TBR - Bookshelf 12+

Favorite Book Review App!!

I’ve been using TBR for over a year now and I absolutely love it! I have a few suggestions tho. I would really like a way to log in or save my data. I would be seriously upset if my phone broke and I lost all my notes and reviews and what not. Another thing I keep accidentally doing is when I look at my reading goal I keep trying to click on the titles to open up the reviews and thats not how it works. Maybe that could be a feature in the future?? I really like how each book has its own color when you log it. When I’m looking at my read section I wish there was a way to organize it. Right now its every single book I’ve ever logged and if I wanted to find a book review for a book I read say in May of 2021 I would have to scroll all the way down. I would like if there was a way to sort by year or month. Over all though I am the biggest fan of this app. Especially with how much content you can access with just the free version. I am looking forward to buying the premium version and updating all my reviews! I feel like the app is simple enough that adding a review doesn’t feel like a chore (like on other tracking apps). Though it would be cool if there was a way to share your reviews with friends/be able to view other peoples reviews.

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much for writing such a detailed review!

We recently released an update that allows you to sync between devices and backs up your data with iCloud sync in case of accidental deletion.

If you’re searching for a specific book you can search at the top of the read book page. We will be looking into a filter/search by date option as well!

We love all your ideas and we will be looking into them all! Thanks again :)

Love!

I’ve already left my raving review and now I have some constructive criticism for the developers! #1 For a series I’d love for there to be an options for putting the whole series in your TBR and/or read list with one button and to somehow keep them in order when looking at them so it’s prettier and more organized! #2 I would love a way to see other peoples reviews on books! #3 I would love some sort of sign in option so I don’t have to worry about losing anything if my phone breaks. #4 I love to genre option but most of what I read is fantasy/romance and thriller/romance. When reviewing I’m only given an option to choose one genre and I would love it if I could pick multiple! And lastly I’d like to say that for the app being so new it’s still a hit! And I understand all of what I’ve said above is probably being worked on for future updates! I’ll just be here patiently waiting :)! Great work!!

Developer Response ,

Hi! Thank you so much for writing this detailed review! We love hearing all your suggestions on how to make the app better and more enjoyable for our users! We will be looking more into these suggestions to see if we can add them into the app! :)

Such a good idea-so many bugs

I want to love this app SO bad but the glitching and whatnot is driving me a little crazy. First thing that happened was when i first downloaded the app and tried to change the theme, it kept on undoing the theme i chose. Same with the plant. When i tried turning off the falling snow the snow was still there. I imported my books from goodreads which went very smoothly but once i went to my read shelf and tried to switch the view from bookshelf to book cover it kicked me out of the app. When i went back on the snow was off…lol. A common occurrence is trying out a feature and then the app either kicking me out of the app or just undoing the feature. No matter what i do i cannot change the view of my read books from bookshelf to book covers without being kicked out of the app and i cant change the color of the books on my tbr shelf without being kicked off the app. I thought i could push through but at this point i can barely use the app without whatever im doing being undone or being kicked out of the app. Im sure this can be fixed and once the app works I DEFINITELY will be using it, its just unfortunately unusable for me right now