There’s no need to own a computer and a barcode scanner to manage books in a small library, the Handy Library app has almost features to replace them.
Scan ISBN the first time to get a book's details from the Internet and add it to your library, scan the next time to view the book, write a note, or lend to someone.
This app helps you to catalog your book collection (or a small library) in a convenient way.
NOT AN EBOOK READER APP.
Use cases
+ Manage a personal book collection or a home library,
+ Build a small public library, a class library, or a church library,
+ Inventory a library,
+ Manage books in a bookstore,
+ People who often lend books to their friends, or borrow books from a library.
Organize your bookshelves
Map your physical bookshelves with the virtual bookshelves in the app one by one for easy organizing. And arrange your books into individual bookshelves.
Key Features
+ Easy adding a book to your library by scanning barcode (ISBN), searching from the Internet or manual input.
+ Write your note for a book;
+ Share a book link to your friends;
+ Look for a book that already exists in your library by scan its ISBN code, or input a keyword (title, author, ISBN);
+ Sort books in your library by various options like: title, author, series, added date, published year,...
+ Keep track of books that you lent to or borrowed from your friends and remind you when a book is overdue;
+ Manage your wish list;
Powerful filter
The feature is used to filter which books have the same publisher, authors, genres, rating, published year,...or were marked as read, favorite.
Inventory your library
The statistic feature shows all information about your library such as: number of books, total value, the most common genres, reading status. And allows you to view your purchase report in history.
Export or import data
The app can export all your books or a bookshelf to a XLS file or CSV file. And you can import a XLS file or CSV file to your library data after editing the import file to have the same column format as the export file of the app.
Keep your data private and safe
All library data is saved at your local device, and the app does not save your data on cloud. Users could create a backup to their Google Drive account and restore anytime.
Service resources
The app uses many book APIs from third-party services to get book details like Goodreads, Amazon, Google book, OpenLibrary, WorldCat,...
⚑Upcoming features
+ Adding the new fields: date started reading and date finished reading,...
+ Batch scanning feature
+ Dark mode
You can also use this app to catalog other collections like: comic, manga, board game, sheet music,...
■ Supported 25 languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simple), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, 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)
- Thao Ngan Nguyen Thi (Japanese)
- Henrique Costa (Portuguese)
- יהודה יהושע (Hebrew)
- Laurabartiromo (Spanish)
- Mohamdsamir (Arabic)
- Juliasolomakha (Russian)
- Polglishkontakt (Polish)
- Stetaz (Greek)
- Irmalita (Indonesian)
Icons made by Freepik, Pixel perfect, mavadee, bqlqn,... from www.flaticon.com.
Recent changes:
Version 2.6.1:
- Now new free users can add an unlimited number of books,
but can't use these premium features:
+ Grid view
+ A-Z index bar
+ Full statistic data
+ Full filter options
The current free users can add unlimited number of books and use the above premium features normally.
- Show the shelf name of a book in the Books tab
- Search books by lender or borrower name in the Transaction tab
- Bug fixes
There’s no need to own a computer and a barcode scanner to manage books in a small library, the Handy Library app has almost features to replace them.
Scan ISBN the first time to get a book's details from the Internet and add it to your library, scan the next time to view the book, write a note, or lend to someone.
This app helps you to catalog your book collection (or a small library) in a convenient way.
NOT AN EBOOK READER APP.
Use cases
+ Manage a personal book collection or a home library,
+ Build a small public library, a class library, or a church library,
+ Inventory a library,
+ Manage books in a bookstore,
+ People who often lend books to their friends, or borrow books from a library.
Organize your bookshelves
Map your physical bookshelves with the virtual bookshelves in the app one by one for easy organizing. And arrange your books into individual bookshelves.
Key Features
+ Easy adding a book to your library by scanning barcode (ISBN), searching from the Internet or manual input.
+ Write your note for a book;
+ Share a book link to your friends;
+ Look for a book that already exists in your library by scan its ISBN code, or input a keyword (title, author, ISBN);
+ Sort books in your library by various options like: title, author, series, added date, published year,...
+ Keep track of books that you lent to or borrowed from your friends and remind you when a book is overdue;
+ Manage your wish list;
Powerful filter
The feature is used to filter which books have the same publisher, authors, genres, rating, published year,...or were marked as read, favorite.
Inventory your library
The statistic feature shows all information about your library such as: number of books, total value, the most common genres, reading status. And allows you to view your purchase report in history.
Export or import data
The app can export all your books or a bookshelf to a XLS file or CSV file. And you can import a XLS file or CSV file to your library data after editing the import file to have the same column format as the export file of the app.
Keep your data private and safe
All library data is saved at your local device, and the app does not save your data on cloud. Users could create a backup to their Google Drive account and restore anytime.
Service resources
The app uses many book APIs from third-party services to get book details like Goodreads, Amazon, Google book, OpenLibrary, WorldCat,...
⚑Upcoming features
+ Adding the new fields: date started reading and date finished reading,...
+ Batch scanning feature
+ Dark mode
You can also use this app to catalog other collections like: comic, manga, board game, sheet music,...
■ Supported 25 languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simple), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, 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)
- Thao Ngan Nguyen Thi (Japanese)
- Henrique Costa (Portuguese)
- יהודה יהושע (Hebrew)
- Laurabartiromo (Spanish)
- Mohamdsamir (Arabic)
- Juliasolomakha (Russian)
- Polglishkontakt (Polish)
- Stetaz (Greek)
- Irmalita (Indonesian)
Icons made by Freepik, Pixel perfect, mavadee, bqlqn,... from www.flaticon.com.
Recent changes:
Version 2.6.1:
- Now new free users can add an unlimited number of books,
but can't use these premium features:
+ Grid view
+ A-Z index bar
+ Full statistic data
+ Full filter options
The current free users can add unlimited number of books and use the above premium features normally.
- Show the shelf name of a book in the Books tab
- Search books by lender or borrower name in the Transaction tab
- Bug fixes
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