Bookshelf: Book Tracker & List

Easy to understand and add new books, it’s lovely that we can now put the books in locations, and series, and it’s just so amazing to sort my library. I’m a bit confused when the books you wish for/want is in the library as well, perhaps put them in their own folder and not with the ‘library’ books? It would be lovely if one could select multiple books from a ‘location’ and move them all, instead of just being able to change status or delete them from there.

I think The app has a Chance to be way better if it make reading modes a free feature insted of giving you 3 sesjons without a subscrition.

App I did not know I needed. Found out I only read 8 pages an hour though. But I get to have control over all the books in my wishlist and the ones in my bookshelf. Love this app 👍

I was excited when I saw this app; a clean-looking app that does what I currently do in a Word document? Sign me up! unfortunately, this app racked up three strikes within five minuytes of downloading it. The first one was lack of Apple Books integration. I figured that Apple hadn't made an API for the app to grab all the books automatically, but I also knew that you can "share" a book from Books which is just a text string with title + author. I cannot think of an easier, more obvious integration with anything than being able to send a text string into the app and do a search for it. But nope. I could even make this integration myself if the app had a URL scheme, and while I have to admit I haven't checked if it does, I doubt it. Strike two was three books into adding them manually (Share from Books, Copy to clipboard, paste in search field...). Whatever book database this uses is BEHIND. It has books from the author, even same series, but a month old book is simply not in there. You can add books manually, but that is annoying to say the least. This is why you use more than one database. Strike 3 was seeing the resolution of one of the two books it added. Blurry and blocky as hell. There's no "find cover" feature, so back to manual editing. That's 2/3 books. As I'm writing this I also realize there's a strike 4. There's only a few fields for book metadata, with one glaring omission being the series and number in that series. I appreciate what the developer is trying to do here, and the app is free, so I guess complaining is a bit bitchy. I also expect the app to become better over time. But this is listed as version 1.4.2 and has the featureset of a beta version, if that. I do actually expect developers to number their releases somewhat logically so that it gives me some idea of the stage the app is at before I get too excited. This app shouldn't be considered a release version, let alone half way to v2.

I like the app, I got it awhile ago when it had minimal features and from there it’s only gotten better. The problem I have is I’m not someone who likes to track my reading daily, I just want to track which books I’ve read per year and set monthly goals, which is quite easy to do on the app. I’m not gonna pull out my phone to start recording my reading minutes, because that just takes the fun out of reading for me, so when I look at my statistics page, most of my stats like: reading speed, minutes per day read, streak, and pages read are at 0 which just makes the app look less smooth to me. It definitely seems like a great app for those who want to get back into reading, but for just book tracking, I think it needs more options.

Spent over an hour trying to set up my library, had major issues with the correct book information being found based on the scanned barcodes. Either the images of the books wouldn’t load right, the publishing information was always off, or it would pull completely incorrect book info. Once I finally went through and manually corrected everything, set up my library and collections and entered my reading progress… lo and behold now you gotta pay an insane subscription price to use the useless app. Deleting immediately! Plenty of other basic free apps out there that work much better!

I’ve used Bookshelf for at least a year now. It’s brilliantly designed with native Swift UI libraries, the developer finds creative ways to effectively incorporate Apple’s latest libraries into the user experience, and it is actively-developed with few critical bugs. It has nearly all the features you could dream of in a book management app. The developer of this app is incredibly talented and has created a magnificent app that I look forward to using almost as much as I look forward to the reading I’m tracking. My personal favorite feature is being able to categorize books into “Owned, “Borrowed,” “Wishlist,” etc. It helps me stay organized, and is also useful when I end up in the bookstore and am wondering what books I should look for :) The app has a new crowd-sourced feature request interface, but I’ll put my two cents here: it’d be great to be able to share your library or create a shared library with family members or other iCloud users. A great example of this done well is the Mela recipe manager app. Lastly, I’m a big advocate for open/public source software. Opening up your codebase doesn’t necessitate a large support burden (as long as the expectations are clear). But it does open the door for other motivated developers to help solve critical bugs or add features. Plus, there may come a day when you won’t want to maintain this app anymore—iOS development can be exhausting—and this app is too good to die! Keep up the great work. Thanks for the beautiful app ❤️

I love this app. I paid outright so no more subscription. Thank you! My income has greatly decreased so this helps me so much! This app is definitely better than Goodreads. I love the new update so nice! I love that it shows the cover of the book or audiobook on the day you finished it.

I recently just paid for the premium version of the app and currently I am unable to even open the app without it crashing. I’m very upset that I can’t get to my books especially after just spending money.

It’s great that you have updates for the app but when you have an update that makes the app unable to open not good. I have essentially lost every book I have recorded in the app and I read at least 1-2 books a month. Very disappointed.