Books, Borrowers & Movie Track
Lend a book, remember who has it, and see what happened when someone filmed it.
Keep three things in one place: a private catalogue of the books you own, a record of who borrowed which one and when it's due, and — for the titles that made it to the screen — the film or series they became. Built for the shelf that keeps leaving the house: the classroom collection, the flat share, the friend who always means to give it back.
Link a book on your shelf to the film or series adapted from it, and it gets a row of its own: your books, on screen. The shelf marks those books too, so you can see at a glance which parts of your library have a second life.
Browse adaptations by what's just been made, what became a series, and what people actually rate. Search films and television together, since you rarely know in advance which one a book turned into. Open any title for its synopsis, cast, running time, rating, and age certification, along with related titles worth a look. Trailers play in place, without leaving your library.
The link runs both ways: from a book you reach its adaptation; from a film you reach the copy sitting on your shelf, and whether it's currently lent out.
Photograph a cover, add a title, what the book cost you, and whatever you want to remember about that particular edition — the translator, the printing, who gave it to you. Books are laid out as covers, the way they sit on a real shelf, so you recognise one before you read its title. Where you haven't added a photograph, the app draws a cover of its own from the book's details, so the shelf never turns into a wall of grey boxes.
Filter by what's out on loan, what's back in place, and which books have a screen adaptation. Search reads both titles and your own notes, so a half-remembered detail is enough to find something. Every book has a page of its own: its cover and description, its value, and the full list of everyone who has ever borrowed it.
Every person you lend to gets a page with a photograph and their whole borrowing record. Where there's no photograph, their initials stand in on a colour that stays the same for them. A single loan can go to more than one person, because books get read together and returned by whoever remembers first.
The summary at the top tells you who borrows most often, and who is currently holding on to something past its date. Swipe a name away when someone stops being part of your lending circle — their past loans stay in the history.
A loan is upcoming, out, overdue, or returned. Overdue is a state of its own, so a book nobody gave back never quietly looks like one that came home. Each loan carries a lending date and a due date, with a bar that fills as the deadline approaches and changes colour once it passes. Mark a book returned and it drops straight back onto the shelf, with the date it actually came home recorded against the loan.
Opening the app puts the answer first: what's out right now, and what's due back soon, sorted so the most urgent sits at the top. Below it, a row of the adaptations of books you own — because the thing you lent someone last week may well be on television this week.
Every loan is kept, not just the open ones. The history shows the whole run: which books travel most, who reads what, how long things actually take to come back.
No account, no sign-in, no server of ours. Books, people, loan records, and cover photographs live only in this app on this device, and nothing you create is uploaded anywhere. A connection is needed only to look up film and television information.
The whole app follows your system text size. At the largest accessibility sizes, rows re-stack rather than cut words off. Every control is sized to be hit comfortably, and icon-only controls still announce what they do to VoiceOver. On iPad, navigation moves into a sidebar and the shelf opens out to four columns.
Anyone whose books don't stay put: teachers running a classroom shelf, book clubs, house shares, small community libraries, and readers who have simply lost one too many paperbacks to a friend with good intentions.