BookBuddy: Book Tracker

I just recently got back into reading after many years of not picking up a single book. For me buying books and reading are two separate hobbies, I tend to buy Kindle books, physical books and Audiobooks, to the point that it was getting really hard not to buy duplicate books. I was looking for an App that would help me keep track of all my books and OMG this App does exactly that! I first started creating four categories (Kindle, Audiobooks , Physical and Kindle Borrowed), then I started adding my Audiobooks (you can add as many details as you want, like Narrators, tags, notes, etc), then proceeded with Kindle and then with the Physical Books (this was the most exciting as you can scan the barcodes one by one or multiple at the same time). Now I have a list of all my books, it has an option to “Pick a Random Book” if you wanna make your next read a surprise. You can organize by Series, the Volume # (which helps me identify the series that I have incomplete) . I also paid the $10 for the lifetime membership (best money spent). Yes, it took me a bit longer to add all of the books (since I had many Audiobooks and Kindle) but the Physical (all 96 of them, only took me less than 1 hour). Overall I have 200 books 😬 and now Im going to build my Wishlists for the books that I would like to get in the future. If you’re looking for a Book Tracker to keep yourself organized, this is the ONE!

I used to keep track of books, movies, and shows etc. on plaintext lists, but these apps designed specifically to keep those lists yet also provide additional information and a better interface are so nice, this is the best one I found for keeping track of books. The app is updated fairly frequently for this type of app also the developers seem to care about improving this experience. Update: using this app again after not using for awhile and book collection has grown exponentially. I love the variety of types of categorization (categories, tags, physical location, and many more options including custom fields you can create. This is helpful as my books are all over the place-multiple physical locations, kindle, Apple Books, audible, etc. There are also many options for tracking progress and status of books. The design of the app allows for vast complexity in organization while maintaining simplicity in user interface and makes it easy to edit the metadata on the fly. I also own book track app, which also has Mac app, but the design and usability of Book Buddy made me confident going all in with this app. Hopefully, with Catalyst and other developments on the Mac, this app will eventually be ported to the Mac also, which I would absolutely pay for again!

Can’t express how much I love this app. I was hesitant on purchasing the Pro but I do not regret it. I can change the way I view my books (list, small covers, medium covers, or large covers). I can sort it in many different ways (title, series, date added, date read, genre, author, publisher… the list goes on). When adding a book sometimes the book doesn’t come up, but that’s okay because this app has multiple options to find the book— scanning barcodes, entering the ISBN, or adding it manually. Adding manually is such a good feature especially because sometimes the ISBN doesn’t work and I mainly read ebooks, so no barcode. BookBuddy also has different categories and tags that I can edit to help organize my books. It even has an option to add series. And when I add a book to the series, I can put the volume number of the book; BookBuddy then automatically puts it in order! My only complaint is that I wish the app setup was a little more “cuter” but that’s just the girly in me lol. Otherwise, this is just a few of many things BookBuddy has. I definitely recommend!