BookBuds: Read with friends

• Free to download
• In-app purchases

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.2 149 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Pop ups

   I love this app, I’ve had it since around new years and use it as my reading time tracker but the pop up messages that show up when you first open the app is really annoying. I do not want to open a gift nor purchase anything the second I open the app. Greatly annoying and makes me want to throw my phone into the garbage disposal. Please just do a side bar button thing instead of a full page pop up please. But love the app other than that one gut raging feature. Keep up the good work!❤️

   kennedy.knighton · 31 Jul 2026

2. 1/5Great Idea, Poor Execution / AI & Moneygrabbing

   Fairly certain this app is coded with AI or the assets are AI generated. The idea is good. It could use more features, but genuinely this could have replaced Goodreads for me. However they introduced 3 popups for the paid version every time you open the app, even in the middle of reading sessions; I joined the Dev’s discord to point out this bug. Multiple people did. Lo and behold, the Dev turned it back on due to a “dramatic drop in revenue” and then told me to stop asking about it (despite the fact it had been a while since I even asked and that I wasn’t the only one having issues). I deleted the app after that because what’s the point if the dev won’t listen to community feedback? Now after a bit I downloaded it again to see if maybe it’s been updated, and now it’s completely unusable. Big screen roping me into a free trial with no way to cancel, and a weird gif with a buggy popup. Can’t even program an app right but begging for money. What absolute money-grabbing garbage.

   nayt.trent · 31 Jul 2026

3. 3/5App problems

   Honestly I love this app it’s so fun and makes me read so much more however, it keeps logging me out of my account and like a month or two ago made me create a new one. So I restarted re added all my friends did everything now today it logged me out and is again forcing me to create a new account. I have no idea how to fix this and when I reached out to try and get it fixed at first I was getting emails back but then they just ghosted me. This is very disappointing to me because of how much I love this app. I’ll Probubly make a new account so I really hope i don’t get logged out again.

   dinkisimp · 31 Jul 2026

4. 4/5Great but some bugs!

   I love this app, me and my friends use this all the time! But recently if I try to add a book to my list, or search up a book it will tell me no books found. No matter what the book is. And I know they have this book because I have seen it. I can only add it manually which is a bit annoying. I’ve deleted the app and redownloaded it, got it on a new device and it still won’t work!

   brynn1249 · 31 Jul 2026

5. 3/5New and promising, but still has issues

   I like it, it’s a great way to connect with long-distance friends over books, I just wish there was an option if your book isn’t listed. A couple of books I read aren’t there whenever I change or choose my book, and I can’t go back and change the ones I finished for whenever they do get added. I think there should be a way to list a book if the one you’re reading isn’t on there. I get that it’s a new app, and it definitely has potential, this is just an issue I came across.

   VicTVN24 · 31 Jul 2026

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