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BookPocket?

What we are building, and roughly when. Short-term, Medium-term, Long-term and Ideas are plans, and they may change as we learn. Someday/Maybe holds what we can't build yet but want to remember.

  • Pro marks what will be part of the optional Pro plan, for anyone who wants to support BookPocket.
  • Before beta marks what the public beta waits for.

  1. Up Next

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  2. In Progress

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    • iOS & Android apps

      iOS and Andorid apps exist and are in testing/going through the publishing process. Both arrive before the public beta.

      • Before beta

  3. Shipped

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    • Search by ISBN

      Type the ISBN from the back of a book into Search and go straight to that book.

      Shipped October 14, 2026

    • Apply to be a librarian

      Offer to help keep the books on BookPocket right. Send a short application, and we'll email you when it's decided.

      Shipped October 14, 2026

    • See what you've added and suggested

      Your profile lists the books you added and the changes you suggested, with whether a librarian has reviewed each one. Withdraw a change that's still waiting.

      Shipped October 14, 2026

    • Tap an author to see their books

      Tap an author's name on a book to see everything they wrote, with your To be read books by them first.

      Shipped October 10, 2026

    • Rate with stars

      Tap or drag across five stars to rate a book, half stars included.

      Shipped October 09, 2026

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    • A checklist for getting started

      New to BookPocket? Add a few books you loved and who recommended them, one step at a time.

      Shipped October 09, 2026

    • Shelf sharing

      Choose what a friend can see, down to the section.

      Shipped October 10, 2026

    • Books Open Library doesn't have

      Search checks the Library of Congress too, and an ISBN fills in a book you add by hand.

      Shipped October 09, 2026

    • Link previews

      A shared book shows its cover, title and author in Messages, Slack and anywhere else that previews links.

      Shipped October 01, 2026

    • Friends

      Add a friend by email, and connect them to the source you already have for them.

      Shipped October 01, 2026

    • Reading offline

      Pages you have opened stay readable when you lose signal.

      Shipped October 01, 2026

    • Stats

      Your reading in numbers: books finished by month, how you rate them, the formats you read in, and who sent you what.

      Shipped October 11, 2026

    • Paused reads

      Put a book down without giving up on it, with a note about where you were.

      Shipped October 01, 2026

    • Beta waitlist

      Leave your email and hear from us once, when the beta opens.

      Shipped September 24, 2026

    • BookPocket ratings

      What our readers rated a book, beside Open Library's rating, and in its place once enough of us have.

      Shipped October 01, 2026

    • Ratings and reviews

      Rate a book in half stars, and write a review that shows on its page.

      Shipped September 19, 2026

    • Priority books

      Flag the books you mean to read next, and move any book back to the top of your list.

      Shipped September 17, 2026

    • Book details corrected by librarians

      Wrong titles, covers, authors, page counts and genres, fixed for everyone.

      Shipped September 11, 2026

    • Owned or borrowed

      Say whether you own a book or borrowed it, and find the ones you could go and get.

      Shipped September 10, 2026

    • Book series, in reading order

      Say which series a book is in and where it falls, and see the whole series in order from any book in it.

      Shipped September 28, 2026

    • Private books

      Mark a book private and your review stays off its page, and whoever recommended it won't hear that you read it.

      Shipped September 28, 2026

    • Formatted book descriptions

      Bold, italics and lists in a book's description, from a toolbar or pasted straight in.

      Shipped September 28, 2026

    • Importing, open to every reader

      The importer works. It stays limited while we finish reviewing what a very large file can be made to do.

      • Before beta

      Shipped October 09, 2026

    • Recommendation tracking

      People, podcasts, publications and bookshops, as records rather than a line in a note.

      Shipped September 16, 2026

    • StoryGraph import

      Your books, your dates, your ratings, and the people behind your recommendations, out of a StoryGraph export.

      Shipped October 09, 2026

    • Account deletion

      Take everything with you, or leave and have it gone.

      Shipped September 28, 2026

    • Goodreads import

      The same import, reading a Goodreads export: your shelves, ratings, reading dates, reviews and private notes.

      Shipped October 09, 2026

    • To-be-read picks from trusted sources

      Unread books ranked by what you made of the other books that source sent you.

