OctoCat · home library catalog
Your home library catalog, in your browser
OctoCat catalogs your books, music and movies on the web, so you can browse your collection from any computer, tablet or phone. Scan a barcode or type an ISBN, and OctoCat fills in the title, author, publisher and cover from several sources at once.
Coming from ReaderWare? Restore a ReaderWare backup or import the desktop database directly. OctoCat writes backups in ReaderWare's own format, so your catalog can always go back.
Bring your ReaderWare catalog online
Years of cataloging shouldn't stay stuck on one PC. OctoCat reads your ReaderWare data as it is, and keeps the fields and lists you know.
- Restore a ReaderWare backup. Upload the backup zip from the ReaderWare desktop app. Your whole catalog comes across, cover images included.
- Or import the database directly. No recent backup? Zip up the ReaderWare desktop database folder and import it. A catalog.csv export with images works too.
- Never locked in. Download a backup any time, in ReaderWare's own backup format.
Everything you catalog, and new ways to see it
Search the way you think
Choose your columns and search title, author, publisher, ISBN and keywords from one box, or narrow it with Author: or Title:. Save advanced searches.
Scan it and it fills itself in
ISBN lookup across Google Books, Open Library, the Library of Congress and more. Works with USB barcode scanners, and music and movies by UPC.
Batch add
Scan a whole box of books, then look them all up in one go.
A virtual bookshelf
Switch between a table, a wall of covers, groups, and a bookshelf where every spine is sized by its page count.
Series and want list
See which numbered volumes you own, which you want, and where the gaps are, with "Buy it" links to the shops you choose.
Insights and graphs
Collection size and value, decades, top categories and authors, plus a relationship graph and ReaderWare's Fish Eye view.
The tools collectors rely on
Loan tracking
Check books out to friends, see what is overdue, and get reminders until they come back.
Report Writer
ReaderWare's report templates, including catalog cards, spine labels and loan reports with scannable barcodes.
Lookup lists
Rename, merge or tidy authors, publishers and categories.
Export to a spreadsheet
Download your catalog as CSV with cover images.
Obsidian knowledge map
Import your Obsidian reading notes and see them linked to the books they are about.
Find duplicates and bulk edit
Clean up a catalog that has grown over many years.
Workflow Engine
Oikos
Koinonia
OctoCat is coming soon.
It's in its final stretch. Check back here for the launch date and early access.