---
title: Book Tracker
kind: side-project
role: Solo build
years: 2024 – present
status: running
summary: >-
  My personal book tracker. Rails backend, iOS client. Built because Goodreads
  is bad and I have opinions about how a reading log should work.
tags:
  - rails
  - ios
  - swiftui
  - personal-build
order: 2
---

I have what my old /about page called a "giant anti-library." I wanted a place to
track what I've read, what I'm reading, what I want to read, and what I've abandoned
and why — with my notes attached and without the social-network ambient pressure of
Goodreads.

So I built it. Rails backend, native iOS client. Single-user — it's mine. The book
list on [/reading](/reading) is curated from it.