Catalog 200 books in 5 minutes by snapping your shelf. New: point your camera at any book to see if it is already in your library. Loved by 600+ readers.
Catalog your entire home library in an afternoon. Snap a photo of any shelf
and the AI adds every title. No typing, no spreadsheets, no scattered notes.
Trusted by 600+ readers and rated 4.1 stars on the App Store since 2011.
• Catalog a 200-book shelf in five minutes. Point your camera. AI reads the
spines and adds the books.
• Add a single book in seconds by scanning the barcode on the back cover.
• Bring your Kindle library across in one tap. No CSV juggling.
• Find anything in plain English. "That biography about the architect" works.
• AI sorts your shelves by genre, mood, and theme so you stop tagging by hand.
• Read on iPhone, edit on iPad, look something up offline at the bookstore.
Sync handles the rest.
How it works:
1. Point your camera at a shelf and let AI populate your library.
2. Sort, tag, and mark books as Read, Reading, or To Read.
3. Pick up on any device. Share with friends, join a club, ask for a
recommendation when you want one.
Coming from another app or a spreadsheet? Import CSV, TSV, JSON, XLSX, BibTeX,
or RIS files. Field mapping is built in.
Real review:
"I had a bunch of books I needed to inventory and the barcode scanner made it
incredibly easy. Great app."
BuckeyeCityCates, App Store review, 2024
Free to start with twenty books and three barcode scans. Open the app and add
your first shelf.
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Privacy Policy: https://BigBalli.com/privacy
It’s a very nice user interface for keeping track of books you have read but I have two suggestions that could make it a 5-star app:1. Allow users to create book series that would collapse or expand on the bookshelf screen. If a series has 5+ books, we don’t need to see all of them displayed every time.2. Change the charts section to a suggestions section and suggest books based off the user’s saved books. The option for suggestions is already in the app, why not expand it and make it more useful?
Developer Response
Thank you for such a constructive review. Grouping books into series is a genuinely good idea and a fair gap, particularly for anyone reading their way through a long run of titles. Thank you for the kind words about the interface and for taking the time to say exactly what would earn the fifth star.
Deceptive
CareyAndrew
I am sick of this app. Even after you do the in app upgrade, every time you go to options it continues to blink at you like you haven’t purchased anything. I think I’ve accidentally “purchased“ this app upgrade three times now, which I suppose technically is my fault but they keep screaming at you to upgrade even after you have. You can’t turn it off. Plus it’s just erased all my books and apparently the only way to sign in to retrieve them is by using Facebook, which most of us would prefer her not to use as a login. Some other option ought to be available on this also. The app itself works fine but I’m tired of the deceptive in app purchase bit that they have never corrected. So I’ve ( reluctantly ) deleted the app. ( Apple helpfully gave me a refund on this “upgrade” also). Hope this helps somebody.
Excellent Support
199otorhome
I bought this app several years ago and at the time had an iPhone 4S. I had a collection of over 200 motorcycle books and relied on this app to remind me of what I had when looking at new possibilities. As the app was revised, it required IOS 10, but my 4S stopped updating at iOS 9. Once I updated to an iPhone 8Plus, I contacted the app developer and explained that I could not get the app to load my library history. Within 12 hours I was contacted by him and told that the history files were reset so that they could now be imported directly onto my new phone. I followed his directions and all of my book collection was restored. Many thanks!
A Rip-Off!
Rameth279
The free *trial* of this app that allows you to scan a limited number of barcodes to show you how everything works, worked perfectly. So, I decided to pay the $.99 for the app. THEN once I did that, I was prompted to pay another $.99 for the barcode scanner. So, I did that too. THEN when I opened the app again to scan more books, the ones I’d already scanned disappeared. It gets worse. You see a list of tabs in the settings section but the only one you can click on is the one that takes you to literally pay for every single feature the app offers, which should’ve been included in the $2 I already paid. $5 for a CSV export, and $5 for auto input of the books details, etc. This is literally a rip-off app that baits you with a perfectly working demo, but then SURPRISE nothing works unless you pay nearly $20 for all the standard features.
New
- Find books with Visual Intelligence: point your camera and search your library.
- Library Cleanup now catches duplicates that share the same ISBN, and re-checks every time you open it.
Improved & Fixed
- Deleting one copy of a duplicate no longer removes the other one too.
- Duplicate rows are now easy to tell apart at a glance.
- Exporting your full library waits until every book is ready before opening the email.
- Your add credits are no longer used up when a book fails to save.
- Clearer messages when something goes wrong while saving a book.
- Fewer repeated errors when your device can't index books for search.
- Fixed the background showing through on the Library Cleanup screen.
Version 20.5
The developer, BigBalli Consulting llc, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Location
Contact Info
Contacts
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
