Nothing that's too much of a problem, but it just bothered me a bit. It'd be nice to get that fixed. Also, I listen to a lot of audiobooks, and that's hard to keep track of on here. I figure I can just mark them as "read in the past," since the app wasn't designed for audiobook listening and etc, but it'd be great if for "read in the past book" there was an option to just quickly put in what day you finished the book, or perhaps which days you were reading it. But that's about it. Overall this is a great app! I definitely regret not getting it earlier tbh.

This app saved me from reading slumps.. I started using bookly in the beginning of this year and I have used it everyday since. I love being able to see my “reading streak” and seeing how quickly I read. I have the basic version of bookly but it still is completely helpful and if you don’t want the extra features, I’d say to just use the free version. Bookly has a cool system of payment called “gems” were you earn them by reading and you can use them to purchase a bunch of different things. There’s also “readathons” which have requirements for books that you can earn real gift cards from (this is technically a premium feature but I do the reading on free and I plan on purchasing the premium to be able to redeem my rewards)! I would recommend bookly to anyone who either wants to keep track of their reading or wants to finally get through that TBR. Never have a reading slump again with bookly!

App Crashes. I downloaded this app about a month ago and have been loving it so much I paid for the pro version. I use it everytime I read and love going back to see my stats, how many books I’ve read, and how much time I’ve spent reading. I used to be such an avid reader and stopped reading because I felt like I had no time. Now with this app I’ve been able to challenge myself to at least read for an hour daily. Recently the app crashed (if that’s the appropriate word for it) and I could not get the app to open. Everytime I opened the app it would close right back and I couldn’t use it. I’ve had apps do that in the past so I would delete the app and reinstall and it would work perfectly fine. I did exactly that and lost ALL my data. I signed up for the readathon and lost all my data for that as well. I’m so upset. I’m not sure who the issue falls on but I feel as though there should something in place to where that doesn’t happen again. I even tried to download my data from iCloud and it won’t download my data. So now I have to start completely over…

Cool but…. Bookly is cool, it’s a nice app to track & store your library. A couple of things I wish were different though, for one I wish that the app would recognize the actual date you finished the book and not the date it was inputed. For example, I downloaded bookly just recently (later into this month) so, I included the books i’d already read for the month and their reading sessions, including the date it was completed but, bookly registers as completed with the date I updated it (I finished a book on Jan 5th, added the update in Jan 14th so now it shows the book was completed on Jan 14th). I know, it’s not a big deal but, it’d be nice for stats so it shows I completed books on multiple days throughout the month & not just the one I added the submissions. Secondly, i’d like to be able to change the layout of my uploaded books, the carousel is nice but i’d like to have my books in a list/small icons format like it does when you go into the categories section but.. on the main page if that makes sense. Overall the app is cool, I pay the subscription and I guess it’s worth it?

Could be exactly what I wanted, but I’m not willing to pay for every little feature. The app itself is exactly what I was looking for, however, if you want to actually be able to use it efficiently you are required to pay for it. I understand the creators/company needs to make money, but the best apps let you have the basics for free, and prompt you to BETTER your experience through payment plans. The basic functions of this app do not work for free after so much. You aren’t allowed to have more than 10 books in your list without upgrading. Which is fine, I guess. I was willing to reluctantly accept that without deleting the app, until I added a book I had already read (out of curiosity and simply playing with the functions of the app) and realized I had to be a member to even delete books out of my lists???? That’s outrageous in my opinion. Not at all worth it for me. I would consider paying for an app if it didn’t feel like I was required to. Take Duolingo for example: you get the basic functions of the app (language learning, in case anyone didn’t know) for free, then can choose to pay to erase ads, and have extra helpful features available to you. I didn’t feel like I was forced to pay, so I was more willing to. Moral is, if you’re willing to pay for this app, go ahead! It looks like it could be very helpful for any serious reader trying to digitally track their reading. I’m personally going to look for better options.

Lots of Improvement Needed. I don’t understand why this app has such high ratings. I feel like I was duped! I paid for the annual subscription and I wish I hadn’t so far. First: you have to manually add every book cover. Every one. That alone is awful. Exporting over a thousand books makes this a huge deal breaker. On top of the fact that you have to click on 3 different things do EVERY BOOK to add a cover EVERY TIME! Seriously, at least make it easier to edit if we have to do it ourselves. Second: there is some weird glitch where books without uploaded book covers shoes the cover of a random book that you have uploaded. So, for example, if I uploaded the cover for Stephen King’s IT but not the cover for Justin Cronin’s The Ferryman, The Ferryman will show all the correct book I for but it will show the cover of IT. Again, awful. Third: every time I open the app, I get an error that says “Uploading to iCloud failed” which is weird because all my books that I imported have been imported so I’m not sure what keeps failing but the error message is irritating and I have no idea how to fix it. Fourth: even though I paid for a subscription, they still want to charge you for everything…which wouldn’t bother me IF it was a great app to begin with but what the heck are they spending their money on because it is not to make this app better. Don’t waste your time on this.

Great way to track your reading!. I started using the app earlier this year and eventually upgraded, as it’s been such a helpful resource to help me track what I’ve read, what I’m reading, and what I want to read. I love that I can set my own goals for daily, monthly, and yearly reading. I was going through a reader’s slump for so long, so this has helped me get back into the groove. In addition to my own personal goals, there are occasional readathons, for chances to win prizes, which gives an extra boost for making it that much more fun and exciting. There are options to add notes, track new words, and add quotes from readings as well, which can then be turned into infographics once you’ve finished a book. The assistant is fantastic, helps keep you on track with goals, and there’s a cute selection of icons, characters, and more to make it a little bit more fun. While not everything results in an actual “prize” per se, this app has made it such a fun way to incentivize readers in so many different ways.

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Great to see Reading Habits. Love the fact that I can time my reading and see my reading speed. Also helps me remember my place in a book without a bookmark. The streaks, points and goals help motivate me to keep reading. Only downside is I need to have my phone on me to read anything or I feel I have wasted reading time.

All in all good app but with its faults. It’s a great app if you pay for pro but the free version is simply not worth it. With the free version I do acknowledge that it’s free for a reason but so many features are disabled. You only get ten books in your library and you can’t delete books in the library and Even with pro you cannot reread a book without losing all you data. I do like the rain noise option though and the timers I find useful.

Okay app. I downloaded under the impression that this would be a great app but was quite disappointed. Most of the features require you to purchase Pro. You can only have 10 books in your library and you can’t delete them unless you pay for pro. I was quite disappointed with how this app works.

Perfect for readers who lack structure. For me, Bookly is pure magic! Whether I read 5 minutes or 20 minutes, all the reading gets tracked. I have full confidence that every little bit of reading I do is progress towards my goal. It is especially helpful for reading multiple books at a time. I prefer to have a rotation of 3 or 4 books on different topics. It's probably because I read a lot of non fiction, so the writing can be a little dry at times. With Bookly, I can easily switch between books and pick up right where I left off.

Great app to track and enhance my reading. I wanted to see if I could improve my reading stats to more books per week/month. Through using this on the premium feature I find it really worthwhile to have so can see how long I have left in a book or just add a quick thought.

Really helps with Motivation to Read! 💞. This app really helped me keep track on my book pages and organised my books. This actually motivates for me to read because of how fun this app is to use! 💗 I wouldn’t be reading right now if it wasn’t for Bookly. Not only it motivated me to read ever since I started reading, my grades have been going up! I really recommend Bookly if you want to improve on your grades, started reading and try a new hobby! 💗💗💗

Love the app!. I’ve been wanting to gain a better reading habit for awhile now. Getting off mindless scrolling of tiktok, etc. This is a great app to use to track how much I’m reading and giving me motivation! Highly recommend. 💕

Try handy but not worth the cost. I love this app and read so much more since using it, but since paying for the subscription, the app is really buggy. The times spent reading are often not being recorded properly. It will say 38 minutes on the screen and when I save it, it records only 1 minute. I also don’t like that I’m paying for an add free service but still have to watch adds.

