# BookSafe — Library, wishlist & tracker

> Library, wishlist & tracker (iPhone/iPad app by Fabian Grill.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/booksafe/id6779730178 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Fabian Grill](https://appshunter.io/developer/6779730180)
- Category: Books
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 18 MB
- Languages: American English, German (Germany)
- Released: 2026-06-15
- Data updated: 2026-09-11
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/booksafe/id6779730178/reviews.md

## What is BookSafe?

BookSafe is your personal book manager – beautiful, fast and private. Build your library, track your reading, keep an eye on your wishlist. No account, no ads, no data collection.

YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE
• The Today tab shows you a daily page: quote, yearly goal, current book, upcoming dates.
• A new reading quote every day – in a card design that changes daily.

ON IPHONE, IPAD AND APPLE WATCH
• iPhone + iPad, always in sync – via your private iCloud, no sign-up needed.
• A full iPad layout: sidebar, wide lists, two-column statistics, large calendar.
• An extra-large widget for your iPad Home Screen.
• Apple Watch: start, pause and finish reading sessions right on your wrist – works without your iPhone, too.

ADD BOOKS IN SECONDS
• Scan an ISBN – title, author, cover and publisher arrive automatically from several book databases.
• Or add books manually and edit them freely.
• Duplicates are detected before they end up in your library.

YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR OVERVIEW
• Reading status: Unread, Reading, Finished, Listened (audiobooks) and Wishlist.
• List and gallery views, sorted and filtered by status, tag or series.
• Half-star ratings, notes, tags and reading lists.
• Series are grouped automatically – you see which volume is missing and add it in the edition you prefer. Special volumes like “book 8.5” sit right, too.

READING PROGRESS & STATS
• Reading sessions with a live timer, reading streak and pace insights.
• Statistics on finished books, genres, pages and years.
• Achievements, badges and a yearly reading challenge with your own goal.
• Year in Review: your numbers, your top 3 with medals – and your reading year as a film to share.
• Authors and genres are tappable – browse on and add finds straight to your wishlist.

WISHLIST & COUNTDOWN WIDGET
• Save upcoming books with their release date.
• A countdown shows the days until release – with a reminder.
• On release day, BookSafe celebrates with a big cover and a little fireworks display.
• The widget shows your next release on your Home and Lock Screen.

KEEP TRACK OF BORROWED BOOKS
• Mark books as borrowed – with source (library, friends) and due date.
• A countdown reminds you before the loan period ends.
• Extend or return with a single tap.

SHARE & EXPORT
• Share your favourite books as share cards.
• Export your library as CSV or PDF – your data is yours.

GERMAN & ENGLISH
• The app follows your device language automatically.

FREE & BOOKSAFE PRO
• Free for up to 50 books – with every feature.
• With BookSafe Pro, unlimited books. One-time purchase, no subscription.

Your library is yours: no login, no tracking, no third-party servers – everything lives on your device and syncs only to your private iCloud. Offline, too. Happy reading!

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| BookSafe Pro | $3.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1 — 2026-08-15

• NEW: Apple Watch – start, pause and finish reading sessions right on your wrist, with end-page input via the Digital Crown. The watch works even without your iPhone nearby – your sessions arrive safely on your iPhone later.
• NEW: A running reading session now sticks around, even if you close the app – a banner in “Today” and in the book detail takes you back with one tap.
• NEW: “Search book data again” – fetch a book’s data once more with a side-by-side comparison and decide field by field what to apply.
• NEW: Your own edits are protected – fields you edited by hand are no longer overwritten automatically. And every field in the book detail is now editable.
• Improved: Scrolling and app launch stay smooth, even while iCloud syncs in the background.
• Improved: The cover search finds the right edition more reliably and in higher resolution. Automatic cover improvement is now a switch – off by default.
• Fixed: a crash when deleting a book from the detail view, and an award animation that played on every rating change.
• Many further refinements.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-06

• NEW: iCloud Sync – your library syncs automatically across all devices signed in with the same Apple ID. It stays on your device and in your private iCloud – offline-capable, no sign-up, for everyone and without Pro. Deliberate duplicate copies are kept when merging.
• NEW: Ownership chip in the library – one tap cycles through All, Owned and Borrowed.
• Improved: App launch feels noticeably smoother, even while syncing in the background.
• Improved: Your yearly reading-challenge goal now syncs, too.
• Fixed: Tapping “Series” now always opens the series view – even from “Today” or Statistics.
• Fixed: The average rating can no longer exceed the 5-star scale, German devices show the decimal comma again, and English text no longer shows German-style quotation marks.
• Many further refinements.

