How to see your Year in Review

At the end of every year (or any time you want to look back) Book Tracker shows you a personal Year In Review: a sequence of beautifully designed, shareable cards that turn your reading year into a story. Each card highlights one aspect of your reading: pages, books, time spent, your top author, your top category, your longest book, and the final cards bring everything together in a single summary you can share anywhere.

It’s a Wrapped-style recap for readers, built entirely from the data already in your library. There’s nothing to set up beforehand.

Where to find your Year In Review

The Year In Review lives in the Statistics section of the app.

  • iPhone: Home → scroll to Statistics → Year In Review.
  • iPad & Mac: Sidebar → Statistics → Year In Review.

By default you’ll see the current year. You can browse past years, any year for which you have at least one finished Reading Status is available.

How the experience is structured

The Year In Review opens full-screen. You navigate card by card with Previous and Next at the bottom, close it with the X in the top-left, and share the card you’re currently looking at with the share icon in the top-right.

Each card has its own background, typically the cover of a book from that year, and a label “Year In Review ‘” in the bottom-left so the source is clear when the card is shared.

The cards, in order

The exact set of cards adapts to your library: if you didn’t listen to any audiobooks, the listening cards don’t appear; if you didn’t record any book purchases, the purchases card is skipped; and so on. Here’s the full lineup.

🏆 Top Rated Book

The book of the year with your highest rating, with its cover, title, and author, plus the rating value. Appears when at least one book has a rating for the year.

📚 Longest Read Book

The longest book you’ve finished this year: cover, title, author, and total page count.

🎧 Longest Listened Book

(Only if you tracked audiobooks)
The longest audiobook you’ve finished: cover, title, author, and total listening time.

📖 Reading statistics — books

The “how many books did I read” card:

  • Books read — total finished books of the year (books tracked by pages or percentage).
  • Books per month — average.
  • Most prolific month — with the number of books finished in it.
  • Most active weekday — the day of the week you finished books most often.

🎧 Listening statistics — books

(Only if you tracked audiobooks)
Same shape as above, but for audiobooks:

  • Books listened.
  • Audiobooks per month.
  • Most prolific month.
  • Most active weekday.

📄 Pages statistics

The page-level view:

  • Pages read — total.
  • Average pages per book.
  • Average pages per day.
  • Daily page record — your single biggest day, with the date.

⏱️ Listening statistics — time

(Only if you tracked audiobooks)

  • Listened — total listening time (days/hours/minutes/seconds).
  • Average time per book.
  • Average time per day.
  • Daily listening record — your single biggest listening day.

⏱️ Reading statistics — time (reading sessions)

The time-spent perspective, built from your Reading Timer sessions:

  • Reading time — total time you spent reading.
  • Average session duration.
  • Reading time per page — your reading pace.
  • Longest reading session — date + duration.

💰 Purchased books

(Only if you tracked book purchases in the year)

  • Books (purchased count).
  • Money spent (in your default currency).
  • Highest spending month — month + amount.
  • Books per month average.

✍️ Most Read Author

The top 3 (up to 4) authors of the year, name and number of books for each.

🎧 Most Listened Author

(Only if you tracked audiobooks)
The top 3 (up to 4) most-listened authors.

🏷️ Most Read Category

The top 3 (up to 4) categories, name and number of books for each.

🏷️ Most Listened Category

(Only if you tracked audiobooks)
The top 3 (up to 4) most-listened categories.

🎯 Summary card — reading

The final reading recap collects the headline numbers in one place: Pages read, Books read, Longest Read Book, Most Read Author. This is the share card most users post on social media to close their year.

🎯 Summary card — listening

(Only if you tracked audiobooks)
A second summary card for the audiobook side: Listening time, Books listened, Longest Listened Book, Most Listened Author.

Sharing the Year In Review

You can share any single card with the share icon in the top-right.

  • On iPhone / iPad → standard share sheet (Photos, Messages, AirDrop, social apps, etc.).
  • On Mac → an export dialog where you save the card as an image.

What feeds the Year In Review

The Year In Review uses the data already in your library. To make sure your recap is as rich and accurate as possible:

1. Set reading dates on every Read book

A book without a finish date doesn’t appear in any year’s recap. When you mark a book as Read, set the start date and finish date: this is the single most important thing for the Year In Review to work properly. See How to use Reading Status.

2. Fill in page counts and audiobook durations

Books with 0 pages or 0:00 duration don’t contribute to the Pages statistics or Listening statistics cards. If a recent import left some books incomplete, take a moment to fix them. Bulk Edit makes it fast.

3. Use the Reading Timer

The Reading statistics — time card (reading sessions) only has data if you’ve timed your sessions. Even occasional use of the Reading Timer is enough to populate Reading time, Average session duration, Reading time per page, and Longest reading session.

4. Categorize your books

The Most Read Category card uses each book’s Categories. Categories usually come from online sources automatically; if a manually entered book has none, you can add them by hand from the book detail page.

5. Add ratings and purchase info

6. Re-reads count

Each Reading Status with a finish date in the year counts as a separate “book read”, so a re-read of a beloved classic shows up in your recap just like a new read. See Can I re-read the same book and track each reading?.

Browse past years

Even if you started using Book Tracker only recently, you can backfill books from earlier years just by creating a Reading Status with the right start and finish dates. Once you do, those years appear in the Year In Review browser, so you can have a recap for 2023, 2024, and 2025 even if you only joined Book Tracker in 2026.

Best practices

  • Make it a ritual. Open the Year In Review on December 31 or in the first days of January: it’s a small but rewarding way to close the reading year.
  • Share the summary card. It’s a fun way to give friends a glimpse of your reading life without exposing your full library.
  • Use it to calibrate next year’s Reading Challenge. Your books-per-month average is the most honest baseline for what’s actually achievable.
  • Audit the dates. If a book you remember finishing in March shows up in the wrong month, edit the Reading Status finish date, it’ll move to the right place across all cards.
  • Use the Reading Timer occasionally. Even one timed session per week is enough to make the time-based cards meaningful.