Bad customer service and some features don’t work. Bought this app last year. Was enjoying app and had paid for yearly subscription. All of books I read and summarised I tried to back up and download but app was not working properly. Was advised by Bookly to reset. I did this and lost all of my summaries from all books. I waited a month for them to resolve this issue with a fix which was never done. I then didn’t feel safe using this app again so requested a refund and was directed to apple. Apple does not let you request refund if over 2 months so I lost my money and just cancelled app. Would not recommend

This app looks amazing but I haven’t made it past scanning my books in. This app looks amazing and I want so badly to try it but can’t get even past scanning my books in I have manga but when I scan them in the page numbers are automatically 0 and I have to search up the cover but if I search up the book on the app, it comes up with the right picture and number It’s just annoying when I’m trying to scan in the books, especially for manga when they don’t have page numbers I’m hoping this gets sorted or maybe answered for me because I’d love to give this app a proper go

Another complete app to track your books!. It’s super complete and really easy to use. I love the background music option while you read, it definitely sets a vibe. Love it, love it so far!

I’m definitely reading more!!. I got the app yesterday morning and no joke read for FIVE HOURS then. Not all at once of course, I took break, but it tracked all the times I read and added it so I could see exactly how long I read that day, THANK YOU!!

Amazing app!. I enjoyed using this app a lot and it helped me record how much I red per day and week. It kept me updated on how much I read and made me keep reading. It got me out of my reading block and helped me lots! The only annoying this is that not all the book covers are up to date so sometime you have to look them up or take a photo to get a cover for your book. Besides that it was an awesome and I definitely recommend to everyone who enjoys reading or is stuck atm and needs yo start reading again!

Please add rereads.. Please add a reread feature! If you want to reread a book you have already read on the app you have to completely delete the book and start again. In the process loosing any thoughts or quotes you saved from the first read. There should be a way to read a second time without loosing all data from the book or adding the same book twice. A simple ‘read again’ button that resets the progress tracker to 0% or 0 pages would make this app just a little bit more user friendly. Especially if you are a paying customer.

Fantastic Reading Motivation. As a young person (17) with ADHD, reading books, or a singular book be it, is so hard. Bookly genuinely motivates me, even when I didn’t have Bookly pro, I was motivated to pick up my book every night and read, as it helps me create a plan to get it finished by a date, and breaks it down for you, so you can understand that the reality is that reading a book doesn’t take that long, depending on the way you break it up, which is what Bookly helps you do. Highly recommend, great app!

Swapping tv time to reading time. This app has been super motivating to actually read. It actively encourages me to hit certain reading goals. It has helped me watch less tv and swap it for a better habit like reading. Listening to classical music while I read has also added to the experience.

Blookly review. I was a bit sceptical of this app when I got it but it’s actually pretty good for a reading app the thing I think makes it stand out is that there’s a store which you can use to buy skin ( with in game currency which you can get from reading and doing reading quests in fact I am doing this for free gems) so this makes you want to read to get rewards I think it’s great :).

Bookly. I love using this app I only got it the other day and I have already improved on my reading, my friend and I love using it now every time we read we put the timer on and see who reads the most. The only bummer is the subscription fee we both don’t have the money to spend on it and we honestly just don’t need it but I would still love to be able to have what is apart of the subscription. But overall an amazing app

Great app for book readers. This app is great for tracking how long it takes you to read a book, it has timers and reminders to help you. Very useful if you want to track time spent reading.

Great app for book lovers!. This app is so fun to use and has helped me get excited to read again after a long time of not being able to. It’s got a great format, and i highly recommend it, especially if you’re wanting to track how much you’re reading!

Reading Gamification!. Gamifying reading is awesome, when I get a notification that I’m about to lose my reading streak, it puts reading to the front of my mind where without that notification I probably would have forgotten completely. The bookathon’s are motivational, too.

Talia Piffero. This app is amazing and I use it a lot. My one this is that when I actually tap start reading I can’t cancel it and have to fill out the thing about my progress. It’s a small complaint but it really annoys me when this happens. Over all, wonderful app

No app support?. I tired to go to app support but it just took me to the website. I accidentally marked a book as finished and now I can neither change that to reading now nor can I change how many pages I have read. Basically, there is no point to use this book for my daily reading time, since I would have to use a different app to time it and then go back to this one to say I read to my goal and even then I can’t put in pages.

Awesome app for book lovers. Love this app. Worth the money. If your a book lover. Than this is an app for you. Love how you can set a timer and read, that it tells you how long it will take you to finish the book. Definitely give it a go.

Such a great app!. In my opinion there is nothing like the app, the design and the idea is really awesome. I have just gotten into reading and the app really motivates me, it’s cool to see my progress on books, the ability to add new words and thoughts, and even how much time I’ve been reading. I love the little awards you can collect by reading using the pp as well. I would definitely recommend the pro version especially if you use it on multiple devices, it’s definitely worth it and I will use it for a long time to come.

Great app to keep you on track. Would highly recommend to anyone interested in keeping track of their reading habits and to view stats to see how much their reading improves. Bookly has been the much needed motivation to be consistent with my reading

Pretty pointless. It’s a good idea but I’ve been using it ever day for over 60 days and have completed 16 books in that time, and my stats say I haven’t completed any and that my reading streak isn’t longer than 5 days. All my stats are wrong. Even yesterday I read for 5 hours and it says I haven’t logged any hours. It’s annoying to pay money when it doesn’t do the things it’s supposed to do 😅 and it makes using it for stats pointless

Apart from adverts for the pro, it’s great.. It’s a really cool way to keep digital bookmarks for your in progress books (I don’t know a single reader who sticks to one at a time) It works well as a goal setting and managing app. The only downside I’ve reached so far is the ads for pro that come up like every second button I press, I’m sure that the added features are worth the money but I don’t spend on that stuff.

Bookly. Love the app and I’ve only just downloaded it! I can already tell it’s going to be a fun way to keep me up to date with my reading schedule and help to keep me on track to reaching my goals.

Great app for reading. this app is amazing for tracking my (Books) and how far ahead I'm into them because sometimes I forget amazing app if you forget how far you're along into your (Books)!

Great app but one bad thing. The app itself is fantastic! a few very helpful features are locked behind a paywall and the app doesn’t have ads so i get e have to make money somehow and that fine! the only feature i wish they would make free is deleting books because now i have to pay to delete a book i made twice by accident. overall a pretty great app!

Very helpful. This app is a great help for me as I am a very fast reader but until using Bookly I had no idea just how fast I read. Only unfortunate thing is that I can’t delete books unless I have pro. I feel like having this option for people who don’t have pro would be good, as sometimes I don’t finish books and would like to delete them but can’t. Other than that it’s a brilliant app! Would absolutely recommend to other people who like to read

Great App!. I have been using this app for several months now and I really enjoy it! The free version is perfectly usable and it makes tracking your reading easy and enjoyable! I would definitely recommend this app for all readers 😊

Surprising handy and motivating. Did not expect myself to be using this app so much. As someone who likes to organise/track every part of their life I’ve found great use in this app from the reminders, the tracking, the visual display and mostly the encouragement and added motivation to read. Bought pro and have been enjoying the added features especially the Infograph’s and data im able to extract on completion. Recommended, especially if you’re on the spectrum and have trouble reading.

