Book End: Reading Tracker
Track your books and reading!
Free · Designed for iPad
Track your books and reading habits!
Book End is an app that helps you keep track of the books you're reading and generates reading statistics. Just like how a physical bookend holds up books on a shelf, this app helps you keep your books and reading organised.
Book End allows you to easily scan, search and import books that you're reading into the app. Once you have your physical book open, you can use Book End to set a reading session timer. After completing your reading session, return to the app to log it, and it will automatically create personalized statistics for you. These include precise time remaining predictions for each book and exclusive metrics like your reading speed, and average pages read per hour. Overall, Book End helps you stay on track and develop your reading habit.
more Improvements and fixes:
- Search Improvements. You should see more books returning for most searches, including more relevant rare titles.
- See your completed books, directly on the reading calendar.
- New users can create reading goals, before adding any books.
- Fixes a rare crash, when a book might have 0 pages.
- Fixes an issue where some books might import without a title.
- Fixes an issue where some books have language code set as "UNKNOWN".
- Books should now only appear in one of the "Recently Added" and "Recently Completed" rows
1.15.3 6 Apr
Improvements and fixes
- Adds a new "Recently Added" section to home tab
- Recently Added and Recently Completed sections on home tab can now be disabled in app settings
- Improves settings layout
- Ensures consistency around milestone wording
1.15.2 23 Mar
Improvements and fixes:
- Easily see books you've recently finished within the last 24 hours.
- Fixed an issue where reading speed might be unavailable.
- Fixed some book detail alignment and icons.
1.15.1 8 Mar
Improvements and Features
- Calendar Overhaul, easily visualise your reading for each day and month via a handy calendar layout.
- Weekly tracker, now uses a chart to better visualise your reading.
- Forgot to start a reading timer? It's now easier than ever to use Book End to manually input a session.
- Manually adding a session, allows to automatically calculate a duration for books where speed is known.
- Charts are more interactive.
- Each books' reading activity shows more detail.
- Rounded some corners, and cleaned up buttons.
- Added a few more animations.
- Better validation checking when creating new reading sessions.
- Speed will correctly count for slower books.
- Fix some crashing issues with widgets.
- Reading goal ring, will now more accurately reflect reading progress.
- Added confirmation when deleting a reading session.
- Reading sessions better count over midnight, on more statistics.
1.15.0 6 Mar
Improvements
- Log book progress, using decimal percentages to more accurately capture pages read
1.14.5 9 Feb
Improvements and fixes:
- Resolves an issue to ensure that Book Search correctly loads Book Covers.
- Updates the Book End app icon to use iOS 26 Liquid Glass styling.
- History Tab's "Last Completed Book" should only show Completed books (not books with other milestones)
- Correctly update "Done"/ "Cancel" buttons in the raiting view
1.14.4 1 Feb
Improvements and fixes
- Confirmation is now required to dismiss the active reading timer, to prevent losing progress.
- Resolved reading session timer layout issues on iPad and Mac devices, using windowed mode.
- Improved performance and optimised energy usage of reading session timer, to allow longer sessions.
- Cleaned up the “Log Reading Session” and “Add Quote / Vocab” pop up menus.
- Removed iPad / Mac Sidebar (iOS 18+, macOS 15+), to prevent accidentally quitting an active reading session.
- Sprinkled in some more Liquid Glass into the reading session timer on compatible devices (iOS 26+, macOS 26).
- Updated the new search tab, to make use of the default search button layout (iPadOS 18+, iOS 26+).
1.14.3 15 Jan
Improvements and bug fixes:
- Selecting a date on the Book Calendar, will now correctly list all the books that got read on that date.
- Updated the counter on the Book Calendar, to show when more than one book has been read on the same day.
- Fixed issues with older versions of iOS where some icons were missing and where setting a reading session date, it would default to "01/01/01", and not the current date.
1.14.2 11 Jan
Improvements and Fixes
- Optimises widgets to ensure that data is successfully loaded.
- Fixes issues with “Currently Reading” widgets where they might appear blank on the Lock and Home screen.
1.14.1 9 Jan
Improvements and fixes:
- Improved search experience, with a new dedicated tab. Makes importing books easier, and fixes issues where Book End was unable to return results at certain hours.
