OpenBookshelf vs Book Snapper

Your books. Without the noise. OpenBookshelf is a clean, focused book tracker for readers who want to organize what they read — not be sold a subscription, shown ads, or pushed into a social network. Track your reading in three taps. Search for a book, add it to your shelf, mark it as read. No onboarding wizard, no account creation, no tutorial. Just your books. SEARCH MILLIONS OF BOOKS Find books instantly by title, author, or ISBN — powered by Open Library, the world's largest open book database. No proprietary database, no lock-in. IMPORT FROM GOODREADS Bring your entire reading history with you. Export your Goodreads data and import it into OpenBookshelf in seconds. Keep your shelves, ratings, and reading dates without starting over. SYNC ACROSS DEVICES Your library stays up to date on every device automatically with iCloud. Add a book on your iPhone, see it on your iPad. No account required. WHAT YOU WON'T FIND HERE No algorithmic recommendations. No social feed. No reading challenges designed to make you feel guilty. No ads. No behavioral tracking. No subscription. OpenBookshelf does one thing well: it helps you keep track of what you've read, what you're reading, and what you want to read next. Nothing more. Nothing less. Completely free. No account. No tracking. No catch.

Turn any bookshelf into a digital library in seconds. Point your camera at a shelf and Book Snapper reads every spine at once - forty+ books in a single photo. No typing, no scanning barcodes one at a time. Then keep track of what you're reading, what you've finished, and what's next. HOW IT WORKS • Photograph any bookshelf • AI reads the titles and authors off the spines • Choose which books to keep • Name the snap - "Dad's office" or "The bookshop sci-fi shelf" - and everything you keep from it is filed under that name FEATURES • AI-Powered Detection - reads a whole shelf from one photo, spines and all • Reading Tracker - mark books as Reading, Finished or Didn't finish, one at a time or a whole shelf at once, and celebrate every book you finish • Your Profile - your reading totals and the books you've finished recently, all in one place • AI Librarian - talk about any book in your library, or ask what to read next. It knows what's on your shelves • Find Books I'd Like - snap a shelf you don't own and get up to three books worth reading, each with a reason • Wishlist - keep the books you want but don't own yet • Every Detail Filled In - covers, authors, publishers, page counts and descriptions, added automatically • Personal Library - browse, search, sort and filter your whole collection • Lists - group books however you like, including ones you don't own: a friend's shelf, a bookshop, a holiday • Barcode Scanning - scan a single book by ISBN when you want an exact match • Export - your library is yours to keep, as a CSV you can take anywhere • Offline Access - your library is there whether or not you have signal PERFECT FOR • Readers who want to keep track of what they're reading • Book collectors cataloguing their shelves • Standing in a bookshop wondering which of these is for you • Moving or downsizing and needing a quick inventory • Knowing what you already own, before you buy it twice Download Book Snapper and finally know what's on your shelves - and what you've read. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdfla/