iBookshelf App Reviews

Every time I open the app the database is messed up, for a self appointed "best book collecting" of the appstore, it really needs some work

I am in the process of scanning in a couple thousand books. Overall the app has worked pretty good, but I have had a few issues with it. Ive learned not to scan in more than 5 or 6 books at time, even though the batch scanning appears to support many more. Occasionally, (as in 3 times out of dozens), the batch scanning process screws up and you lose all your saved scans. That was annoying. Also when you encounter a duplicate book a few times it wouldnt let me skip past that to the next scanned bar code, so I would have to cancel and then rescan the remaining codes. And the last issue I encountered the app appeared to crash completely, and then when I restarted it it said "upgrading database" and from what I could tell it lost the last several books I had scanned. :-( Thats annoying because I am sorting these books into boxes by author, and I had no way to figure out which were the latest ones scanned. Having said all of that I still like the app, I just dont trust it. Every time I am done doing a large batch of scanning I email myself a copy of the database, and then verify that I can open the list in excel. I really like that its been good for finding any book I can scan the bar codes on, and for the most part it finds any older book that has an ISBN number. Ive only had about 1% fail to be found, and those were all very old books.

This app works really well for what I need, but it could use a few improvements. It crashes fairly often and I constantly have to take pictures of some of my books to get a cover photo. The databases used to pull information from could definitely be expanded. There are so many good sources out there.

Post update, this app crashes after upgrading database every time! This update has rendered iBookshelf unusable on my iPad 2.

Please fix. Cannot access my collection.

Why do I update something that was working just fine. Crash crash crash. Please fix it.

Update 1/1/2015: update working fine on iPad Air/iOS 8+ I am enjoying this app very much! Discrete use of the collections add new dimensions of keeping track of what you have read and want to read. Plenty of attributes to use or not use. Scanning works great on an iPhone 4S with iOS 6. Wish transfer to my main library on my iPad 5.1.1 were simpler, but Dropbox works well for both. A few stability problems here and there, but the database has never lost info. This is a pleasure to use!

App is currently non functional. Needs immediate attention.

I love this app!!!

Easy way to keep track of all the books we own. Now we lend books and know where they are. Loving this app!

I have been using several months and its great! You need to check out all the different functions. Just play with it.

The scanner sometimes scans a total different book. Not being able to sync with other devices will make me look for another app that can make the same things but with the sync. Another thing I dont like is that you cant see the title while entering it manually and editing it is very annoying. Not what I expected.

Great App! There is no better way to keep track of what you have.

Love the way this helps me keep track of my library. Support is excellent.

I did finally finish entering all 583 of my books. It has functionality in that you can scan the ISBN barcode on the back of your books. Or you can enter in the barcode independently. However, after I got my books all entered it stopped working and I have not been able to get any response from the author. I can scan books but it wont save them. It does have the ability to back up the entire thing to an XL file which is great.

I upgraded from Lite due to the constant ad redirections. I managed to enter two books before it stopped allowing me to save new entries. The two entries I did manage to add in before glitch are show up as the same book until I click around between sort types. I spent $2 two enter two items and have under a minute of a working app.

Does not work great consistently. One day things scan I quickly and then the next I have to sit forever waiting to add multiple books. Freezes often. Sometime cant see the title to change it when it comes up wrong. If the wrong author comes up, you cant change it before you save the book or it wont save. Gotta save it then go back and fix the mistakes. If you scan multiple books and one of them is a duplicate, no matter what answer you give, it doesnt go back and let you save the other titles you scan. I always have to find something else to scan before it will ask me to save the rest.

Constantly crashed, couldnt scan the barcodes, couldnt find book covers, if I needed to type I couldnt see what I was typing. . . . Just terrible.

Overall handy app. I dont need a lot of bells and whistles. App comes in handy for checking inventory, lending and making wish list.

Such any easy app for both tracking my wish list and my current library; bar code scan is great