BookBuds: Read with friends

Starter School · iOS

BookBuds: Read with friends

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01 / Creative research

Turn the unknowns into a research plan.

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Check the acquisition promise

Read the store headline, screenshots and description. What problem is the app promising to solve?

Study the storefront ↗
02

Look for ad evidence

Explore apps with direct store-link matches. Compare their hooks and formats without assuming the same approach works here.

Browse observed advertisers ↗
03

Separate demand from paid growth

Store rankings and revenue estimates describe market context. They do not establish ad spend, conversions or ROAS.

Review the market context ↗

02 / Storefront & product

Where the click lands.

Study the product story and store experience behind the acquisition funnel.

Screenshots

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03 / Market context

The business behind the app.

Keep revenue, downloads and store rankings separate from advertising performance.

How Much Does BookBuds: Read with friends Make?

Monthly Revenue
$1.0K
Annualized estimate
$12.0K
Per Download
$1.00

Platform Performance

🍎iOS
Revenue
$1.0K
Downloads
1.0K
Rating
4.3 ★(152)

Rating Distribution

4.3
★★★★☆
152 reviews
5
7%
4
5%
3
7%
2
16%
1
64%

Top Countries

🇺🇸 US🇳🇱 NL🇩🇪 DE
Reviews (3)▼
★★★☆☆dinkisimp6/11/2026
App problems

Honestly I love this app it’s so fun and makes me read so much more however, it keeps logging me out of my account and like a month or two ago made me create a new one. So I restarted re added all my friends did everything now today it logged me out and is again forcing me to create a new account. I have no idea how to fix this and when I reached out to try and get it fixed at first I was getting emails back but then they just ghosted me. This is very disappointing to me because of how much I love this app. I’ll Probubly make a new account so I really hope i don’t get logged out again.

★☆☆☆☆nayt.trent4/22/2026
Great Idea, Poor Execution / AI & Moneygrabbing

Fairly certain this app is coded with AI or the assets are AI generated. The idea is good. It could use more features, but genuinely this could have replaced Goodreads for me. However they introduced 3 popups for the paid version every time you open the app, even in the middle of reading sessions; I joined the Dev’s discord to point out this bug. Multiple people did. Lo and behold, the Dev turned it back on due to a “dramatic drop in revenue” and then told me to stop asking about it (despite the fact it had been a while since I even asked and that I wasn’t the only one having issues). I deleted the app after that because what’s the point if the dev won’t listen to community feedback? Now after a bit I downloaded it again to see if maybe it’s been updated, and now it’s completely unusable. Big screen roping me into a free trial with no way to cancel, and a weird gif with a buggy popup. Can’t even program an app right but begging for money. What absolute money-grabbing garbage.

★★★★☆kennedy.knighton3/12/2026
Pop ups

I love this app, I’ve had it since around new years and use it as my reading time tracker but the pop up messages that show up when you first open the app is really annoying. I do not want to open a gift nor purchase anything the second I open the app. Greatly annoying and makes me want to throw my phone into the garbage disposal. Please just do a side bar button thing instead of a full page pop up please. But love the app other than that one gut raging feature. Keep up the good work!❤️

Version History (22)▼
1.0.386/18/2026
1.0.354/1/2026
1.0.343/25/2026
1.0.333/18/2026
1.0.323/6/2026
1.0.313/4/2026
1.0.302/26/2026
1.0.292/22/2026
1.0.282/19/2026
1.0.272/11/2026
Available In (111 Countries)▼
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Supported Languages (1)▼
English
App Details▼

BookBuds is a cozy social reading app that makes reading with friends easy, fun, and motivating. Sit around your own virtual bonfire, track reading ti...

iOS App ID
6755941845
Content Rating
4+
Min OS
17.6
Size
49.5 MB
In-App Purchases
Yes
Publisher
Starter School
US

In-App Purchases (7)

NamePriceType
Weekly Subscription$7.99Weekly
Monthly Subscription$9.99Monthly
Yearly second discount$29.99Yearly
Yearly discounted subscription$39.99Yearly
Three day trial$49.99Yearly
Yearly Subscription$49.99Yearly
Free Trial Annual$49.99Yearly