Volumes

Volumes for iPad

Your library, made for iPad

Browse your shelves, read up on any book and plan what to read next, all from the sofa.

The Volumes library on iPad
A book's progress on iPhone
The Volumes library on iPad, with the sidebar of shelves

01Library

Every shelf, one tap away

Jump to any author, series, list or location without leaving your library.

  • Pick a location to see just the books kept there.
  • Your Quotes, Statistics and Discover rooms are one tap away too.
The Great Gatsby open in Volumes on iPad

02Read

Everything about a book, at once

Open a book to see its cover, your progress and every detail together.

  • Give a book its own window, and keep browsing your library beside it.
  • Keep Volumes open next to an online bookshop, and see which books you already own.
  • Close it with a swipe down or a pinch, and you're back where you were.
Saved quotes on iPad, grouped by month

03Quotes

Save the quotes you love

Photograph the page with your iPad and tap the quote. It's saved with its book and page number.

  • Read back every quote with your note on it right beside it.
  • The text is read on your iPad, so you never type it out.
  • Share a quote as a card in the colours of its cover.
Library statistics on iPad

04Statistics

See how your reading adds up

See how many books you finished each year, and how many are still waiting on your shelves.

  • Dig deeper into your reading: the decades your books come from, and what you add each month.
  • Narrow it to a single year, or look back across your whole library.
Books lent out, on iPad

05Lend

Always know who has your books

Note who borrowed a book and when, and you'll never wonder where it went.

  • Hand it over by Messages or AirDrop, and it appears in their library with your name on it.
  • Your notes, quotes or reading progress is never shared.
  • Friends without Volumes can still open it.
The filter sheet on iPad

06Find

Find any book in plain words

Type what you're after, like “unread books in the hallway”, and Volumes finds them for you.

  • It knows your library: your own authors, series, lists and locations.
  • It all happens on your iPad, so what you type never leaves it.
  • Or combine filters for reading status, lists, authors, locations and lending.
Volumes widgets on the iPad Home Screen

07Glance

Your reading, a glance away

See what you're reading and how far you've got, without opening Volumes.

  • Your progress on your Home Screen, with the Book Progress widget.
  • A favourite quote on your Home Screen and Lock Screen.
  • Search for any book you own in Spotlight, and it opens straight in Volumes.

At a glance

Volumes for iPad

Requires
iPadOS 26 or later
Price
Free, with no subscription
Account
None. Your library lives in your own iCloud
Sync
iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad and Mac, automatically
Language
English

Everything else Volumes does is on the features page.

Questions

Good to know

Is my iPad library the same as my iPhone's?

Yes. It's the same library, kept in sync through your own iCloud. Add a book on one and it's on the other.

Can I scan books on iPad?

Yes. Scan barcodes and photograph quotes with your iPad's camera. Visual Intelligence and the Camera Control are iPhone features.

Your library, on your iPad.

Free on iPhone, iPad and Mac · No account · No ads