Pikeworks
Book Vault
Out now
Every book, and where you're up to.
Scan a book's barcode, search for it or type it in, and Book Vault keeps your place in it, whether it's print, an ebook or an audiobook. Rate it in quarter stars when you finish, and watch your year fill up as a shelf of spines.
iPhone now, Android soon
What it does
A reading tracker that needs no account. Sign in for friends and Community.
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Three ways to add a book
Scan the barcode, search by title, author or ISBN, or type it in. Scanning stays open after each book, so a whole shelf goes in one after another.
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Progress your way
Pages or a percentage for print and ebooks, hours and minutes for audiobooks. Nudge it on a page at a time, add ten with one tap from Reading, or jump straight to where you are. A couple of days in, it tells you your pace and roughly when you'll finish.
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On your home screen
A widget shows the book you're reading, how far you are and when you'll finish. Add ten pages from it without opening the app.
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Quarter stars and re-reads
Tap for whole and half stars, slide for quarters. Read a book again and the new read gets its own dates, while the first keeps its own.
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Your year as a shelf
Every book you finish stands on the year's shelf as a spine, as thick as its page count and coloured from its cover. Share it as a picture whenever you like.
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A goal that never nags
Set a number of books for the year and it tells you when you're ahead or on pace. When you're not, it just says how many are left. No streaks and no reminders.
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Quotes, thoughts and tags
Keep the lines you want to remember with their page, write what you thought for nobody but you, and tag books into your own shelves. When you finish one, tag its pace and mood, from fast-paced to slow burn.
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Your edition, your details
Pick the edition you're holding so the cover and page count match your copy. Anything still wrong can be corrected, and a photo of your own copy can be its cover.
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Friends and readers
Sign in and your friends see your shelves, stars and progress, with nothing to turn on. Your thoughts, quotes and tags stay yours, and any book can be hidden. Choose a public profile or followers only, find readers in Community, recommend a book and send messages between friends.
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New books, found for you
Books are looked up in Open Library, the National Library of Sweden and Google Books, so new ones turn up with a cover. New from your authors tells you when someone you read has a new book, at most once a week.
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Bring your books with you
Import from Goodreads or The StoryGraph with your shelves, ratings, read dates and re-reads intact. The spreadsheet export is in Goodreads' own layout, so nothing is locked in here.
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On your phone first
No account needed. Your library lives on your phone and works offline. Sign in to a Pikeworks account if you like: a private copy is kept with it to bring back on a new phone, and your shelves reach your friends. Backup and export are free.
What it costs
Book Vault is free and has no adverts. There's a tip jar if you'd like to use it, and a tip unlocks nothing.
- Price
- Free
- Purchases
- An optional tip, which unlocks nothing. No subscription.
- Adverts
- None, ever.
Everything is free: adding and scanning, progress, ratings, re-reads, quotes, tags, the year shelf, the goal, friends and messages. So are importing from Goodreads and The StoryGraph, backup and spreadsheet export.
The tip jar in Settings is there if the app has earned a place on your phone. A tip is a thank you and nothing more: nothing is locked, and nothing changes when you leave one.
Privacy and support
Your library lives on your phone. If you sign in to a Pikeworks account, a private copy of it, with the cover photos you took, is kept with your account so you can get it back. Signed in with a handle, your friends see your shelves, stars, dates and progress; a public profile shows them to other readers too, and that is your choice. Your thoughts, quotes, tags and which copy you own are never shared, and any book can be hidden. What you search for goes to Open Library and Libris, and to Google Books when they haven't got it. No adverts and no tracking. The full privacy policy says exactly what is kept and what is sent.