Pumpkin Library
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Your personal reading companion

Pumpkin LibraryA cozy, private home for the books you own and the lines you love in them.

Scan a book's barcode and it lands on a hand-drawn shelf, cover and all. Recreate the bookcases you have at home, cubby by cubby, so you always know where a book lives. Photograph a page, and the passage you love becomes text you can keep.

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Free to try. Pro is one purchase, yours for good.

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  • No account
  • No ads
  • No tracking
  • Works offline
  • No subscription

Your shelves

Your shelves, drawn by hand.

Most book apps give you a list. Pumpkin Library gives you the bookcase in the living room, the one in the study and the pile by the bed, drawn the way they really stand.

  1. Scan the whole pile

    Point the camera at the ISBN barcode on the back. Title, author and cover fill themselves in. Scan one book after another, then add them all at once.

    Scan your books: the camera frames the barcode on the back of O Hobbit, the book is found and waits in the batch, ready to add

  2. Bookcases that mirror your home

    Build each bookcase the way it stands: a grid of cubbies or a stack of shelves, in walnut, oak, birch or ebony. Call each cubby whatever you call it at home.

    Adding a bookcase called Office: a 3 by 3 cubby grid in oiled dark walnut, previewed before it is created

  3. Give every book a place

    Pick the bookcase, then the cubby or the shelf. The app remembers where each book stands, so you don't have to.

    Choosing where a book goes: Living Room, Study or Bedside, then a cubby of the Living Room bookcase

  4. Always know where a book is

    Search for a title and see which bookcase and which cubby it's in. Moved it to another room? Move it in the app with a couple of taps.

    The page of Walden by Henry David Thoreau: reading status, rating, its place in the Living Room bookcase and 9 hours 11 minutes of reading time
Scan your books: the camera frames the barcode on the back of O Hobbit, the book is found and waits in the batch, ready to addAdding a bookcase called Office: a 3 by 3 cubby grid in oiled dark walnut, previewed before it is createdChoosing where a book goes: Living Room, Study or Bedside, then a cubby of the Living Room bookcaseThe page of Walden by Henry David Thoreau: reading status, rating, its place in the Living Room bookcase and 9 hours 11 minutes of reading time

  • Bring the list you already keep

    Import a spreadsheet or a Goodreads export, match its columns, and your books arrive ready to be shelved. E-books can live in a digital library of their own.

Your commonplace book

Keep the passages that matter.

Reading with a pencil in hand? Photograph the page instead. Quote Lens reads the text on your phone, you choose the words you want, and the passage is kept with the book it came from and the page it was on.

  • Quote Lens

    Frame the page inside the corner marks and take the photo. Choose the words right away, or keep reading and choose them later in Passages.

  • Read on your phone, not in the cloud

    The text is recognized on your device, and the photo is deleted once you're done with it.

  • Notes, categories and search

    Add a thought of your own, sort passages into categories, and search all of them at once: by words, by book or by author.

  • Six styles, ready to share

    Dress each passage in a style, then share it as an image, or as a short video for your stories.

Quote Lens: a photographed page of O Hobbit, now text, with the paragraph to keep highlighted
The Quote Lens screen, quoting from Walden, with corner marks over a printed page

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

WaldenHenry David Thoreau

The six styles

Try them on a passage from Walden.

Your reading room

A reading room of your own.

Open the app and a watercolor window opens with it, painted for the season and the hour. Read by the Paper theme in daylight, or move to the Study when the lamp comes on.

  1. Morning light

    A window that follows the seasons

    Blossom in spring, falling leaves in autumn, snow in winter. The view changes with the time of day and the time of year.

  2. Golden hour

    Paper or Study

    Warm parchment pages for the day, or the lamplit Study for the evening. The app can also follow your phone's light or dark setting.

  3. Dusk

    Light the candle

    Tap Read when you sit down and the candle burns while you read. Every session is kept, and your reading time adds up book by book.

  4. Lamplight

    On your Lock ScreenOnly on iPhone

    The reading timer stays on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while you read.

The home screen in Morning light, spring: a watercolor window with cherry blossom, and Good morning, ClaraFinishing a book in the lamplit Study theme: a wax seal on O Hobbit, and the last page card with 1 day, 1 minute of reading time and 1 passage kept

Private by design

Your library is nobody's business but yours.

There's no account to create and nothing to sign in to. Your books, passages and notes stay on your phone. The app reaches the internet for one thing: the details of a book you look up.

  • Yours to take with you

    Export your library as a CSV or a backup file whenever you like, for free, and restore the backup on a new phone.

  • Sync through your own iCloudOnly on iPhone

    With Pro, your library syncs between your devices through your iCloud account. Not ours.

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Try it free, buy it once

Every feature, free to try.

The free version has everything in it, in small quantities. When your library outgrows it, Pumpkin Library Pro is a single purchase. Not a subscription: you pay once and it's yours, with every future update.

To get to know it

Free

Every feature, to see if it fits your shelves.

  • 1 bookcase
  • 15 books
  • 25 passages
  • CSV and backup export, always free

One purchase, for life

Pumpkin Library Pro

Everything without limits, for the whole library.

  • Unlimited bookcases, books and passages
  • Unlimited categories and passage videos
  • iCloud sync between your devices (iPhone)
  • Every future update included

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Questions

Before you scan the first book.

Is Pumpkin Library a subscription?

No. The app is free to download and try. Pumpkin Library Pro is a one-time in-app purchase that unlocks unlimited bookcases, books, passages, categories and passage videos, for life.

How do I add my books?

Scan the ISBN barcode on the back cover, type the ISBN, or add a book by hand. You can scan a whole stack in one go, then choose where the books go.

Can I import my Goodreads library?

Yes. Export your books from Goodreads as a CSV file and import it into Pumpkin Library. Any spreadsheet works: you match its columns when you import it.

Does it work offline?

Yes. Your library lives on your phone, so you can browse your shelves, read your passages and time your reading without a connection. Looking up a new book's details needs the internet.

Is it on iPhone and Android?

It's on Google Play now and coming soon to the App Store. Everything works on both, except two iPhone-only extras: iCloud sync and the reading timer on the Lock Screen.

Can I move my library to a new phone?

Yes. Make a backup file in the app and restore it on the new phone. On iPhone, Pro also keeps your devices in sync through iCloud.

Which languages does the app speak?

English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Dutch. Quote Lens reads books printed in the Latin alphabet on both platforms.

Ex libris

Start with the book nearest you.

Download Pumpkin Library, scan its barcode, and watch it land on the shelf.

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