What this update is about
BookSafe 1.8 is the update for everyone who collects comics and series: comics like Asterix are recognised correctly, you enter the cover, the volume and “Total volumes” right when adding a book, and Year in Review gets its fourth film design — the “Passport”.
This page describes the changes in more detail than fits into the App Store release notes.
Version 1.8 · released 17 October 2026
New
1A fourth film design: the Passport
Alongside “Gilded”, “Clothbound” and “Almanac”, Year in Review now offers the Passport. It tells your reading year as a comic-style ID: ten pages to flip through, with stamps, a ticket and its own song. The film runs 80 seconds. Pick it like the other designs with the palette button.
2Share Year in Review as an image or as a video
The share button in Year in Review now asks what you want to share: “Share image” for the overview of your year, or “Share video” for the film in the design you picked. You can share the video without watching the film first.
3The cover right when adding a book
In “Add Book” you pick the cover straight away — from your photo library or photographed on the spot. When you take a photo, BookSafe crops the cover automatically. In the book details, both work under “Change cover”.
4Volume and “Total volumes” by hand
When adding a book you can now enter the volume and the number of volumes under “Series”. “Total volumes” can also be changed in the series sheet of the book details. Automatic updates never overwrite what you entered yourself.
5Contact & Feedback in Settings
Settings now have “Contact & Feedback”. It opens an email to us with the app version and device already filled in. No data from your library is included.
Improved
- comics are recognised correctly: the album title instead of a series name with a number such as “Asterix 02”, the right series instead of a publisher’s title, and the genre “Comic” instead of “Novel”
- an ISBN that belongs to a box set is added as the box instead of as volume 1
- “Clean Up Data” in Settings fixes the series of books you have already saved
- cleaner series names and subtitles: no catalogue brackets or hyphen chains, no marketing copy in the subtitle
- spin-offs land in their own series
Plus many further refinements.
Earlier versions
Everything BookSafe has learned since version 0.4 — from the loan tracker to iCloud sync and the Apple Watch to the Year in Review films — is collected in the archive. Together, the versions show everything the app can do today.
Go to the archive of earlier versions →Good to know
| Requirements | iPhone and iPad on iOS 18 or later, Apple Watch on watchOS 11 or later |
|---|---|
| Your data | No account, no tracking. Your library lives on your device and syncs through your own private iCloud. |
| Price | Free for up to 50 books. BookSafe Pro lifts the limit for good: €3.99 once, no subscription. |
| Updating | Comes through the App Store — on iPhone under “App Store → profile → update apps”. |
