Book Tracker

Migrating from BookBuddy

BookBuddy exports more about your books than almost any other app, and Book Tracker reads nearly all of it: series, locations, wish list, purchases, and your reading. You don’t need to switch BookBuddy to English first.

Export your BookBuddy library

  1. Open BookBuddy and tap Settings.
  2. Tap Export.
  3. Choose CSV as the format.
  4. Save the file to Files or iCloud Drive, or AirDrop it to the device where you use Book Tracker.

Don’t open and save the file in a spreadsheet first. Use it exactly as BookBuddy made it.

Import the file into Book Tracker

  1. Open Book Tracker and go to Settings → Import.
  2. Tap Choose File and select the BookBuddy file.
  3. Under Exported from, Book Tracker shows Book Buddy. If it shows a different app, tap it and pick Book Buddy.
  4. Tap Continue. Book Tracker looks up your books and finds their covers. When it’s done, tap Review.
  5. Review the list. Each row says what will happen to that book; tap a row to leave it out.
  6. Tap the Import button, which shows how many books are coming in (for example, Import 312 books). Book Tracker backs up your library before it adds anything.

What comes across

  • The book: title, subtitle, every author (compound surnames like García Márquez included), ISBN, pages, summary, publisher, place and date of publication, original publication date, language.
  • Series and volume number.
  • Format, even when you typed it in your own language: Hardcover, Rilegato, Gebunden, Hörbuch, Audiolibro, and so on. Audiobooks keep their running time.
  • Narrators, illustrators, and translators.
  • Genres and categories, both as categories in Book Tracker, plus your tags.
  • Physical location, as the book’s location.
  • Wish list: books on your BookBuddy wish list go to your Book Tracker wishlist.
  • Purchase date and price. If Purchase Price is empty, Book Tracker uses List Price.
  • Reading status (Read, Reading, Unfinished) with start and finish dates, and the current page for books you are reading.
  • Rating, converted to the rating scale you use in Book Tracker, and notes.
  • Covers: your uploaded covers, or the Google Books cover when the book came from there.

Limits

  • BookBuddy keeps one reading per book, so each book arrives with one reading.
  • Loans are not imported.
  • A book marked Unread arrives with no reading status.