Handy Library (Book manager)
NOT AN EBOOK READER APP.
Use cases:
+ Manage a personal book collection or a home library,
+ Build a small public library, a class library, a church library,...
+ Manage books in a bookstore,
+ People who often borrow books from a school library or lend books to someone,...
Key Features:
+ Scan ISBN code (barcode) to get book details like title, author, page number, publisher, published date, rating, description,... and save the book to your library;
+ Search a book online by title, author or ISBN code to get book details and save;
+ Add a new book to your library manually when the app's services can't match your search;
+ Keep track of books that you lend to or borrow from your friends and notify when a book is overdue;
+ Manage your wish list;
+ Write your note for a book;
+ Share a book URL to your friends;
+ Look for a book that is already in your library by scan its ISBN code, or input a keyword (title, author, ISBN);
+ Sort books in your library by title, author or added date;
+ Filter books which you mark as favorite, read or unread;
+ Organize books by shelves or categories,
+ Export or import library with Excel files;
+ Back up your library to Google Drive and recover easily.
You can also use this app to catalog other collections likes: comic, manga, board game, sheet music,...
No need a computer and a scanner to manage books in a small library, Handy Library has almost functions to replace them.
Enjoy using it!
Service resources:
The app uses many book APIs to get book details like Goodreads, Amazon, Google book, OpenLibrary, WorldCat,... Thank them for offering APIs for free.
⚑ Upcoming features
+ Track reading progress,
+ Localize more languages,
+ Add the statistics feature to allow users manage number of each category in the library.
■ Supported 19 languages: Arabic, Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Thai, Romanian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
Many thanks to my wonderful users and translators:
- Nicolas Laupie (French)
- Antonio Campisi (Italian)
- Mehmet Resul YILMAZ (Turkish)
- Japanese (Thao Ngan Nguyen Thi)
- Henrique Costa (Portuguese)
- Laurabartiromo (Spanish)
- Mohamdsamir (Arabic)
- Juliasolomakha (Russian)
- Polglishkontakt (Polish)
- Stetaz (Greek)
- Irmalita (Indonesian)
Category : Books & Reference
Reviews (22)
After going through multiple apps, this is the only one I found that provide easy access to additional book information beyond simple blurb. Yes it is technically just link to amazon but not even goodreads mobile apps provide that. It's very useful to get more info about the book. Please consider adding more data such as book sample page from amazon for even better information, this would be especially useful when a book have multiple cover or different edition with same content
Great app, worth premium access. It has many many features that helps you organize your books in a great way. Also very nice visually and get updates. Four stars because still needs improvements in my opinion llike: 1. Statistics don't work well (not showing correct infos, colors) 2. You can't store cover thumbnails in your device 3. You can only add 5 writers (what if book is eg historical with many writers) a.o. Hope developers make it even better :-)
It was a five star until I couldn't search the images for the covers online directly from the app, because the default ones are the lowest quality and I enjoyed being able to just choose the better one right from the app. Idk if it's from the update, but I if so I hope they fix it quickly.
Great app. Upgraded to Premium immediately. Very affordable tiny fee. ISSN, journal search and other relevant facilities for journals would have been a nice addition. Entering them manually at the moment😒 . Also, fast saving button in batch mode would be time saving, skipping editing screens and final touch for saving.
It's a great app for cataloguing books, but unfortunately "buy once use forever" didn't work for me, had to make another purchase when I changed my phone. Update: Thanks for your answer but I already tried it before purchasing the app again and it didn't work. I have too many books in my library to change the app and input them again, so I bought it for the second time.
This app would be 5 stars if I could select multiple books to mark as read. I've read most of the books I've added but I didn't realize I had to individually mark them as read on here. It's a hassle to go in and change them all one at a time
I love this app, the reason I gave 4 instead of 5 stars is that I've wanted my books to assend by author and series but it doesn't seem to be doing it. It would be great if that could be sorted.
Works very well when isbn numbers are manually entered. Scanner is a big disappointment, slow false negatives.
I love the app, but I do wish that it was also available to access from a computer in web format. I am more comfortable typing in information on my computer.
Only reason it doesn't have more stars is that it caps at 100 books without premium. I hadn't even added half of my books which was frustrating. Good app, though!
Am having two devices and I want to install this in another device of mine. Will I have to pay again for upgrading in my another device. Is there a way to link the apps in two devices. If not please I want the app in two devices with all the books in it.
AWESOME. A Great Tool for all the readers out there to manage and keep record of their books.
Very good app wanted to give 5 stars 1 star deducted for no contact us options for further query regarding app or problems as I am a primium user if I change my phone then will I have to purchase new primium subscription
Still love this app and find it more and more useful as I continue to grow my personal library. What really made me change my review from 4 to 5 stars is their tech support. I had an issue backing up the app as I am about to upgrade my phone. We went back and forth a few times, ultimately solving the issue. The person I worked with was truly wonderful to deal with. I wish all support people were this good. Thank You for all your help!
Excellent app so far, which allows you to take pictures of the cover if the app cannot get it automatically, export to excel (I havent tried yet, but that is much more useful to me than the Cloud). It has been worth investing the £3 something to get the full version, although the free version works fine: I need quite a few separate "shelves" for what I am doing, so I upgraded. Very happy with this app.
So far, this has been a great app. Easy to use. Perfectly organizing my large collection. Allows me to manually input my more obscure or vintage/antique books with easy and add an image of their cover. The notes section gives me a place to tell where on my physical shelves is located while still utilizing the genre shelving system. I've only been using it for about an hour, so I'm sure there's more to it... but so far it's great.
I really enjoy this app. Sometimes the scanner doesn't read or brings up the wrong book, but a simple search usually brings them up. Almost never have to manually put the information in. I really wish that there was a way to choose from different covers when it brings up the wrong art for your book instead of having to take a picture. It would also be great if we could have a secondary sort as well, such as author and then series.
Liking what I'm seeing thus far with custom shelves and the ability to add comments. My one issue thus far is that when the format is changed to audio, it doesn't change the 'pages' section to length. This wouldn't be too much a problem, but as that field only accepts numbers, I can't even enter an accurate time (for example: 24:22:31). This would be a very helpful change and I hope you consider it. Thank you!
I like how quickly I can add most of my books. The scan feature is really good with newer books. I've encountered an interesting quirk when searching for a book and then adding it to one of my book shelves. When I tap the save icon, I see a message that says "You've already added this book" (or something like this) and I KNOW I haven't added it yet.
This is the best cataloging app I've found after trying out practically every one in the app store, but I'm still disappointed. I had a different app years ago (that seems to be no longer available) that would automatically and properly order the books in a series. I tried manually adding a series name and volumes to each book in a series, but they still aren't ordered correctly.
I have a serious case of Not Enough Bookshelves (because there's no such thing as "too many books") so I've been wanting something like this for awhile! Only just getting started, but I'm loving how everything is scanning in easily (except for two old oddballs, but there's manual entry for them) and the organization customization (Shelves, Categories, etc.). Nice interface, beautiful! I would like something in settings to choose how to display date added (mm/dd/yy vs dd/mm/yy), maybe.
Very easy to use app. Unfortunately, I haven't seen a tag function, which will help me a lot to identify specific books in different libraries, which would be a great feature for homeschooling. (A picture book could be great for history or math, for example).Kind of a cross reference. It would be a great tool. Did I maybe missed it? Any chances you can add it? I would upgrade immediately :) Thanks