Liburu
A private reading library for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
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Details
- External ID
- 1265067
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Liburu
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3252795148758764
- Tags
- iOS, Mac, Books
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Liburu turns your bookshelf into a private, searchable library across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Scan ISBN barcodes to add books, track reading, save quotes with the emotions they bring up, and keep books, audiobooks, EPUBs, and PDFs together. Follow readers and share recommendations. Your library syncs through your own iCloud and works offline. Free for up to 15 books and 3 collections; a one-time Premium purchase unlocks unlimited books and more. No subscription.
Enrichment
- Niche
- book discovery and reading tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ebook reading app for apple devices
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A multi-platform personal library app can be easily built using standard Apple frameworks (SwiftUI, CloudKit) and public ISBN/book APIs (Open Library, Google Books).
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 203 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #110 of 204 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 269 days after the earliest competitor.
- I built an iOS app that turns EPUBs into audiobooks · hn · 2026-02-24 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Booklume by Jungle Birds · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Bookora · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- klibrary · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- SnowReader · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- NabuViewer · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Common Reader · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Heard for iOS: ePub reader with on-device text to speech · hn · 2026-07-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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