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BookBuddy is a powerful book management app that gives you access to your entire book catalog, anywhere. Using BookBuddy is fun and easy, allowing you to quickly find any book in your library, share your favorite books, and keep track of borrowed and lent books.
KEY FEATURES
• Adding Your Books
Add your books using the following options:
- Scan barcode (via iPhone camera or Bluetooth handheld scanner)
- Enter ISBN
- Search online by keyword
- Add manually
- Import from CSV file
• Organizing Your Books
Place your books where they belong:
- My Books — books you own
- Wish List — books you wish to own
- Borrowed — books you borrowed from others
- Previously Owned — books you no longer own
• Syncing Your Library
Sync your library across multiple devices using iCloud or Dropbox sync.
• Sharing Your Library
Share your library online via the BookBuddy Companion website and invite anyone to view it (requires a monthly subscription).
• Unlocking Your Reading Insights
Deep dive into your reading habits by exploring the following statistics:
- Books Finished — Track the number of books you’ve completed
- Pages Read — See your page count over time
- Top Authors — Discover your most-read authors
- Favorite Genres — Identify your preferred genres
MORE TO LOVE
• Universal app — pay once and use BookBuddy on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Silicon Mac.
• Personalize — use categories and tags, mark favorites, add personal notes, and much more.
• Appearance — choose either list or grid view to best match your needs.
• Custom Filters — filter your library by multiple criteria.
• Advanced Sorting — apply multi-level data sorting.
• Loans — instantly track books that are currently loaned out.
• Multiple selection — apply batch operations using multiple selection.
• Reading Status — filter your books by their reading status.
• Quick find — instantly find books by entering search keywords or scanning their barcodes.
• Export — quickly export your library into CSV, PDF, or HTML formats.
• Print — easily print selected books to AirPrint-enabled printers.
• Backup — create backups to any cloud service.
• Activity History — view the full history of your reading and loaning activities.
• Duplicates — quickly detect duplicates and easily remove them.
• Markdown Formatting — style your notes with headings, lists, bold, italics, links, and more.
• Privacy — your library is saved locally and privately on your device.
• And so much more!
CLASSROOM LIBRARY MANAGER (for teachers)
• Manage — use BookBuddy to manage your classroom library and track student checkouts.
• Checkout History — easily track checkout history and view statistics.
• Contacts — save your student names in BookBuddy Contacts rather than in your personal Contacts app.
• Reading Level Fields — use various fields to track the reading level of your books.
• Online Sharing — allow students to self-checkout books via the BookBuddy Companion website (requires a monthly subscription).
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BookBuddy Pro: Book Tracker App Comments & Reviews
BookBuddy Pro: Book Tracker Positive Reviews
Batch Edit: it IS possible (instructions here)This is a sensational app. It is in fact mega-sensational if you take into account the absurdly low price of $4.99—comparing that just to the vast stores of bibliographic information that are at your fingertips once you start using it. Up to a few weeks ago I was drowning in my own books, and had lost all control over the piles of newly-acquired items that made navigation in my workplace at home a hazardous affair. It gave me a feeling of quiet despair, of powerlessness, and actually it started to inhibit my research. Now, several weeks later, I already have 2,070 books scanned in, with something like two thousand still to go. On my iPhone I can sort the books, and arrange them in the order that works best for me, instead of having to constantly move books from one shelf to another. It feels empowering. Now for the batch edit function. (1) Tap “Select” in the top right corner. (2) Check the items you want to select for batch-editing. (3) Tap ••• at bottom left. (4) Tap “Replace Field.” (5) Choose the field you want to batch-edit. (6) Edit that field just like you would edit it for a single item. (7) Confirm the edit and hey presto, all the selected items have the relevant field updated. This is a really clever app, well thought-out, with no glitches that I can see. Chances are that your every need is anticipated, even if you have yet to find out how to locate the particular function you need. At $4.99 BookBuddy is a gift to humankind that will make the world a better place.Version: 8.11.3
