Book Tracker - Bookshelf log

Name: Book Tracker - Bookshelf log
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Author: Simone Montalto

My library & reading list

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Simone Montalto
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Book Tracker is the perfect companion for every book lover, available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Easily track your books—whether they’re already on your shelf or on your wishlist for future reading. For avid readers, managing a growing book collection can be a challenge. That’s where Book Tracker shines, making it faster and easier than ever to organize your reading life. Track all the books you own and see your reading progress at a glance. Plus, create a wishlist of the books you’re eager to pick up next. Whether in your Library or on your Wishlist, Book Tracker showcases detailed information and beautiful cover art for each book. And for those rare or hard-to-find books, you can add them manually with ease. Book Tracker is free to download and limited to 5 books. Unlock unlimited books across iPhone and iPad with a single in-app purchase, and enjoy full functionality on Mac with a separate purchase. With Book Tracker, you can look forward to: - Effortless synchronization across devices — Save a book on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, and it will sync seamlessly across all your devices. Both your Library and Wishlist are always up to date, ensuring you’ll never lose track of your books—or accidentally buy the same one twice! - Comprehensive book organization — Easily categorize each book as read, reading, or unread. Use tags to find similar books in your collection. Edit details like title, author, description, publisher, publication year, genre, and more to keep your Library accurate and personalized. - Reading Timer — Track the time you spend reading each book with the new Reading Timer feature, helping you understand and optimize your reading habits. - Borrowed Books Management — Keep track of the books you’ve borrowed and read, so you’ll never forget what you owe or which stories you’ve already enjoyed. - Save and revisit your favorite quotes — Found a memorable passage? Save your favorite quotes within the app to enjoy them anytime. You can even showcase them on your Home screen with a widget. - In-depth stats at your fingertips — View your library and reading statistics right on your Home screen with stunning widgets. iPad users can enjoy an extra-large widget for even more detailed insights. - Seamless importing from other services — Easily bring in your book collections from Goodreads, Delicious Library, Storygraph, BookBuddy, Reading List, Book Crawler, and more. Export your library to PDF or CSV for backup or sharing. - Deep integration with iOS and macOS — Take advantage of the latest Apple features, including Shortcuts, Siri and Live Activity, while using widgets to keep your favorite quotes, books and statistics always within reach. - Your privacy, guaranteed — Book Tracker doesn’t collect your personal data or track you in any way. Enjoy your books without worrying about privacy.

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Amazing app!
Feb 18

BookStrings
I’ve used this on my iPhone and iPad for a couple of years. It just gets better and better. Does what I need it to do, and it’s an app that actually cares about privacy. The great thing about it (and I’ve tried others) is it has so many features but you can use as many or as little as you want. For example you can completely keep track of your reading and use widgets for that etc. I mainly use it to keep track of my physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks along with any I borrow from the library. I also love the random quote widget that shows quotes I put in. You can customize this app to your liking as well, colors, arrangement, show and hide categories etc. Now that I have it on my Mac all three devices stay in sync perfectly. Want to support an indie developer AND get great customer service? Look no further. When I first got the app I needed help importing my library and the developer fixed some errors in my own file for me to make it work! Also, The few other times I have emailed with simple questions or suggestions they have gotten back to me right away. If you love books, be they digital, audio, or physical and you like to be organized, give this one a chance!
Amazing app!
Feb 18

BookStrings

I’ve used this on my iPhone and iPad for a couple of years. It just gets better and better. Does what I need it to do, and it’s an app that actually cares about privacy. The great thing about it (and I’ve tried others) is it has so many features but you can use as many or as little as you want. For example you can completely keep track of your reading and use widgets for that etc. I mainly use it to keep track of my physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks along with any I borrow from the library. I also love the random quote widget that shows quotes I put in. You can customize this app to your liking as well, colors, arrangement, show and hide categories etc. Now that I have it on my Mac all three devices stay in sync perfectly. Want to support an indie developer AND get great customer service? Look no further. When I first got the app I needed help importing my library and the developer fixed some errors in my own file for me to make it work! Also, The few other times I have emailed with simple questions or suggestions they have gotten back to me right away. If you love books, be they digital, audio, or physical and you like to be organized, give this one a chance!
Amazing app for books
11/01/2025

