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Guides to keeping your books on a bookshelf you can see, cataloguing a home library, tracking and timing your reading, running a book club or a reading challenge, and moving your library from another app.
A virtual bookshelf app that shows your covers on shelves
Book Nook shows your books as covers or spines on a themed bookshelf, with 65 decorations, shelf lights and a widget. Free on iPhone, Android and the web.
Goodreads alternatives in 2026
Eight Goodreads alternatives for 2026: Book Nook, StoryGraph, Hardcover, Bookmory, Fable, LibraryThing, Libib and Bookshelf, by price, features and import.
How to catalogue your home library by scanning barcodes
Scan the ISBN barcode on each book you own with Book Nook on iPhone, Android or the web, then arrange the books on a bookshelf that matches your real one.
A reading timer that tracks how long you read
Book Nook times your reading, saves minutes and pages, and shows the timer on the Lock Screen. Start it from widgets, Control Center or Quick Settings. Free.
Reading Wrapped: your month and year in books
Book Nook's Reading Wrapped sums up every month and year in books: covers, hours, pages, top authors and genres. Share it to Instagram Stories or TikTok, free.
How to move from Goodreads to Book Nook
Export your Goodreads library and import it into Book Nook on iPhone, Android or the web, with ratings, reviews, dates and shelves. It also covers StoryGraph and Fable.
An aesthetic digital bookshelf app with themes and decorations
Book Nook is a free aesthetic digital bookshelf app: five shelf themes, a custom theme, 65 decorations and warm shelf lights. On iPhone, Android and the web.
A book club app with no spoilers, by page
Book Nook book clubs read one book at a time and fold each comment until you reach its page. Free on iPhone, Android and the web with no ads, and this guide shows how to run one.
Put your bookshelf on your home screen with the Book Nook widget
Book Nook's Bookshelf widget puts your themed bookshelf on the iPhone and Android home screen. Sizes, setup, Lock Screen widgets, controls and shortcuts.
Goodreads vs StoryGraph compared, and the free app with a bookshelf and a reading timer
Goodreads vs StoryGraph on price, ads, statistics, clubs and import, checked November 2026, and the free app that adds a bookshelf, a reading timer and widgets.
24 reading challenge ideas for 2027, and how to track them
24 reading challenge ideas for 2027 by books, pages, minutes, genre, series and decade, and how to run them in Book Nook with goals, deadlines and friends.
The best reading tracker app with statistics
Book Nook is a free reading tracker app with a reading timer, statistics, streaks, daily and yearly goals and a monthly Wrapped. How eight other apps compare.
StoryGraph alternatives in 2026
StoryGraph alternatives in 2026: Book Nook, Hardcover, Fable, Goodreads, Bookmory and more compared on price, stats, timers, clubs and StoryGraph import.