Alongside your tracker
Keep your tracker. Ruxpin holds the other half.
If you track your reading in StoryGraph, keep doing it. Ruxpin does not track reading and is not trying to. It catches the thought you have on page 40 and files it under the book, so the thinking you did while reading is still there in October.
A tracker holds what you read. Ruxpin holds what you thought about it. Most readers who use both reach for them at different moments, and neither one gets in the other’s way.
Two different questions
The clearest way to see where the line falls is to ask what you go looking for, and when.
What you already use a tracker for
- What did I read this year, and when.
- How many pages, how many books, how far through this one.
- What did I give it out of five.
- What is on the shelf to read next.
- How am I doing against the goal I set in January.
What Ruxpin holds instead
- The thought you had on page 40, in the words you said it in.
- Where in the book your attention actually clustered.
- What you keep returning to, across every book you have read since.
- The reason a book mattered, caught while it was still fresh.
- A portrait of you as a reader, drawn only from your own words.
A week with both
- Sunday
- You start a book, and you mark it started wherever you keep track of that. Ruxpin is not involved yet, and does not need to be.
- Tuesday, page 40
- Something lands. You pick up your phone, say it out loud, and go back to the page. Ruxpin transcribes it, tags it, and files it under the book. Say “page 40” and it files itself there too.
- Thursday
- You finish it and rate it, in your tracker, because that is where ratings live. Ruxpin has no opinion about the rating and never asks for one.
- A month later
- You cannot remember why the middle of that book got to you. Your tracker has four stars and a date. Ruxpin has the six things you said, where in the book you said them, and a heatmap of where your attention went.
What Ruxpin does not do
Worth knowing before you install it rather than after.
No shelves, ratings, or reading goals
Ruxpin counts nothing and scores nothing. There is no number to beat and no streak to protect, so there is nothing here for your tracker to lose to.
No book text
Ruxpin is not an e-reader and holds none of the book. It holds what you said about it.
No import
There is no way to bring a library, a shelf, or a set of ratings across from another service. If you are arriving from Goodreads, the next page says what that actually costs you, which is less than it sounds.
Nothing to publish
Ruxpin never asks you to write a review, and the record is not something you have to keep tidy for an audience. It is a note to yourself that happens to accumulate.
What it costs
$5.99 a month, after a free 30 days. No card up front, no free tier, no ads, and your words are never training data. The pricing page has the rest of it.
Coming from Goodreads instead? Read that page, which is more honest about what you cannot bring with you.