Reviews for Handy Library – Book Organizer

Seemed great at first. Until I tried to scan my older Stephen King books. It didn't recognize any of them. I have way too many "older" books to enter them manually. The search continues..... Update: I upgraded to the paid version because I really like the ease of the app and format. I'll just figure out a different way to track my older books. We have such a large collection of books it's still worth it.

I downloaded this app last night so that I could better keep track of my family's personal library, both physical and digital. Handy Library is very easy to use, and allows for the creation of different shelves. This feature makes it easier to catalog our books into different catagories--comics vs. Digital novels vs. Physical novels vs. Cook books. I have spent the better part of my day going through our books, but it is rewarding.

I've only had the app for maybe 5 minutes but you've already won me over! 1. THE BATCH SCANNING 😍 YAY!!! makes it so much easier 2. LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION AT A REASONABLE PRICE?! You've got me! Love me some developers who understand a good price! an idea for a future update. I saw there's a "wishlist" feature. I wonder if it would be possible for the app to see that you have a book of a series, notice you're missing some of the series and prompt you to add the missing ones to the wishlist?

Great app, but....I really need this to be able to sync with all devices, most importantly, a laptop or desktop. If you are on the OCD side, you would want to edit the titles of the books and categorize it more neatly as well. It is great that I almost never have trouble searching up any books, no matter how random I may think it is. However, the title is sometimes typed atrociously or there is a bunch of descriptions or keywords you don't want. I want to edit that quickly using a laptop.

This app is not good if you have more than 100 books and don't wanna pay for premium. (Probably was hoping for too much and didn't do enough research on my end.) The organization is good, and easy to use. If you have older books though, sometimes the scan doesn't work to get the correct book so you have to manually enter the ISBN, which is fine, just a little annoying.

It's easy to use. Our family doesn't used this app for books but uses it for our extensive board game collection. In the place of name of author we put what type of game it is instead; ELA, STEM, zoology, math... Then we are able to search for example, math games and it pulls up all the games we have listened under math. It's easy enough our 1st grader can navigate the app.

Phenomenal app for keeping track of one's home library! I have a collection made up of several hundreds of books, and this app is absolutely phenomenal for organizing them. It allows you to easily scan them in (most of them automatically populating with the book blurb & relevant other info), group them by genre & shelf, and quickly search for them whenever needed. Update: Had some issues w/ the cloud backup, but customer support helped resolve it in a very speedy manner.

Great App! I use this app almost daily. I have every single one of my books, CDs and DVDs stored here. It's very convenient and I love the option to be able to export/import the spreadsheet into this app. Very flexible and easy to add new titles. Could use some minor tweaking like fields to be multi use (like Language...most people don't have more than one language of books). Overall, extremely happy with this and one of my constant go-to core apps.

I don't write reviews, ever. And this app? Best To Be Read list manager capability- just set up a "shelf" with my TBR titles. Incredible, easy, perfect, flexible for however you want to use it to track and manage your physical, and e-book libraries, and any book specifics you want to keep track of, easy to back up, add personal notes, track future book releases, I could go on and on. My only regret is not using it sooner and 100% recommend the premium version.

I bought the full version of the app because I knew ahead of time that I have more than 100 books. I like that it's a one time fee and not a subscription. The entire process of scanning books is very smooth. Occasionally the wrong cover to the right book comes up, but I chalk that up to the internet connecting it to the isbn as opposed to any app mistake. I could only desire that the google drive backup had an option to happen automatically whenever the app was closed. "Backup and Exit."