BookBuddy Pro: Library Manager 4+
Track books and reading list
Kimico, Ltd.
Designed for iPad
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- £4.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
BookBuddy is a powerful book management app that gives you access to your entire book catalog, anywhere. Using BookBuddy is fun and easy, allowing you to quickly find any book in your library, share your favorite books, and keep track of borrowed and lent books.
KEY FEATURES
• Adding Your Books
Add your books using the following options:
- Scan barcode
- Enter ISBN
- Search online by keyword
- Add manually
- Import from CSV file
• Organizing Your Books
Place your books where they belong:
- My Books — books you own
- Wish List — books you wish to own
- Borrowed — books you borrowed from others
- Previously Owned — books you no longer own
• Syncing Your Library
Sync your library across multiple devices using iCloud or Dropbox sync.
• Sharing Your Library
Share your library online via the BookBuddy Companion website and invite anyone to view it (requires a monthly subscription).
MORE TO LOVE
• Universal app — pay once and use BookBuddy on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Silicon Mac.
• Personalize — use categories and tags, mark favorites, add personal notes, and much more.
• Appearance — choose either list or grid view to best match your needs.
• Custom Filters — filter your library by multiple criteria.
• Advanced Sorting — apply multi-level data sorting.
• Loans — instantly track books that are currently loaned out.
• Multiple selection — apply batch operations using multiple selection.
• Reading Status — filter your books by their reading status.
• Quick find — instantly find books by entering search keywords or scanning their barcodes.
• Export — quickly export your library into CSV, PDF, or HTML formats.
• Print — easily print selected books to AirPrint-enabled printers.
• Backup — create backups to any cloud service.
• Activity History — view the full history of your reading and loaning activities.
• Duplicates — quickly detect duplicates and easily remove them.
• Privacy — your library is saved locally and privately on your device.
• And so much more!
CLASSROOM LIBRARY MANAGER (for teachers)
• Manage — use BookBuddy to manage your classroom library and track student checkouts.
• Checkout History — easily track checkout history and view statistics.
• Contacts — save your student names in BookBuddy Contacts rather than in your personal Contacts app.
• Reading Level Fields — use various fields to track the reading level of your books.
• Online Sharing — allow students to self-checkout books via the BookBuddy Companion website (requires a monthly subscription).
FEEDBACK
We love staying in touch with our users and we look forward to hearing from you! If you have any feedback, questions, or concerns, please email us at:
support@kimicoapps.com
or visit: http://www.kimicoapps.com/support.html
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http://www.facebook.com/KimicoLtd
* Privacy policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/12652322
* Terms and Conditions: https://www.iubenda.com/terms-and-conditions/12652322
What’s New
Version 9.5.10
- Online Sharing (Professional plan): added "User Name Entry" setting allowing to prevent users from manually typing their user names (i.e. forcing to select from a list)
- Online Sharing (Professional plan): added "Live Checkout Notifications" setting allowing to receive email notifications whenever a book is borrowed or returned
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Ratings and Reviews
All that I could ask for…
I have used this app for several years now, following a rather exhaustive search of what was available to catalogue my large and ever-growing library. I have a weakness that compels me to buy and read books, of many genres, new and pre-loved. As my long-suffering wife returns one book to a second-hand shop, I am usually found purchasing three more.
Simply put, this is a superb app. It continues to evolve and improve. After I have considered what might be a useful development, I find that my mind has been read, and the helpful addition added in one of the fairly frequent updates - even before I have have had it requested!
I do not know what alternatives there are now to “Book Buddy.” I no longer am interested in looking. Even my wife will admit that having catalogued the thousands of books we share, over a number of places, has been a welcome and useful task.
I do not usually write reviews but, on entering yet another of my library additions, it seemed appropriate to laud “Book Buddy” for having become truly indispensable. I dread to think what I would do if it were to be unsupported one day but, hopefully that day will never come (and I will always be able to use the uploaded .CSV file backup, anyway!)
Thank you for continuing to improve what I often believe can be improved no further . Refreshingly, I am invariably shown to have been wrong, yet again.
It is, simply, all I could ask for…
Top-class app, does just about everything you could want from a book cataloguing app
I have used this app now, the pro version, for about 10 days, and have input nearly 400 books. Each time I have asked customer support a question they have replied in depth and very quickly.
I have requested a new feature, for example, (whereby the user can I add several photographs instead of just one, and customer support replied with a very useful workaround, and I hope a future version will include the additional photographs option.
Overall after extensively using the app and the services of customer support I rate the app as excellent.
The minimal cost of the pro version will easily be offset by my never having to buy a duplicate book by mistake again.
Book buddy is brilliant!
I had been meaning to keep track of books I own for ages, I was dreading having to sort through them all and make a note of the various titles and authors. Listening to the radio one morning the topic of conversation was list apps, I searched on the off chance that one existed for books and I wasn't disappointed. The multiple scan option is brilliant and you can edit the picture so it matches your own copy. I like the fact you can edit the genre (as it has come up with strange categories) and I like the fact you can sort by author, genre etc. The app also works on books bought abroad as I have a number of books in french. I bought the package which included music and films (music buddy and movie buddy).
App Privacy
The developer, Kimico, Ltd., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Kimico Ltd
- Size
- 28.3 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2010 Kimico Ltd.
- Price
- £4.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Online Sharing - Standard £1.79
- Online Sharing - Professional £4.49
- Online Sharing - Standard £17.99
- Online Sharing - Professional £49.99