Makes organization easy; wish syncing was betterI am using this to document and organize my book collection. Entering and duplicating records is straightforward and reasonably quick. I have also tested the export capability, which allows you to send a spreadsheet via email, which is very convenient. I don’t find the auto-fill (scan barcode, internet search) option to be particularly useful. I don’t know where they’re searching, but I don’t think it ever found the right edition I was looking for. One improve my I’d like to see is in how the app handles syncing. I have an iPad and an iPhone. I like to use the iPad for initial data entry (typing in a bunch of titles and authors, for example) but then I use my iPhone for taking pictures and filling in the details. There is no indicator that tells you the sync status, which can be annoying. If I add new titles on my iPad, and the tap the “Sync Now” option, the app will show a progress bar that counts to 100%, and the sync time stamp will update. If I then take out my iPad and sync, it will do the same thing, but the data on the iPad doesn’t change. The new records appear on the iPad eventually, but there does t seem to be any rhyme or reason. Sometimes it happens 5 minutes later. Once, after hours of waiting, I had to disable syncing on the iPad, and then set it up again, and the data finally synced. It would just be nice if there was some indicator that says something like “We found the synced file from your iPhone. It’ll take 10 minutes for the database to update completely, but it is safe to proceed.”.Version: 8.12.12
Worth it!I did not want to pay for an app to organize my books, so I tried about 10 different free methods and apps. Hated every single one of them. Someone on a Facebook group suggested Book Buddy, even sent me a video of them using it, I was cautious but within a day I was in love. Easy to scan in new and old books, create separate libraries for your kids, keep track of loaned books, and best of all, you can personalize the categorization of your library! Need a 1,000 word novella, no problem. Need a grade 12 standard, no problem. I am loving it. Only downside is textbooks. But to be honest only a few of us are likely to keep to many of them anyway, and you can always manually search by title, author, or isbn. And you can link up with other app users, so yeah. I kinda recommend if you have more than 100 books, after that I couldn’t memorize them well enough, but hey. You do you. But seriously, why try a free app that limits the books you can catalogue when Book Buddy is cheap enough and worth so much more. Bask in the glory of a well catalogued book collection!.Version: 8.12.10
Works like a charm!This app fits by needs by far. It can catagorize books by, name, price, publisher, etc. The app gives you unlimited amount of books in you personal library. The best benefit of this app is the barcode scanner. It can always find the name and other information about your book just by scanning the barcode! If your book can't be scanned, they even give you a little internet to search for your book. If it isn't on the internet or it can't scan on the barcode scanner, you can add it manually. I only had to do this once for a local book I bought. As you might see, I did take off a star. I took of this star just because it costs money. I don't think it is necessary to cost money. Newsflash, you're not going to make a lot of money with this app! They even have a free one that I originally had, but it only let you have forty books in your library. Guess what?! They didn't even tell you about the forty books only rule. Consequently, when I had took my time to scan 40 books, it shut me off! Telling me only 40 books! Anyways, that is their problem. The rest of the app was really good, if I could I would give it a four in a half rating. But now I'm happy to give it a 4 out of 5 star rating!.Version: 8.7.3
Wonderful app for maintaining the book in my libraryWith so many book lovers, you would think there would be several great library inventory apps. Sadly there are very few. After using and loving the Music Buddy pro app I decided to give Book Buddy a chance. I am happy to say that Book Buddy does have all the key features I’m looking for in it’s handling of books in my library and the ability to share the sand dataset between my wife and I so either of us can make updates or scan more books into the app. It does a tremendous job on most recently printed books. This was a must for us. We both have ADHD so we’ve frequently buy the same book twice because we hadn’t added the book to our previous manual entry app. This app makes it easy to add at time of purchase and syncs right up on the spouses phone. We say buying dupes, is paying our ASHD tax. With book buddy we no longer have that stress in our lives. There are still improvements that can be made. A book unlike music or videos is likely to have had multiple printings by different companies in different formats with different covers. It’s nigh impossible to know identify every possible variant. Books also go back way past the invention of barcodes or even ISBN registration. No app has an automated solution for that but Book Buddy makes it easy for me to capture the data and add my own pictures of my cover when the database located version of a book was slightly different..Version: 9.6.6
Fabulous!!This app is nearly perfect in organizing books among my children, students and myself! I love the options of organizing my books into professional, personal, and children categories; I love that I get the option to add more categories or edit the ones already provided. I also LOVE the loaned out option; you can assign a book as loaned out/returned. I would give this app five stars if I could access my library online, but also if the loaned out option would be more streamlined, such as, you could click on "loaned out" and it would automatically assign the current date. It just requires too much clicking to assign a book as "loaned out" and then you have to toggle to the current date. I wish you could just scan or click a book and it would automatically assign it as loaned out and include that day's date, maybe provide a default option in settings? Hopefully, those features will be added later. I plan on keeping this app and hope these changes can be made or that some other developer will include these options. Until then, it's the best library app out there!.Version: 8.8.2
A great app, but with so much more potential!A great app! Fairly easy to import new titles. Some suggestions to optimize usability of the bookbuddy (and moviebuddy) app: 1) batch edit function. at present you can only edit items one at a time, field per field. provide for the ability, in list view, to select multiple items; then have the ability to apply an edit, to a single or multiple fields, to all selected items. 2) search query. at present the search function will only search the titles of items. provide a module that allows for a multi-parameter or multi-field search; for example by tag(s), genre, or combination of fields. 3) desktop app, or desktop web browser-based interface. a lightweight desktop app or desktop web browser interface that syncs with your mobile device(s). this would greatly aid in database management, as managing from the mobile device interface is clumsy esp. when needing to edit each record one at a time, field by field..Version: 8.6.1
Best library cataloging app!I am very thankful for this app that keeps track of my library of books that includes over 1,200 titles. I appreciate that the paid version of the app is only a small flat fee. The features of the app are fantastic and the scanning of ISBN barcodes is much faster than scanning the covers of books, which I tried to do when trying to keep track of my library in goodreads. I also love the wishlist that helps me keep track of book recommendations from friends, books I see but can’t purchase yet, or books I want to be on the lookout for at the next book sale. It is also nice to look up whether I already own a certain book or not. I appreciate all the information it lists about each book and the simple, but helpful organization and categories one can implement. I have recommended Book Buddy + to many friends, many of which try it and love it, too..Version: 9.2.6
Everything needed BUT.I love this app. Amazing. NOW. Let make it even more powerful! I wish for something like this app but for other collectible items. I have the movie and book app. I wish it was all in one online catalog to share. And if I could add my other collectibles. 1000 out of 10. It’s hard to keep track when I can’t scan Funko pop or collectible figures into an app. It would be nice to categories and keep proper track like this has for my books. You can do it by image searching on google for a hypothetical app. What I have been doing since I don’t have a tremendous amount of movie is using the movie app to manually add figures. Which has been so helpful but a specific app for this in a massive collective Sharable catalog would be top tier. Something that I can even access and edit from my computer. 🤯 not gonna stop me from using either way 10 out of 10. Add more then 20 out of 10..Version: 9.5.14
Everything I need to categorize my books!I have a plethora of books and can never remember which ones I own, which ones I need, which ones I have duplicate copies of…this app does everything for me. It categorizes them, puts them in order that I wanna put them in according to series or standalone or what have you. I can mark the books I have read, need to read, haven’t finished. I can mark which ones I have which ones I’ve loaned out, who I loaned them to and when I loaned them out. This app is top shelf. I highly recommend it for everyone looking for a book or organization app for their phone or iPad. The amp is easy to use. You can scan by ISDN number. You can input the information by hand. You can take a picture of the book and Google it. This app has so many features and for the price you can’t beat it. I highly recommend you get this app..Version: 10.0.0
