# 5books: Your Top Five Books — Reading log & bookshelf scan

> Reading log & bookshelf scan (iPhone/iPad app by Yusuke Tsuchiya.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/5books-your-top-five-books/id6808663550 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Yusuke Tsuchiya](https://appshunter.io/developer/6805020502)
- Category: Books, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 8 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese, Korean
- Released: 2026-09-07
- Data updated: 2026-10-26

## What is 5books?

Just five books. Not too many, not too few.

5books is where you pick the five books that made you, and carry them with you.

PICK YOUR FIVE
Choose five from everything you've read and rank them. Spin them with your finger and they rotate to the front, one by one. Swap the order or the books as often as you like.

BUILD YOUR LIBRARY
Books you've read, books you're reading, books still on the pile. Add a status, stars and a short note. The shelf of covers you build becomes your reading log. Add several books at once and record them one after another, right there.

TAG HOW IT FELT
"Made me cry", "couldn't put it down", "worth rereading" — 13 feeling tags. Filter your library by genre and by feeling.

SCAN YOUR BOOKSHELF
Already own dozens of books? Take one photo of your shelf and 5books reads the spines and adds them all at once. Barcode scanning works too.

SEND YOUR FIVE
Share your five as a single image card, or send one link. Change your five later and the same link updates. The person you send it to doesn't need the app.

YOUR NEXT BOOK, FROM A FRIEND'S FIVE
Invite friends and see their five books. 5books quietly points out books a friend picked that you don't own yet — a recommendation based on nothing but the fact that someone chose it as one of their five.

NO ACCOUNT NEEDED
No email, no password. Your library stays on your device. Your five and your notes are shared only when you join friends or send a link.

Available in English, Japanese and Korean.

Book data and covers are provided by the Rakuten Books API and the Kakao (Daum) Book Search API.
Supported by Rakuten Developers

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unlock photo scanning | $1.99 | one-time |


## Is 5books safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess 5books.

## Is 5books legit?

5books: Your Top Five Books has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for 5books is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.3 — 2026-09-17

• Add feeling tags to any book
Tag a book with how it felt — "made me cry", "couldn't put it down", and 11 more. Filter your library by genre and feeling, and see how many friends picked the same tag.

• Record several books in one go
Add multiple books at once and record their status, rating, tags, My 5, and a note right there — no need to reopen each one from your library.

• Find your next book from a friend's feeling
Search what your friends are reading by feeling, not just by title.

• A cleaner library and home screen
Filters collapse into simple dropdowns. Your book count sits right next to the page title.

• Korean support
The whole app now works in Korean, with Korean books searchable through the Kakao Book Search API.

• Other small improvements.

### 1.2 — 2026-09-11

・友達の招待がもっとかんたんに
招待リンクを押すとアプリがそのまま開き、「友達に追加しますか？」からワンタップで友達になれます。コードの入力はいりません。

・5冊を1枚の画像で送れるように
SOCIALの「5冊を送る」で、あなたの5冊の表紙を並べた画像を作って、LINEやSNSに送れます。

・はじめての方向けの使い方ガイド
最初に、画面の上で主な使い方をご案内します。設定の「使い方をもう一度見る」から、いつでも見直せます。

・そのほか、細かな改善を行いました。

### 1.1 — 2026-09-09

写真から本を登録する機能が、もっと長く使えるようになりました。

・楽天ブックスでの購入がよりスムーズに
・写真からの一括登録は、無料の3回のあとも使い続けられます（買い切り）

### 1.0 — 2026-09-07

No release notes.

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All apps by Yusuke Tsuchiya: https://appshunter.io/developer/6805020502

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