BiblioGenius
Organize and share your books
Free
BiblioGenius is a personal library manager that works entirely on your device.
Scan barcodes to add books instantly. Organize them into collections, track loans to friends, and discover books from other libraries on your local network.
Features:
- Barcode scanning for quick book entry
- Search across multiple sources
- Collections and tags to organize your library
- Loan tracking with contacts
- Discover and share books with nearby libraries over Wi-Fi
- Mini-games with your books
- Works offline, no account required
- Open source
more What's new
• Household readers: one shared library, with each reader keeping their own readings, ratings and wishes. Choose who reads on this device.
• Import your reading history, including from Babelio (status, rating, dates).
• Bulk filing of books onto a shelf or into a collection.
• Manual borrows: the lender can now be a library or a place.
Fixes
• More reliable ISBN import, and the rating you give when adding a book is now saved.
• Clearer error messages when a book can't be saved.
• Various small fixes.
1.2.3 Oct 16
My contact details: let paired libraries or your subscribers know how to reach you to arrange a loan.
My invitation: a single screen displays both the QR code and the link to share.
Add a connection: BiblioGenius library or a contact without the app.
Accessibility: every control announces its name and role; cover images include descriptions; AA-compliant contrast across all themes.
Pairing fixes.
1.2.0 Oct 1
A maintenance release focused on adding books: entries created via scanning, searching, or importing are now more detailed (including page count and publication year), and selecting a specific edition is more straightforward.
Bug fixes
- Page count now correctly populated. Previously, scanned or imported books were missing their page count, regardless of the source. Issue resolved.
- Edition carousel: opens on the correct edition. The selector used to default to the first edition in the sorted list, forcing users to manually locate the one they had just clicked on. It now opens directly on the selected edition.
Improvements
- OpenLibrary search restored. The old OpenLibrary endpoint had been returning 404 errors since mid-September; ISBN searches now use the new "Read API," with offline tests implemented to prevent future silent regressions.
1.1.13 Sep 23
This version fixes several issues reported by users.
Shelves
• The Shelves tab now refreshes right after you add or edit a book.
• Deleting a shelf also removes it from the books that carried it. No more ghost shelves that cannot be deleted.
• A shelf with sub-shelves now shows their count and gives access to all of its books.
Connected libraries
• Pairing again with a library you already know updates its address. Loan confirmations reach their destination again.
• Two libraries that shared the same address are no longer mixed up.
Import
• Books imported from a CSV file on a new device can be offered for loan again.
1.1.12 Sep 21
Bug fix release
Adding books:
- After scanning, editing the title no longer suggests alternative editions. Previously, selecting one would overwrite the scanned ISBN, publisher, year, and cover image.
- For editions containing multiple works, the entry would adopt the title of the second work; the main title is now preserved.
- The "Search by title" banners displayed when an ISBN yielded no results would get stuck on the screen, blocking subsequent messages. They now disappear correctly.
Celebrations:
- Closing a celebration with a tap could freeze the animation and leave an invisible overlay that intercepted all touch inputs until the app was restarted. Fixed.
Backup (iPhone):
- Full backups failed during export: the share sheet would not open if the settings page had been scrolled. Fixed; the anchor point now remains valid.
Settings (iOS):
- Opening "Import" via the settings search left the keyboard visible upon return, rendering the "OK" button unresponsive. The keyboard now closes before the file picker opens.
1.1.11 Sep 18
Mark a book as read with a single tap from a friend's catalog, and view the books you already own, have read, or wish to acquire.
Change your passphrase from any connected device.
Books with missing author information are now flagged during import.
A few fixes and improvements have also been included.
1.1.10 Sep 12
Books imported without ISBNs can finally be repaired.
If you imported your library from a file and your books arrived without ISBNs, the app can now complete them.
Hand it the same file again: it finds each book by its title, author and year, and gives back its ISBN, publisher and publication year.
