Bookcase! vs SimpleQR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bookcase!
Organize your physical book collection by tracking ownership, location, and personal ratings. Quickly add books using an ISBN scanner to automatically retrieve title, author, and cover art.
- Track physical book ownership
- Record book locations
- Assign star ratings
- ISBN scanner for automatic data entry
- Download book cover art
- Add personal notes
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Use Bookcase to keep track of your physical books — what books do you own? Where are they? What rating would you give them? Quickly add all of your books with the in-built ISBN scanner — automatically download your book's author, title, even your book's cover art! • Add title, author and cover art for your books manually or use the in-built ISBN scanner to automatically download. • Bookcase will automatically detect the principal colors in your book's cover art and style appropriately. • Add notes and star ratings for a book to help keep track of your personal library.
SimpleQR
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SimpleQR is an app designed to scan QR and Barcodes and respond to the data they contain, as well as create your own custom codes. Many applications only let you scan a code, but this one lets you create them too! App features - Scanning and generating codes works completely offline, but codes that contain URLs and other online data may need an internet connection to access. - Scans codes that contain URLs, geographical coordinates, emails, phone numbers, plain text, SMS messages, calendar events, product numbers and WiFi configurations. - Create QR and barcodes that can contain URLs, geographical coordinates, emails, phone numbers, plain text, SMS and WiFi configurations, and product numbers. - Use the scanned data to perform actions such as visiting the URL, calling the phone number, connecting to a WiFi network, copying text, and much more! - Generated codes can be exported as PNG images that can be used anywhere The app supports scanning the following code and barcode versions: - QR Code - Data Matrix - Aztec - Code39 - Code93 - Code128 - Barcode - Aztec - Ean8 - Ean13 - UPC-A - UPC-E - ITF - PDF417 ...and can generate these following types: - QR Code - Data Matrix - Code39 - Code93 - Code128 - Ean8 - Ean13 - Aztec - UPC-A - UPC-E - ITF The app also features the ability to view what you have scanned in the past, so in case you can't find the QR code again, it's data will be in your scan history! This application's easy-to-use UI make generating codes easier than any other basic code generating app: Just select the type of code you want to generate, select the data for the code to contain, type in the code information, then click generate. In less than seconds, your code will be ready to use! Take the advantage and use only one app for all of your code scanning and creation needs!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: SimpleQR at 16.0 against Bookcase!'s 26.5. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Bookcase! | SimpleQR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (38 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 48.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.5 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Craig Grummitt | Koewen Hoffman |
In-app purchases
Bookcase!
No in-app purchases
SimpleQR
No in-app purchases