- Quotes Widget - Preview a random assortment of quotes, directly on the your home screen.
- Manually create and edit milestones - if you ever need to change the date you completed a book, you now can.
- Reworked ISBN Scanner - now using on device Live Text for improved accuracy.
1.14.0 1 Jan
Bug fixes:
- When creating a new reading goal, the home tab will correctly update
1.13.8 31/12/2025
Bug fixes:
- Fixes an issue where books without a valid title or author may fail to load
- Fixes an issue where widgets might fail to update
1.13.7 18/11/2025
Improvements and fixes:
- Reading speed is now correctly calculated for sessions longer than an hour
1.13.6 13/10/2025
Bug fixes and improvements:
- Library Statistics now shows your number of eBooks vs Physical books (iOS 17+)
- You can now filter by books that are missing a language
- Books without languages aren't included in Library Statistics language counters
- Moved edit session button to better match other edit buttons
- Improvements to prepare Book End for "2025 Reading in Review" yearly recap
1.13.5 06/10/2025
Improvements and bug fixes:
- Filter any book in your library by their languages.
- Quickly see what filters and sorts are currently enabled in the library.
- iOS 16 devices now correctly display an error when book search fails.
- Fixes an issue that might cause book search to return no results without a valid reason.
1.13.4 30/09/2025
Improvements and fixes:
- Adds new social shortcuts to view books on The StoryGraph
- Goodreads shortcut now correctly hides if disabled in App Settings
1.13.3 24/09/2025
Important fixes:
- Fixes an issue where books could be importing with the incorrect ISBN, covers and descriptions
1.13.2 22/09/2025
Improvements and fixes:
- Pages read chart now correctly shows multiple day sessions
- Up to 7 days worth of sessions are now visible by default in the history tab
- Search and scanner optimisations
- Add shortcut to view on Google Books when searching
1.13.1 18/09/2025
Improvements:
- iOS 26 is here, Book End has been fully updated to take advantage of new app icons, liquid glass buttons and smooth transitions*
- Improvements to navigation, filtering, and sorting
- Stats now better count when a book reading session is split over 2 calendar days. For example, when reading over midnight
* Users on older versions of iOS will retain original native styling
1.13.0 15/09/2025
Bug fixes and improvements:
- Improves performance and calculations when working with a large amount of data.
- Increases book cover size in Library Tile View, especially on smaller devices.
- Adds a missing icon in book details for iOS 16 devices.
- Updates help text to better reflect the new library shelves.
1.12.3 11/09/2025
Bug fixes and improvements:
- Fixes an issue where the continue reading widgets might appear blank on the home or lock screen.
- Improves ISBN Search for less common books.
- If you can't find your book title via title search you should now almost always be able to find it via searching the ISBN
1.12.2 02/09/2025
Bug fixes:
- Small Lock Screen widget now correctly shows progress percentage
- Tidies up the speed preview when editing a Reading Session
- Resizes Book Detail view to better fit text on smaller devices
- Optimises symbol rendering
- Adds a new "Speed" symbol (iOS 17+)
1.12.1 31/08/2025
Major Book End v1.12 Update!
Improvements:
- Lock screen widgets, to quickly see your current reading progress
- Live activities, to quickly check your current reading session without jumping into the app
- View your books automatically organised onto shelves
- You can now edit previously created reading sessions
- Quick access to edit and maintain a list of custom book genres
Fixes:
- Search performance optimisations
- Layout tidy ups and improvements
1.12.0 29/08/2025
Important Bug Fixes:
- Fixes a major issue where Book Search might return no results
1.11.9 29/08/2025
Bug Fixes:
- When entering an ISBN search, results now correctly show up
1.11.8 24/08/2025
Improvements and fixes:
- Search Improvements. You should see more books returning for most searches, including more relevant rare titles.
- See your completed books, directly on the reading calendar.
- New users can create reading goals, before adding any books.
- Fixes a rare crash, when a book might have 0 pages.
- Fixes an issue where some books might import without a title.
- Fixes an issue where some books have language code set as "UNKNOWN".
- Books should now only appear in one of the "Recently Added" and "Recently Completed" rows
more Version 1.15.3 6 Apr
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