# Kitava: Reading Tracker — A quiet shelf for your books > A quiet shelf for your books (iPhone/iPad app by MUHAMMED TAHA AKTAS.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kitava-reading-tracker/id6811337795 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [MUHAMMED TAHA AKTAS](https://appshunter.io/developer/1700498547) - Category: Books, Productivity - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.4 · 51 MB - Languages: American English, Turkish - Released: 2026-09-14 - Data updated: 2026-10-12 ## What is Kitava? Kitava is a reading tracker that behaves like a well-made notebook: paper, ink, and quiet. It keeps the books you are reading, the ones you mean to read and the ones you finished — and it never asks you to perform any of it for an audience. YOUR LIBRARY IS YOURS There are no profiles, no followers, no feed, no comments and no likes. Nobody else can see what you read. This is not a setting you switch on; there is nothing in the app that could show your library to another person. A SHELF, NOT A LIST Your books stand on shelves with their covers out, and a sliver of binding whose thickness comes from the page count. A book with no cover is not a grey box: it gets its binding cloth and its title in foil. If you would rather have a list, it is in Settings. TWO TAPS A DAY Tap your book and it comes off the shelf, page field and all. Logging tonight's reading is a tap and a number. SEARCH, SCAN OR ADD IT YOURSELF Search millions of books through Open Library, or scan the barcode on the back cover. When a book is not there — and for some languages it often is not — add it by hand in a few seconds; only the title is required. Every filled-in field can be corrected, page count included. BRING YOUR LIBRARY WITH YOU Import your Goodreads or StoryGraph export, or any CSV file with a title column. Kitava shows you what it found before it writes anything, and your library leaves just as easily, as a CSV file of its own. READ YOUR OWN BOOKS Add a PDF or EPUB from your phone and read it inside the app. Its title, author and cover are read from the file, and your page moves on its own as you read — for these books there is nothing to log at all. Kitava also counts the time you spend reading, with no timer to start. Pick one of six paper colours, from white to black; in an EPUB, also the typeface, the size and the line height. Your files stay on your phone and are never uploaded. KEEP WHAT YOU LIKED Bookmark a page, or underline a sentence in an EPUB; either can carry a note. Reading on paper? Type in a quote with its page. All of it is kept with your library, and backed up with it when you sign in. READ YOUR WAY Tag your books, set one aside when it is not working, read a favourite again and keep both finishes, or follow an audiobook in minutes instead of pages. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Kitava opens straight to your shelf and works without a connection. Sign in only if you want your books backed up and brought back on a new phone — free, with no paid tier. YOUR READING YEAR Books and pages by month, how long a book takes you, the stars you gave, the publishers you read most, this year against the last, and a yearly goal if you want one. At the end of the year there is a card you can share if you feel like it. A QUIET REMINDER, IF YOU WANT ONE One notification at a time you choose, off by default: the book and the page you stopped at. No streaks, no "you missed a day", and nothing at all on a day you already read. WHAT IS NOT IN HERE No advertising. No tracking. No crash reporting, and no analytics. No subscription and no paywall. The camera opens only to read a barcode; the barcode is decoded on your device by the system, and the picture never leaves your phone. The app never asks for your location, contacts or calendar. Turkish and English throughout, with a light and a dark theme. ## Is Kitava safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Kitava. ## Is Kitava legit? Kitava: Reading Tracker appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Kitava is 70 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.1.1 — 2026-10-10 What's new in Kitava 1.1.1 The daily reminder no longer makes a sound, and it is scheduled more reliably. A PDF or EPUB you open in Kitava from another app, such as Files or Mail, arrives under its real name, "Add and read" opens it at once, and a file already in your library opens that book instead of a second copy. Settings → Library → Default reader explains how to open PDFs and EPUBs in Kitava on your version of iOS. ### 1.1 — 2026-09-29 What's new in Kitava 1.1 Two menus at the top of your library: one filters by reading status, the other shows only the books you added from your phone, or only PDFs or EPUBs. Settings has been reorganised, so each option is easier to find. The shelf sounds are gone. Vibration stays, and you can switch it off in Settings. On a phone set to Turkish, the camera prompt and the system's own sheets inside Kitava now appear in Turkish. Fixes for sign-in, syncing, the reader and list import. A book you pick up now fits the screen when the phone is on its side. ### 1.0 — 2026-09-14 No release notes. ## More apps by MUHAMMED TAHA AKTAS - [Core Tower Defense](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/core-tower-defense/id6456525413) - [Sky Castle Puzzle Game](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sky-castle-puzzle-game/id6462911652) - [Galactic Survival](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/galactic-survival/id6470302326) All apps by MUHAMMED TAHA AKTAS: https://appshunter.io/developer/1700498547 --- *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 2026-10-12.*