# BookDeck - Reading Log & Shelf — A shelf of covers you'll enjoy

> A shelf of covers you'll enjoy (iPhone/iPad app by Takahiro Kimura.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bookdeck-reading-log-and-shelf/id6811623217 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Takahiro Kimura](https://appshunter.io/developer/6775796488)
- Category: Books, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 39 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese
- Released: 2026-09-16
- Data updated: 2026-11-13

## What is BookDeck?

BookDeck is a reading tracker for the books you've read, the ones you're reading, and the ones waiting for you. No social feed, no followers. It's built so that simply looking at your own shelf feels good.

■ Add a book with one search, or a quick scan
・Search by title, author or ISBN. The cover, publisher, release date and description fill themselves in
・Point the camera at the barcode on the back of a book and add it on the spot
・Tap + on a search result. Select several and add them all at once
・Duplicate checking, so the same book never lands twice

■ Your shelf
・Switch between a grid of covers and a list that shows more detail
・Filter by Want to read / To read / Reading / Finished
・Search across tags, authors, series, publishers — even the text of your memos
・Sort by date added, title, author, series or rating
・Group a series into one stack (volume one in front, with a count badge)
・Select several books and change their tags, series or status together
・Books you're reading show a progress bar under the cover

■ Inside a book
・Edit the title, author, publisher, status, rating, start and finish dates, series, tags and memos right there
・Mark one finished and a bookmark slips into the cover — a small moment worth having
・A five-star rating and a place for your thoughts
・As many memos as you like. Pin the passages you love and revisit them from Records. Dates are yours to change
・Photograph a page and lift the text straight into a memo (Live Text)
・Replace the cover with a photo of your own copy
・Links to Rakuten Books, Rakuten Kobo, Amazon and Kindle, for print and digital alike

■ Turn your shelf into one image
・Lay out just the covers and share or save the result
・No headers, no ads. Filter first and only those books line up
・Covers stay the same size no matter how many books you have (up to 1,000)

■ Records
・How many books you finished this year, with their covers
・Books per month, drawn as real books stacking up (finished / started / added)
・A reading calendar: covers appear on the day you finished them, and tapping a date brings that day back. It reads like a reading diary
・Books read this month, reading in numbers, your most read authors and most used tags
・All your pinned memos, collected in one place

■ How it looks
・28 theme colors (7 muted traditional shades, 7 solids, 14 gradients). The Home Screen icon can follow your choice
・Light, dark, or follow the system. Light mode uses a soft, papery background
・A Home Screen widget with this year's count and what you're reading, covers included

■ iCloud sync, and an easy move to a new device
・Your shelf, tags, series, memos and reading records sync automatically across the iPhones and iPads on your Apple Account
・Get a new device, sign in, and pick up exactly where you left off
・No extra charge. Settings shows the sync status and when it last ran

■ Your data stays yours
・No account to create. Records live on your device and in your own iCloud, nowhere else
・Back up books, tags, series, memos, cover photos and reading records to a single JSON file, and restore from it
・CSV export (Premium) opens in Excel or Numbers

■ Premium (optional)
Every feature works on the free version. Premium removes the ads and unlocks CSV export.
・¥200 / month, ¥1,900 / year (with a 7-day free trial), or ¥6,800 once
・Subscriptions are charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings

■ About the book data
Search and cover images come from the Rakuten Books API. Page counts come from the National Diet Library Search, openBD and Google Books.

Terms of use: https://taka3267-collab.github.io/tkApps/libroa/terms.html
Privacy policy: https://taka3267-collab.github.io/tkApps/libroa/privacy-policy.html

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| プレミアム（月額） | $0.99 | per month |
| プレミアム（年額） | $11.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| プレミアム（買い切り） | $39.99 | one-time |


## Is BookDeck safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess BookDeck.

## Is BookDeck legit?

BookDeck - Reading Log & Shelf appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for BookDeck is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.5 — 2026-11-12

■ About this app
A personal reading log. There is no sign-in or account creation, no social features, and no user-generated content shared between users.
The shelf is empty on first launch. Please add a book using the steps below before reviewing.

■ What changed in 1.0.5
1. Shelf image (new)
   Draws the covers of the books on the shelf into a single image inside the app, which can then be saved or shared.
   It is not a screen capture: the app lays out the cover images and renders them. Nothing leaves the device unless the user picks a destination in the share sheet.
2. New app icon, with alternatives
   The default icon is now navy. Settings lets the user switch to an alternate icon that follows the chosen theme color.
3. Theme colors: 14 -> 28
4. English localization
   The whole UI is now localized. The app's development language is Japanese; en is the added locale.
5. Ad fixes
   Ads were being requested before the SDK finished initializing, which could leave a slot empty. Requests now wait for initialization and retry with a backoff after a failure.
6. "Apps you may like" in Settings
   Lists other apps by the same developer and opens their App Store pages. It fetches a static JSON file over HTTPS (GET only) and sends no information.
No changes to purchases, permissions or how reading data is handled.

