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Pagebound: A Detailed Look at the Social Book Tracker App

by Pagebound

4.8
ANDROIDBooks & Reference
This app merges personal reading management with social discovery, creating a centralized hub for bibliophiles. For anyone who tracks their reading across multiple platforms, Pagebound consolidates progress, reviews, and community interaction. It’s a robust alternative to more established apps, focusing on a shared reading experience.

Detailed Review

In a crowded market of reading trackers, Pagebound distinguishes itself by prioritizing the social aspect of bibliophilia. The app functions as a hybrid tool, combining the detailed logging capabilities of a personal reading journal with the connective features of a book-centric social network. This positions it as a compelling option for readers tired of siloed experiences who want their tracking and community engagement in one place. A deep dive into the app reveals a core set of features centered on progress tracking and social interaction. Users can log books, update page counts with a slider, and rate finished reads. The social layer allows users to follow friends, view their updates in a dedicated feed, and share thoughts on specific books or passages. Functionality extends to creating custom bookshelves beyond the standard 'Read,' 'Currently Reading,' and 'Want to Read,' which allows for niche categorization like '2024 Nonfiction' or 'Summer Beach Reads.' The inclusion of a barcode scanner simplifies the process of adding physical books to one's digital library. In practical use, the interface is clean and intuitive, favoring a book-centric design with ample cover art. Navigating between a personal library, the social feed, and a global book database feels fluid. A real-world scenario involves finishing a chapter, quickly updating the progress slider, and immediately posting a thought about a plot twist to one's feed for followers to see and discuss. This seamless integration of logging and sharing is the app's primary design achievement. Some minor menu labels could be slightly clearer on first use, but navigation becomes second nature quickly. With a 4.8-star rating, early reception is notably positive, though the absence of written reviews makes granular feedback scarce. The high score suggests users are satisfied with the core promise of a unified social tracking experience. Typically, such ratings in this category indicate an app that is stable, fulfills its advertised features without major bugs, and offers a user experience that meets or exceeds expectations for its initial user base. Overall, Pagebound presents a well-executed concept for social readers. Its strengths lie in its clean integration of tracking and community features, offering a single destination for a traditionally fragmented activity. The primary limitation is the inherent challenge of any new social platform: its value scales with an active user base. For individuals seeking a powerful personal tracker, it excels; for those whose friends haven't adopted the app, the social features remain a potential rather than a present utility. It’s a strong foundation with significant promise.

Key Features

  • Detailed reading progress tracking with a manual page-count slider, allowing for precise daily logging and visual progress bars per book.
  • A social feed for following friends and viewing their updates, reviews, and book activity, fostering direct community engagement.
  • Customizable bookshelves that go beyond default categories, enabling personalized organization for any reading project or genre.
  • Barcode scanner for quickly adding physical books to a digital library by scanning the ISBN, streamlining library building.
  • Global book database integration for searching and adding titles, complete with standard metadata like author, publisher, and cover art.
  • Ability to post thoughts and reviews tied directly to specific books, creating a threaded discussion space around individual titles.

Why Users Love It

Seamlessly integrates personal logging with social features
Highly customizable library organization

Perfect for: Perfect for avid readers who participate in book clubs or online reading communities and want to consolidate tracking and social interaction.

Screenshots

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Current Rank

#48

Best Rank

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Average Rank

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User Reviews

Jacob Huggins
Oct 13, 2025

Pagebound! Blows all other book tracking apps out of the water!!! The girls who made this did such a good job! They created it without pay and without incorporating AI. It is a full out interactive/social media style book tracking app. Track your reads, discuss books at the specific part you're at, talk about books in general, join full app wide book reads per quarter of the year, earn badges, and much more! The design is so cute and clean too! Literally perfection! And no ads! 🤩💯

Grace
Oct 19, 2025

I've been a Pagebound user through their website for several months and have fallen in love with the book tracker's setup, design, and concept. The main focus of Pagebound is to discuss books with others - each book has a "forum page" to post thoughts as you read. As an app, Pagebound takes what you know and love from the website and changes it to be mobile-friendly! Everything is easily accessible. The colors are eye-catching. The community is friendly. Excited to see this platform grow!

winter bear
Nov 17, 2025

First of all, I would like to say thank you so much to the developer for creating such a comfortable and cute reading place. It's changed me from years of using Goodreads. The app is so simple, clean, and minimalist. I'm really enjoying this platform so far. Hopefully, there will be no ads in the future and it can be used for free and it would be better if the developer added some features such as filtering the ratings of the books, or how many pages that has been read.

Jasmyn Stamper
Oct 5, 2025

I've been a fan of Pagebound for awhile and really enjoyed using the website! The app is just as great and has a stunning interface. If youre a reader and enjoy talking with others about all things books, this is the app for you with tracking, book forums for conversation, badges, and more!

melon06H
Oct 7, 2025

I'm really liking this app so far. I only have one request, please add a way we can keep track of what page we left on. There's already a "my book journey" so being able to see how many pages we've read over time would be so cool. If this is already something you guys are planning on adding, I'm so looking forward to it <3

App Details

Developer

Pagebound

Platform

android

Rating

4.8

Last Updated

1/5/2026