Book Catalogue
Evan Leybourn Productivity In-app purchases
An easy to use open source (GPL) book cataloging application.
- Rating
- 3.7
- 5.2K ratings
- Downloads
- 545K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- Oct 25
- 2026
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About Book Catalogue
An open source book cataloguing application (source on github). Books can be added manually, by ISBN, or barcode.
Remember to backup and export your existing catalogue before you upgrade!
Book Catalogue is NOT a book reader.
Features include:
* Sorting by author (last name), title, series, etc.
* user-defined sort and list styles
* Search Amazon, Google Books, goodreads and LibraryThing for data
* Searching
* Thumbnails (download, gallery or camera)
* Loaning books
* goodreads synchronization
* Export and Backup
* Bookshelves (books can be on multiple shelves)
Want a wishlist? Just create a bookshelf called 'Wishlist' and start adding books.
Please email us (below) if you have any issues after an upgrade.
Wiki can be found at:
https://github.com/eleybourn/Book-Catalogue/wiki
Full history at:
https://raw.github.com/eleybourn/Book-Catalogue/master/README
Recent History:
New in 5.1.0
* Italian translation (Eugenio Davolio)
* Spanish translation (José M. Galdo)
* Turkish translations (Emir Sarı)
* Ability to archive only new/updated books and to exclude covers (or books)
* Better thumbnail size in lists for high density screens
* Added options to see books by author/series at Amazon
* Other minor bug fixes
New in 5.0.8
* More German translation updates (Robert Wetzlmayr)
New in 5.0.7
* Fixes to bugs introduced in 5.0.5!
New in 5.0.1-5.0.5
* Style 'Added date' is now in descending order for Android 2.2+
* New field: Language
* Minor Performance improvements for Android 2.2+
* Translation updates (Imkal)
* Bug fixes
New in 5.0.0
* A non-editable view of book details, with 'fling' support! (Nick Silin)
* Archiving of entire catalogue, including books, covers, preferences and styles
* Updated and improved interface, including Action Bar suppor (should work better on devices without menu buttons)
* Support for pic2shop scanner
* More French translation updates (Imkal & Djiko)
* More German translation updates (Robert Wetzlmayr)
* More Russian translation updates (Nick Silin)
* Bug fixes
Remember to backup and export your existing catalogue before you upgrade!
Book Catalogue is NOT a book reader.
Features include:
* Sorting by author (last name), title, series, etc.
* user-defined sort and list styles
* Search Amazon, Google Books, goodreads and LibraryThing for data
* Searching
* Thumbnails (download, gallery or camera)
* Loaning books
* goodreads synchronization
* Export and Backup
* Bookshelves (books can be on multiple shelves)
Want a wishlist? Just create a bookshelf called 'Wishlist' and start adding books.
Please email us (below) if you have any issues after an upgrade.
Wiki can be found at:
https://github.com/eleybourn/Book-Catalogue/wiki
Full history at:
https://raw.github.com/eleybourn/Book-Catalogue/master/README
Recent History:
New in 5.1.0
* Italian translation (Eugenio Davolio)
* Spanish translation (José M. Galdo)
* Turkish translations (Emir Sarı)
* Ability to archive only new/updated books and to exclude covers (or books)
* Better thumbnail size in lists for high density screens
* Added options to see books by author/series at Amazon
* Other minor bug fixes
New in 5.0.8
* More German translation updates (Robert Wetzlmayr)
New in 5.0.7
* Fixes to bugs introduced in 5.0.5!
New in 5.0.1-5.0.5
* Style 'Added date' is now in descending order for Android 2.2+
* New field: Language
* Minor Performance improvements for Android 2.2+
* Translation updates (Imkal)
* Bug fixes
New in 5.0.0
* A non-editable view of book details, with 'fling' support! (Nick Silin)
* Archiving of entire catalogue, including books, covers, preferences and styles
* Updated and improved interface, including Action Bar suppor (should work better on devices without menu buttons)
* Support for pic2shop scanner
* More French translation updates (Imkal & Djiko)
* More German translation updates (Robert Wetzlmayr)
* More Russian translation updates (Nick Silin)
* Bug fixes
What’s new
Updated October 25, 2026
New in 7.2 * Ability to add multiple thumbnails per book (long press on the thumbnail to access context menu) * Pinch to zoom thumbnail * Decimal points in list price are now stored correctly * The prompt to back up the database has been added back * More UI design options (remove the silhouette) * Fixed crashes (importing large backups, navigating with away with an open dialogue, cropping covers) * Fixed a defect that prevented custom styles from being used
User reviews
Love it. Links to Goodreads and LibraryThing. Shows current value for some books. Comprehensive Great for home inventory! Free!
This app is amazing!
Great app! I have 1500+ books (not counting ebooks) and this helps me keep it all organized. Highly recommend. Unfortunately, just transferred app to new phone and it won't open. Miss it already! (Update: Had backed up data as CSV to Google Drive a couple days before old phone died. I uninstalled/reinstalled Book Ca...
Lovely design, clean and comprehensive, easy to add books by barcode scan or lookup, good backup and export/import options too
I LOVE THIS APP. I have over 1100 books and was using another app that I liked. Then I found THIS amazing app that allows multiple authors and series, different sorts, and a lot of other functions I was struggling to work around in the old app. I can even sort my wish list by publication date! I have many old public...
This is the best book app I've used. Most important app on my phone.
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