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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.

Ever since I started my current book, I check my 30-day stats everyday to laugh at how my reading time plummeted to a near flat line of 30 minutes per day because I’m not so into the book I’m reading but the daily goal and streaks of Bookly are what keep me going. Imagine my surprise when I open the stats and find two separate days that have been wiped to zero minutes and the following days about an hour (I KNOW I’ve never read that book for an hour, I’m constantly checking to see if my 30 minutes are done). I have no idea what could have triggered this when it was perfectly fine yesterday, and I’m annoyed that I’ve lost my streak over this out-of-nowhere glitch. Also, you can’t cancel a session. I one time accidentally started a session and had no way to stop it and say I hadn’t progressed a page, even by exiting and reopening the app. I either had to stop everything I was doing and read one page, or have the session paused until the following day to start my real session. EDIT: 6 months later, a return of this bug and I’ve lost my streak again. It arbitrarily will just take a day, combine the session minutes to another day, and zero out. No idea what causes this.

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.