Home Library Companion.
Your home library, finally catalogued.
Everything you own. Everywhere it is. Everything in it.
Photograph a shelf and Home Library Companion reads the spines, identifies every title, and remembers exactly where each one lives — which room, which bookcase, which shelf. About a minute for forty books.
7-day free trial, then $39.99/year. iPhone & iPad, in 13 languages.
One photo. Every spine. Filed where it lives.
The incumbent catalog apps scan one barcode at a time. Nobody finishes a thousand-book house that way. This is cataloging at the speed of a camera shutter.
Photograph a shelf
Fill the frame with one shelf and shoot. It reads every spine in the photo — no barcodes, no typing. Barcode, cover, and copyright-page scanning are there for the odd cases.
Approve the matches
Each spine is matched to its real edition, cover and all. Glance down the list, flip anything it misread, tap Add.
It's filed where it lives
Every book lands with an address — Living room › Main bookcase › Shelf 2 — so "where's my copy?" has a literal answer.
A library that looks like a library.
Real covers, clean grid, everything searchable. Group by topic, author, or location. The same catalog is on every phone in the house and in any browser at the web library.
- Search everything you own, instantly
- Group by topic, author, or where it lives
- Household sharing — one library, every member
- Full web access included
Books get addresses.
Location is a hierarchy, not a tag: building, room, bookcase, shelf. Scan a shelf and all of it is filed in one motion — eighteen books to Living room › Main bookcase, done. Move a book, and its address moves with it.
A catalog you can talk to.
Ask your library
Questions are answered only from books you actually own — it cites the real titles on your real shelves and never invents one. The best cure for buying faster than you read.
One household, one answer
Invite your family by QR code and everyone sees the same catalog — at the store, at the curriculum sale, at the library book sale. No more accidental second copies.
Cheaper than the books you keep re-buying.
One duplicate hardcover a year costs more than the subscription. Everything is included — there's no free tier with the good parts held back, and the first week costs nothing.
everything included
- Whole-shelf scanning, plus barcode, cover & copyright-page
- Room › bookcase › shelf locations
- Ask your library — grounded in your books
- Household sharing & the web library
- 13 languages, iPhone & iPad
In a bookstore? Meet the sibling app.
Bookstore Companion reads the store's shelf and tells you which books are worth it, right there in the aisle — then your finds land here, on your home shelves.