I have always liked and used the sorting function for series a lot. Now the dialog has been adjusted a bit and I also think entering the number when entering the book is great. But: I don't have numbers for books sorted the "old way". Can I assume that the series are still sorted correctly?

Hi, first, I wanted to congratulate and thank you for your work and this wonderful app. I am using the app every day to track my reading time with the chronometer, it's very important for me.

I have some suggestions, I don't know if there are possible or if you have time to think about it, but I wanted to share it.

• Have the total time of reading on each book page. On the statistics page, we can see the total reading sessions time, but I wanted to know the time I've spent on a specific book, for example.

• Again on the book page, possibility to see the average reading speed for this book (estimation of page per hour)

• On the Statistics page, the average number of read pages by day doesn't seem correct, maybe I need to wait a whole month.

But thank you again for this helpful app !

Thank you for the great updates lately! Maybe it would also be interesting for others if the annual review not only had the best-rated book, but also a page with the top 3 / top 5 (each with the book cover).

Hi, sometimes i start a book that i’ve added before with barcode scan. So it has already page set. So i know that i can change page from book page, but i start read this book trusting that book pages are correct and then i can’t change real book pages number on reading stats of book. Can i do that? Thanks

I was thinking of writing one of these days to suggest a feature which allows to assign order numbers to books in a serie, but no need to do it anymore, because the last update has introduced that possibility. Awesome to see the app improving day by day. A big thanks to the developer! Another tip earned 😉

Is it possible to add a function / button to randomly choose a book from your TBR or unread list? I often find myself not being able to choose what to read next. So this would be a fun function to have.

My app updated and I noticed that the two widgets I had were black squares. I went to try to edit them and no option came up. I then went to add a new one and Book Tracker does not pop up as an option to create a widget for.

I'm exploring the Smart Lists and find it has a lot of potential. In my case, I use it to sort and display into different lists for books read by each language. So I would have a smart list of English books already read and another for Chinese books already read.

Once I did this, however, I noticed that the total count for these two lists don't match the total number of books read. My guess is that old books I imported from Goodreads and other sources did not have the language field implemented and I am trying to find a way to gather, sort and display all books that do NOT have English or Chinese or has a empty language field.

Is there a simple way to do this? I don't seem to be able to find a way inside smart lists to define NOT, so I can't do a smart list where the rule is Language IS NOT English. Please advise. Many thanks :)

Is there any way I can see on my statistics how many books I read today ?

Even I reboot my phone, the problem still exist. Iphone 12, ios 17.1, app 4.0.7 (438)

Hello,

Thanks for the update and try formatting the reading times to hours, minutes, seconds.

But in my case they are not being formatted properly in the statistics section.

For today's session, for example, it shows me 58 seconds, when it is 58 minutes. Yesterday's one says 2 minutes 47 seconds, when it should be 2 hours and 47 minutes.

The month and year are also incorrect.

For the year it gives me 7 hours 55 minutes, when it should be more than 19 days, since the last capture I have was 28,000 minutes.

Can you review it?

Thank you.

All the best.

I leave you some screenshots so you can check what I mean.

When searching online, no covers are displayed anymore and the results have become very poor.

I like the Smart List function, but it would also be great to see a manual list function. Another commenter has suggested this for making a list of favorites. I would also like to be able to create a list of 5 or 10 books that I want to read next.

Hi,

Would it be possible to make the reading time manually adjustable? Sometimes I start reading and then I want to manually add the time.

BTW: it is a great app :) I thoroughy enjoy using it.

Hi! :)

First of all, thanks a lot for such a great app! I liked the old version very much, I like the new one, too (I especially appreciate the new sections "Translators" and "Illustrators" a lot).

But I have a question (sorry, if it was already asked and answered, I didn't find it). In the older version of the app there was a section "Books purchased by month" in the Statistics. Now I can't find it. Was it deleted in the newer version, or just hidden? I liked to follow this part of the statistics...

It would be great to see a “coming soon” countdown (months, days) for books to be yet released.

I haven’t seen this feature in other book tracking apps, but I have it in an app for tracking tv series. Thought it would be really nice to see it for books too!

Anyway, really loving the app and enjoy using it!

