BookBuddy
A reading journal, an illustrated shelf, and your Year in Books
Reading trackers count books. BookBuddy is a reading journal that happens to count books: a chronological feed of notes, quotes and half-formed thoughts, with guided prompts for the nights you've got nothing.
$5 once on the App Store · from $10/year on the web · 7-day free trial
What you get
- A chronological journal feed, grouped by day
- Guided prompts and mood tags instead of a blank page
- An illustrated shelf with a procedurally drawn spine per book
- Open Library search and cover autofill
- A Year in Books report you can share
Two ways to use it
One-time purchase, no account
Cancel any time
or $10/yr
All five apps together: $3/month, or $30/year
A look inside
The bits worth explaining
Chronology beats a bookshelf
The journal is a feed you flip through, newest last, the way a paper reading journal works. Finished-book browsing lives on the Shelf, so the journal stays a record of what you were thinking that week.
Prompts for the empty nights
A blank page is why reading journals die in March. Every entry can start from a rotating prompt, carry a mood emoji, and be a note, a quote or a full review. A one-line quote is a perfectly good entry.
A shelf that looks like a shelf
Every book gets a spine drawn from a stable seed (height, colour, banding) so your shelf is recognisably yours. Flip to real covers from Open Library whenever you want.
Your Year in Books
A story-style report: books, pages, hours, busiest month, top genres and authors, your reading personality, a Book of the Year, and monthly favourites, with a share card at the end.
Get BookBuddy
Buy it once on iPhone, or run the full web version in any browser.