Absolutely great!This app lets you add books by scanning, typing in isbns, searching, or manually. Then you can edit any aspect of a books information, including picking the correct picture or taking one yourself, book location, and even the condition and price paid! The flexibility of the information input is the best of any app I’ve seen. The Dropbox sync and backup is great and quick, as is the pdf and spreadsheet export option. I love that these outputs are customizable in every way. I also like that the pictures are in the document. The best part is the ability to make separate libraries with each one having the ability to specify physical locations of books (shelf, etc.). I am so glad I tried this app and have since bought their movie and music apps because the interface is far better than any other apps that I’ve tried. So far I have scanned close to 900 books. Worth every penny!.Version: 8.13.5
Brings organization to something hard to organize.I still like and use this app. I recommend occasionally exporting your booklist. I had to buy a new phone unexpectedly and I thankfully was able to import my list back into the app. It was as though my account disappeared and I had to start over. This app has been useful in organizing my reading collection. I mostly read professional or work-related books and lend to co-workers. I have a collection that’s half on my Kindle and half read books, with about 30% that overlap. I can track who has what, take notes/comments (especially useful for books not on Kindle). Having a better way to add Kindle items would be useful, as well as tracking those items. I’m using the tags feature. There is a format; however, for the 30% overlap, this was not working well..Version: 8.14.0
Best app on my phoneThe process of uploading my library has been a nice way to end my day lately. One shelf at a time and I actually don’t want it to end bc it’s been relaxing and meditative! I’ve decided I will upload my teens’ books (under their own categories) bc of course I’ve wondered if they have a book when I see a great one. I love the ‘condition’ field: I made one called ‘terrible, replace’ so if I see a better copy of a book it’s just a click away to see if I should bring it home. I love my home library and I love this app!! I asked about ‘original copyright’ date bc a scan will fill in the date of that specific books publication. I like to know the original date even more so for context...the after publications are not so important. They said that feature would be coming within the year..Version: 8.10.0
Needs streamliningI love the concept of the app, but there are definitely some streamline changes to be made (too many clicks to get to changing the status-reading the book is the only purpose it serves, so it should be as easy tapping a toggle next to the name of the book) & some feature I'd like added. There needs to be a way to put a book in two categories-I'd love to keep my books sorted by genre or author while also having a list of current reads or TBRs. The developers said I should use tags for this but that takes too many clicks and is hard to find too, you can't see how to add a tag to a book without clicking edit first or if you try to add a book to the tag itself, you have to rescan it- you can't just add it from your list of books already in the app. Also, I knocked off a star bc the developers were a condescending I their reply to my previous use, I know how to use the app, thank you very much, I just think it could be streamlined..Version: 8.6.3
MaravillosoI have been waiting for an app like this for decades. Literally. An amazing database that actually works. Very stable. Allows you to import and export. Recognizes an incredible amount of published material and authors. It's easily customizable to fit your specific needs in the data you want to know and access. Very well thought out and organized. Bravo. The one thing they could do to break it would be to move the databases online and charge a monthly fee. But that would make them into just another crappy scam app. So, please don't. It will ruin everything. I like my information kept local where I can control it. As tempting as it might be, it's a terrible way to do business. No matter how hip it seems to make you look..Version: 9.2.6
Exactly what I neededI wanted a way to record every book I read, both for my personal library and for homeschooling purposes. I have a day each week dedicated to reviewing children’s books and I wanted an app that would 1) easily import book details via a barcode scanner, 2) store my personal notes for future access, and 3) organize titles by a variety of sortable tools. This app delivers. I greatly appreciate how “tweakable” the app is. My usage of the app has changed since I honed in more on my specific library management needs. For example, I no longer consider the app to be a catalog of my physical library, but a log of every book I read and review. I am very pleased with the way the settings give me the freedom to customize my app experience. I once panicked, thinking that the app lost one of my books. It didn’t. I had changed the title’s rating and forgot that the library was being sorted by rating, thus moving the book to a different section. The backup and syncing settings give me great peace of mind that the hours I’m devoting to recording my book reviews will not be lost. This app is worth every penny..Version: 8.12.2
