Reviews of Openreads

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List of user reviews and ratings for Openreads

Total ratings

4.77 (Rating count: 423)

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Review summary

Openreads is praised for its simplicity, elegant design, and being free and open source, making it an excellent minimal book tracking app without ads or sign-up. Users appreciate the easy book logging, visual book covers, and active improvements. However, the app lacks some advanced features like detailed progress tracking, shelves, and social interaction, and has occasional issues with book cover downloads and finding non-English books. Some users report app instability with large libraries. Overall, it serves well as a straightforward personal book tracker with room for feature expansion.

Pros

Simple and intuitive user interface; easy to use and not cluttered with unnecessary features.
No ads, no in-app purchases, and no sign-up required, making it privacy-friendly and free.
Open source and frequently updated based on user feedback, showing active development.
Supports easy logging of books and includes beautiful book covers, enhancing visual appeal.
Barcode scanner function and basic book search with covers available, aiding in adding books quickly.

Cons

Limited progress tracking features (e.g., no reading timer or detailed stats) which some users miss.
Book database integration issues: incomplete cover downloads, difficulties finding non-English books, and some books missing in OpenLibrary.
Lack of advanced features such as shelves/collections, recommendation system, and author/reader interactions.
App instability/crashing with large libraries (200+ books) reported by some users.
Import functionality was initially missing but has been added later; some desire for more metadata features like price tracking.

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 4.30

All time rating average: 4.77

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Date	Author	Comment
2025-01-11	Fr*****	Straight forward as it should be. I like the simple interface and that i can easily log my books to it. I recommend it for anyone who wants a book tracker as it should be. There is no fancy and distracting stuff. I love it.
Straight forward as it should be. I like the simple interface and that i can easily log my books to it. I recommend it for anyone who wants a book tracker as it should be. There is no fancy and distracting stuff. I love it.
2025-01-02	Ku*****	whoever made this I LOVE YOU OH MY GOD THIS IS BEAUTIFUL i had to turn a Pinterest board into a library to track my books but this app has everything i need in a seperate app. • beautiful book covers next to each other so i can see my library • i like the interface a lot YEAH I LOVE IT
whoever made this I LOVE YOU OH MY GOD THIS IS BEAUTIFUL i had to turn a Pinterest board into a library to track my books but this app has everything i need in a seperate app. • beautiful book covers next to each other so i can see my library • i like the interface a lot YEAH I LOVE IT
2024-09-12	Al*****	Perfect in every way. No ads, no IAP, no sign up. Simple, does exactly what I need, and does it beautifully.
Perfect in every way. No ads, no IAP, no sign up. Simple, does exactly what I need, and does it beautifully.
2024-09-04	J *****	Does what it's supposed to do. Not overcomplicated. The ability to search books and covers is great.
Does what it's supposed to do. Not overcomplicated. The ability to search books and covers is great.
2024-06-12	Pa*****	I love the simplicity of this app. No clutter from a bunch of unused features. I'm in no need of recommendations, or the social aspect of other apps. I'm so close to leaving my other app (which was abandoned by the creator) if only this app had a timer. It's the only thing I think this app is missing. Are there any plans to add a timer in the future? I would absolutely switch and patiently wait for it, if it was a planned future feature. Thank you so much!
I love the simplicity of this app. No clutter from a bunch of unused features. I'm in no need of recommendations, or the social aspect of other apps. I'm so close to leaving my other app (which was abandoned by the creator) if only this app had a timer. It's the only thing I think this app is missing. Are there any plans to add a timer in the future? I would absolutely switch and patiently wait for it, if it was a planned future feature. Thank you so much!
2024-03-17	An*****	Just a great nonsocial book tracker. If you're looking for something like that, this is lovely. It's missing some progress tracking but my Moon Reader+ does that for me, so no problem. Keep up the good work!
Just a great nonsocial book tracker. If you're looking for something like that, this is lovely. It's missing some progress tracking but my Moon Reader+ does that for me, so no problem. Keep up the good work!
2024-03-15	*****	The best book tracker ever. i mean it, it's open source, no ads and functioning really smooth. Thank you for developing such a great app.
The best book tracker ever. i mean it, it's open source, no ads and functioning really smooth. Thank you for developing such a great app.
2024-03-06	Da*****	Nowhere near as good as Goodreads. Only 3/4 of the covers would download. There's no place to mark your progress. No interaction with authors or other readers.
Nowhere near as good as Goodreads. Only 3/4 of the covers would download. There's no place to mark your progress. No interaction with authors or other readers.
2024-02-16	K *****	App is pretty OK, but the thing I cannot add book using ISBN (it almost never finds books that are non-English) is rather disappointing.
App is pretty OK, but the thing I cannot add book using ISBN (it almost never finds books that are non-English) is rather disappointing.
2024-02-16	R *****	I just updated the app to the latest version. It seems that the issue with tags has been fixed now. You're always making the app better in every update. Thank you for developing OpenReads!
I just updated the app to the latest version. It seems that the issue with tags has been fixed now. You're always making the app better in every update. Thank you for developing OpenReads!