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Your bookcase, drawn on the screen
Not a list that mentions a shelf. The bookcase as it stands in your room, row by row, section by section, with the stack on top and the pile underneath. Look at the screen, then walk straight to the book.
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
Why this one
The parts no other catalogue has
Every app can read a barcode. These are the reasons people move their library here and leave it here.
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A whole shelf without stopping
Pick a shelf and scan book after book, nothing to tap in between. Then put the pile away by touching the spot on the drawing of your shelf — one tap per book, instead of choosing a shelf, a row and a section every time.
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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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It asks for the book back, so you never have to
Mark a book lent and give it a due date. Your borrower gets an email when they take it, before it falls due, on the day, and again if it runs late. You get a note of everything outstanding. Nobody has to have the awkward conversation.
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It knows a set from a stray
Eleven volumes shelve as one work, and a missing volume shows as a gap you can put straight on your wishlist. Arabic and Latin titles are matched past their spelling, so the same book scanned twice is caught and your shelves sort properly in either script.
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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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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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And everything the other apps do
Barcode scanning, lending a book, ratings and the page you are on, seven themes and five shelf materials, every device you own, and the whole catalogue out as Excel or CSV whenever you want. All of it is here. None of it is the reason to be here.
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.
