How our reading tracker profiles work

A single score has to decide in advance what matters most, and readers disagree. A club reader and an audiobook listener can both be right about the best app for them. So we record facts, show them side by side, and let your answers do the ordering. Apps are listed alphabetically everywhere else on the site.

The finder also uses four fields that are not on the card: any social features, core features free, Android app and web version.

• On recordOn record: the app's own listing, website or help pages describe it.
• Not offeredNot offered: those pages say the app does not have it, or the listing makes clear it is absent.
• Not in our sourcesNot in our sources: we did not find it on the pages we read. The app may still have it; tell us through the contact page and we will check.

Each answer you give checks one field. An app matches an answer when that field is on record. Some answers, such as 'A subscription is fine', do not narrow anything, so they are not counted. Apps are ordered by the number of matches, then by fewer 'not offered' results, then alphabetically. The finder shows every line it used, so you can see why an app appears where it does. It is a filter, not a rating.

• US Apple App Store listings for prices, in-app purchases and privacy labels.
• Google Play listings where they add something the App Store does not.
• Each app's own website and help centre for features.
• Wikipedia only for company history, such as Goodreads' launch and its purchase by Amazon.
• A Rakuten Kobo announcement for the Kobo and StoryGraph sync.
• Every page was first read in September 2026 and updated on 2026-10-11, and every fact shows its source and the date that source was read.
• A second read on 2026-10-11 updated privacy labels, formats, platforms, prices and free tiers; those facts show Read 11 Oct 2026.

Ebook stores, audiobook subscriptions and e-readers are not profiled; they appear only where an app connects to them. We do not publish star ratings or review counts from app stores, and we do not name individual book titles.

• Public sources only: we did not test the apps hands-on.
• No interviews or briefings with the app makers.
• Prices are US prices read in September 2026 and updated on 2026-10-11 and differ by country and over time.
• Privacy labels are written by the developers; we report them, we do not audit them.
• A feature an app has but does not publish shows as Not in our sources.

Send a correction through the contact page with the topic Correction to app information and a link to the source. We check it against the app's own page and update the data file; the cards, tables and finder update with it.

We re-read every listing each quarter. This edition uses pages read in September 2026 and updated on 2026-10-11; the next review is due in December 2026.