Track your personal library with Book Track on iPhone and iPad

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What you need to know

  • Book Track can keep tabs on all of your books by scanning the barcode.
  • The personal library back is available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Bookworms the world over know how difficult it can be to keep track of their books. Especially as collections grow. Book Track is an app that makes it easier to know which books you have as well as find out information about them, tag them, and more.

Available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, Book Track syncs your library across all of those devices so that you're always up-to-date no matter what. Adding books to your collection is as simple as scanning their barcode and that's it. You're off to the races.

Book Track is the application built for iPhone, iPad and Mac to easily keep track of the books you have purchased and which you would like to read. Manage your personal collection and wish list, searching for books by name or author, doing a barcode scan or entering them manually. Digitizing your personal library has never been easier or faster.

This latest version 2.1 update adds a ton of new features while iterating on old ones. The whole app now looks different with improved display layouts for the book list as well as an advanced sorting mode.

  • New design for book details and edit pages
  • New display layouts for the list of books
  • New advanced sorting mode
  • New Quotes section with all your quotes of your books
  • Share your quotes with your friends or on the social networks
  • Added support to dynamic fonts
  • More easily accessible sorting options
  • Added sort and filter options in all book lists (tags, series)
  • New advanced search page
  • Drag & drop quotes to add, move or export them
  • Drag & drop books to the sidebar to change sections, assign tags and series or manage reading status (available on iPadOS and macOS)
  • Lending section moved in the settings
  • Improved cover loading animation

You can download Book Track from the App Store right now, priced at $4.99. Whether you're reading paper books or using one of the best Kindles on the market, this is a great app to track it all. There are plenty of e-reader apps out there, too.

Oliver Haslam
Oliver Haslam
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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.