A StoryGraph alternative for your reading and your shelves
The StoryGraph charts how you read and suggests what to read next. Volumes tracks your reading too, with progress, rereads and Up Next, and adds everything around it: the books on your shelves and where they are, who has borrowed them, and the quotes you want to keep.
The StoryGraph is a reading tracker known for its charts and mood-based recommendations. Volumes tracks your reading too, and puts it beside the books you own, the ones you've lent and the quotes you've kept.
Volumes and The StoryGraph, feature by feature
Feature
Volumes
The StoryGraph
No account needed
YesKept in your own iCloud
NoAccount needed
Not tracked across apps
Yes
Yes
No ads
Yes
Yes
Native Mac app
YesNative on iPhone, iPad and Mac
PartlyiPad app on Apple silicon Macs
Barcode scanning
YesOne book or a whole shelf
Yes
Track who borrowed a book
YesPlus hand-over links
Not listed
Record which shelf a book is on
Yes
Not listedAn owned status, no location
Save your own quotes
YesPhotograph the page
NoAn open request on its roadmap
Import from Goodreads
YesAlso StoryGraph, LibraryThing
Yes
Export your library
NoComing soon
YesFrom Manage Account
No subscription or paid tier
YesEverything included
PartlyPlus from $4.99 a month
Android or web
NoComing soon
YesAndroid and web
YesPartlyNoNot mentioned in their own listing or help pages
Under the library title on iPhone, the gear on iPad, and ⌘, on a Mac.
Import from Another App
Tap Choose a File and pick the export. Or share the file to Volumes from Files or Mail.
Add to My Library
Check the count, then add. Volumes tells you what came in and anything it couldn't use.
What to expect
Comes across
Title, authors and ISBN
Read, currently reading, and did not finish (as set aside)
Your most recent start and finish dates
The date you added each book
Your tags, as lists
Stays behind
Moods, pace and the other review tags
Star ratings and reviews
Earlier reads of a book you've reread
Narrators and translators come in listed as authors
Books already in your library are skipped, so importing twice is safe. Want to see it first? Try a sample library.
Which is for you
An honest choice
Choose The StoryGraph if…
You want stats on your reading habits: moods, pace, genres, goals and streaks.
You want recommendations based on mood and pace.
You use Android or the web.
Choose Volumes if…
You want your reading and the books you own in the same place, scanned in a shelf at a time.
You want statistics about your library itself: how many books on your shelves are still unread, how it has grown, and who borrows most.
You want to keep quotes from a photographed page, and see one in a Home Screen widget.
You lend books and want to know who has them.
You want a native Mac app and no account.
Privacy and price
What it costs you
The StoryGraph
An account is needed. Its App Store privacy label lists data linked to you, and no tracking across apps.
Free, with StoryGraph Plus at $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year for custom charts and more stats (US App Store prices).
Volumes
No account and no ads. Your library is kept in your own iCloud, and Volumes doesn’t track you across other apps or websites. The privacy policy sets out the little that leaves your device.
Free on the App Store, with no subscription.
The StoryGraph
Two kinds of statistics
The StoryGraph charts your reading: moods, pace, genres and page counts, with goals and streaks, and custom charts and comparisons in StoryGraph Plus.
Volumes charts your library: a wall of the books you finished each year, how many books on your shelves are still unread, books added per year and month, the decades your books were first published in, and who has borrowed the most. All of it free, and with no streaks or goals.
Questions
Good to know
Can I move my StoryGraph library to Volumes?
Yes. Export your library from Manage Account in The StoryGraph, then in Volumes open Settings, tap Import from Another App and choose the file.
Do moods and pace come across?
No. Volumes brings across your books, whether you read, are reading or didn't finish each one, your most recent dates, and your tags as lists. Moods, pace, ratings and reviews stay in The StoryGraph.
Is Volumes a reading tracker?
Yes, and a home library too. It tracks your page and progress, remembers every read including rereads, and lets you set a book aside without counting it as finished.
Can I get my books out of Volumes later?
A full library export is coming soon. Until then you can share any single book or quote, and your library lives in your own iCloud rather than on our servers.
What do I need to run Volumes?
An iPhone or iPad with iOS 26 or later, or a Mac with macOS 26 or later. Volumes is free on the App Store.
Everything else
Everything else in Volumes
Your reading, your shelves, your loans and your quotes, in one private app on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
