Comparison

Bibliography vs Book Catalog

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bibliography

Manage your personal book collection with this app. Organize your library, track books you own, want to buy, or have lent out, and group series for easy reading order. It helps you catalog books, add unreleased titles, and rate your reads.

Highlights
  • Organize personal book catalog
  • Group books by series
  • Track book status (owned, lent, to buy)
  • Add unreleased books
  • Rate and genre books
  • Sync across devices via iCloud
Features
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The book lovers app. Were you once confused trying to find a book you wanted to read at your apartment? Did you bring home a new book, and found exactly the same one on your shelf? Or are you afraid to miss a new book of your favorite author? If it's about you, just get this app! - Organize a catalog of a books for your own library. - Combine the books in the series with their numbers, so you won't forget the order to read them. - Mark your books! Put it in a home library list, mark it with an electronic form, or maybe you gave it to someone to read, or are you just planning to buy it? - Point places to find books easier No ads, no subscriptions, no limits - Add some books to the app which are not published yet. If a series is not complete and you'd like to get the sequel. - Rate the books, so you can make your own author's rating. - Specify the genres of your books, so you can easily search for books by genres you are interested in. - Sync with all your devices by iCloud.

About

Book Catalog

Easily catalog your book collection by scanning entire shelves with your camera. Track detailed information about each book, manage your reading progress, and prevent duplicate purchases. Your library data is stored and synced privately on your device.

Highlights
  • Scan entire bookshelves at once
  • Recognize book spines on-device
  • Track book condition, edition, and value
  • Prevent duplicate book purchases
  • Import and export library data (CSV, Goodreads)
  • Track reading progress and goals
  • Lending tracker
Features
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Point your camera at a bookshelf. Book Catalog reads the spines and adds up to 40 books in one pass. Every other book app makes you scan barcodes one at a time. That is why people who own 400 books never finish cataloguing them. Book Catalog takes a photo of the whole shelf, recognises the spines on your device, and hands you a review list where you confirm the matches before anything is saved. A 500 book library is about 13 shelf photos. One afternoon. SCAN A WHOLE SHELF Photograph one shelf and get a list of what is on it, with a cover, title and author for each spine. Every match shows a confidence, and anything the camera was unsure about is flagged for you to check rather than guessed at. You approve the list, then the books are added. Recognition runs entirely on your device and the photo never leaves your phone. Prefer one at a time? Scan an ISBN barcode, search by title or author, or type a book in by hand. All of it is free and unlimited. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO OWN THE BOOKS Most reading apps stop at a star rating. Book Catalog tracks the copy on your shelf: First edition and printing number Dust jacket present Condition, graded Fine through Poor Signed copies Provenance notes Purchase price and date Estimated value, and a running total for the whole collection Print an insurance inventory as a PDF with cover thumbnails, ISBNs, conditions and valuations, suitable for a homeowner's policy rider. Values are your own estimates and the document says so plainly. NEVER BUY THE SAME BOOK TWICE Book Catalog warns you at the moment you add a book you already own, and tells you which copy it collides with. It knows the difference between a second copy of the same edition, which is usually a mistake, and a different edition of the same work, which for a collector is often the point. There is a duplicates report for the whole library too. BRING YOUR LIBRARY WITH YOU Import a Goodreads or StoryGraph export, or any CSV, and keep your ratings, shelves and read dates. Import is free and unlimited, because a catalogue you cannot move into is no use to anyone. Export back out to CSV whenever you like. Your library is yours. TRACK THE READING TOO Shelves for read, reading, want to read and your wishlist, plus any custom shelves you want Reading progress by page or percent, with a session log An annual reading goal that shows whether you are on pace and by how much Streaks, pages per day, genre breakdown, and a year in books Saved quotes with page references A lending tracker for the books you have lent out and the ones you have borrowed Everything is stored on your device. Sign in to iCloud and it syncs privately to your other devices. There is no account, no sign up, and no server of ours holding your library. ACCESSIBLE BY DESIGN Full Dynamic Type support up to the largest accessibility sizes, VoiceOver labels on every book and every scan result, and status shown with a symbol and a label rather than colour alone. The camera is optional: manual entry and import cover everything. FREE AND PRO Free, with no limit: unlimited books, barcode scanning, manual entry, shelves, reading progress, statistics, the annual goal, iCloud sync, and Goodreads, StoryGraph and CSV import. Shelf Scan is free three times a day. BOOK CATALOG PRO Pro unlocks unlimited shelf scanning, the collector fields and collection valuation, the duplicates report, advanced statistics, and CSV and insurance PDF export. Pro is available as a weekly or yearly auto-renewable subscription, or as a one time purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew until canceled. Cancel anytime in your Apple ID Subscriptions settings at least 24 hours before the renewal date. Privacy policy: https://app.innovaapps.ai/privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Bibliography4 screens
Book Catalog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Book Catalog at Free against Bibliography's $0.99. Bibliography's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 1.0) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Book Catalog is free to download; Bibliography costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bibliography holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bibliography versus Book Catalog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBibliographyBook Catalog
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 15 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperValerii DubovoiAlex Gameli Heyman

In-app purchases

None

Bibliography

No in-app purchases

None

Book Catalog

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bibliography free?
Bibliography costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Book Catalog free?
Book Catalog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bibliography or Book Catalog?
Bibliography is rated higher. Bibliography averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Book Catalog averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Bibliography or Book Catalog have ads?
Neither Bibliography nor Book Catalog shows ads.

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