BookBuddy: My Library Manager App Reviews

Simple to use/update and a great way to keep your entire collection organized and in one concise place. You can easily sort by many different categories and the notes section is great for saving favorite quotes. Only (minor) gripe is that not all bar codes (even new ones) are recognized; you can almost always find the book by searching manually, but usually not the exact version/edition. Would be great to see more specialty editions in the database over time.

I bought the full version of this app and love it! The free one didnt allow space for all my books! You can scan your books in or you can Google search them. Theres also a wish list where you can add books that you want in the future. The only thing that I would like changed on this app is a way to make my own categories to better organize my books. I highly recommend this app! Its definitely worth the money!

I tried a couple different apps before this one and I just didnt care for any of them, I never really clicked with them. Usually for the free version you got to log MAYBE twenty books and then they wanted you to buy it, and it always annoyed me right off the bat and made me delete it. This app has been my favorite, though. The free version didnt cover all my books, but I loved it and decided to buy the full version. I work in a bookstore and I recommended it to all of my coworkers, and to all my usual customers that come in.

I am a high school English teacher and used this to catalogue and describe all my classroom books. I plan to use this as my "checkout" system but was disappointed to find I cant download the app on my iPad. I dont really want students using my personal device to check out books so the creators should definitely consider making it accessible on other devices!

This app is precisely what I needed. (I ended up buying the paid version I liked it so much.) Scan in books (or search by ISBN), if the photo isnt right initially update it by Google search in app or taking a photo, and it can be sorted and provides different lists for borrowed and loaned out books and the like. Great work!

Easy to use. Really easy. Reliable. I love all my books in one place.

Great app if you dont need to add more than 50 books! It stops you at 50, and if you want to add more you must buy the $4.99 version. ☹

It helps me organize all my books and helps me to not get a duplicate when I am at a store.

I have a lot of books, and I have bought duplicates before. I tried the free download were I could enter 50 books for free. I really enjoyed how I can tag the books with my own tags. there are many ways to group the books and sort them. I also like the feature where you could borrow the book to someone so you wouldnt forget who has your book. I also found scanning them in easy. I paid the fee and I do not regret it at all. Fair warning if you have a lot of books its gonna take a long time to get them all in. Im currently at 450 and only 75% done. I break it down and only do 50 books in each setting. Downsides to this app are not all books can be scanned. Its not the apps fault, not all books have scannable ISBN codes. Tip: if the barcode on the back of the book does not work sometimes the barcode in the front cover will bring up the information. To deal with books that cant be scanned the app lets you search for the book online and if that doesnt work you can manually enter all the information yourself. So far Ive only run into two books that I could not find on the Internet. I like this app so much that I also got the MovieBuddy app as well. I recommend this for anyone who has a large library. Great for teacher classroom libraries as well.

I love this !! Sure there might be some things ( but I believe its ME) wrong as Im not up on all these things. But I sure do love what I do understand and it was really worth the small amount that I spent !!!

Does what you want and no extra options for social media or options to buy

The best app in books inventory

I like this app and it is easy to use but it seems they are not keeping up with current ISBNs. Many of the new books that have come out in the past year cannot be found by the scanner or the "online" search function. The scanner is one of the best features of this app so the ISBN database needs to be kept current.

Scanning the bar code does not work keeps saying missing isbn when you have over 300 books you do not want to Internet search them all. Also the app alphabetizes my authors first name not last.

This app is great, finally I wont have to get online to search for books I want or look through sticky notes to see which in a series I still need. And I dont know how people are such a problem with the barcode scanner but, so far, out of 200 books only maybe 15 or 20 didnt scan. Not too bad in my book

I am really enjoying this app. It is so handy for knowing what books I do and do not have when Im out at the used book shops.

I have been using this app for around a year to inventory my books. Especially my series so I can see which ones I have when I am shopping. Great backup features, so no worries about having to redo the work. Now you can add any category you want to the new book screen which makes entering books even faster!

I have waited so long for an application that would allow me to keep an inventory of my book collection, in addition to tracking books that I have loaned out! This solves everything. The scanner is a major bonus feature that I truly appreciate! I was able to scan all my books very few had to be added by online search. This is a great application for any book lover! 1/15/16 This was a five star review but in the recent update all my books were deleted with the exception of five. I have a back up in Dropbox created by the app and when I tried to import it, I received an error message that says the file extension is not supported. Im thoroughly upset and have lost over 290 pieces of data. It took a lot of time to compile that and get it just the way I wanted. This is a major disappointment. I dont know if the information can be retrieved but you should fix this issue.

I just started trying this and it wont allow me to enter things manually. Ive tried to add several books with isbn numbers and bar codes it wont read, then wont allow me to add manually. Im on an iPhone 5s. Odd. I can edit anything as long as the app scans the book or can search and find it.

Absolutely love this app. It allows me to organize and catalog my entire library. It has great features that lets you keep up with whom youve lent your books out to and when as well as if and when youve borrowed them. The app scans barcodes for you and instantly fills in the information about the book. It really helps when youre out at the bookstore and cant remember if you have/dont have a certain book and lets you know the other ones within the series. Undoubtedly my favorite app! Thank you so much!