Bookshelf: Reading Tracker 4+

Best I’ve found

Just spent the last few hours trying out a number of reading tracking/book cataloguing apps - this one I liked the best for a number of reasons. It has everything I need, a great user experience, nice look and feel, and not as clunky as some of the others. Easy to navigate my books. Add in a wish list catalogue. Time how often I’m reading. Especially love the flash card feature. ISBN book look up is quick. Speech recognition on notes. And loads more features. This will really support my goal to read and remember more books this year. I also like to see they are updating with new features regularly too. Thanks for the hard work put into the app! Much appreciated l.

Developer Response ,

Hi there,

Wow, thanks for such a thorough and humbling review! I'm so thrilled that you're enjoying Bookshelf, and I pledge to continue improving it so it remains the best book tracking app on the market and keeps you motivated to reach your reading goals!

Happy reading!

New update v v buggy!! Great app, very very expensive though

Update: recent update has almost broken this app, such an incredible amount of bugs. Please undo whatever you’ve done, it’s dreadful.

Great app but massively expensive for full features, I wish there was a reduced £ tier for those who don’t want the AI features. I don’t see myself using them personally but understand their use and some people would find them helpful. Customisable fields would be helpful too as well as bigger thumbnail previews as some of the images are incredibly low res, would also love to see a small addition to the series field that allows you to state which book in the series that specific book belongs to as it isn’t obvious in a lot of titles unless you do a separate search and manually add the info into the title, sorting by release date does not always solve this issue so some way to indicate book order within the series bit would be really helpful. Similar app for other things such as shows/movies or other trackable things would be amazing too or even an app that would handle both, would happily pay full cost for integrated app.

Really great app

Has pretty much everything I could every think of that the app could need. Great for sharing, keeping track and reminding yourself of the books you’ve read. Few things to mention that I’ve found that when I add a book published by Penguin into the library there is always a fault with the image. Also, would be cool to have the ability to input page numbers to keep track, the option for reading reminders and the ability to sort the main library in other ways.

All in all a superb app; very clean interface and incredibly easy to use.

Developer Response ,

Hi there! My apologies for the book cover issues--the service I'm using seems to not be the most reliable. However, I've now figured out a way to get you the best quality cover image available, and whenever an HD image isn't available, you'll always get something :) No more empty covers.

Also, I love your suggestions and have added them to my list of todos! Thanks for the support!