Volumes

Volumes for iPhone

Your library, in your pocket

Your books, your reading and your quotes, kept privately on your iPhone.

Download on the App StoreTour the iPhone app
A book's progress in Volumes on iPhone
The Volumes library on iPhone
Saved quotes in Volumes on iPhone
A library of book covers in Volumes on iPhone

01Add

Add a whole shelf in minutes

Scan a barcode and the book is added with its cover.

  • Use Scan Shelf to go along a whole shelf, then set what you've read and its location in one go.
  • Scan from the Lock Screen, Control Center or the Camera Control, without unlocking.
  • Share a book's page from Safari, Amazon, Goodreads or your bookshop to add it, even without an ISBN.
The Great Gatsby in Volumes, 62% read, on the Living Room shelf

02Read

Pick up where you left off

Note the page you stopped on, and you'll never lose your place.

  • Reading it again? Each read is kept, with when you started and finished.
  • Tell Siri “Log my page in Volumes” without opening the app.
Combined filters for reading status, lists and locations in Volumes

03Find

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 iPhone, so what you type never leaves it.
  • Works on every iPhone. With Apple Intelligence, it understands looser requests too, like “the ones I gave up on”.
Books currently lent out in Volumes, each marked with who has it

04Lend

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.
Saved quotes in Volumes, each with its book and page

05Quotes

Save the quotes you love

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

  • The text is read on your iPhone, so you never type it out.
  • Share a quote as a card in the colours of its cover.
  • Your quotes from a borrowed book stay with you after you give it back.
Library statistics in Volumes, with books added per year

06Statistics

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.
Volumes widgets on the Home Screen: a quote and currently reading

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, your Lock Screen and in StandBy.
  • Search for any book you own in Spotlight, and it opens straight in Volumes.

Made for iPhone Duo

Folded, check what you already own, right there in the bookshop.Unfold it on the sofa and wander your whole library.

The Volumes library across iPhone Duo's inner display
Check before you buy: Volumes on iPhone Duo's outer display

Check before you buy

Scan a barcode without unfolding it, and Volumes tells you if you already own the book, even in another edition.

Get anywhere in a tap: Volumes on iPhone Duo's inner display

Get anywhere in a tap

Your authors, series, lists and lent books are all one tap away.

See the whole book at once: Volumes on iPhone Duo's inner display

See the whole book at once

Your progress, the book's details and your quotes from it, all in view together.

Shop with your library beside you: Volumes on iPhone Duo's inner display

Shop with your library beside you

Browse a bookshop online with Volumes open next to it, and see straight away which books you already own.

Volumes on iPhone Duo needs iOS 27.1, which iPhone Duo ships with.

At a glance

Volumes for iPhone

Requires
iOS 26 or later; iOS 27.1 on iPhone Duo
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

Which iPhones does Volumes run on?

Any iPhone with iOS 26 or later. Scanning from the Camera Control needs an iPhone that has one.

Can Volumes tell me if I already own a book?

Yes. Scan its barcode, or point the camera at it with Visual Intelligence on an iPhone that supports it. Volumes tells you if it's in your library, on your wishlist or lent out.

Does Volumes work on iPhone Duo?

Yes. Folded, it's the Volumes you know. Unfold it and your whole library is one tap away.

Your library, on your iPhone.

Download on the App Store

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