Love the content, but.... I love the app and the way it looks. Super easy to use and I like that I can time my reading sessions and all the cute info graphics. But Why can’t there be a one-off payment to use all the features of the app instead of a subscription? I would happily pay for the app, but I’m not going to pay $50/year (AUD) to have more than 10 books on my list.

Incredible App!. This app is so helpful when it comes to keeping up with my own reading goals. It also lets you add characters, quotes and thoughts to help you better remember previous books you have read. It generates a summary of all of the information you put in to allow you to better remember as well. 5/5 app! Recommend anyone to download this who loves reading.

Love it. Im really enjoying this app. Its simple and straight forward and has plenty of features! It would be good if you could have ‘chapters’ as a reading goal and not just ‘pages’ and ‘minutes’. As well as being able to pause the reading timer on the lock screen and not having to unlock my phone every time to do so

An awesome app!. I absolutely love this app! It has allowed me to be consistant with my reading goals and add quotes, thoughts and definitions when I read a book. Normally I would have to write those down on notes on my phone. The only thing I would suggest is to have the option of re read. It would be great to be able to re read a book and input new thoughts that you come across and being able to compare that to when you read the book for the first time.

I use it every time I read - no exceptions!. I love love love this app! I’m still relatively new to using Bookly but it’s been so much fun to track my reading habits. If you’re like me and love reading, and statistics, this is 100% the perfect app for you. I’m 27 and have been using technology for the vast majority of my life and this is maybe the third app I’ve EVER spent money on. I’ll always get lite versions or just not get an app because they aren’t worth it or I won’t remember to use it. Not the case for Bookly, the minute is heard about it I knew I’d be getting the full version. It really adds another dimension to reading and to be completely honest, I thought I read a lot more that what I actually do, so with that knowledge, I’ve spent more time dedicated to reading to get my streak up. They also have readathons! I took part in the one that ran over Halloween! I felt so encouraged to read my allotted hours to finish the challenge I ended up going WAY over and I love it!! Really awesome app! Very well done and they are still adding new things all the time, in the recent update, you can now add characters and stuff! Looking forward to checking that out. 10/10 highly recommend for fellow book worms

Good app for people who don’t like reading. I litteraly hated reading but instantly after getting this app I have read more than I have in 3 years in a afternoon, I’m finally getting through a book I started ages ago!

Great app but…. I love using this app, I just wish that I could use the same account across multiple devices. My phone stopped working for the day and I tried using the app on my iPad instead but with no way to log in or sync it with the data on my phone I wasn’t able to see all my books or progress already made. Please add an account feature or even some way to sync the app across multiple devices. It’s the only downfall I’ve found so far and wouldn’t certainly make this a 5 star rating instead of 4.

Good app. Great app for keeping track of reading but I don’t like subscribing to too many services. Subscribing isn’t compulsory but it is necessary if you want to keep using the app as you can’t delete books and you have a limit of 10. I would prefer if there was a lifetime subscription option so I didn’t have to keep track of another subscription.

Brilliant. This app really encourages me to read every day and accurately tracks my pages. The infographics are really interesting to see trends in your own reading. I do keep getting a pop up for the “subscribe to the mailing list” milestone, which is vaguely annoying.

very handy. I love being able to track my reading session, makes meeting my daily goals much easier. I adore the info graphics at the end too and I’ve found it to be super user friendly

Amazing App!!! Got me into reading Daily. This app helped me keep up my reading habit and come from a point of not enjoying to read much at all or at least very seldom. To a point of reading every day and loving it. Thanks heaps Bookly. Love how I can quickly jot down my favourite quotes from the book I’m reading so I can go back and pull it up later when it comes into a conversation context. Same goes for finding the definition to new words I find. Simply amazing. Thank you for an awesome app😁🙏🏽❤️

Great app. I love this app, it’s nice to see all the stats. I would suggest just doing it for a month first to see how you like it. I paid for a yearly subscription but have now tired of trying to record my sessions. Would be a great tool to help with any reading challenges you have like 24in48 etc.

Worthwhile for book lovers. I have only had the app for a few days but have found I’ve been reading more since I downloaded it and been aiming to achieve reading goals. It’s a great way to keep track of my reading patterns

Great for Bookworms. Getting Bookly was such a great idea for me. I’d been wanting something to entice me to read more - my TBR pile just kept increasing but I had no motivation to read any of them. But Bookly helped me keep motivation to read, trying to keep up my streak and also allowing me to space out reading so I can finish by a certain time. I love it.

Incredible app!. This app is great for readers who need a little more help or even advanced readers! The library has hundreds of books so you’ll never not find your book! The login reward makes you determined to read every day. I especially like the character design and the diamonds system, reading every day to unlock more diamonds and being able to dress my character up however I want to! There’s so many more activities I don’t even know where to begin! Even after reading the book/books you can still unlock achievements, see infographics and so much more! I definitely recommend this app to anyone who reads.

Useful. I really enjoy it the ads are slightly annoying but getting Bookly Pro for a year whilst on sale was fairly cheap and useful. It’s helped me keep on track with my reading and is really easy to use. And I honestly enjoy looking at my stats. I highly recommend this app.

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Bookly. Is so amazing is helping me finish my books fast

Great Reading App!. I love the read reminders and gems. It’s a great app for book lovers

AMAZING. i’ve seriously struggled to really make a splash into my TBR and this has really helped me

Good. I keep organizing well with this

great. keeps me on track, very straightforward and helpful

Works well. Only 10 books for free but you can unlock more by reading more so it’s motivating

Bookly. I love it. It convinces me to read even if I don’t really want to.

AMAZING. I love this app, it helps me time my reading and I can easily annotate in the moment 🤩🤩

Meh. It’s a good app but unless you pay you can only add 10 books

Solid tracker. Wish there was a way to add book series especially since you have to pay for this app.

Love. This is so great you have to pay for way to much additions but the actual app is great

Bookly. Haven’t tried it yet but excited

Great. Love that Bookly keeps me accountable to my reading goals. The desire to keep my reading streak gets me to make more time for reading. Would be nice to be able to add friends and have some friendly competition

Cool app. I love the way you can slam the barcode of the book and add it to ur collection and also you can find all the covers of the book online

I get more out of my reading. This has helped me to be more focused, finish more books. Love adding new words, and for book club, making notes on characters and other details. Love it! I’m on free, still very good!

Bookly ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. I love this app so much!!!!! I can not describe how good this app is but if ur a book lover u NEED to try this app

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Wonderful app for book lovers!. Absolutely love this app and all it has to offer, but the reading streaks have been acting up lately and it randomly deletes some of my consecutive reading sessions.

Overly complicated. I just want to track the books I read this year, but this requires me to indicate when I am reading, what page I am on, and other irrelevant information, all of which is ridiculous and cumbersome. I have marked as finished 4 books but it only shows me finishing 2. And every time I open the app, I get one, sometimes two, ads for the pro level.

Awful for ebooks, audiobooks and Apple Watch.. Lots of bugs and an overall very finicky app. Sucks for ebooks and audiobooks. One cause you're forced to put a page number in. They don't have locations either. Half the stats are in page numbers and instead of showing you what percentage of the boon you're in it shows you the page number you're on. For audiobooks it's worse cause you don't even get percentages or the time in the book you're at like in other apps it just says "audiobook" so you don't even get proper stats for it. Absolute worst of all is the Apple Watch app. Utterly useless. You'd think it'd sync to the app so that they'd have the same stopwatch right? Well it doesn't. Worst of all, it crashes so you can be 30 minutes into tracking your time reading only to realize your watch app crashed ten minutes ago. I paid $26 primarily for that feature. Money down the drain. I'll update my review if these issues are fixed. But until then, don't bother.

