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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 paid plan. Before beta marks what the public beta waits for.

  1. Up Next

    4

  2. In Progress

    2

    • StoryGraph import

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

    • Goodreads import

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

  3. Shipped

    28

    • 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

    • 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

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    • 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

    • Recommendation tracking

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

      Shipped September 16, 2026

    • Account deletion

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

      Shipped September 28, 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

    • Send a book to a friend

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

      Shipped September 16, 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

    • Genres and custom tags

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

      Shipped September 16, 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

    4

    • iOS & Android apps

      An iOS app is in testing, and an Android app follows. Both arrive before the public beta.

      • Before beta

    • Public API

      Build on your own reading data, with documentation. Free, within sensible limits.

    • More book descriptions

      Just under half the catalogue has none. We are looking for a source we are allowed to keep.

    • Choose or upload a cover

      Browse every cover we have for a book and pick the one you know, or upload a photo of your own copy.

      • Pro

  5. Medium-term

    9

    • 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.

    • Suggest a correction

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

    • Sign in with Google or Apple

      Sign in with one tap, and no password to remember.

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    • Readwise highlights

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

      • Pro

    • 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 and change their status, tags or priority at once.

      • Pro

  6. Long-term

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    • Referrals

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

    • Source insights

      How each source's hit rate changes over time, which genres they get right, and how they compare.

      • Pro

    • App icons and themes

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

      • Pro

  7. Ideas

    6

    • Year in review

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

    • Reading journal

      Dated entries as you go, beside the one note you can already keep.

      • Pro

    • Reading review for any dates

      The same review as your year, for any stretch you choose: a summer, a decade, the months since you moved.

      • Pro

    • Lending reminders

      Who you lent it to, and when it is due back.

    • Audiobook length

      How long an audiobook runs, beside your copy when you are listening.

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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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