Catalogue with context
Record titles, authors, series names, formats, narrators, genres, ratings, reviews, acquisition details, dates, links, notes, and cover images. Every field is optional, so you capture as much or as little as you want.
Books, eBooks, audiobooks
Keep physical books, eBooks, and audiobooks together in one place. Each format keeps its own relevant fields—narrators for audiobooks, suppliers for eBooks—while staying part of a single, searchable collection.
Personal libraries
Arrange your collection across personal libraries, and retain archived libraries when needed, to keep your catalogue meaningful. Move books between libraries as your collection evolves. Duplicate detection is library-scoped, so the same title can live in different libraries.
Dashboard charts
Visualise your collection with dashboard charts for format breakdown, genre and sub-genre distribution, and rating patterns. Charts are private to your account and update as your library grows.
Author search
Find any author quickly. Search by name or part-name, see matching results instantly, and jump straight to the books you are looking for.
Spreadsheet templates
Download a spreadsheet template, fill in your books row by row, and import dozens or hundreds of records at once. The import preview lets you review and resolve duplicates and field-value discrepancies before committing.
User Guide
A built-in User Guide walks you through every part of BookTrakdB—from your first book to advanced import, export, and appearance settings. It includes error-message definitions, action guidance, and troubleshooting help.
UI appearance
Choose light, dark, or system-matched themes, then set your own colours for the main interface, the catalogue and the record windows. Use show and hide controls to keep your interface uncluttered—hide fields or panels you do not use and reveal them again whenever you need them. You can also use the sidebar to enter full screen.
Read Again
Mark books you want to revisit with a Read Again priority. Search filters help you find titles you have read before and flagged for a return visit, so the best of your collection is never forgotten.
Defaults and custom genres
BookTrakdB starts with a curated set of genres and sub-genres so you can catalogue immediately. Add your own genres and sub-genres at any time, or rename existing ones to match how you think about your collection.
Import and export
Bring in an existing catalogue through supported spreadsheet imports and export your records to Excel or CSV whenever you want a portable copy or backup.
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Fetch book details
Fetch book covers and available book metadata—such as title, author, and publishing date—and apply it to your records.
Filter and group your collection
Filter by Read Again, books with notes, genre, sub-genre, format, series, supplier, ownership, duration, rating, Read Again priority, or partner read. Use the results to review your books or create a new personal library.
Customise field labels and option lists
Change default field titles to suit your catalogue—for example, rename Book Format to Book Type. You can also change, hide, or delete most dropdown options, such as hiding Library or Free in Ownership and renaming Owned to Mine.
Feedback
Share your thoughts, suggestions, or critiques using the Feedback button inside BookTrakdB.
Auto-metadata fetching
Enter a book title along with its ISBN and BookTrakdB can search publicly available catalogues for further details. Nothing is written to your record until you review the proposals and confirm what to keep.
Your next read or re-read
Choose a few parameters and search your library for books you loved, then receive a matching recommendation. Select the criteria, and BookTrakdB picks a book from them while hiding the title—then use More Details or Add to Reading Now to reveal the title and cover.
ISBN barcode scanning
On a phone or tablet, select Scan barcode to read the book's barcode and bring in the available data, including the cover image. Manual ISBN entry works everywhere.
Personal loan tracking
Record who has your book. Add the borrower's name and an optional email, the loan date and any notes, then Add Loan. When the book comes back, record it as Returned. Loans are a private record for you—there are no borrower accounts, reminders, or notifications.
Customisable catalogue columns
Decide which columns your catalogue shows and in what order. Choose from every catalogued field, reorder them to suit how you scan your collection, and reset to the defaults whenever you want. Your choice is remembered.
Your own tags
Create tags with names and colours of your choosing, apply them to any book, and filter the catalogue by one tag or several at once. Tags belong to you rather than to a single library, so they travel with a book when you move it, and an Untagged filter finds anything you have missed.
Use it on your phone
The hosted catalogue adapts to a phone screen with its own navigation, a compact catalogue list, and full-screen record windows, so you can add, check, or scan a book while you are standing in front of the shelf.
Desktop macOS app
A macOS application for Apple silicon and Intel Macs, published as two architecture-specific builds, with Developer ID signing, Apple notarisation, stapling and Gatekeeper validation. It keeps an offline-first local library, currently distributed as a manual-download beta.
In development
More ways to care for your collection.
- Export progress panel
- Polling / notice function
- Narrator photo library