# BookDrawer: Reading Journal — Reading log and your shelf

> Reading log and your shelf (iPhone/iPad app by Shinhyoung Lee.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bookdrawer-reading-journal/id6796912751 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Shinhyoung Lee](https://appshunter.io/developer/6796912754)
- Category: Books, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 11 MB
- Languages: Korean, American English
- Released: 2026-08-03
- Data updated: 2026-09-28
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bookdrawer-reading-journal/id6796912751/reviews.md

## What is BookDrawer?

BookDrawer is a quiet drawer for the books you keep.
When you read them, how many times, and where they are now — all in one place.

■ Library — Want to read, reading, finished. And bought, borrowed, given away.
■ Reading history — Read it again and each pass keeps its own dates, rating, and notes.
■ Your shelf — Owned, to buy, departed (gifted, sold, lost). Two copies of one book, tracked separately.
■ Quotes — Photograph a passage and the words come across on their own. Page numbers too.
■ Reading calendar — Covers of finished books fill in the calendar, and turn into share cards for your feed.
■ iCloud sync — The same library on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. No sign-in.
■ Book search — Find by title or author and pull in the cover and details. (Book data: Google Books)

No ads. Just your books.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.2 — 2026-09-22

Easier to pick up the books you already own.

• New "Unread" shelf in the sidebar for books you own but haven't started. The "None" reading status is now called "Unread".
• Set a "Start reading on" date for books you plan to read. It shows on the shelf as "From Sep 28", and the To read shelf can sort by planned start. Daily targets and reminders begin on that day.
• Fixed a crash when adding a book on iOS 17 devices.

### 2.1 — 2026-09-13

The book you're reading comes first.

• The app now opens to your "Reading" shelf. The full library is one tap away in the sidebar.
• Marking a book finished records the remaining pages on the finish date. Change the date later and the record follows.
• Book search now uses Kakao and the National Library of Korea. Search results show where each book came from.
• Adding several books by barcode now fills in page counts, so progress % and today's share work right away.

### 2.0 — 2026-09-03

BookDrawer gets wider in 2.0. Alongside what you read, it now keeps track of where each book is.

Reading history
Read a book more than once and each pass is kept on its own — its dates, its rating, its notes. Finished lists and the calendar show them separately too.

Read again
Start a new pass from a finished book. The earlier passes stay as they are.

Your shelf
Mark each book as owned, to buy, or departed (gifted, sold, or lost). Gifts remember who you gave them to, and if you hold two copies, each is tracked on its own.

Want to buy
Keep the books you mean to buy in their own list, and move one into the library with a single tap once you have it.

Your existing records carry over. The first launch runs a one-time tidy-up, and a backup is made automatically just before it starts.

### 1.10 — 2026-08-28

• 책 소개에서 작품 이름이 사라지던 문제를 고쳤습니다. 〈드래곤 라자〉처럼 꺾쇠로 묶은 작품 이름이 통째로 지워지곤 했습니다.
• 책 소개에 들어 있는 링크를 눌러 열 수 있습니다.
• 설정의 동기화 안내를 정리했습니다. 잘 되고 있을 때는 아무 말도 하지 않고, iCloud에 로그인되어 있지 않을 때만 알립니다. 그 안내도 「다시 보지 않기」로 끌 수 있습니다.

### 1.9 — 2026-08-26

• 바코드로 여러 권 추가 — 카메라를 닫지 않고 책장을 훑듯 잇달아 담습니다. 모두 '읽을 예정'으로 들어오니 읽은 날짜는 나중에 책마다 정하세요.
• 표지를 저장할 때 알맞은 크기로 줄입니다. iCloud 용량이 줄고 동기화가 안정됩니다.
• 백업에 해마다의 목표가 함께 담깁니다. 이전에는 백업으로 되살리면 목표가 사라졌습니다.
• 가져오기가 실패하면 서재에 아무것도 남기지 않습니다. 확인 화면에서 본 숫자와 실제 결과가 언제나 같습니다.
• 완독일이 없는 책도 모아보기에 '완독일 모름'으로 남습니다. 이전에는 연도별 서고에서 사라졌습니다.

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