Dousha

Library · Reading journal

The books you own.The readings you make.

Dousha is a catalogue of the shelf at home and a journal of what you read on it, paper, digital or audio, on your iPhone and iPad, with no account and no sign-up.

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Coming soon to the App Store, for iPhone and iPad.

The Reading tab in dark mode: the book in focus with its progress and a button to start a session, then the other books being read and the reading queue.
The Library tab: a grid of book covers under a search field, with the number of books at the top.
The reading calendar: a month where each day you read shows the cover of the book.

Features

Everything a reader keeps

A library, a desk, a diary and a few friends. Each part of the app answers one question.

  1. Every book

    A page for every book

    Paper, ebooks, audiobooks and manga, each measured the way it is read: pages, chapters, minutes, locations or percent. Its sessions, notes, quotes, loans and every reread stay with it.

    A book’s page: its cover, how far the reading has got, a button to start a session, and its notes, loans and history below.

  2. FeedDousha Plus

    A diary that writes itself

    Every session, note and quote lands on the day it happened, so a reading can be scrolled back through like a journal.

    The Feed: the pages read today, then a journal of sessions, notes and quotes grouped by day.

  3. Reading clubDousha Plus

    Read along with friends

    Start a club on a book and invite whoever is reading it too. Everyone sees where the others are, and a shared note stays folded until you reach its page.

    A reading club: the book, the next meeting and how far each member has read.

  4. Releases

    For what is still being written

    Manga, webtoons and web novels show how many chapters are out, how far you have read and when the next one is expected. And a digital book can be a file, a licence or a subscription, which the app keeps apart.

    Releases in dark mode: chapters waiting in two serials, and when the next one is due.

  5. Adding books

    A book in seconds

    Scan the barcode or the cover, search online, pick several screenshots at once, or bring your library from Goodreads or StoryGraph and your Kindle highlights. The recognition happens on the device.

    Adding a book: by hand, by barcode or cover, a whole shelf, online search, images or a QR code.

More screens

Fifteen palettes, light and dark

Every screen on this page was drawn in a different one of the app’s palettes. Four come free and the rest with Plus.

  • The quotes: lines from several books, each with its page.

    The lines that stayed

  • The Numbers tab: pages, hours, sessions and books read, the library by status and the yearly goal as rings.

    Your totals and your goal

  • Dousha Plus
    A reading bingo card, with book covers in the squares filled so far.

    A bingo card for the year

  • The loans: books lent out, who has them and when they are due, a book borrowed and one returned.

    Who has which book

  • Dousha Plus
    The year in review: books finished, days with reading, time spent, pages and chapters.

    Your year in review

  • Dousha Plus
    The library genome: the genres on the shelf, decade by decade.

    What your shelf is made of

iPad

The same library on a bigger page

Dousha is made for the iPad too, with a sidebar, drag and drop and keyboard shortcuts. Your iPhone and iPad stay in step through your own iCloud.

The Library on an iPad: a wide grid of covers under the tab bar.

Dousha Plus

The library is yours, subscription or not

Plus adds a layer on top of your reading. Adding books, logging sessions, syncing with iCloud and walking away with everything in a backup stay free, forever.

Free forever

  • Books, shelves, collections and series, with no limit
  • Adding by barcode, cover, online search, screenshots or QR code
  • Bringing your library from Goodreads, StoryGraph, Kindle or a spreadsheet
  • Reading sessions, progress, notes, quotes and releases
  • Your totals and your yearly goal
  • Loans, a shared wishlist and a household collection
  • Sync through your own iCloud, and export everything whenever you like

With Plus

  • The numbers: pace, streak, the reading calendar and your chronotype
  • The Feed and time capsules
  • Posters, quote cards, the year in review and the shelf genome
  • Reading clubs, bingo, challenges and what to read next
  • Photograph a whole shelf in one go and add every book on it at once
  • Widgets, the Live Activity, Siri and the rest of your devices
  • App icons, eleven more palettes and your own share style

No account. No ads. No behavioural profile.

Your library stays on your devices and in your own iCloud, which syncs from the first launch and can be turned off. What else leaves is what you ask for: the search you type, the barcode you scan and the subscription check with the App Store.

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