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Point and scan the barcode
Hold your phone over the barcode. Title, author, publisher and cover fill themselves in. If the book is already on one of your shelves, MyBookCat tells you which one.
A catalogue for real shelves
Capture your library.
Organise it digitally.
Scan the shelves you already have, at home or at your community library. MyBookCat turns them into a catalogue you can search, lend from and share, and it stays yours.
The same shelf, twice
Your shelves become a catalogue.
Photograph the books you already own. Every one arrives in a catalogue that mirrors the real shelf, same books, same order, same rows, so it looks like the room you keep them in.
Your shelf
In MyBookCat
Eleven things it does
Made for people who love their shelves
Everything here is built around how books actually live in a house, from getting them in to lending them out.
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Scan a whole shelf at once
Pick a shelf, then scan book after book without stopping. About ten times faster than adding them one at a time, and every book lands on that shelf for you.
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Foreign books, read for youPro
No barcode, or a title you cannot type? Photograph the cover. MyBookCat reads French, Japanese, Urdu, Arabic and more, and understands editions and volume numbers. It never guesses a title it cannot read.
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A real place for every book
Library, bookcase, row, section, even the stack on top of the shelf. When you want a book, you know exactly where to reach.
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Sets that know their gaps
Eleven volumes shelve as one work. A missing volume shows up as a gap, and one tap puts it on your wishlist so you never buy the wrong one twice.
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Lend without losing
Mark a book lent, set a due date, and send a gentle reminder when it runs late. Friends with your link can ask to borrow.
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Build it togetherPro
Five of you can work on it, each with their own role. One scans, one sorts, you stay in charge.
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Share your shelves with anyonePro
Turn on a public link so family, friends, students or a whole community can browse your shelves. Read only, no account needed, and you can switch it off any time.
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Your library, with you anywhere
Everything saves as you go and the catalogue stays yours. Open it on your phone in a bookshop, on a tablet by the shelf, or on a laptop at your desk.
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Customizable themes
Rate what you read, keep track of the page you are on, and dress the whole library. Seven themes and five shelf materials, from bright paper to a dark, quiet reading room.
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Your catalogue is yours to keep
Import from other apps and databases to get started, then download the whole library as Excel or CSV whenever you like. Every title, author, shelf and note, with nothing locked in.
In their words
What people say once the shelves are in.
Pricing
Scan your bookshelf for free.
Only pay for foreign scans: different languages, or books without a barcode.
Basic
$0/forever
For your own shelves at home.
- Unlimited books by barcode or by typing
- Shelves, volumes, tags, search
- A wishlist, and adding from a shop link
- Lend a book and see when it is due back
- Export everything, any time
Most popular
Pro
$4.99/month
Or $49.90 a year, two months free.
- Everything in Basic
- 100 photo scans a month, in any language or script
- Share your library with a link anyone can open
- Import from a spreadsheet
- As many libraries as you like
- Up to five people, so the family can catalogue together
- Reminder emails when a book is due back
Library Pro
$20.99/month
Or $209.90 a year, two months free. This plan is perfect for a small library, a school, a homeschooling club or a community library.
- Everything in Pro
- 400 photo scans a month
- Borrower records, found by name, phone or card
- Your own labels for books with no barcode
- A lending desk: one scan out, one scan back
- Overdue chasing that happens without you
- As many staff as you need
Pro and Library Pro include photo scans each month, and you can buy more whenever you need them. Extras never expire.
Scanning a barcode, looking up an ISBN and typing a book in are free on every plan and always will be. A scan is only spent when you photograph a cover the world's book databases have never heard of.