      Shipped September 16, 2026

    • Email confirmation

      So an invitation reaches the person you meant, and a password reset reaches you.

      • Before beta

      Shipped October 09, 2026

    • Send a book to a friend

      Send a book to a friend, whether or not they are here yet.

      Shipped September 16, 2026

    • Privacy policy

      Written plainly, and saying what happens to the names and faces you record.

      • Before beta

      Shipped October 09, 2026

    • Shelf search, sorting and filters

      A list or a wall of covers, filtered by tag, format, priority and whether you own it.

      Shipped September 16, 2026

    • Terms of service

      Written plainly: what you can expect from BookPocket, and what it expects of you.

      • Before beta

      Shipped October 09, 2026

    • Genres and custom tags

      Genres worked out from the catalogue, and any label you want to add on top.

      Shipped September 16, 2026

    • Suggest a correction

      Spot a wrong title, author or cover and send the fix to a librarian.

      Shipped October 02, 2026

    • Add a book by hand

      Type in the book in your hand, cover and all, and it joins the catalogue.

      Shipped September 16, 2026

    • Better book search

      Around 139,000 books to search, and anything missing is fetched from Open Library while you wait.

      Shipped August 27, 2026

    • Formats and re-reads

      Print, digital or audio, per read, so a book you listened to the second time says so.

      Shipped September 12, 2026

    • Merge duplicate sources

      Two names for one person become one, with every book they sent.

      Shipped September 10, 2026

    • Private notes

      A note on any book that only you can see.

      Shipped September 01, 2026

    • Invite your sources

      Invite someone you record as a source, so they can see when you read what they sent.

      Shipped August 26, 2026

    • Book pages anyone can open

      Send a link to any book, and it opens whether or not the person has an account.

      Shipped August 08, 2026

    • Reading dashboard

      This year's reading against last year's, what you are reading now, and whose picks you rate highest.

      Shipped September 16, 2026

    • Light and dark themes

      Light, dark, or whatever your device is set to.

      Shipped September 16, 2026

  4. Short-term

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    • Year in review

      Your year told by who shaped it, rather than by how many pages you turned.

  5. Medium-term

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    • Better book club integrations

      There should be better first party tools/integrations/guides for using BookPocket with book clubs.

      • Pro

    • Recommendation hit rate

      How often a source's books actually land with you, over enough of them to mean something.

    • Roadmap voting

      Vote on the cards that matter to you, comment on any of them, and request features right here on the board.

      • Pro

    • Recommendation chains

      Who told the person who told you. The trail is already recorded; this is where you get to walk it.

    • Source insights

      How long each source's picks wait before you read them, whose books you never get to or give up on, and which genres each one gets right.

      • Pro
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    • Customizable dashboard

      Choose which panels your dashboard shows, and in what order.

      • Pro

    • Saved filters

      Save a filtered view of your books, like owned, unread and recommended by Riley, and open it again in one tap.

      • Pro

    • Bulk editing

      Select several books on your shelf and change their status, tags or priority at once. Sorting out an import stays free.

      • Pro

  6. Long-term

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    • Pro plan

      An optional subscription for anyone who wants to support BookPocket and access additional features to gain deeper insights. Tracking your reading stays free.

    • Friends reading the same book

      Hear when several of your friends pick up the same book.

    • Recommendation priority for friends

      Tell a friend which of the books you sent them to read first. It shows as a suggestion, and their order stays theirs.

    • Lists and profiles

      Lists like your favorite books of all time, on a profile you choose to share.

      • Pro

    • Referrals

      Invite friends, and earn free months of Pro when they join.

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    • App icons and themes

      Choose a different app icon, and more color themes beside light and dark.

      • Pro

    • Reading goals

      Goals beyond a number of books, like reading more of what friends send you or clearing the books that have waited longest.

      • Pro

    • Early access and a supporter badge

      Try new features before everyone else, with a badge beside your name that says you help pay for BookPocket.

      • Pro

    • Readwise highlights

      Your highlights from Readwise, on the book they came from.

      • Pro

  7. Ideas

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  8. Someday/Maybe

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    • Introductions and blurbs

      Which books an author wrote the introduction or the cover blurb for. None of the book data we can use records it yet.

    • What everyone is reading

      The books catching on across BookPocket, if we can show it without becoming a recommendation engine.

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