Bookcase: Scan Your Shelf
Your books, with their value
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Scan a barcode and the book joins your bookcase with its title, cover and value. See what your collection is worth, and make a list when it's time to sell some.
Bookcase keeps every book you own in one place, on your iPhone.
Scan the barcode on the back of a book and it joins your bookcase straight away, with its title, author and cover. Bookcase looks up a value for each one, so your bookcase shows how many books you have and roughly what they are worth. No camera handy? Type the number above the barcode instead.
YOUR COLLECTION
• Every book with its cover, title, author and value
• No barcode? Point at the cover and tap the button
• Older books too: paperback store barcodes and pre-1974 numbers
• Search by title, author or number
• Copies counted when you own more than one
• Add a whole list at once from a spreadsheet
• Save your whole bookcase as a spreadsheet, and bring it back
• Type your own price or notes for any book
WHEN YOU'RE READY TO PART WITH SOME
The Sell tab sorts your books into two groups: worth asking a buyback site about, and worth selling online. One tap makes the upload list for a buyback site (and for AbeBooks, eBay or Amazon once eBay values are set up), or a copy of all your books. You never type a listing by hand.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Your list stays on your phone. No account, no sign-in, no tracking, no ads. To find a book's details and value, Bookcase sends only its number to Open Library, Google Books and Apple Books, and to eBay and BooksRun for used prices and buyback offers when keys are set up. For a book with no barcode, a photo of the cover is read on your phone; only the words read from it are sent to Open Library and Google Books, and the photo is never stored or sent.
Values are estimates from public prices; the site you sell on sets the real price. Works in Canada and the United States.
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Books that can't be scanned:
• Keep it anyway now adds the book in one tap, with a small photo of its cover
• Tap the photo in the book to see it full size and read the title
• Search "Needs a title" to find these books, then type the title or tap Title is right
• The photo stays on your phone, never in your photos, and goes when the book gets its number
Backups:
• Save a copy of all your books can include the cover photos, or just the photos
• Add from a spreadsheet brings a backup with photos back
Values:
• Look up all values again, in the More menu, checks every book quietly; values stay on screen meanwhile
• Missing values are tried again each day
Easier to use:
• The scan card's Change button is now Edit
• At the largest text sizes, the Scan tab's label and condition fit
The developer, Angus Kong, 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.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Angus Kong
- Size
- 2.4 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Angus Kong
