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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 & […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

So far, I like it. Wish it could have the ability to make a sub bookshelf within a main bookshelf similar to the folder within a folder system. Also, it would be nice to have a way to select a batch of books and have it auto sum that selection based on the prices of […]

Very handy! The premium version is a bit expensive, but I like this app a lot compared to other options, even if those ones are free. Some additional customization like changing the headers (Lend/Borrow & Tags), better genre control, and specifying currency instead of only the currency symbol would be very welcome. Overall I may […]

I can not say enough how much I love this app. I paid the one-time fee for the full thing and it’s exactly what I wanted. I have all my books scanned in by location so I know which room and bookshelf to find the books on. I would love to be able to allow […]

I recommend the app but there are a few niggles. On the book view page it says “Page number:” whereas it should say “Number of pages:”. Also where it says the price it should have the currency symbol before the amount, not after i.e. $9.99 rather than 9.99$. Also I would suggest having an option […]

I have the paid version. Perfect for what I need. I use it to catalog my library(over 1500 books), keep track of books I read each year, what I’m currently reading, and my wishlist. The ISBN scanning feature helps me add wishlist items without having to write anything down. Very ‘handy’!

love the ease of the scanning. but the limitations of how many scans you can do really bothering esp when there is no notice that you will have a limit. then when you hit that limit your then told you can either pay for a monthly subscription to continue to next limit or you can […]

Was great until subscription. All I want to do is scan the ISBN of the books I currently own so I have a Handy Library on my phone when I am out or wanting to shop. I used to be able to scan every book I owned into this and then make new shelves and […]

Its pretty easy to use. My only problems with it are that you have to pay for anything over 100 books, & I was trying to organize my bookshelves by genre and thought an app might help me do it faster but the genres in this app are…. oddly… specific in some cases, and sometimes […]

Totally meets my needs! you can pay a one time fee of $12ish if you want to do more than 100 books. I wanted to catalog and categorize our collection of around 300 beautiful picture books. I can tag a group of them for example with #insect and then to further sort tag certain of […]

I love this app! I had some trouble transferring my premium account to a new device, and the problem was quickly resolved by possibly the best customer service agents ever. The app itself is perfect for my needs as a reading journal. It’s easy to scan a book to instantly load basic information, and then […]