Byzans: Chat about books

Byzans

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About this app

You are reading a book and you are craving to talk about it with someone who is also reading it? Then Byzans is the app for you.

You’ve just finished a book and have no one to discuss it with? Byzans is again the app for you.

You want to read a book and you’re looking for friends to share the experience with you? You know where we’re going with this :)

Byzans is the new app where you can chat about books and make new friends.

Start by adding your favourite books, and you’ll automatically join their book clubs. Share your feelings and thoughts with fellow readers and find friends among them! Check out their profile and library and discover the books that you have in common.

Key Features:

- Chatrooms for each book (the café)
- Forums where you can talk about specific things about the book at length (the salon)
- Spoiler protection everywhere you might need it
- Library, which can be used for tracking your books
- Profile with stats and the opportunity to see what others are reading
- Books in every language
- Book scanner
- Trending clubs with the latest discussions
- A fantastic community of book lovers
- Book feed where you can find inspiration for your next reads

Install the app and start reading books together with the people from the whole world!

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Ratings and reviews

Update 11/05/2020- App is now much more responsive which is nice so +1 star. I understand being able to choose the cover, but I think that belongs in a different interface. For example if I want to add a lot of books by an author and search that author, I frequently end up double adding a book. Additionally it's frustrating to add all of the books in a series since you keep having to scroll past duplicates that you are unsure of wether or not you have added.

Love it with two caveats. 1) Why isn't there an option to make a private buddy read? I think it's great that people want to chat in a public chat, but most times I want to use this for buddy reads with my friends and often random people will jump in because that is how it is set up. Do you have any plans for private groups Byzans? 2) Please fix notifications as they are very inconsistent in actually being sent to me for the groups I'm in.

4 stars for now as I have just installed and it's a great app all in all. Very easy to use, the layout is easy on the eyes. I just wish there was a way in the My Books tab to group / filter the books as Read, Currently Reading, and Want to Read just like in Goodreads. So that it's easier to track the number of books per category. I do not know any other apps like this one, so I think this is brilliant.

What’s new

Added support for the "Did Not Finish" status. Now you can track the books you've decided to stop reading. General improvements and bug fixes.