■ How to try it
1. Search tab: enter a title such as "1Q84", or an ISBN such as 9784167110123, then tap + on a result to add it
2. Shelf tab, top right (…) > Create a shelf image: the covers are laid out into one image, which can be shared from the top right
3. Settings > Theme color: pick a color, then set App icon to "Theme color" to change the Home Screen icon
4. Scroll to the bottom of Settings for "Apps you may like"
5. Records tab > Calendar: covers appear on the days books were finished

■ External services
・Book data and cover images: Rakuten Books API (Rakuten Web Service)
・Page counts: National Diet Library Search / openBD / Google Books API
・Apps you may like: https://taka3267-collab.github.io/tkApps/shared/recommended-apps.json (static file, GET only, no data sent)
・Links to Rakuten Books / Rakuten Kobo / Amazon / Kindle are affiliate links. They open the store's product page; no goods or digital content are sold or displayed inside the app (Kindle opens Amazon's website in an in-app browser)

■ Ads and ATT
・Google AdMob banner and native ads (no full-screen ads)
・Before the first registration from search, the app shows an explanation screen and then the system App Tracking Transparency dialog. Every feature works whether or not tracking is allowed

■ In-app purchases (Premium)
・Premium = no ads + CSV export. Everything else is identical to the free version
・iCloud sync, the reading calendar and the shelf image are free features, not part of Premium
・Products: monthly (com.taka.Libroa.premium.monthly), yearly (com.taka.Libroa.premium.yearly, 7-day free trial), lifetime (com.taka.Libroa.premium.lifetime)

■ Camera
・"Add by scanning a barcode": reads the ISBN barcode on the back of a book
・"Capture with camera" in a memo: photographs a page and recognizes the text (Live Text)

### 1.0.4 — 2026-10-28

■ 不具合を修正しました
・検索欄やタグ、本のタイトルなどを日本語で入力するとき、1文字目が変換の対象から外れてしまうことがある問題を修正しました
・iPhone Duo を開いて使うとき、本棚に追加した本の表紙が「本棚」タブの位置へ飛ばない問題を修正しました

### 1.0.3 — 2026-10-17

■ 読書カレンダーを追加しました
・「記録」タブで「グラフ / カレンダー」を切り替えられるようになりました
・読み終えた日に本の表紙が並びます。複数冊の日は重ねて表示します
・日付をタップすると、その日の出来事 (読み終えた / 読み始めた / メモを書いた / 本棚に追加した) を振り返れます
・日付を選んでいないときは、その月の記録が新しい順に並びます。読書日記のように読み返せます
・左右にスワイプすると前の月 / 次の月へ移動します

■ メモの日付を変えられるようにしました
・あとから書いたメモを、実際に読んだ日に合わせられます。カレンダーもその日付で並びます

■ 本棚を広く使えるようにしました
・本棚の下部に固定表示していた広告をやめ、一覧の中に流れる形に変えました
・本を登録するときの全画面広告をやめました

■ そのほか
・記録のグラフで、1 冊が横から見た本の形になりました
・メモの印を、しおりからピンに変更しました (読了のしおりと見分けやすくするため)
・細かな表示の改善と不具合の修正

### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-06

■ iCloud 同期に対応しました
・本棚・タグ・シリーズ・メモ・感想・読書記録が、同じ Apple アカウントの端末と自動で同期されます
・機種変更のときも、新しい iPhone でサインインすればそのまま続きから使えます
・iPhone と iPad の両方で記録できます
・追加料金はありません。すべての方がお使いいただけます
・設定 >「iCloud 同期」で、同期の状況と最終同期日時を確認できます
・iCloud にサインインしていない場合も、これまでどおりこの iPhone の中に記録が保存されます

■ 検索の不具合を修正しました
・検索結果が 30 件までしか表示されず、下までスクロールしても続きが読み込まれないことがある問題を修正しました

■ そのほか
・一部の画面で広告が表示領域からはみ出すことがある問題を修正しました
・細かな表示の改善

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-21

■ 記録タブを追加
・今年読み終わった冊数と表紙をひと目で
・月ごとの冊数を、1 冊 = 1 ブロックの積み上げグラフで表示。読了 / 読み始め / 本棚に追加 を切り替え、3 か月〜すべての期間で確認できます
・今月読んだ本、数字で見る読書、よく読む著者、よく使うタグ (タップで本棚を絞り込み)
・しおりを付けたメモをまとめて読み返せます

■ メモを複数持てるように
・1 冊に何件でもメモを追加。気に入った一節には「しおり」を付けられます
・本のページをカメラで撮って文字をなぞるだけでメモにできます (Live Text)

■ 本棚
・シリーズをひとまとめに表示 (1 巻の表紙が前面、冊数バッジ付き)
・複数の本を選んで、タグ・シリーズ・ステータスをまとめて変更
・本棚内検索がタグ・シリーズ・出版社・メモの中身にも対応
・読んでいるページ / 総ページ数を記録。読書中の本には進捗バーを表示 (総ページ数は自動取得)

■ 見た目
・テーマカラーにグラデーション 7 色を追加 (計 14 色)。ホーム画面のアプリアイコンもテーマと同じ色に
・ライトモードの背景を、紙のようなやさしい色に
・本棚から詳細を開くとき、表紙がそのまま移動する演出

■ そのほか
・ホーム画面ウィジェット (今年の読了数、読書中の本)
・アイコン長押しから「バーコードで登録」「キーワードで検索」
・バックアップ (JSON) の書き出し / 復元
・表紙の写真を自分で登録できるように
・検索の並び順 (関連順 / 発売日) と、読み仮名でのタイトル検索
・iPad に対応
・細かな不具合の修正と動作の改善

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