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CLUSTER BOOKS-BARCODE-FRIENDS · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-11-25

Book tracking and cataloging apps

This cluster comprises mobile apps that catalog books via barcode scanning or search, track reading progress and ratings, and support custom lists or sharing among friends. The dated entries are sparse, with single entries in September 2012, May 2015, January 2019, and November 2020, followed by two in early 2026. The traction leaders are bookshelv, BookMosh, and PageSwipe, each showing zero stars, indicating no measurable traction signal.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

SEP 2012: 1MAY 2015: 1JAN 2019: 1NOV 2020: 1JAN 2026: 1FEB 2026: 2OCT 2026: 1
SEP 2012OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 7 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 1 commercial · 1 open source · 5 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01bookshelv0★14 days—hobbyLibrary app that catalogs books by scanning barcodes and tracks reading progress, ratings, and lending among a small group of friends.
  2. 02BookMosh0★1 moliveMobile app that tracks books by barcode or search, organizes reading lists, shows statistics, and shares ratings with friends.
  3. 03PageSwipe: Scan Books & Read0★1 moliveBook scanner app that catalogs owned books into a personal library, tracks reading progress, and lets friends share clubs and lists.
  4. 04To Read - Reading List0★1 molivecommercialMobile app that tracks books users want to read and have finished, with barcode scanning, categories, and reading statistics.
  5. 05Librery0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceeBook manager app that tracks reading lists, searches Google Books, stores ratings and comments, and recommends books to friends.
  6. 06On the Shelf - Library Lookup0★7 mostaleliveMobile app that syncs a Goodreads to-read list with a local library's OverDrive catalog to show which books are available to borrow.
  7. 07Kabook! Reading List0★3 yrabandonedliveMobile app for tracking books, adding by barcode or search, rating, custom lists, and syncing across devices.
  8. 08BestSellers for Book Store0★1 yrabandonedliveBook discovery app that tracks bestseller rankings across 50 countries and genres to help readers find popular titles.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.