OccasionalReviewer123
Great app for tracking books at home. Wow!. The learning curve is a bit slow at first, but once I understood the logical flow and some of the structure (I am not a programmer or a database geek) behind the flow, the program is very easy to use. The one question I asked of the developer was answered within 20 minutes (!) and was very clear and solved my problem. Having the program on both the iPhone and my computer means I can scan most books in with their ISBN tag (with all the metadata) with my iPhone, and I can manually enter old book titles on the computer, usually with just a search on the title (and the metadata is then included). Well worth the second purchase price. The metadata is much more useful than I thought it would be when I am using the search option. Another wow! Batch changes are straightforward. Options to customize categories and locations are very useful. Like any library, it is important to return books to their recorded location. I’ve been using this app for a year, and I am still happy with it. And there are many more ways to use, track, categorize, evaluate books that I haven’t even tried. Thank you Simone and team.
Amazing app for books
11/01/2025

OccasionalReviewer123

Great app for tracking books at home. Wow!. The learning curve is a bit slow at first, but once I understood the logical flow and some of the structure (I am not a programmer or a database geek) behind the flow, the program is very easy to use. The one question I asked of the developer was answered within 20 minutes (!) and was very clear and solved my problem. Having the program on both the iPhone and my computer means I can scan most books in with their ISBN tag (with all the metadata) with my iPhone, and I can manually enter old book titles on the computer, usually with just a search on the title (and the metadata is then included). Well worth the second purchase price. The metadata is much more useful than I thought it would be when I am using the search option. Another wow! Batch changes are straightforward. Options to customize categories and locations are very useful. Like any library, it is important to return books to their recorded location. I’ve been using this app for a year, and I am still happy with it. And there are many more ways to use, track, categorize, evaluate books that I haven’t even tried. Thank you Simone and team.
Engaging app with a few nits
04/22/2022

red.planet
Book Track is an attractive, customizable, engaging database app for tracking your book collection that has obviously been lovingly crafted. It works very well for a 1,000-book library, with a few shortcomings that put it just short of five stars. Pros include the app's aesthetics (highly colorful), ease of use and customizability. It does a good job finding titles by ISBN, and allows you to search for and insert the book cover that's actually in your collection. It offers practical sorting options. Syncing with iCloud is flawless. Looking through your book collection, once you've done the work of inputting it, is pleasing and fun.Cons (nits): The number one missing function is an option to ignore prefixes such as "a," "an" and "the" in sorted titles; otherwise big chunks of books end up clustered at both ends your collection. The full book list needs a column of small sort letters off to one side to quickly access books sorted by alpha -- otherwise you're endlessly scrolling through your entire collection. Book Track starts in 3/4-screen mode on the MacBook, so you have to full screen it each time you open the app (which is a bother). The app requires three tags for location, when one might suffice (e.g., sometimes a book is in a storeroom, not a storeroom, a bookcase and a shelf within that bookcase). "Hard cover" and "Paperback" should be among the main choices, in addition to "Paper book" and "Digital book." Scrolling is a bit kludgy on a MacBook Pro M1 Max. Would be good to have optional, user-directed fields that don't work well as tags -- e.g., purchase price. Cost of the Mac app is a tad on the high side. The release date needs the option to just show the year. Again, though, these are nits; in general I found Book Track to be a delight to use. A tip of the hat to Simone for putting together something unique and interesting.
Engaging app with a few nits
04/22/2022