Great, but I wish I could access my library onlineI’ve been using the paid version of this app for ever a year to catalog my 1000+ book library. I love it—it’s easy to use and logically laid out. My only issue is that there is no way to access a saved library online (or outside of the device). I recently had an accident in which my iPhone was completely destroyed. When I setup my new phone, I was surprised to find that my iCloud backup had failed and, because there was nowhere for me to access my catalog, I lost all of my BookBuddy data. I’m now in the process of re-cataloging my collection, which is fun but incredibly tedious. I can’t help but think that if I could have logged in somewhere and insured data backup outside of my iPhone, I could have saved myself a lot of time..Version: 8.15.7
Finally one book management app that is worth paying forMy family reads a lot. My child owns over 550 books with many series. I’ve tried to keep track of the books he has read and struggled with a couple of different apps. This is the best app and for the money it is great. I would give it 5 stars if when I search my books it did true keyword combinations instead of being exact phrase. So if I was looking for warriors: graphic novel I could put in warriors graphic or warriors novel and the books would come up. I love that you can apply tags in groups. I also love if the book cover can’t pull up I can take my own picture or if the cover I have for the book is different I can override what is there. Since the system is so good I’m going to start entering my 5000 books. Then after that my husbands..Version: 8.13.2
Fantastic App for BookloversI did not know I needed this app until it was recommended to me by a friend. I am able to scan every book I have and put them into gloriously organized categories of my own creation. It scratches every itch in my brain for keeping track of what I own, what I’ve read, what I lent, and what is on my TBR. Better yet, there’s an option to export lists of the books—an exceedingly helpful feature for teachers who want to keep track of a classroom library in the most accessible way I’ve seen. Goodbye, tedious spreadsheets; hello, BookBuddy Pro. Well worth the price; no complaints from me at all. Thank you to the developers of this extremely helpful app!.Version: 9.7.18
Life ChangerI love this app! It’s a game changer for those of us with a large library of books! The extra for the paid version is easily the best decision I’ve made when buying any app. It’s made my tracking of my library so much easier than ever, PLUS now I know how many unique translations of the Bible I have and exactly all the details about each one as I hunt and search for other unique Bible translations I don’t have to purchase the same ones over and over again. I have all that information in one handle and well organized place! It’s a life changing app for me and my library of unique translations of the English Bible which is well over 250!! I’m thankful and happy!! Mike.Version: 9.3.8
Excellent way to keep track of classroom booksI highly recommend teachers get this app! I use this app to organize my read-a-loud books, not the ones the students touch. However, you can use the app to check books out to your students (or colleagues!) The app is SUPER easy. Yes, I paid for the upgraded version after testing out the free version. I love adding tags. It helps me recall what my intention was when I purchased the book. I also have created tags associated with my TPT purchases and the TPT seller’s name. This way, if I want read a specific book to the class, I know if it also goes with an SEL, social studies, reading comprehension, or art lesson..Version: 9.6.5
Highly recommendedI tried other apps that I wasn’t nearly as impressed with. Instead of using the free app I just went for it and purchased the app, best thing I did! Very easy to use, I highly recommend this app. With that being said I have one recommendation (unless I haven’t found it in the app itself): I wish they would add a category so you can scan/add books you want to purchase. It would be easier than carrying a notebook or putting it in notes on your phone. You could go to the category, open and scan the isbn while in stores and add to future purchases. Or if someone recommends a book you can add it and boom, there it is when you go to the bookstore. Love the app!!!.Version: 8.14.9
Has gotten good at scanning codesIn the past I’d often have to manually enter book titles because the app would be unable to pull up the information through the scanner but now I haven’t had to do that in forever. It’s been flawlessly producing the relevant info for the books. Only downside if you collect manga like me is that quite a few of the series just have the basic title so you end up having to enter Volume 1, Volume 2 in the title to prevent the app from claiming you already have this book. It’s not a major downside for me but it’s definitely something you’ll have to deal with if you’re scanning in a large number of manga titles in one go..Version: 8.11.3
