iCollect Books Reviews

Do not download iCollectBooks. It is free up to a point, and then once you download a certain number of books - well under 10, they give a pop up saying you need to pay $10 for more advanced usage. I accidentally hit that agreement and instantly bought the $$ app. I immediately contacted Apple and attempted to get a refund and was informed that this company did not offer refunds so I would need to contact them. So I did that. I got an automated reply (on that Friday) that I would be contacted by someone M-Th. No reply. I waited until Wednesday of the next week, sent another message, no reply. POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE. Complete and total rip off! Do not grace this company with your money. Shame on them.

The idea of iCollectBooks is great. Was basically hoping to organize a list of a very large number of books my company has been keeping in storage, and scanning the ISBNs is an efficient and reliable way to do that. However, after about a dozen scans, iCollectBooks forces you to pay for the "full" version, though you can continue to add the ISBNs manually. Adding any book to your "list" requires at minimum a title, author and photo of the front cover. So I was taking a lot of photos on top of having to manually add the ISBNs, and constantly adding data. However, once you've added a book, you cannot go back to edit any of the information unless you pay the $10 for the "full" version (and some of the information iCollectBooks provides for a book is incorrect.)
Overall was expecting a much more intelligent and efficient app for this purpose; and the $10 is just a bit too steep a price to pay.

I chose iCollectBooks because of the export function. I tried exporting to several different emails as all the offered formats. Never arrived. Checked the spam folder, did a search... just didn’t work. Tried the FAQ and tried to contact the developer. Can’t do it. iCollectBooks’s functionality is otherwise very cool and intuitive, but $9.99 is a ridiculous amount. I paid the exorbitant price because I needed iCollectBooks ... for the one thing that doesn’t work. Would happily change this to 4 stars if they fixed the export, 5 with the price at $1.99.

iCollectBooks was great years ago. App worked great before I was forced to update my phone software and app. Now the new update is horrendous and annoying. Previous app had a few issues when scanning bulk images, but other than that it was easy to use and smooth when searching. Now it’s useless to me. Not sure who's approving changes or thinks this was a great idea, but they need new testers and people to research what customers want and like to use. The functionality is slow and spotty. Don’t waste your time to download iCollectBooks .

I’ve used the sort it app for years & have now been forced to iCollectBooks. I hate that it sorts authors by their first name. That’s pretty worthless if I’m in a bookstore which always sort by last names. My reason for having an app like this is to avoid buying duplicates. I just wanted a relatively easy way to catalogue my books. I have 100's and buy duplicates because I'm not sure what I have. This is a little slow and I've had to manually make corrections or entries on some older books. You can manually correct the author names but on a book by book basis, which is a pain. I have over 900 books in my library. Has more details than I need but that's not a bad thing. My son & I will be looking for a better option.

I have the Sort It: Movies app and have never had a problem, so when i saw they have one for books I immediately downloaded it. Didnt mind paying the $10. But for some reason iCollectBooks keeps deleting my inventory. Its done it to me a total of 3 times. At first i thought it had just logged me out of my account, but it had not. I have had to go through my books and rescan them 3 times, which is annoying since i have over 150+ books. Just opened iCollectBooks today and what do i see? My inventory once again gone. Not worth paying the $10. Terrible app.

I was hoping to save all my books in iCollectBooks and I was pretty happy with it for about 2 minutes but after I had only 8 books scanned, it said I had to pay for the scanning pro which is a RIDICULOUS amount of $10. Then I decided to try typing the isbn of each book manually but my satisfaction was short lived when I came upon a book that had a pseudonym and it asked me to edit the authors name or I couldn’t go on. Then I was like “ok whatever.” But when I try to edit it, iCollectBooks says I need to spend 10 dollars to get the “pro app” so I could do everything freely. I’m my opinion they strive for people’s money and not to give the users a good experience.

I upgraded to a paid account within the last 30 days, added 20+ piano books that I was lending out to my students and recorded who they were loaned to. Today I have 7 books in my account, as if I never paid for the full version. What a ripoff! And - I no longer know where all my books are which is several hundred dollars of inventory. Horribly disappointed in iCollectBooks and developer. They had a malware attack and didn’t safely protect their data backups so all data has been lost. After following their instructions to delete and reinstall I’m now locked out of my account completely.

I was really enjoying iCollectBooks , you can change so many things to the way you want and I mainly wanted to keep count of how many books I had. However I was surprised to see there’s a 30 book limit. I’m very disappointed by this and will be deleting iCollectBooks soon. I understand you have to make money with iCollectBooks but I don’t have money to spare. It should also be included in the summary of iCollectBooks that you can only add 30 because I didn’t know until I wasted time adding books :/

I have been using these apps for my books, movies, and games. They have been wonderful. Then the update. Now I can't get all of my books to load there, the supposedly transfer them but not all of mine did. I have to ask to load them all. The sorting is a nightmare. I have it set to sort by author's name. Well, you can't have it last name first. Which is not good. There are book with correct information but won't sort it or let you try to sort it. Tried to use the alphabet on the side to go to the letter I need, doesn't work. Shuts it done. They have not upgraded the movie one and I will not update it seeing horrible this new update is with my books.

