iCollect Books: Library List

Firstly about half of the books has to be set in manually and the once’s that doesn’t don’t have the right cover. And after you put in 30 books you’re behind a paywall where they except you to pay 40 bucks for something that is absolutely supposed to be free and where there is competitors which probably do it better. Think I’ll stick to Goodreads on second thought.

All my entries disappeared one day and when I contacted customer service their suggestion was to try logging out and back in. I can’t log back in because my password is “wrong” and I can’t reset or retrieve it either since my email is not in their database. Their suggestion now is that I create a new account.. yeah, right! No refund either of course 😡

Since this app doesn't even include DDC or LCC category code metadata, and that you need to pay to save more than a mere ten books, makes any serious use of this app impossible.

The lack of books in the data base really pulls down the rate. I got the pro version of the app in order to quickly and easily get an overview of my personal library at home. Turned out that half of the books I scanned were not in the system and in order to register these, I had to take a picture, add title and author to each and one of them. Hence, the bulk scanning function was not really of use. I think the idea of the app is genius and I would have rated it much higher if only more books were in the database already. Worth mentioning is that I don't have old and odd books, however many are Swedish which should not be a limitation (if so, this should have been stated before the purchase of it). If I would have known this issue, I wouldn't have bought the pro version, which to me now is way overpriced. The process of getting a documentation of my library now is quite time consuming. It would have been quicker to note them in an Excel sheet as my first intention was. The shortcut I thought I would take with this app, turned out to be the opposite. And I paid for it.

Inte så genomtänkt

I've tested all book manage apps I've found in the App store and this one is absolutely best for synching between devices, it synchs automatically without connecting to a computer or e-mailing. But entering new books to your collection is a time consuming work and I don't understand why, some other apps, especially one, gets it right almost every time with covers and all, that app searches on google books, please approve, I'm having a hard time deciding which app to use for my large collection, wish you got as many hits as the other one.

I can’t delete all of the books that I don’t have because iCollect Books: Library List should add the option “Delete All Books”.

You have to pay 29.99 to enter more than 30 books

I’ve got several thousand books that I’ve collected over the years. I had them in a database perhaps 20 years ago which crashed. It’s taken me thus long to get over that failure and get my collection organized. I reviewed multiple “best” lists for book collecting and this app was the best. What seemed unique was that I could add pictures of the actual book in the collection. For some reason most, or all, either didn’t allow pictures, or only one picture could be used. This app now appears to be the gold standard with book collections.

As of 7/19/24, the max allowed of books scanned in for free is 30. This is ridiculous, as anybody who is scanning ISBN’s to add to a list has a large quantity of books