Good but flawed interfaceI am using this okay, but I have to put up with flaws in the interface that make the workflow difficult. For instance, When an ISBN fails to scan the app doesn’t allow you to continue with trying to scan, you have to start over selecting the menu again. Minor but disruptive to workflow. I have problems with the camera on my iPhone 12 Max Pro not focusing automatically like other apps do, having selected “Auto-Select” in the “Close-Range Barcode Scanning” setting. This is a mostly useful app, but I would prefer a bit more useful interface for my workflow..Version: 9.7.8
An intuitive, easy way to catalog your libraryFirst of all, I love this app because once you buy it, it just works without requiring a subscription to access basic functionality. It’s very easy to use, the design is intuitive, you can customize things extensively, and it’s easy to export your collection to PDF or CSV formats. The only complaint I can think of is the database it references when you can an ISBN isn’t always accurate. I occasionally need to correct some data like the publisher or genre. No big deal. And if it’s not in the database, it’s easy to add your own entries. Highly recommended..Version: 9.7.8
Been using for yearsI have over 1,000 books cataloged in in this app, and I’ve never had a single problem with it. It’s a huge help when thrifting for books and keeping track of different aspects of maintaining a large book collection, like loaned out books, which one are signed, the physical quality of the books, etc. My favorite feature is the custom tags you can add. This makes for unlimited organization capabilities. Some of mine are “signed”, “omnibus”, “companion books”, and “bought new”. There’s nothing wrong with this app, literally 5/5 stars..Version: 9.5.9
Great, but could use a few tweaks!I have several kids who all love to read. Our book collection is overwhelming and this app makes it easier to keep up with them and to be able to make sure each kid is reading books appropriate for their level. I’m using this app to keep our large book collection organized and want to be able to search books by age appropriateness or things like a grade level required summer reading. It would be a huge time saver if we could make bulk updates to a selected set of books and if more fields auto populated. I’m especially interested in the AR related fields. I have 300 or so AR books that I’d like to search through based on AR level, and points!.Version: 8.11.3
I love Book Buddy!!This is totally awesome!! I use it for my classroom and its so, soo easy to use!! I can enter each book, and digitally keep track of who checked it out. Note: to all teachers, do not cover the ISBN barcode on the back of a book with a label. It makes scanning the book impossible and You have to use the search online feature to locate the book, which means messing with the publisher if you cant find the right version or its from scholastic. The online search is easy to use, but adds an extra step to cataloging. Other than that, i totally recommend this!!.Version: 8.11.1
Using this app for our Summer Reading lending libraryWe are an elementary school PTA using this app for a lending library of over 1,000 books. It is really easy to use and the app developer is very responsive. That’s important because we didn’t want to invest our time and energy scanning the books into an app that was not well-supported (or might be discontinued)! Syncing via Dropbox allows multiple volunteers to check-out books to kids at the same time. Our big request would be to have the app populate GRL and Lexile level when adding books to the catalog, as we need all books to be leveled for the kids!.Version: 8.10.3
Worth itI have never written an app review and may never do so again. If you’re an iOS user who loves to read books, own books, and catalogue them please buy this app. There’s also a smaller free version (up to 50 books I believe); I recommend you download that one, look around, and see for yourself. There’s so much to customize and change. This doesn’t have much of a “social” aspect; I tried the trial to let you share/see others’ libraries online, but it was too clunky. If social media isn’t a priority for you, this is the one!.Version: 10.0.2
Just keeps getting better and better!The PERFECT app to corral all of your reading and listening. Continually being updated but remains both simple and full of features you’ll use. You’ll easily save ten times the price of the Pro version by not buying a duplicate. Search is extraordinary and automatically does whatever word you want (like author’s middle name if it was input) without the need to specify ‘field’. I am SO pleased with this program and have my 6,631 books, audiobooks, and manuscripts easily locatable. Perhaps my best iPhone app buy in 10+ years!.Version: 9.4.4