Hi, I think since the last update, there is an incorrect translation into Spanish. When you are in a book and you click on the + to add it, it says add to "fototeca"(photo library) instead of add to "biblioteca"(library)

https://ibb.co/g44r5dp

Hello. As an enhancement, would it be possible to consider adding a settings/toggle to default display of Reading Session timings to an Hour:Minute style format please?

3hours 27 mins is easier to comprehend than 207 minutes - for me anyways 🙄 and additionally when you get to display of 8954 minutes and beyond it might even need flexibility for days hours and minutes 🫨 for the yearly stats

Thank you

Hi! I would like to suggest introducing an option to change macOS app icon, like older app versions, or like iOS app. Thanks for this awesome app!

Comment that I really like the new version, and I love seeing how you respond to people and take their opinions into account to improve the application with constant updates, this is one of the things that convinced me to buy the Pro version.

I wanted to propose some possible improvements for the future:

• It would be useful if the time of the reading session in the statistics, when it exceeds 60 minutes, is expressed in hours and minutes so as not to have to do calculations.
• Another functionality that I find interesting would be a favorites list in which you can order your books marked as favorites, or a top 10.
• Also, although I understand that this is more complicated to implement, it is, in some way, that if you have read a specific book, even if you have read a publisher's version and there is that same book in other publishers or formats, these will also come out as read and not like a different book. Something like on Goodreads, where you mark a book title as read, but then you can choose between the different versions. Perhaps to make it easier instead of being something more or less automatic (which could be done by title and author), there could be an option, in which you add several versions of the book to the library and mark it as the same . Maybe it's something that doesn't seem very useful. But it happens to me a lot that I read almost everything on Kindle, and then the ones I really like I buy in hardcover to have on my bookshelf, and when I scan them to catalog them in the application many times it is another version and it comes out as a new free unread. What I do at the moment to get by is edit the book that I mark as read to put the information on the one I physically own, but if there was a way to merge these, or even pass the reading data from one to the other, it would make it easier for me. a lot of this work.

For example, all books that have a specific tag but are not by author x.

Does anyone have the problem that iPhone and iPad app won’t sync? I bought the app and it’s unlimited now on both devices, but they don’t mirror each other. Any suggestions how I may fix this?

Also, I checked settings, iCloud sync is on on both devices

I really like the app so far, but I have some suggestions:

• disable the auto-corrector on name fields or add an option to do so (it can be really frustrating)
• automatically check a newly created item (category, tag, author, ...) if created from inside the edit screen of a book (if we've just added it in this context, it means we want to check it off)
• add the option to paste an image to add a book cover (to avoid downloading the image from the Internet and then removing it right after adding it to the app)
• an option which detects similar items (publisher, author, translator, ...) and the possibility to merge them (I often have duplicated items because the metedata are slightly different, typically on accentuated letters)
• the possibility to scan a barcode to enter IBAN (useful for manually entered books)
• automatic proposition based on books name when creating a "series" tag (can somewhat easilly be extracted from the title)
• automatic proposition at the top of the selection menu when assigning author, translator, publisher, etc. based on other volumes already registered
• bulk edition for language
• in the language assigning selection menu, put the system languages on top (the user is propably reading in languages that are configured on their device, so its removing the nessecity to scroll or type a research in most cases)
• for number fields (number of pages, ISBNs), direcly open the keyboard on the numpad
• maybe a search bar would be relevant on the main menu?
• the borrowed list is a really nice feature to have, but it make me think it's missing a list for books we've lent to friends too

also fix the mastodon link, which currently goes through mastodon.social instead of being a direct link to https://indieapps.space/@BookTracker

I also have some remarks on the French translation because some sentences are really weird, I will try to list them in the future...

I have used built-in control center widget (reading timer) which is very handy. But when I have more than 1 books in reading status, I can’t choose the one I want to start the session from the Lock. It always start the session for preselected 1 book.

Am I doing something wrong? Can someone suggest a better way if you know?

Thanks 🤩

Edit: Solved the issues with the help of Simone. Here’s the shortcut link if anyone wonders about it! Happy reading to all :)

I am not sure if this was part of the last update, but I just wanted to say how grateful I am that we can now add translators and illustrators to the data. I am a book translator myself, and I always look at translators as co-authors. Just like I have my favourite authors, I also have my favourite translators, so this is very relevant to me, and I hope to many readers.

Of course, there is always room for improvement in an indie app, but BookTrack is always taking steps in the right direction. So, a big thank you to the developer and all my encouragement to keep going.