I loved iCollectBooks! I have taken so much time to take photos of the front and back covers of all of my books, and for some reason, almost all of the back covers are now missing. Plus, when you add a back cover to a new entry, it doesn’t save it. So now all you can use is the front cover. So basically, iCollectBooks is no better than any other book collector app since they only allow a front cover photo.
I wrote to the developer but received no reply at all as to whether this was a known issue or if they were working on it.
Now, I just found that almost all of my front covers are now missing. I have over 400 books in my collection that I photographed the front and back covers of each book, and now, almost every front & back cover is gone.
This is ridiculous and poor business. I wish developers would take more pride in their work and care more for their customers.
It just always seems to come down to making the money, and the hell with the rest of it.

I paid for the upgrade and it was great! I was looking at everything you could do in it and changed the theme color and it crashed. Now I can’t get it to open back up and I’ve scanned almost 400 books into it. I’m so mad I could cry. If I’m not able to get it to open again, I want a refund! I’m not paying $10 for an app that won’t open!

I’ve really tried to like iCollectBooks, but it seems fairly clueless in finding e-books which I use due to frequent travel. I usually have to put most of the info in myself which is pretty time-consuming.

I am out of the country frequently and do not always have access to internet. My database only shows without a connection about 10% of the time - making it an useless resource then. When it works, it is pretty good, but it is so fluky I cannot rely on it. It’s a source of frustration much too often.

I really love the idea of iCollectBooks. I love that I can list all the books I have on here and organize them by when I last read them. A couple of annoying things though:

1.) You have to manually put in the ISBN of each book which can be tedious. When I tried the camera option, it just told me that the ISBN might belong to another book and to manually put it in anyway. Also, if you are able to capture the ISBN image, there is a small limit to how many books you can add that way. Then they want you to pay $9.99 for unlimited. That is an absurd amount of money as you can continue to manually input them.

2.) Some of the author’s names or book titles are put in strangely so they are out of order when you try to organize them by name or author. For example, Harry Potter #7 author name is K.J, Rowling, so it’s not included with my J.K Rowling section which is super annoying. Also, you can’t edit it without paying that ungodly amount of $9.99.

Otherwise, I’m enjoying iCollectBooks . I use this one as well as the movie app.

I’ve been using a numbers file to catalog but wanted to upgrade to something with pictures. The only field I was tracking in numbers that I want very much to be able to here to is to mark if the book is signed. From everything I see I don’t see where I can edit or make a new field. So until this is added I guess I’ll slowly go through and add my books while still keeping my numbers file going in the meantime.
My other wish is that it pulled special edition book photos. Most of them are in Goodreads associated with the isbn so I’m not sure if there’s a way for it to grab from there?

I love iCollectBooks, I can take pictures of my books, organize them pretty much however I like, as well as change the organization easily. It helps me know exactly what I have, making it easy when I go book shopping what I have or need.

There are a few annoying bugs in iCollectBooks . Sometimes when I am putting in a new books info it changes to another book I have already put it! I don’t understand how this happens but it has occurred several times. I’m working down the list of info and them some I haven’t entered is already filled in, then I scroll to the top and see that I am now altering a previous book entry. So I have to back out without saving changes so not to alter a current entry and start over. Also when downloading iCollectBooks on my tablet I see that several of my entries (originally set up on my phone) have reverted back to their original images from a chosen book entry, instead of the ones I changed them too (but only on my tablet, the images on my phone are correct) So I had to go in through my tablet and change/add the photos again.

However I am enjoying iCollectBooks and hoping that these small programing errors will be fixed in the future.

I love it! I share all my books with my mom and now we share an account where we can keep track of what books we have and whose house they are at! Yes it was $30 for the full version. But I’ve bought multiple copies of the same book only to find out it was at her house. One book=$30=worth it. Girl math!

I have used iCollectBooks to catalog a library of books I gave away, then a new library as I have rebuilt. I also love the Wishlist feature and the fact that you get a photo of the cover. Makes remembering the books I want so much easier!

I have been using iCollect Books for several years. I have no shelf control which means many books come into my collection. I love the organization of iCollectBooks and the way I can quickly see “wait, don’t I have that book already?!” Just by opening up iCollectBooks and quickly searching the titles. Highly recommend iCollectBooks for anyone who loves books!

This is an excellent app if you need to accumulate a listing of your book collection.

There’s one thing that would make it a lot easier to use, though. Some of the listings have an alpha index along the right of the screen, allowing you to quickly access any title. With others, you have to scroll screens until you reach the desired title. It can be a hassle to go from Adams to Zane.

With that one exception, I can’t think of how iCollectBooks could work any better.