The best app for book worms ever!!!. Amazing

amazing app to read free books!. I downloaded this app this morning and now I'm OBSESSED

Best app. In the world it works so well

Charges after 10 books. I really enjoyed this app and how it tracked my reading, but it only allows 10 books before it starts to charge you.

Love this App!!. Love Bookly so much!! It has definitely been what’s helped me maintain my daily reading practice.

Awesome. I use this app and i help to track my book list i love it

Pas assez utiliser. Semble très Bien

LOVE. absolutely love this app compared to others, it shows the stats and even rewards you with diamonds for reading. I definitely wish that pro wasn’t needed for lots of stuff because it would be perfect but otherwise I definitely love this app and will continue to use this for tracking my books

So good. At the moment I am only two days in and I am really liking the app I am crushing my goal and I am reading so much more five star from me

Good app. Really helps with motivation to read more!

Great. Just like good reads a little hard to navigate tho

Love love love. I love how this app has an assistant that you don’t have to pay for the subscription for you just use your own diamonds which I don’t mind since I still can use the assistant. I also love how you can use back ground music but you only get one for free which is fine I can use YouTube I also love how you can choose different avatars for you assistant bloo and you can change your app skin to with diamonds! Love this app so much!!!!

Excellent. A great way to track reading time and gamify the experience. Makes reading reading addictive

Like it so far.. So far so good :)

Keeps crashing. Trying to import my books from goodreads but every time I hit save the app crashes. Would appreciate a work around as I have 425 books to import. I paid for Pro btw.

Good! I like it.. Really cute app! Lots of good features.

Seems like a great app however..... Was hoping I could import my PDFs from iBooks. Kinda disappointed 😑

Loved it. It has kept me motivated to read more.

Still great on free mode. Still a lot of fun features you can use on this app without paying for it. I love logging my read time and seeing the stats of my read sessions. Also has the options to record quotes and thoughts.

Great!. Really helps me continue to read everyday and I love that it lets me save quotes and my thoughts wish I would’ve done with some of the other books I’ve read

Bookly. Bookly is an amazing app that tracks your reading sessions and gives you stats along the way. I love using it and seeing my progress!

Lots of data!. Neat to see my reading habits and history from so many angles!

I love reading now. Before I found this app I hated reading so much that when I started reading a book I never finished it but now with this app I have finished 2 books in a week

Doesn’t work anymore.. Used to love this app. Then paid for it to get the premium version. Since payment has gone through the app has stopped working. It no longer recognizes books through scanning. Nor can it search by name. Now you can only add books manually. Feeling scammed:(

Bien fait. On peut suivre notre progression de lecture, nos objectifs de lecture, coter les livres lus, garder une liste de livres à lire.

nice book tracking app. Very nice book tracking app.

Excellente application. Permet de répertorier les lectures et encourage par les défis quotidiens à demeurer consistant! J’adore

Great for tracking reading times. I’ve been looking for an app like this for a while. Always wanted to know how long I’ve been readings a book (or in general) but found tracking by paper too tedious. It’s helped me keep a reading habit going with daily goals. The app itself is clean and well designed.

Would recommend. good app dose what is says

Amazing. This app is a good way to track your reading progress and I found it really helpful.

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Start Reading!. I’m not what you’d call a “reader.” I’m more of a “scroll endlessly on my phone” kind of person. But I decided to get my life together and spend more time reading actual books in the new year. Enter Bookly: the app that made me feel like a literary superhero. This thing tracks everything—how long you read, how many pages you’ve crushed, and probably how many times you’ve avoided Netflix to pick up a book (OK, maybe not that last one, but it should). It’s like a Fitbit for your brain. And those reading stats? Pure motivation. Turns out I can demolish a chapter in 15 minutes. Who knew? Plus, the badges make me feel like I’m earning gold stars in the school of life. Whether you’re trying to become a bookworm or just want to impress your book club, Bookly makes it ridiculously fun. 10/10 would recommend to all my fellow “reading rookies”!

Stay on track for reading!. I love to read but always got stuck in the rut of saying I don’t have time or feeling overwhelmed when taking on a new book. I downloaded at least 20 other reading apps to all try to find one to get me to stay focused and on task from start to finish. I found that Bookly was by far my favorite. After testing the free version for a week, I gave in and bought the lifetime pro subscription. I was able to finish a 500pg book in 11 days because of this app. When you enter a finish by date, it gives you an estimate on how much you should read each day to complete the book on time. Love seeing all the stats. Some improvements: 1) add a place to put publication date to book 2) have feature to sort books alphabetically when looking at the “All Books” section. It only sorts them by when they were added so it can make it hard to find books if searching by title only

Bookly Pro. With the pro features, this app does almost everything I need. I have experienced several bugs (most of which have been fixed), but the support team is fairly responsive. I do wish that there was an easier way of reading books “out of order” since I will sometimes read the component parts of an omnibus book in chronological rather than publishing order, and currently the app does not allow you to enter starting and ending page numbers for a given session on the end reading session page. You can manually add or edit a session from the book’s session list and it will then re-calculate the total read pages for the book, but it is an extra step to do so and the session does not list the actual page numbers read but the auto calculated page numbers. Due to this, and the current limitations of organizing and editing the collection list, I have taken off 1 star.

This is great!. I just started using it today so I haven’t seen anything but so far it is amazing! You get to add up to ten books in the beginning and every time you read you earn diamonds. You can spend those diamonds on decorating your character, designing the app face, or even just using it to pause reading so you don’t lose your streak! You can also set goals as soon as you download it to get a better reading experience. While reading you can listening to sounds on the app and even if you turn off your phone it still has the timer going. This is all without premium and I haven’t had any ads so for but if you want more diamonds you can choose to watch an ad. So far this is a great app and hopefully it will help me keep up reading daily! Overall great app to help track reading

Excellent App for Book Tracking. I've been using the Bookly app for several months now, and I must say it has completely transformed my reading experience. The interface is intuitive and easy to use, allowing me to efficiently track my readings and progress. What I love the most is the ability to organize my personal library and the personalized recommendations based on my interests and reading habits. Additionally, the statistics and reading goals features are very motivating. I've read more books since I started using Blookly thanks to these tools. The community of readers is another great advantage. I can share my opinions and book reviews, as well as discover new reads recommended by other users. I also really appreciate the frequent updates and the fast and effective customer service. In summary, Blookly is a must-have app for any book lover. Highly recommended.

LOVE this tracker!. Book nerds will love this app - especially those who love to see data. Tracks my reading in addition to tracking how long I read for. Setting goals has improved my commitment to read daily. I’m more productive when the timer is going and far less likely to mindless scroll on my phone. The addition of being able to take notes on characters has been incredibly helpful when reading ACOTAR series though I do wish there were more fields to track (I.e. setting/environment/locations). I also wish the iCloud were updates in real time to make switching devices more seamless - I do have to manually download from the cloud every time I switch from my phone to my iPad. And I wish there was spell check on the character notes. Otherwise loving the tracking, the data, and all! So far it’s been worth the investment!

So far the best I have used. I love that you can track reading time and that it estimates completion based on that time. I also love that if you put a goal end date it tells you how long you need to read a day to complete it. Some downside issues are surrounding synchronization between watch, phone and iPad. It seems to be hit or miss on how they sync up. I also wish you could put in the hours of the audiobook for tracking percentage instead of just hours read. Update: I have tried a lot of apps since this review and I still come back. I do still wish you could mark a book as audio and put in total hours a book is to see % completion, but I also wish you could have a way to prevent Lock Screen within the app, instead of doing it for the whole device.

