Verso: Never Buy Twice

Never buy a book you already own. Scan in-store for an instant owned / wishlist / passed verdict. Import your Goodreads or StoryGraph CSV. Private, offline, no account.

Verso is an offline-first personal book inventory. Track the books you own, keep a wishlist, and remember the ones you have already passed on.

Standing in a bookshop wondering "do I already have this?" Scan the barcode on the back cover and get an instant verdict: owned, on your wishlist, already passed on, or new to you. No more accidental duplicate purchases.

Built to work offline. Your whole library lives on your device. There is no account, no sign-up, no analytics, and no ads. When you scan or search for a book, the app looks up its details from public book catalogs (Open Library and Google Books); nothing else about your library ever leaves your device.

Older and secondhand books often have no barcode that scans. Add them by title with no ISBN at all, and Verso stores them like any other book.

Verso Pro is an optional one-time unlock, not a subscription. The free app is complete on its own and stays that way.

Features:

• Scan a book's barcode with the camera, or type an ISBN, or search by title.
• Instant in-store verdict so you never buy a duplicate.
• Track owned books, a wishlist, and books you have passed on.
• Mark what you have read and what is still waiting.
• Your own tags, and filter the shelf by them.
• Add books with no ISBN, for older and secondhand finds.
• Sort by title, author surname, series, or when you added it.
• Fully offline library; works without a connection (lookups need the internet).
• Export and import your library as JSON or CSV; your data stays yours.
• No account, no ads, no tracking. Private by design.

Verso Pro, one time:

• Collection Insights: what your collection is worth, what you have read against your to-read pile, and your most collected authors, formats and series.
• Automatic local backups with one-tap restore.
• Photo add-by-cover: find or add a book by photographing a cover or a printed ISBN, with no barcode needed.
• The full theme library. The warm, cream and dark themes are always free.