### 0.9 — 2026-07-28

• NEW: “Today” – your new start tab. BookSafe greets you with a daily page: the quote of the day, your yearly goal with the next milestone stamp, the book you’re currently reading and your upcoming dates (releases and loan returns). Two columns on iPad – with the new wide cards “Coming Up” and “Recently Finished”.
• NEW: Quote of the Day – a new, curated reading quote every day (more than 100, mixed German and English) in a card design that changes daily: from book page to chalkboard, star chart and cinema marquee.
• NEW: Statistics now include Milestones & Reading History – the contents of the former Achievements tab have moved there. Reading History adds a year overview with tappable months.
• Improved: “More books by this author” now finds considerably more – even when catalogues list the author with a middle initial (“Douglas J. Preston”) or a double-barrelled name (“Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach”).
• Improved: The “Excellent” seal and top-3 medals now appear reliably on every cover – including series, genre views and the Today tab.
• Improved: The four special milestone stamps now come before the counting stamps – they’re usually earned first.
• Improved: Date rows stay readable at very large text sizes – cover and countdown stack instead of squeezing the title.
• Fixed: For books with several authors, tapping a name now opens the right author’s works.
• Many refinements and more than 100 new automated tests.

### 0.8 — 2026-07-24

• NEW: Your reading year as an animated film – flip-up stats, a month-by-month timeline of your finished books, a page counter racing up and, as the finale, your top-3 podium in gold, silver and bronze. Watch it in the app with music or share it as a video (Statistics → “Year in Review” → Play).
• NEW: Year in Review with your “Top 3 of the year” – key figures like books, pages, top genre and most productive month; your three books of the year wear gold, silver and bronze medals across the app.
• NEW: A fresh look – new accent typeface, cleaned-up colors (wishlist purple, owned books gold), redesigned app icons and a reworked polaroid pinboard in Achievements.
• NEW: Shared cards carry subtle BookSafe branding; the library card now shows the full cover.
• Improved: “More books by this author” opens a pre-filled “Add book” screen – set reading status, rating and format in one go.
• Improved: Covers appear more reliably – even for editions without a cover of their own; the cover picker offers high-resolution candidates again.
• Improved: The loans widget makes better use of its space and picks up the cover’s color mood; the extra-large iPad widget shows 8 books.
• Improved: Smoother scrolling in the grid view and a buttery-smooth reading-progress slider again.
• Improved: Statistics and the reading challenge now count identically; the PDF export truncates long titles cleanly.
• Improved: Notifications now appear as banners while the app is open.
• Fixed: wrong volume counts like “of 998”; pulsing countdowns respect “Reduce Motion”.
• Many refinements and more than 300 new automated tests for everyday stability.

### 0.7 — 2026-07-16

• NEW: More books by this author – tap an author name in your stats or in a book's detail view and browse all their books; books you own carry a golden seal, new finds go straight to your wishlist after a quick confirmation.
• NEW: Tappable genres – tap a genre in your statistics to see every book of that genre in your library as a cover grid.
• NEW: Author search in “Add book” – the magnifier next to the author field finds all books by that author and fills in the chosen result completely.
• NEW: Release-day fireworks – when a wishlist book is released, BookSafe celebrates on the next app start with a big cover and a short burst of fireworks (can be turned off).
• Improved: Searching for a series name now reliably surfaces its volumes at the top of the results – even when each volume carries its own episode title.
• Improved: “More volumes of this series” now only shows editions in your device language – with correct volume numbers and the right cover per volume.
• Improved: Release dates of pre-orders refine themselves automatically as soon as the catalog knows the exact day; year-only dates are shown honestly as a year and can be tapped to set the exact date.
• Improved: Library and wishlist filters and sorting are remembered across restarts.
• Improved: The loans list shows the reading status right in the row and orders equal statuses by due date; on iPhone, title and author get their full width back.
• iPad: The sidebar now starts collapsed to save space – changeable in Settings.
• Improved: Author, series and genre views share a calm, unified background gradient and perfectly aligned cover grids.
• Many refinements: consistent author initials (“J. K. Rowling”), more robust sharing and better everyday reliability.

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-11.*