A great app for avid readers. I’ll start this review by saying that the app is very lackluster if all you use is the free version. I do wish more features were available for the free version — like, only being able to add TEN books? With that said, the paid version has a lot to offer. I love seeing all my stats broken down into detail and the infographic makes it easy to look at and understand. (Looking at you, Storygraph). I was a little flustered at the fact I had to manually add a lot of my books — the import option didn’t even pop up until I was almost done! — but that’s okay because that way I knew everything was accurate (not all imports work properly) and in the order I wanted them to be. Earning diamonds too but outfits in the store is a nice added touch and anything that gives me badges for completing things is top tier for me. Overall a great app.

Aggressive upsell is counterproductive. I appreciate the opportunity to try out an app for free and then see if I would like to upgrade. So far, I’m seeing things about this app that I enjoy. But the sheer volume of in-app reminders, pop-ups, banners re going pro is really really off-putting. Also, as a new user, some of these upsells are actually interfering with my learning how to use the app. I was in a single book entry and couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to get back to all my books. Turns out a “go pro” banner was hiding the top navigation. I didn’t know the app well enough to know something was under the banner. I understand developers need a return on investment and to make a living, and I don’t begrudge them the hustle to get people to upgrade. But the volume, frequency and placement of these attempts is so overwhelming that my focus is less on enjoying the app and more on avoiding or clicking out of the upsells, and I’m feeling hesitant about continuing with this product.

Great app, iPad version would be even better.. I recently began using Bookout to track some rather dense material I needed to get through and so wanted motivation to do it. I like the layout, concept, and color scheme and look forward to using it as it develops over time. The quotes and thoughts sections could be refined a little to be less clunky (I’ve had crashes after adding multi-line quotes) and the timer buttons while the timer is active would look a lot prettier with just a little bit of brushing up but these are things that will likely improve over time and development. It would be nice to see an iPad version though, as I do most of my reading on my iPad and right now I’m using the 2x zoom version of the iPhone app on it and it’s just not pretty. All in all, a cool, reading stats designated app to get a lifetime unlock for six dollars and I really look forward to seeing it evolve.

Love the app-one minor problem though. I love the app. However, I have been having an issue where if I pause the reading timer and leave the app, say to do something like respond to a text, my timer will turn back by significant amounts of time. In this instance that pushed me to write this review, I had been reading for 46 minutes or so when I had stopped to text my friend about a funny line in the book, and when I came back to continue reading, the time showed only 16 minutes. This isn’t a bad enough issue for me to rate the app lower, as it has been very motivating, but it’s definitely something I think should be mentioned. Edit: I see that the developer responded and that just makes me like this app even more, knowing that the people that made it actually do care about what they’ve created. This app totally rocks!

I love it! I use it daily!. Bookly has become an app that I recommend to any bookworm at this point, and the first app I’ve ever reviewed. It is super easy to use and understand, times you and makes a prediction on how long it will take you to finish the book based on that, keeps track of the books you read, lets you jot down and annotate your thoughts digitally, and has so many more cool quirks that I enjoy every time I open it. It is a reader’s best friend, at least mine!! I even bought the premium package after just a week of using it, not because I needed to, but because after seeing all it offered, the idea of getting even more was enticing, and in the end, very worth it. I definitely recommend getting it if you want to keep track of your reads, push your reading speed, or to get back into the habit of reading.

Feeling the joy of reading again. I used to be an avid reader as a child through high school, but lost touch with my love for reading when I entered college and for the first year of me working full time. I kept wanting to get back into reading but it felt hard to stick with it at first because I wasn’t in the habit of reaching for a book over social media or TV. Bookly was the perfect push in the right direction. I’ve had premium for a couple of months and tracking my reading has been so fun. I also participated in the April Readathon too, which was great! My constant praise of Bookly even convinced my husband to download it and now he’s rereading all the books from his childhood that he hasn’t made time for before. I’m really grateful for this app. My only wish was that there was a way to have an account so that I could login into Bookly on my iPad and not just my phone. Overall, highly recommend!

Fun/Cute/Illuminating. I know that all the e-book apps tell you how long it takes you to read a book. But what about hong long it takes you to read a good old fashion physical copy!? This app does it for you! What’s more you can set a goal to finish your book by and based on your reading time it will let you know exactly how many min a day you need to read to reach your goal. I love the ambiance sounds that come with it too! And the cute little assistant that you can dress up with won diamonds. They also let you know about different readathons going on throughout the year that you can participate in! I love the infographics at the end of the weeks that break down my hours and pages and books read. Jus a cute, fun app the really shines a light on your reading! I recommend it for any book lover out there!

Helped me come out of my months long hiatus!. I used to be a voracious reader and for YEARS I have been trying to get back into the swing of things. I have tried numerous book apps before but none of them stuck. Bookly has been the only one because the app is attractive and incredibly easy to use when tracking reading. The stats, surprisingly, are what keep me reading because I love seeing how my reading changes and improves. It has be working because I make it a necessary part of my routine. I sometimes even remind myself of needing to get a session in without a notification. Also the Pro version is insanely well priced but even if you didn’t have the funds (or want to buy it) you can get the majority of benefits with in app gems just from reading. So if you have tried or are needing a good reading app that cheers you on and gets you back into habit of reading, look no further!

Loved this app before this past update. Update: I now give this app 5 stars, why? Because the developers actually listen to their customers, even if it’s negative. I even ended up purchasing the pro version because I am one that believes in supporting developers/businesses that try their best to accommodate and listen. The one thing I wish was possible would be to have more control over reading sessions. For example, occasionally I accidentally end a reading session when I mean to hit pause and unfortunately there’s no way (that I know of) to combine or edit that reading session. I’m excited to see this app grow and look forward to future updates! ............ This was a fantastic app for tracking your reading, but unfortunately the developers have basically made it so you need to buy the $6.99 “pro-version” so that an ad does not automatically stop your timer. Such a bummer, I really loved this app. If they implement an update to take away this newly added ad issue I would be happy to give it a much higher rating, but unfortunately this new update will deter me from using this app at all. Response to feedback: That was very kind of you to respond. I really do love your app. I am just disappointed I updated it. My timer completely stopped with the ad. I read for about 45 minutes and when I looked at the timer after closing the ad it was on one minute and some seconds.

Great app with few issues!. Overall, Bookly is a fantastic app and I have already recommended it to many people! Is it a great way to help start or continue your reading and is plentiful. The only issue is that you have to pay for a lot of the things on the apps. You have to pay to see your reading progress throughout the month or year because the app will delete the data if you delete the book. Usually, most people wouldn't delete any books but for this app if you don’t want to pay, you have to delete some books because there is only allowed ten at a time. This is a huge downside for me because I love to read lots of books, definitely more than ten a year, but I can only track my goal for a few instead of all of them. To put it all together, I love the app but the little issues go a long way.

Favorite Reading Tracker. Bookly is my favorite way to track my reading progress! I like being able to easily see how long I read for and how much progress I make. It helps me stay focused because if I get distracted I’ll remember to pause the stopwatch which in turn helps me be more mindful about how long I take a break from reading during that session. I love the app design, and I like being able to save quotes or reactions within the app since I’m not someone who physically annotates my books. This might be an unpopular opinion, but I do wish we could add friends. Simply because I like seeing what my friends are reading and what books they like, but I prefer being able to see *only* people I follow, rather than “what’s popular” or seeing suggestions from publishers and authors. I also think it would make it easier and more fun to do readathons with friends and being able to see everyone’s progress

Helps to keep track of books read.. App is easy to navigate, and has been useful with keeping up with what books my children have read. My high schooler who didn’t use to like reading now asks for more time to read during the day, not necessarily due to this app, but I am able to use the app to keep him aware of how long he has been reading. I also have him use the app to track the number of books he has read which helps him look back to see what types of books he did or didn’t like reading. My middle schooler has always loved reading and will sometimes choose reading a book over doing school work in class. The app’s timer helps alert her and remind her that she has spent enough time reading for the time being. It is easy to forget to log the minutes and pages each day so you may have to have notifications set on the phones to remind you, if you don’t open the app before you start reading.

