Your TBR doesn’t live in one place. You scan a paperback at the bookstore on your phone, update your progress on a tablet before bed, then write the review on a laptop the next morning. Most reading apps handle one of those moments well and leave you stranded on the other two.
If you’re looking for a better way to track what you read (and what you want to read), here are ten book trackers worth checking out.
The StoryGraph
The StoryGraph was built for mood readers. Instead of browsing by genre alone, you filter by mood and pace, which helps on the weeks when you know you want something slow and hopeful but couldn’t name a genre if you tried. Content warnings are crowdsourced and shown up front, so nothing blindsides you. The stats are the best in their category: your year broken down by mood, pace, page count, and format. It’s independent and ad-free, and the core app costs nothing on iOS, Android, or the web. A Plus tier adds custom charts and extra filters.
Pick it if you choose books by feeling and like a good chart.
BookPine
BookPine is what I’d hand someone who wants the whole package. The home screen is built from tabs and widgets you arrange yourself, there are light, dark, high-contrast, and sepia themes, and you can swap in a custom cover when you hate a book’s official art. It runs as native apps on iOS and Android plus a full web app, and your shelves and progress stay in sync between them. You can even start as a guest with no email, then add one later if you decide to stick around.
The tracking is the deep end. Its advanced tracking features go well past a currently-reading shelf: timed reading sessions, page/audio/chapter/location or percentage progress logs, reading calendars, streaks, and stats dashboards you can rearrange yourself. It imports from Goodreads, StoryGraph, LibraryThing and even custom CSV files, scans ISBN barcodes, lets you set privacy shelf by shelf, and comes in around 20 languages.
If you want every core feature for free, on every device, this is the one.
Hardcover
Hardcover comes up constantly in threads about quitting Goodreads, usually from people who did and don’t regret it. A small independent team runs it, there are no ads, Amazon isn’t involved, and the roadmap is shaped in the open with its users. Half-star ratings are here, finally. Every book shows a match percentage against your taste before you commit, and privacy is set per book, so a guilty pleasure can stay hidden while the rest of your shelf is public.
Imports from Goodreads and StoryGraph work cleanly, and it runs on iOS, Android, and the web. A good landing spot if you want a modern, community-first replacement.
Literal
Literal is the quiet one. The design is spare, closer to a well-made notebook than a dashboard, which is a relief if other trackers make you feel behind. It’s free with no ads on iOS, Android, and the web. Recommendations come from friends, book clubs, and thousands of public domain ebooks are readable inside the app, so you can go from browsing to reading without leaving.
For readers who want something clean and social without the noise.
LibraryThing
LibraryThing has been at this since 2005, two years before Goodreads existed, and it’s still the power tool for people who care about their physical collection. It pulls records from the Library of Congress and thousands of libraries worldwide, so an obscure out-of-print edition actually turns up, and with the right cover. The tagging and metadata system goes deeper than anything else on this list, which starts to matter somewhere around book two thousand. Members also get the Early Reviewer program, which hands out thousands of advance copies every month.
Free, on iOS, Android, and the web, in dozens of languages. Made for collectors and cataloging obsessives.
Bookmory
Bookmory is a private reading journal. It needs no account and keeps your data on your device, so nobody sees your reading log but you. A built-in session timer and reading calendar show when and how long you read, and it tracks print, ebook, and audio separately, so audiobook hours don’t get lumped in with page counts.
The trade-off: it’s mobile only, there’s no sync between devices, and the free version carries ads. Best suited to privacy-minded readers who do all their tracking on one phone.
Bookly
Bookly wants to build you a habit. You unlock badges as your streak holds, the session timer plays ambient sounds so reading feels like a focus session, and finishing a book generates an infographic you can post. The habit reports are detailed enough to show whether your pace has really improved this year or you just remember it that way.
The catch is the free tier, which caps you at a handful of books before steering you toward Bookly Pro. Worth it if you’re the type who needs the nudge and doesn’t mind paying for it.
Fable
Fable is a social network that happens to track books. Book clubs are the main event, and you can join an existing one or host your own. It shows match percentages with other readers, sells ebooks in-app so a club pick is one tap away, and, oddly, tracks TV shows too, which is handy if you follow adaptations.
A few things to know before you commit: Everand acquired it in 2025, it includes ads, and its AI-generated reader summaries sparked enough backlash that the company removed the feature. It’s still the top pick if community is your priority.
BookWyrm
BookWyrm is the way out of Big Tech entirely. It’s free, fully open source, and has no company behind it. It’s also federated, built on the same protocol as Mastodon, so you join a small self-governed community that can still talk to the wider network, and moderation happens on your instance rather than at a distant trust and safety desk. There are no ads and no tracking, just books and the people you chose to follow.
It’s web based rather than a mobile app, so it asks a bit more of you technically. For readers who value community ownership over convenience.
Goodreads
And then there’s Goodreads, which nearly everyone reading this has tried at least once. It’s no longer the obvious default, but the scale is still a real reason to keep it around: the largest book database and the deepest archive of reader reviews anywhere, which makes it the fastest place to check whether a book is worth your evening. The annual Reading Challenge remains the most recognizable reading goal on the internet, Kindle progress syncs on its own, and the Choice Awards and giveaways keep a steady stream of new titles in front of you.
You already know the downsides. Amazon has owned it since 2013, it serves ads, and the interface looks its age. Keep it if the catalog and the crowd outweigh the clutter.
So which one?
Match the app to how you read. If you want the biggest catalog and review archive, stay on Goodreads. If you pick books by mood and love your stats, it’s The StoryGraph. If you’re leaving Goodreads for something modern, look at Hardcover or Literal. And if you want free, private, and every tracking tool in one place across phone, tablet, and laptop, BookPine is hard to beat.
Pick one, import your library, and get back to the book.
