BookBuddy Pro 4+

I did not want to pay for an app to organize my books, so I tried about 10 different free methods and apps. Hated every single one of them. Someone on a Facebook group suggested Book Buddy, even sent me a video of them using it, I was cautious but within a day I was in love. Easy to scan in new and old books, create separate libraries for your kids, keep track of loaned books, and best of all, you can personalize the categorization of your library! Need a 1,000 word novella, no problem. Need a grade 12 standard, no problem. I am loving it. Only downside is textbooks. But to be honest only a few of us are likely to keep to many of them anyway, and you can always manually search by title, author, or isbn. And you can link up with other app users, so yeah. I kinda recommend if you have more than 100 books, after that I couldn’t memorize them well enough, but hey. You do you. But seriously, why try a free app that limits the books you can catalogue when Book Buddy is cheap enough and worth so much more. Bask in the glory of a well catalogued book collection!

This app fits by needs by far. It can catagorize books by, name, price, publisher, etc. The app gives you unlimited amount of books in you personal library. The best benefit of this app is the barcode scanner. It can always find the name and other information about your book just by scanning the barcode! If your book can't be scanned, they even give you a little internet to search for your book. If it isn't on the internet or it can't scan on the barcode scanner, you can add it manually. I only had to do this once for a local book I bought. As you might see, I did take off a star. I took of this star just because it costs money. I don't think it is necessary to cost money. Newsflash, you're not going to make a lot of money with this app! They even have a free one that I originally had, but it only let you have forty books in your library. Guess what?! They didn't even tell you about the forty books only rule. Consequently, when I had took my time to scan 40 books, it shut me off! Telling me only 40 books! Anyways, that is their problem. The rest of the app was really good, if I could I would give it a four in a half rating. But now I'm happy to give it a 4 out of 5 star rating!

With so many book lovers, you would think there would be several great library inventory apps. Sadly there are very few. After using and loving the Music Buddy pro app I decided to give Book Buddy a chance.

I am happy to say that Book Buddy does have all the key features I’m looking for in it’s handling of books in my library and the ability to share the sand dataset between my wife and I so either of us can make updates or scan more books into the app.

It does a tremendous job on most recently printed books. This was a must for us. We both have ADHD so we’ve frequently buy the same book twice because we hadn’t added the book to our previous manual entry app. This app makes it easy to add at time of purchase and syncs right up on the spouses phone. We say buying dupes, is paying our ASHD tax. With book buddy we no longer have that stress in our lives.

There are still improvements that can be made. A book unlike music or videos is likely to have had multiple printings by different companies in different formats with different covers. It’s nigh impossible to know identify every possible variant. Books also go back way past the invention of barcodes or even ISBN registration. No app has an automated solution for that but Book Buddy makes it easy for me to capture the data and add my own pictures of my cover when the database located version of a book was slightly different.