No book is created, nothing you already have is replaced, and the whole thing can be undone in one gesture.
Rows it cannot identify with certainty are listed, never guessed.
Once the ISBNs are back, covers and summaries return on their own.
The import also recognises more files: columns named EAN, semicolon-separated files, ISBNs turned into scientific notation by a spreadsheet, titles spanning
several lines. And when no ISBN column is recognised, you can now point at it yourself instead of silently losing your ISBNs.
Also fixed: long recipient names overflowed the list when lending a book.
1.1.9 Sep 3
- Book details, reworked
The page now leads with one clear primary action for where you are with a book: start reading, lend it, or return it. Admin actions moved into the toolbar menu, long summaries are collapsed instead of pushing your notes off screen, and the dates are grouped under the title.
- Borrowing and buying in one place
The three cards that stayed silent when they had nothing to show are replaced by a single sheet that always answers, including "nobody in your network has this one". A book on your wishlist leads with that.
- Rename your collections
A collection can now be renamed, from its own page or from the collections list.
- Recently finished on the home screen
Books you have finished now appear above your recent additions, ordered by finish date.
- Targeted metadata filling
Filter your library by what is missing (cover, summary, page count and more) and run the gap fill on just those books.
1.1.8 Sep 2
Bug fixes and optimizations.
Cleaner shelves and steadier connections.
- Duplicate books: a new screen in Settings finds duplicates in your library and lets you merge them.
- Backups: the passphrase screen now shows how strong your passphrase is and enforces a minimum length.
- Imports: shared reading lists with accented characters are read correctly, and import labels are translated.
- Sharing: connections to nearby libraries recover reliably after the app comes back from sleep.
1.1.7 Aug 30
A book on your wishlist can now point to your public library catalogue and to bookshops.
Connect your library in three steps, pick your shops from the list or add your own.
These are plain links out to their own sites: nothing about you or your books is sent anywhere.
When a book you want sits in a peer's library, a Contact button now sits next to Borrow, so you can reach its owner even when borrowing is not open.
Loan requests are listed newest first.
A book you put down for good can finally be marked as abandoned.
Cover searches say in one line when they come up short, and stop re-asking the same sources at every launch.
Sharing a list from iPhone and iPad works again, page titles no longer hide behind the logo.
1.1.6 Aug 29
Improved cover art search by title and author on the book details page.
Bug fixes:
- More reliable publication year
- Added missing accents
- Reading date can now be reset
- Fixed overlap between star ratings and page count on small screens (book details page)
1.1.5 Aug 27
Reading suggestions: books like the one you are reading, the volume missing from a series you collect, an author you keep coming back to. Finish a book and the next one is waiting.
Author pages: everything of theirs you own, and everything you do not yet.
Ready-made selections, including French back-to-school reading lists, plus ones picked for what is already on your shelves.
Favorites: a star on a book, and a collection that keeps itself up to date.
A new ownership filter separates the books on your shelves from the ones you only want, and search reaches both.
Share a reading list as a file. Nothing enters anyone's library until they confirm it.
Ask a library you follow for its contact card, then ask to borrow a book in one tap.
Also: CSV export and a preview of your library as others receive it.
1.1.4 Aug 25
- Various display fixes.
- Your wishlist now identifies books available at connected libraries.
- Your books discreetly indicate who is looking for them.
- Book covers no longer disappear intermittently.
- Loans sorted from newest to oldest.
- Loan offers correctly notified.
1.1.3 Aug 20
What's new
• Household readers: one shared library, with each reader keeping their own readings, ratings and wishes. Choose who reads on this device.
• Import your reading history, including from Babelio (status, rating, dates).
• Bulk filing of books onto a shelf or into a collection.
• Manual borrows: the lender can now be a library or a place.
Fixes
• More reliable ISBN import, and the rating you give when adding a book is now saved.
• Clearer error messages when a book can't be saved.
• Various small fixes.
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