BookHoard: Library & eReader

Your books deserve better than a spreadsheet.

BookHoard is the library app for people who love books — the ones on your shelves and the ebooks you already own. Scan your shelves, read your own EPUBs and PDFs, see which of your books have been banned, and find the bookstores near you. No ads. No data selling. Ever.

BUILD YOUR LIBRARY IN MINUTES
Point your camera at a barcode and BookHoard does the rest; cover art, author, publisher and format, pulled in automatically. Have a whole shelf to add? Photograph your bookcase, confirm what it found and add dozens of books at once.

READ THE BOOKS YOU ALREADY OWN
Bring your DRM-free EPUBs and PDFs, one at a time or a whole folder. They stay on your device and open without a signal. Your place, bookmarks, highlights and notes are kept as you read.

THE TROVE: HUNDREDS OF FREE CLASSICS
Classics you can open right now, at no cost — and dozens of them have been banned somewhere. The Trove tells you where. They don't count toward your library.

THE BOOKS SOMEONE DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ
Every book you add is checked against Banned Index, which tracks books banned or challenged in US schools and libraries. See which of your own books have been banned, and where. Browse the full list, filter by state, and decide for yourself what you read.

RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ACTUALLY FIT YOU
Get recommendations based on your library, your genres and the themes you keep returning to — or just tell it what you're in the mood for. Not what's trending on a retailer's homepage.

FIND BOOKSTORES THAT SHARE YOUR VALUES
See the bookstores near you, with a filter for independents, plus Little Free Libraries on the map. When you want to buy, BookHoard links to 15 stores — new, used and DRM-free.

PRIVACY FIRST. ALWAYS.
Your reading life is yours. We don't sell your data and we don't show ads. When a feature needs to send something — like your library to make recommendations — it sends only what it needs, and our privacy policy names every service and exactly what it receives.

FREE — NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED
• Catalog up to 100 books (Trove classics don't count)
• Barcode and ISBN scanning
• Read your own EPUBs and PDFs, with bookmarks, highlights and notes
• The Trove: hundreds of free classics
• Banned-book alerts on every book, and the full banned list
• Goodreads (and other) imports
• Loan tracking with due dates
• Shareable wishlists
• Physical, digital and audiobook format tracking
• Duplicate detection when you scan
• Nearby bookstores and Little Free Libraries
• A 30-day trial of shelf scanning and AI recommendations

HOARD+ — FOR THE SERIOUS BOOK HOARDER
• Unlimited library size
• Shelf photo scanning — 50 scans a day
• Unlimited recommendations, Find Similar Books and mood picks
• Your place, highlights and notes synced across devices, and exported as PDF or text

BookHoard is independently built by a book lover, not a tech conglomerate. We exist to help you love your library more — and to make sure the books on your shelf stay there.