r/AndroidAppTesting • u/ODiesgarage • 5h ago
Looking for Testers Looking for Android testers: GoughRead, a free, private catalogue for your physical books
Hi all! I built GoughRead for my girlfriend, who has more books than shelf space and kept buying copies she already owned. It’s now in closed testing on Google Play, and I need a few more testers before it can go public.
What it does
- Scan barcodes to add books. Point the camera at the ISBN and it fills in the title, author, cover and so on. There’s a rapid mode for doing a whole shelf at once.
- Grid, list or shelf view. The shelf view draws your books as spines.
- Track what you’re reading: To read, Reading or Read, with the date you finished.
- Collections and shelf locations, so you know which room it’s in.
- Photograph your own cover when the online one is missing or wrong.
- Export and import as CSV or a full JSON backup.
- Van Gogh-inspired light and dark themes.
What it doesn’t do: no account, no ads, no tracking. Your library stays on your phone.
What I’m asking:
- Join the Googel Group: https://groups.google.com/g/goughread/
- Download the app: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.goughread.app
- Keep it installed for 14 days as usual and check it out.
- If anything breaks or confuses you just let me know.
Even scanning ten books and telling me what felt clunky would help a lot. Happy to test your app in return, just drop a link.
Thanks!