Bibliophile Must Have!This app is a must for those who treasure an extensive library of books. They often change book covers so at first glance you begin to question if you have it—this helps confirm your collection contents. It also keeps track of who borrows your books so you can track them down if the reader forgets to return it. This is an excellent app. You can rate the book; tag the contents provided or tags you add; brief synopsis; cover photo; genre, etc. I really encourage you to get this app if you treasure your books..Version: 9.7.18
Adjustment neededThis is a great app. We have book giveaways and need to keep track of books taken by students. Two suggestions: allow for scanning of duplicate books. Whenever students take the same book I have to save the current scanning session and start a new one in order to scan a duplicate. And second, after a few books have been scanned it just stops accepting new scans, so I have to start a new session. However, I love how it just adds all of the books together even though I have to start a new scanning session, and exporting the list is a life saver..Version: 9.5.2
Unintended GemI purchased the bundle with MusicBuddy with primary intention of tracking & organizing music collection. Only a good bit later I remembered the other piece of bundle for books. Over the years I’ve acquired an ever growing collection of physical books plus growing collections of Audible audio titles, Kindle & Apple ebooks. It’s nice to be able to track by type. Additionally, other cool features include “wishlist”, borrowed, & loaned lists. It’s a great app & would absolutely be on my shortlist of true “keepers”. Many apps come & go over time - for me, this one stays..Version: 9.7.9
Good app, but it could be even better.This is a great app and I’ve been using it for at least a year now. I’ve run into some organizational bottlenecks as my library grows larger. I don’t know if you’re taking feature requests but I have two: 1. Add sub-categories and sub-tags. Otherwise, I’d design the tags so that they are better differentiated visually. e.g. “[tag1] [tag2] [tag3]” (like buttons) instead of “tag1, tag2, and tag3” 2. Allow users to assign tags and categories from search results. e.g. if I search for books with the word “art” in the title, I should be able to select books from the search results and assign tags/categories in bulk instead of individually.Version: 9.7.18
Really enjoy using the app, only one complaintI’ve got a lot of e-books, audiobooks, physical books, etc. I appreciate being able to use the app to stay organized and keep track of things. My only complaint is that I was prompted to write a review at least three times in a 15 minute span. I love the app, but would appreciate it if you put a 24 hour timer on requests for reviews once I indicate “maybe later”. If I didn’t find the app so useful, I would’ve made this review much harsher..Version: 9.5.5
Room for improvement but very handyI am finally getting around to categorizing my books. We are a book loving family and between the 10 of us (8 kids and 2 parents) we have acquired a nice sized library. I’m still figuring out how this works, but my main disappointment is that scanning the isbn of a book does not identify if it’s a paperback or hardback. Since all books have a unique isbn for either one, I’m disappointed that it’s not known. Also, it surprises me how many books are not in the system yet and we have to manually add, but maybe this will get remedied over time. Overall, I am happy with the product..Version: 8.6.3
Great for getting my books organizedThis is a great app for simple and moderately detailed organization of one’s books, because I work in a library, I am particularly specific for the abilities of this app. I am pleased that I can find my imported books in the database (sometimes needing some editing). I would give it 5* if I could save the book’s information without authors, using the editor’s name instead. I love the export ability for backups and using the camera to get isbn/barcodes to pull info quickly. The process gets faster the more books I put in because of familiarity and the app pulling info from prior entries..Version: 8.11.3
The best app of its kind!I just used BookBuddy for five minutes and I am in LOVE! It is so easy to use, and you can try it for free up to 50 books. I’ll definitely be going to Pro version when I get to book 51. It’s only five bucks! Plus, I can feel great that all my data will be safely backed up in my Dropbox. I am over the moon! Oh, and EVERYTHING can easily be done from my iPad or iPhone. I am seriously excited over entering just one book in there to try it. What took five minutes was trying to stand still long enough to show my family my new lovely thing!.Version: 8.8.0
Best library organizing appThis is by far the best library organizing app I have ever seen in my entire life. not only is it helping me to organize my book in an easy manner is also very fun to see the books being loaded into my library so easily. The best part about this app for me is to see the cover of all my books displayed in the library app. now I can select which book I want to read and make an organized reading list. Thank you so much for creating this app for booklovers..Version: 9.7.7