Enjoyable. I really like the format, it is easy to use and pleasing. I also like how easy it is to add a book, I have a number of old pulp reads and the isbn codes don’t work so adding them in manually is nice. I find learning my reading stats to be very fun and love that I can search up unfamiliar words in the app along with adding quotes in it as well. I’m not a fan of the paid subscription aspect but you can still use it for free enough that it doesn’t feel like you are missing out. Plus it is decently easy to earn diamonds to unlock adding another book (base free is ten books). It cost 350 diamonds to be able to add another which are easy to earn through just using the reading tracker when you read. After two books I had enough to make this purchase so I don’t think it is going to ruin me from being able to enjoy the app anytime soon.

Beautiful App!. I don’t usually leave reviews for apps, but this app has such a beautiful and pleasant user interface, that I just had to! The features are all nicely and intuitively laid out such that nobody should have any issues navigating the app. The fonts and colors are easy on the eyes, and some of the features are amazing (my favorite is the ability to add your favorite quotes from the book). Occasionally, the app does have difficulty finding a book or its cover art even when using the ISBN number. My only major gripe about the app is the lock screen widget which displays books that you have added to your library. When you tap a book, it opens the app (you have to unlock your phone first) and takes you to the book you tapped. From there you can view stats and all the other features, including starting, pausing, or stopping the timer. I feel the widget would be much more useful if tapping a book let you start, pause, or stop the timer, rather than having to open the app for such a simple operation (or even start/pause/stop directly from the lock screen). This, and the ISBN lookup issue, are why I am giving this app three stars. UPDATE: Based on the developer’s response of having considered the widget timer feature I suggested, but being unable to due to limitations beyond their control, I have changed my rating from 3 to 4 stars.

Pretty great! Some room for improvement. Overall I think it’s a great idea! I compels you to get in to the habit of reading, gives you various stats the more you use the app, etc. It does not have books on it but you can put books in that you have, want to, or are currently reading so it tracks that. And it’ll track physical vs kindle vs audio books too for extra stats! I’m a stats girl. However…. It does not connect to your kindle, Libby, or Audible accounts so it doesn’t track how much time you spent on books. You have to go in to this app and start the clock for the book you are reading. Then manually end it. For those who read to go to sleep, I wouldn’t have issues starting the clock but would have issues ending it. If the various book apps talked to each other, it would log time spent on its own without you forgetting to turn off the timer.

i love it!. this app is amazing.. i feel like it gives me the motivation to read and i’m glad i downloaded it when i seen it come up on a tik tok ad. i had just gotten into reading i am a procrastinator at its finest. a lot like other apps i thought i was just going to download it forget to use it and slowly stop using it because i wasn’t consistent. although it was so much fun seeing how fast i was reading each page and how long it took me to finish each book. i also always lose my bookmarks and this app helps me keep track of what page i’m on! i also love that you can use your diamonds to change the icon! how cute!! :) i definitely recommend this app even if you don’t have the money to buy the premium version! i actually just got premium a few days ago and i’ve been reading with out it since may 7th! the pop ups for premium are kind of annoying and make sure if you put a book into it that u absolutely want to read because it wont let you delete it unless you get premium (thats why i got it) although i’m glad i did! it shows you more of your stats and gives you more drive! i only bought the 1 month becausei wasn’t sure i was going to like it although i will definitely be purchasing the yearly version because of how much more it offers! (its not crazy pricey)

Easy to Manage and very Motivational. I am using the free version and have only done one session so far, but I love all the stats and organization of the app overall. Definitely gonna consider buying the subscription after I finish my first book or so on the app. But overall, it’s super easy to manage and learn where things are and seeing the estimated time til I complete a book for sure reason motivates me to continue reading. Definitely a fun thing to add to just casually sitting down and opening a book to read, adds another level of fun to it. Also keeps me organized on books I want to read! And helps me keep track of the order I plan to read books in. But there are just so many on my list!!! 😭 Besides all that though, really enjoying the app so far. Just need to test and see if it continues to hold up for me.

Great app with one major drawback. Really love this app, the features on it are incredible and it’s motivated me to start reading a lot more than i have been in recent years. The stats given are cool to go over after finishing a read, and the layout of it is simple and easy to navigate while still being and looking top-of-the-line. However, the big glaring issue to me is that FAR too many of the apps features are behind a paywall. I understand the allure of a premium subscription with bonus features, but limiting free accounts to only 10 books, the pop-up ads that seem intentionally placed at the most inconvenient times, hiding a good chunk of the stats recorded, and cutting off access to ambient sounds just feels wrong. I understand having bonuses to those that pay for a subscription, but it feels like a large chunk of what makes this app stand out from the rest is withheld from free accounts, most of which are just people like myself wanting to track what they read.

Love Bookly!. I always had issues with not feeling productive while reading even though I know that reading in itself is productive. Bookly helped me turn my love of reading into something I can feel productive doing! I have zero regrets getting the subscription version because I love the ability to track how much I’m reading and how quickly I’m reading. One of my favorite features of the app is its ability to estimate how much more time it will take to finish a book based on my reading speed. This has been incredibly helpful on many occasions when I’m approaching the end of a book while also trying to stick to a specific bedtime or have an appointment. I would highly recommend Bookly for any avid readers! It’s tons of fun and gives you a lot of great stats about how much and how fast you’re reading. Love this app!

I love it!!. One of my friends recommended this app to me because we both read quite often, and I absolutely love it! I’ve always loved to know how quickly I could read, and this app tells you how many minutes it takes you per page. I also love how you can add reason sessions without timing it on the app as well. A few other really great features are that it tells you what % of the way you are through the book and about how long it will take you to finish the book based off of your average reading speed. I’ve only had it for a few days, but it’s definitely going to be an everyday app for me. I haven’t found a single issue with it for me, yet. Definitely recommend this app for avid readers, or anyone that would like to keep track of the books they read and improve as a reader.

Good app but buggy with nonexistent support. I loved this app . . . mostly. My only gripe with it was that it never recognized any ISBN I scanned. I almost always ended up having to manually add book covers and information. But now that I’ve tried to use Bookly on more than one device the app has gone haywire. It double counts reading minutes (so if I read for 36 minutes, the app thinks I read for 72 minutes, which also throws off the goals feature. It also wiped out my book collection categories. All my books are still there, but in a jumbled mess. I haven’t receive any answers to my emails about the issue. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling/hard reset without success. I just don’t know if the app is going to be useful for me anymore. I also don’t see a way to export my library, which is almost 500 books. I hate to think that I recorded all those books just for them to be lost because of a silly glitch.

Great App. I’m a bookstagrammer and the ability to share a graphic with my stats per book (including a star rating) is great. I also love the option to add essentially digital annotations, as I hate writing in books but sometimes just need to put a note in. The feature of being able to group books is great for organising my tbr. Plus, knowing how long it’s going to take me to finish a book is a lifesaver some days. They have an option for audiobooks too. Honestly the only thing I was really missing with just the free version was some stats like a weekly report and the ability to delete books. Not sure what the ten book limit is (unstarted? Reading at once?) though so I can’t comment on that. They run offers fairly often for discounts on Bookly pro, which lead me to try it. It’s fairly cheap annually to start but at just over a dollar a month I tried it and definitely love the extra features.

