Codex
With Codex you can:
* Add books to the list simply by scanning the book ISBN. The book data will be downloaded from the Internet.
* Add a book by typing the ISBN. If an ISBN barcode is not available is always possible to type the ISBN manually.
* Add a book by typing the book information. If the book has no barcode or is not possible to find the book information on the web the book data can be typed manually.
* Manage your loaned books. Each time you loan a book Codex helps you remember, allowing you to mark that book have loaned and setting the person you loaned it to from your contacts.
* Create a wish list with the books you wish to buy. Add a book you don't have and the store you found it. Each book can have multiple stores so that you can compare prices and choose the best price.
* Remember the location of the store where you found the books in the wish list. If you don't know the address Codex can get the GPS location for you.
* Filter your book by author, publisher or category.
* Easily find books in your wish list or books that you've loaned.
* Pick an image from your phone image library to use has a book cover. If you don't have an image from the cover just take a picture of it.
* Want to share this book with a friend? Just recommend the book. With Codex you can recommend a book with a simple SMS message. If your friend also has Codex in his phone Codex will get all the book information your friend needs.
* Multilanguage support with English, Portuguese and French.
* Importing and exporting book to CSV and XML so that they can be synchronized between devices.
* Search the books collection to easily find the correct book.
* When you lent a book you can set a due date and Codex will remember you when the due date is met. Codex will maintain a loan history for each book so that you know to whom you have lent it to.
Codex is free, you can use it without any restrictions for as long has you want. If you have any suggestions please feel free to contact the developer's team at [email protected]
Keywords: codex book manager catalog library organize loan wishlist contact message cover photo image scan barcode books ebook address gps location recommend phone sms store isbn friends share free online web internet read language export import cvs xml excel search
Category : Books & Reference
Reviews (24)
This is an outstanding app, unique in its features and ease of use. Used it for quite a long time; it's wonderful. Highly recommend. There are some improvements that need to be made as well as some that would be cool just to have. The developer has not upgraded in a long time & I have concerns that it won't be supported in the long run. That's a real problem if you have taken the time to enter hundreds of books and notes. The developer has been admirably quick to respond to email, but has taken no action.
There is no way to download this list to save and/or print. Also the scanning doesn't always bring up a picture of the book, even recent books, so I had to take pictures of each cover. It then stored those pictures on my phone and when I needed more space I found those pix, deleted them and now all my books have different covers.... goodbye codex hello BETTER app
I really love this app. It is the one that seems to work the best. My only issues are you can't set it to automatically make scanned books owned. You also can't sort by author and title in that order. And I can't seen to Getty the bulk scan to work. If these issues were addressed out would the perfect personal library manager app.
No csv export and no export/import/backup/restore of any kind functionality is a deal breaker for me. Suppose I will spend hours cataloguing my books. Then what? This catalog will live on my phone and will die with my phone. And considering very few sorting options, this collection would hardly be of much use to me on the phone either.
Feature wise, this app has 90% of what I'm looking for. The UX is terrible confusing and unclear, though. I also wish there was an easier way to share or publish my library so other's can see and request to borrow. Seems like a good version 1.0.
Tried lots of others. But this works the best for me. However I need to transfer the data I have entered to a new device. Is there a way to do this as I have almost 400 books catalogued and don't want to do have to capture all again. Any ideas please
I've gone through several apps like this and they all were crap. I even paid almost $4 for one that seemed good and then went all hokey. This is free, and does everything I want. Easy to enter books, update and search. Takes a little to get used to how to navigate. I'm still on day one, but there is no external database to connect to or mess it up. I would suggest turning off some of the permissions, like GPS and SMS. I don't see any need to allow the app to see where I am or send/receive messages. I'd recommend it.
I have conducted a tedious comparison and found this suits my need most. The basics barcode scans and categorization work well. Best is that one can add books or change book details manually. If it has a backup function it would be perfect!
The application works just as it should but [1] It's not easy to enter the information on books not in the system (since I cannot edit in bulk, it's very time consuming to use: entering the summary, series, authors) [2] most books don't have covers (makes the lists I've made very ugly). [3] I cannot add the book automatically to my wishlist as I have to save the book first then go to the wishlist section.
Abysmal failure. No import option csv, or otherwise. This app was poorly thought out to remove a basic function. Again horrible product. Fail.
The only problem I had with this app is that it didn't tell you before you filled out all the information that you were duplicating an entry. So if you are loading books and you double one, you won't know until you've done all the work already.
Beautiful apps like butterfly but it is more beautiful for me when it has include inbuilt barcode scanner. I special request to apps developer touch my feelings. I am looking next new version included it.
I had created a nice list, then lost my info and don't see a way to back it up. That's a horrible loss of time.
Over 800 books entered and now it won't export due to error: not enough space or something - please check the file name - aargh! Cover search completely useless.
Did 300 scans in one run with no problems. User friendly and attractive, wish it had a better explained export option (but to be fair I haven't tried very hard). Very pleased!
Love this library app. Slow to add books as they must be done singly, but very versatile once recorded
I love this app, until this weekend when all my scanned books disappeared. Now it's empty
This app does not include cloud storage options. With out cloud storage option, the library inventory is not cross-platform/device friendly. Recommend including cloud storage to improve accessibility on all devices.
Overall decent execution, but an option to retrieve metadata for manual or imported additions would really make this app shine!
Very easy to add books. Just two steps. No typing. One issue is book by default is marked as friend's book unless ticked my own book option. It should be other way round.
Requires Barcode Scanner specifically, which doesn't work on my phone, though others do. Will try the app again when it can use the default scanner I've set up.
Its amazing. The only suggestion J have is to maybe link it with an amazon search, if that's possible. By ISBN, and title, so that there isn't any odd information. Also, it would be amazing if we could simply lock in that we own the book, without having to reselect it every new akan.
Excellent. Excellent...But not all scanned or entered ISBN found the book information. Search by book title usually found information well though,so very satisfied. Now able to defer to my Codec library on my phone to see if I have already read the book before buying
I originally was using another app but I needed something so I could sort my books and still put in books that I have read. This app has it all. I am so glad I found this app. I don't know what I would have done. The set up is really great. The only downfall is the fact you can't scan every book because they don't have every ISBN in here. You can still find the book but you have to go through and edit it changing the ISBN if your like me. Besides that it is absolutely the best book sorting app I found.