Bookshelf: Reading Tracker

I’ve been through a whole heap of book apps trying to find an app that lets me takes notes and group my books into collections and series. It has every single book I have read, definitely love the creator for it.

The UI on this app is just great. It’s really sleek and I like how the book covers are the focus. I miss shortcuts support though. I like querying what I am reading, and quickly adding new books on the go. The “Cards” section of the app is also cruft to me. It’s not necessary for my usage of the app, I just want to track what I’m reading. Still, clearly the developer put in a ton of time and attention to detail. Thank you for your work!

This app has a great UI and as a collector helps me keep on top of what I have. I’m also surprised by how much more it makes me read by using the “reading now” feature.

I really like this app. Aesthetically, it’s very pleasing and simple, with a modern streamlined approach to capturing your reading habits through stats and building a virtual library with all the books you want to read/have read in one place. It’s the most user friendly I’ve tested, though I did find the free version limiting so this is one worth investing in the lifetime cost, even if it’s a little steep up front. I also appreciate that the “about” section of a book is fully customisable. Reading mode will give you an eta on how long you have to finish the book, which can be toggled between pages/percent/time. Here’s where I find the app has a few flaws: - I wasn’t able to find the audiobook I was listening to in the online search, so entered manually. Selecting “time” in the progress type would for some reason revert to the page count until it just updated itself. - When in reading mode, there’s an “add note” section however it converts to a flash card, not a note, which then is saved in a completely different section of the app and not really with the corresponding book. I had to finish my session first then go add the note I wanted to make, which kind of defeats the purpose. - Which leads me to my next gripe - I hate the “cards” and the “quizzes” part of this app. I wish this was a feature you could toggle off, as aside from wanting to just jot down real time notes of what I’m reading, it serves no purpose for me and it takes away the attention from the more important aspects of the app. - When in collections, my books don’t stay in date order for when I started reading them, despite having toggled by reading status. Kind of frustrating when I want them all in month by month order. Overall, for anyone wanting to record what they’re reading in an app, have a handy way to add books to a tbr (there’s an isbn scanner which is fab!), and track trends of how you read, this is a great app for you to use.

Congrats on your first app launch. Sorry accidentally rated 2/5.

Tell me how the app sent me a notification, knowing I had just read for 13 minutes, without me tracking it, or even opening the app?

Best app to track books! For me the aesthetics, the functionality, the organization and ease of access are important to me, and this apps ticks all boxes.

I currently give the app somewhere between a 3-4 star rating because of the handful of small bugs I’ve encountered (bug free it would be 5 star, even if it is a bit pricey). Why it’s worth it: The review capabilities of the app are phenomenal. Unlike some apps that give little to no formatting options in the book notes section, this app has far more formatting options than any other book tracking app I’ve seen and allows you to review your notes from a specific book easily. I love an organized review system and this one is top notch. Bugs: I have encountered a few small bugs that are annoying but not hugely problematic. A couple examples are 1 book that I input that refuses to be sorted by the author’s last name no matter how I type it (the last name starts with S but the book will not leave the B’s) and 3 books that will not leave my wishlist (apart from deleting them but I don’t want to lose my notes) no matter how I change their status. Annoying but not significantly inhibiting in any way.

Can’t even use the app cause when I try to upload my book list to the app it just loads forever then gives me the white screen of death. It’s likely cause I have 2000 books in my reading list on goodreads but still this app should be able to handle it. I have to delete and redownload for the app to work again but no matter what, my file won’t upload. 1 star until the app developer fixes this because it makes the app useless if I can’t use it. Replicate the bug by uploading a large file from goodreads and you’ll see it’s a problem. I’ll update my rating after this is fixed

This app is a very good virtual library. But it is not a good tracker. First of all, it’s very expensive if you want to use it for tracking. But as a library, it organizes the books nicely with the categories. However, there are many metadata issues and bugs that makes it incorrectly organized.