Disappointed. First of all, I was playing around with this app. I added a book I already read to see how it worked (saw this in another review) and it didn’t let me delete it? You actually have to pay to do that! And second you can’t add more than 10 books before your hit with the limit and have to pay yet again!? I understand paying for certain things but to DELETE and ADD books you want to read is crazy to me. I mean adding books it’s the whole purpose of this app (to track them) and they aren’t even letting you do that? I would personally just use another app or your notes😂. This needs a lot of work. P.S- don’t get me wrong. This is a neat app. The background music, the timer, adding quotes and your thoughts. As well as words you don’t understand. I just think they're asking to pay for the wrong things. If you were to ask me to pay for any of the things listed above like background music and stuff, that’s fine because thats a PLUS. Deleting and adding though? I just don’t see it.

Great App. It’s easy to navigate, fun, and very helpful for keeping track of your pages in case your bookmark falls out or someone pulls it out(i think we all know someone like that😅but in my case it’s multiple people)and it’s also very helpful for keeping track of what percentage of the book you have gone through. it really helps you know how close you are to being done with a book. the reflection after you read it also good for refreshing your memory and recalling what you read. being able to keep track of how many books you’ve read is also awesome and very motivating. this app is great for people who want to start/get back into reading. the mental benefits of reading are great. it decreases your stress by 68%, which is more than listening to music(61%) and walking(32%). it increases your vocabulary and people who read fiction tend to be more sympathetic than non-fiction readers. it’s a great app and i recommend.

Amazing Reading Tracker!. I just started using this useful app and I am already hooked. It is free and easy to use. You can make reading sessions for how long you want AND you can make personal thoughts, quotes, and commentary you want to quickly jot down whilst reading. To help you focus more, this app provides ambient sounds in the background, such as peaceful raining outside. It easily tracks how much time you have read, what days you have read, if you have reached your goal, and much, much more. It’s crazy how convenient and practical this app issues to your daily reading life. It also tracks when you want to finish the book and how much books you want to read in a year. I, personally, recommend this Reading Tracker App because of its beneficial use from personal experience. I will continue to read and track the joys of my reading path!

Only useful if you’re willing to pay for premium. See below for my original review. I came back to the app because Shelbey of Shelbey and the Book Club/Store swears by it. I use it every day now so it’s worth the premium cost, but it was useless as a free app for someone who reads as much as I do. Current pet peeve is that the readathons don’t sync with the app so if you register using the Google forms they send out there is no update to the app that you are participating, and it should be integrated! I also wish you could read 1 book in multiple formats - sometimes I alternate a physical/ebook or try an audio version to get out of a funk and in those cases you’ll have to convert the page/percent completions yourself before entering in the app. ———————————-————————————— You can’t delete books without a premium account...what? I could barely even find the settings menu to delete my account. Within ten minutes of downloading I knew this was a bust. Disappointing!

No More Distractions!. I’m a big fan of BookTube, Bookstagram, Book Twitter, you name it! But those things can be very distracting when I’m trying to read. I tell myself I’ll just scroll for a minute and 2 hours later I’m lost in the black hole that is social media. Since using the Bookly app, I’ve been able to stop that behavior. Since the app tracks my time spent reading, I feel like when that stopwatch is going I have to be truly reading. Which means I’m halfway through the year and I’ve read more than I did last year already. As a Ravenclaw who loves recording random personal stats, I really enjoy the infographics feature. I use the quotes feature to nerd out and track words I come across that I don’t know and want to look up later. The thoughts section helps me organize notes for my Book Club discussions as well. And since I don’t like annotating in my actual books, I don’t need to carry around an extra notebook because I always have my phone and this app with me. And my final reason for rating this app 5 stars is that I am a fan of the company. I always see them interacting with the bookish community on bookstagram and have only had positive experiences. So if you’re looking for an app to help you focus on reading, organize your thoughts, and track some cool stats, I highly recommend this app!

Fun alternative. I’ve been using Bookly since about the start of 2024, and upgraded to the Pro version a month or so into using the app. I really love using the app to track my reading and see my “stats”. It also pushes me to try finishing more novels. It’s fun to accomplish the goals and earn diamonds and uncover new boo costumes and app icons. As someone currently getting my masters in school librarianship, I could see how this app appeals to younger generation of readers compared to the Goodreads app. I still use Goodreads as it allows you to follow friends and see what others are reading. I also like the way the app can recommend other books based on books you’ve read. Bookly somewhat has this with the Boo AI chat, but it’s not as user friendly. I’m hoping the Bookly app continues to grow and release updates and new features that may add something similar to these features Goodreads has but Bookly doesn’t.

An Avid Reader’s Best Friend. Bookly is the perfect app for avid readers, especially those like me who like to be organized and keep track of what they’re reading. For years I’ve used goodreads but I was never satisfied with it. That’s where Bookly comes in. It allows me to see how long books take me to read, how many hours I’m spending a day/month/year reading. There are beautiful pictographs you receive of your reading stats after you finish a book. You can group books by collections, add quotes and definitions as you read, it’s really just such an incredible app. Since using Bookly I have read more books than I have in years. Definitely recommend. The only thing that would be better if there were some customizable options on colors for the app! I love all the little customizable app icons and Bookly assistant outfits.

Not as good as it used to be.. I like having ways to track habits and Bookly is a great way of tracking my reading. I like how the shows me the current percentage I am we in a book and can give me estimated reading time left as well as per day reading allotments to finish a book by a specified deadline. I have been using Bookly for a little over a year and some of the recent changes have made me enjoy it less, however. The data it provides is still good, but the user interface has gotten much worse. Now, whenever I end a reading session, I have to click through multiple screens to get back to my main shelf. I just want to be done. I don't need to see streaks and gifts (I have never cared about earning diamonds for outfits for the mascot). I have to click three or four times before I can just go back to my home screen and that's with a Pro account. I wish I had an option to turn these off or for them just to go back to the way it was until a few months ago.

Easy and shows all of my books in one place. I love the daily calendar that shows my book covers for what I’ve read and am reading. The app is extremely easy to figure out. The stats are great and I love the sounds I can play for background noise as I read. I love seeing how many hours I’ve read in a month or year. I like the notes and ratings for my finished books and how I can track favorite quotes. All around I haven’t found a single thing I don’t like about this app! It’s exactly what I was looking for. I did get the free 7 days and then signed up for the subscription afterwards. I plan to spend a lot of time in the app. I also like I can click read and edit the app to answer a text and it’s still counting my time. If I read past midnight it offers to split those hours between the days or keep them all towards the first day. I really like that as well!

Decent Overall.. This app is really good for helping you to create a habit of reading and helping you to track your progress on the book your currently reading. You do have to pay money in order to log and keep track of more than 10 books. And as far as I can tell you can’t favourite or follow your favourite authors. It also doesn’t seem very social like this is definitely a personal app to track yourself, not meant for reading reviews left by other readers or anything like that Goodreads has. Goodreads is definitely the superior app. There are lots of improvements needed to be made if Bookly even wants to compare itself to Goodreads. I don’t see this app ever being better than Goodreads in any aspect except helping you create a reading habit, especially with it requiring you to pay money to save more than 10 books. If the developers need or want money then they should implement it into a donation type of thing if they want to get more users.

