Octavo: my home library
Scan your books, find them
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
You're in a bookshop. This novel looks good. Do you already own it?
Octavo answers in a second. Scan the barcode on the back: the book fills itself in, files itself away, and if it's already on your shelves, the app tells you before you reach for your card.
FAST AND SIMPLE, THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT
An eight-year-old should be able to scan a book and find it again on their own. That was the only rule we set ourselves, and it decided everything else.
• Burst scanning — go through a whole stack with nothing to confirm. Twenty books shelved in under two minutes.
• Automatic filing — shelf, author and genre are worked out for you. No typing.
• Instant search — one bar that searches titles, authors, shelves and series. It forgives typos.
• Works entirely offline — on the underground, on a plane, in a basement. Your books live on your phone, not on a server.
WHAT YOU'VE READ STAYS YOURS
Sold, given away, lent and never returned: the book leaves, its story stays. Reading dates, rating, review — all kept in your past readings. That's the heart of Octavo, and what sets it apart from a plain inventory.
Every book carries a stamped lending card, like the one glued inside a library book: one line per reading, with its dates and its rating.
WHAT YOU'RE MISSING
Note the books you want. The day you scan one, it leaves the list on its own and joins your shelves. Nothing to tick, nothing to archive.
YOUR NOTES ARE PRIVATE
No feed, no followers, no comments. Your reviews are yours. Octavo has no social layer, shows no ads, and sells no data.
FREE
• Up to 75 books
• Unlimited scanning, search, statuses, rating, review, photo
PREMIUM
• Unlimited books
• Statistics and a yearly reading review
• Export your library
• Coming soon: family profiles, lending with reminders, missing volumes, resale assistant
Books you've already shelved stay readable whatever happens. You are never locked out of browsing.
BUILT IN FRANCE, FOR FRENCH-LANGUAGE READERS
Book data comes first from the catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, topped up with Google Books and Open Library. That's what gives accurate titles, publishers and imprints for French publishing — where most apps fall back on an English-language database alone.
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OCTAVO PREMIUM — SUBSCRIPTION
• Octavo Premium — 1 year: €24.99 for 12 months, auto-renewing
• Octavo Premium — 1 month: €3.99 per month, auto-renewing
• Octavo Premium for life: €69.99, one-off payment, no renewal
Payment is charged to your App Store account on confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; renewal is charged within 24 hours of the period ending. You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time in your App Store account settings. When a subscription expires, every book you have already shelved stays readable: only adding beyond 75 books asks for Premium again.
Terms of Use: https://octavo-xi.vercel.app/conditions
Privacy Policy: https://octavo-xi.vercel.app/confidentialite
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The yearly and lifetime Premium plans are now available.
The developer, anais sparesotto, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- anais sparesotto
- Size
- 9 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- French
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Octavo Premium for life $59.99
- Octavo Premium — 1 month $3.99
- Octavo Premium — 1 year $22.99
- Copyright
- © anais sparesotto
