Your private reading life
Bookplate is a home library app for people who read for themselves, not for an audience. Track what you own, what you've read, and what you actually think about it. Privately.
Free up to 250 books. No credit card required.
Already on Goodreads or LibraryThing?
You've spent years building that list. You shouldn't have to start over. Bookplate imports your entire Goodreads or LibraryThing history in a few clicks: shelves, ratings, dates read, and all.
LibraryThing folks: you'll feel at home here. Bring your catalog with you and gain household sharing, loan tracking, and an interface from this decade.
Starting from scratch instead? Grab the free library spreadsheet template. It imports the same way whenever you're ready.
What it does
Bookplate is built around a simple idea: track the life of your books. That shapes every feature decision.
Track the books you have in your home and where they live, all the books you've read, and the books you keep meaning to get to. Search, filter, organize, sort: it's your catalog to customize.
Share shelves and ratings with fellow readers in your home, but private notes are yours alone. No public profiles, no social feeds, no ambient pressure to perform your taste for strangers.
Remember who borrowed what, and when. Because sometimes your books go on adventures without you.
Queue up a TBR list, or let Fate Decide: one tap picks your next read from the unread books already on your shelves. Sometimes that's exactly what you need.
Add your own cover images for that battered paperback with no ISBN. Organize however makes sense to you: define your own genre list, and AI-assisted suggestions do the filing for you.
Curious about your reading habits? Rich stats and custom genre labeling help you see patterns.
Why not Goodreads?
Goodreads is a social network that happens to have books in it. That's fine, but it's not what Bookplate is for.
Your reading life is not a content strategy.
Pricing
Start on the free tier. Upgrade if and when it makes sense for you and your library. No dark patterns, no confusing tiers, no gotchas. And if you ever step back down, nothing is deleted: every book you've cataloged stays yours.
Free
$0
forever
Bookplate Collector
$3.99
per month for the whole library, or $35/year
The person behind it
Hi, I'm Serene. I am building Bookplate from my rowhouse in Philadelphia. I need this app because I have accidentally bought too many dupes, my TBR piles are many, and I love my books like they are my precious babies. If something breaks or you have an idea, you're emailing me, not a support queue.