It’s a nice app, but the constant push to get Pro is annoying.. I do understand that apps are generally not created as a sort of charity, that their creators need money to live and to keep the apps operational, but I’ve never used an app that so incessantly pushed me to buy, buy, buy. What’s more, though I’ve barely been using it two weeks, I’ve been told multiple times that there was a special one-time-only sale on, but the “sales” on Bookly Pro are so constant and so exactly the same, that it feels like the “sale” price is the actual price, and “full” price is simply what a few silly or unlucky suckers end up paying. Generally speaking, I’m happy to pay for a service, particularly one I find valuable, and Bookly has been valuable, but I’ve resisted buying Pro because the heavy-handed sales techniques really bother me. I rather resent them, and even though I enjoy the app, I’m also seriously considering quitting it because of how pushy the sales tactics are.

Free for a little bit. I love this app! It definitely makes me more motivated to read but the #1 thing that frustrates me with this app is only being able to add 20 books for free before you either have to spend 350 gems to get 1 more free book spot or pay for premium , it would be fine if the gems were easier to get but you only get 1 gem for every 5 minutes after finishing a 4 hour book you only get 48 gems so once you start doing the math even if you use the gems you will eventually run out of book space essentially forcing you to buy premium or stop using the app, also you can’t delete books (unless of course you have premium) so there is no way to use this app for a long term period of time without having to eventually pay for it. I understand wanting to offer certain features in premium that would make it worth it to some users but when the app is only free for so long it makes the experience way less enjoyable

Great app but stop telling me to update to pro. So far I’ve been loving this app! I love the stats it gives you and how u can get diamonds by staying on a reading streak which helps motivate you more to read. I like the way it tracks your progress a lot and that you can add your own annotations on the app while reading. My biggest critique however is just how much the page to upgrade to pro pops up. Idk if there’s an option to prevent the random pop ups but it’s kinda getting annoying. I’m sorry I can’t afford it rn but I know the pro option is there and when I can afford it I’ll definitely upgrade! A “don’t remind me again” checkbox would be nice! Overall it’s really just an annoyance for me as a user but I give the app 5 stars because even without pro u get a good amount of useful stuff!

Reading Streak Changes Between Time Zones. I realize that most people may not have this problem but as part of a military family, I move a lot and it can be from coast to coast. Bookly does not keep it so that a reading session on a specific day in a specific time zone remains that way. If you start a reading session overnight at 11pm but then move from the west coast to the east coast (3 hour time difference), Bookly will say that you missed a day of reading because you started that reading session at 2am the next day. As a paying Bookly Pro customer who has been tracking my stats for YEARS, doing daily reads, and who works night shift so my hours are wonky and I read a lot overnight, it is so irritating to see my progress get messed up. If it really mattered to you, you have to go back and manually change the dates yourself. This is ridiculous to do if you’ve been using Bookly since 2019 and reading daily, like I have. There should be some kind of timezone lock so that your stats don’t get messed up.

Better than Goodreads by far!. I absolutely love this app! I love that I can play relaxing sounds and set a timer! *So I don’t forget that I’m human and need sleep 😅* Honestly after the first 2 days in this app I went straight to Goodreads and deleted my account and the app itself! I love how I can set my own goals and my own reading pace! This app is so easy to navigate! After only 1hr I was like a pro on this thing knowing everything it does and how to do it! You also don’t have all the extra distractions on this app such as book of the day or week or what somebody posted or getting distracted by the list that’s never ending of the books they recommend you read. Thank you to the wonderful team that made this app happen! I’m back to loving recording my books again and feeling great about it!

Wonderful App. Last year as I was struck with the virus in March and also facing the fact that because I travel for a living I knew things would change. I love to read but wanted a way to track what I read, collect shots of things I’ve highlighted, or quotes in the book and this app does it all. Nice reminders to yourself to read. Goals you can set for the year and monthly to help push yourself to read and complete what you start. What has been interesting is not only what I’ve read but what I stopped reading. So last year Bookly helped me to track that between March 1 and December 31 I read 55 books. It’s a great app and I’ve recommended it to friends and family members who love to read. If I have one complaint is that in the rating system you can’t award “half” stars because sometimes things are four and a half stars and other times they are just a half star, but this app gets a full five stars

Genuinely good app. I used to be a reader. I fell out of it because I lost time and I’ve tried to use other apps before. A lot of them will try to push you to make longer or bigger reading goals. This one doesn’t. I set my goal to 15 minutes a day and 25 books this year. Nothing major, but still more than normal. The reminders are friendly and the ability to add a book to your reading list by scanning the ISBN is a gamechanger. I’ve seen apps try to charge way more for worse quality and I honestly think the app is worth the money, especially if you get a yearly subscription cause it’s half the price. I think the only issue I’ve had so far is having to re enter the page count for the books I’ve added because the app isn’t accurate, but that’s really not a big deal when I don’t have to type in the title, author, or upload the cover. All in all a really good, genuinely motivating app.

Stay Free!!. I just started using it. I’m 2 days in and loving it! However, I just hit my first paywall and am bummed. I haven’t written a book report since college. Or even thought as analytically about a book as I should, likely. So, I was really enjoying filling out character profiles and boom! I hit a limit. I don’t know where the paywall will hit for other features, but $10/month seems pretty outrageous for just tracking our reading and notes. On the plus side, I see this really being even more motivation to read more and longer and pay closer attention. This book is quite old and has a lot of terms and word usage I have been unfamiliar with. I had been looking some up in the dictionary/googling them prior to this app, but now I can store them all in one place, look up definitions, study them, etc. That’s pretty cool. Thank you Bookly! Consider maybe a low income option?

A good way to keep track of my productivity. I deleted social media today and in doing so I wanted to utilize the time that I used to use on social media with something that was a little bit more conducive to my mental health and also something that can help me gain more knowledge in my every day life. I used to quite enjoy reading when I was younger, but since social media has consumed my life for a number of years, I’ve kind of neglected it… so after visiting my local library, I have decided to look up apps that I can utilize to keep track of my reading, and perhaps even suggest new books based on what I read. this app is very interesting and I look forward to seeing what kind of suggestions you can give me so that I can utilize my time reading rather than mindlessly scrolling through social media.

Greatly improved! (Update). (Updated Review) Many changes have taken place since my last review and I really think they have put effort into making adjustments that have certainly improved the app. Although i believe there's always room for improvements, I really haven't faced any issues with the app and all the features I could have considered nice-to-have/ useful have been implemented Thank you very much for listening to your users. -------------------- I really needed something besides Goodreads to keep my books organized while at the same time being able to bookmark where I left at. The addition of "quotes" and "thoughts" is perfect since it allows me to add any extra notes as i read. The app just launched and generally is great. (Love the design btw) However, it is still kind of limited and rigid. I see that the books have a set amount of pages when you add them, but it should be taken into account that the total amount of "pages" change depending on the format and device that the book is read on. Also, why is there no option to edit the pages you have read? Pretty much.. *Add an option to change the amount of "total pages" in the book *Allow us to edit the pages that have been "read" *Implement a timer - not a stopwatch (like the current one) - that allows to set a certain amount of time we want to read for.

Just like the ads. Ive had books stacking up on my bookshelf for quite some time, I’ve been reading avidly ever since I was younger but due to work and life getting rough, just kinda stopped. Seeing this app promise to get you back into the cycle of reading was for me, like the holy grail. I downloaded it and expected, like most things, to work for a week and then I give up. However, because of this app I have fallen back in love with with what I love to do most, have explored more into my now favorite genre and now some of my favorite authors. Never once did I think I would be this happy again and I have now completed more books in the last year than I have the entirety of high school. Thank you, Bookly, for making my life so much better and helping me feel so much more comfortable with my life. Read on!!