Excellent app! Just what I neededI just spent three days scanning and organizing 800+ hardcover, paperback and trade paperback books. It was so easy!! The only reason it took three days was because my five year old twins helped (For certain values of “help”) Highly recommend. Very easy to use. Great barcode scanning feature and easy input of ISBN if the scanning doesn’t work. Use select to grab multiple books and change fields on all of them at the same time. Each book can have one “category” but multiple tags. Allows for multiple levels of sorting. While there is a field for “physical location” I decided to use category for this. As I shelved my books, I used the app to move them from “Uncategorized” to the shelf I was putting them on. If the cover picture doesn’t match in the app what you have on your volume there is an easy search feature or you can snap your own picture..Version: 8.12.9
BookBuddyFor three years I’ve been trying to figure out how to take an inventory of my classroom books and my home books for the 3 year olds I teach. I wanted a simple inventory list. BookBuddy to the rescue, it has been fantastic. I can’t even stop uploading my books I’m enjoying it so much. It was not complicated trying to figure it out and it works easily. It will make my lesson planning so much easier. It is fantastic for the upper grades because so much data can be collected..Version: 8.15.8
Needs multiple genres optionThe app has been easy to use. Searching via online could be improved but after trying other similar apps, this seems to be something that all apps struggle with. Doesn’t seem to be this programmer’s fault. There are two things I would like to see added. The first is the ability to list more than one genre for each book. Being able to customize genres would be a huge help. The second is being able to tabulate a running total of list prices for selected books. Thank you for a solid app..Version: 8.12.9
A wonderful tool!We loaded our titles onto the app a couple years ago and it had made it so much easier to keep track of everything. We discovered that we had many multiples (sometime three copies!) sitting in various bookcases. I load every new book that comes into the house as well as often check titles while indulging in wandering through book stores. No more multiple copies. I love this app. If only it could help organize the shelves!.Version: 9.3.8
Affordable and Very FunctionalI looked at several apps to make a record of private collections of books used at home and work. This app easily scans, accepts isbn, and looks online to incorporate titles accurately. PDF listings and database exports are easy to make, as are printouts of library listings. I contacted the help email to receive assistance as I was learning all the functions and received a reply email with step to step instructions to aid me the same day. Worth the money and great functionality. I highly recommend this app..Version: 8.12.11
Nice App - a little trickyNice app, easy to use, especially like the location field. Using it to annotate which box my books are in for a move so I can find them later- will need to be in storage for a few months. I can default the location as I scan the books and sort on it. CAUTION: After multi-scanning 2 dozen books, the "Done" button doesn't work... Had to force quit the app and my work was not saved. It works ok with about 7 books in multiple scan. That said I like that I can use Dropbox to access data from various devices. So far so good..Version: 8.6.1
Great app and prompt serviceI have purchased other book inventory apps but didn’t use any of them for some reason. I purchased the Book Buddy Movies and Music and love the Book Buddy. Haven’t used the other two yet. A couple of days after I purchased the app, had a question about adding location field; I emailed the web site in the middle of the night and within half an hour or so received a detailed satisfactory answer from them. I am happy with the app and the service..Version: 8.7.3
Book collector must-haveWhile I’ve only been using this app for a couple of days, I’m thoroughly impressed. After one too many “do I already own that?” incidents, I decided to purchase it to help keep track of my home library and so far it’s been a breeze. The data entry options allowed me enter and tag half of a bookshelf (around 80 books) in just a couple of hours. Also, a little side note for my fellow librarians: YES, it does have an “ignore prefixes” option for title sort. Hooray!.Version: 8.10.0
Great app with better customer serviceThis app is a must for any bibliophile with a personal collection. While GoodReads is nice for the social aspect of your reading lists, this app allows me to have privacy, manage my library intuitively and peruse my own collection easily. I love the flexibility of tags and how natural the app is to use. It is fast to add your books and the ability to track borrowing is convenient. But above all, I am beyond impressed with the customer service. They really listen to feedback!.Version: 8.10.0
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