red.planet

Book Track is an attractive, customizable, engaging database app for tracking your book collection that has obviously been lovingly crafted. It works very well for a 1,000-book library, with a few shortcomings that put it just short of five stars. Pros include the app's aesthetics (highly colorful), ease of use and customizability. It does a good job finding titles by ISBN, and allows you to search for and insert the book cover that's actually in your collection. It offers practical sorting options. Syncing with iCloud is flawless. Looking through your book collection, once you've done the work of inputting it, is pleasing and fun.Cons (nits): The number one missing function is an option to ignore prefixes such as "a," "an" and "the" in sorted titles; otherwise big chunks of books end up clustered at both ends your collection. The full book list needs a column of small sort letters off to one side to quickly access books sorted by alpha -- otherwise you're endlessly scrolling through your entire collection. Book Track starts in 3/4-screen mode on the MacBook, so you have to full screen it each time you open the app (which is a bother). The app requires three tags for location, when one might suffice (e.g., sometimes a book is in a storeroom, not a storeroom, a bookcase and a shelf within that bookcase). "Hard cover" and "Paperback" should be among the main choices, in addition to "Paper book" and "Digital book." Scrolling is a bit kludgy on a MacBook Pro M1 Max. Would be good to have optional, user-directed fields that don't work well as tags -- e.g., purchase price. Cost of the Mac app is a tad on the high side. The release date needs the option to just show the year. Again, though, these are nits; in general I found Book Track to be a delight to use. A tip of the hat to Simone for putting together something unique and interesting.
Great management app but has a couple quirks
12/28/2024

rzieske
I am old school and currently own well over a thousand physical books at any time, and I need an inventory management system to track them. I've had a few over the years which come and go and tried lists of my own. So far I have purchased the Book Tracker macOS version.Things I like: Book Tracker is a beautiful app. It supports and gathers a tremendous amount of information for each book, in various formats, which can be exported into a PDF or a .csv file which formats perfectly in Apple Numbers, buy is mostly unusable in MS Excel, not that I care. It provides many redundant ways you can choose to catalog this information to suit your personal preferences. I like that it places my information in my iCloud storage, not on someone else's server. This is a very good app.Things that I think need tweaking: Like many apps, there are places where you have to adapt to it. The area I would like to have more control over is retention of formatting of the application window and contents. You can configure the window size to your liking. You can currently choose 17 configurable areas of information which provide granularity for specific search filtering. Problem is that every time you reopen Book Tracker it defaults back to a standard (too small) window size and reopens every single one of the 17 filtering sections, the majority of which I have no need of. I'd prefer them to all start collapsed then I'd just open the 3 or 4 I want to see. I have not found a way to choose which to include/exclude in the sidebar and you cannot retain which are open at startup. I have had to dynamically reconfigure the entire app window to your liking every single time. Maybe I'm missing something?
Great management app but has a couple quirks
12/28/2024

rzieske

I am old school and currently own well over a thousand physical books at any time, and I need an inventory management system to track them. I've had a few over the years which come and go and tried lists of my own. So far I have purchased the Book Tracker macOS version.Things I like: Book Tracker is a beautiful app. It supports and gathers a tremendous amount of information for each book, in various formats, which can be exported into a PDF or a .csv file which formats perfectly in Apple Numbers, buy is mostly unusable in MS Excel, not that I care. It provides many redundant ways you can choose to catalog this information to suit your personal preferences. I like that it places my information in my iCloud storage, not on someone else's server. This is a very good app.Things that I think need tweaking: Like many apps, there are places where you have to adapt to it. The area I would like to have more control over is retention of formatting of the application window and contents. You can configure the window size to your liking. You can currently choose 17 configurable areas of information which provide granularity for specific search filtering. Problem is that every time you reopen Book Tracker it defaults back to a standard (too small) window size and reopens every single one of the 17 filtering sections, the majority of which I have no need of. I'd prefer them to all start collapsed then I'd just open the 3 or 4 I want to see. I have not found a way to choose which to include/exclude in the sidebar and you cannot retain which are open at startup. I have had to dynamically reconfigure the entire app window to your liking every single time. Maybe I'm missing something?

* General app improvements Book Tracker is crafted by an indie developer. Your feedback and suggestions help shape future updates. If you find the app useful, a review would mean a lot. For any support, contact me at support@booktrack.app. Simone

Version 4.5.2

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