Cratelog: Book Box Tracker

Michał Przybyła

In-app purchases

About this app

Cratelog is the tracker for special edition book collectors: every book box subscription, every skip deadline, your preorders, your spending, and your library in one app. Keep StoryGraph or Goodreads for your reading; Cratelog tracks what they don't.

You're subscribed to five book boxes. Each one skips differently: one wants a form by the 5th, another an email by the 12th, a third won't let you skip at all this quarter. Miss one deadline and you've paid for a special edition you already own. Cratelog keeps it all straight.

NEVER MISS A SKIP DEADLINE
- Every box has its own skip window, limit, and rules. Cratelog knows them.
- Reminders 7, 3, or 1 day before each deadline.
- Skips left per box, under its real policy: rolling year, calendar year, consecutive caps.
- Warnings before a risky skip: your last of the year, or one that cancels your subscription.
- Cratelog routes you to the right portal, email, or form, then records what you did.

DECIDE THE MONTH BEFORE IT CHARGES
- Every box with an open decision on one screen: skip it, keep it, or sell it on.
- Filter to what you still have to decide, and close a month in one tap.
- A cycle your box never shipped is recorded as exactly that, and costs you no skip.

PHOTOGRAPH YOUR OWN COPY
- Seven shots per book, jacket on and off, so the copy in the app is YOUR copy.
- The camera frames each face and finds the book by its edges.
- Turn the finished book in 3D and look at the sprayed edges from any angle.
- Stand your books on a real shelf, spine out or edges out, in the order you arrange them.
- Never shot an edition yourself? You see another reader's photos of it, credited and reviewed.

EVERY SUBSCRIPTION IN ONE PLACE
- One dashboard for all your book subscription boxes: renewal dates, next box, status.
- A calendar view of every billing day and skip deadline.
- Waitlists for invite-only boxes, with how long others waited.
- Works with FairyLoot, Illumicrate, OwlCrate, Goldsboro, The Broken Binding, The Bookish Box, LitJoy, and dozens more through a community-maintained catalog.

SEE WHAT'S COMING, SPOILER SAFE
- Theme and book reveals for upcoming boxes, leaks and confirmed announcements clearly labeled.
- Edition details: sprayed edges, endpapers, and the artists credited for them.
- Spoilers hidden by default until you choose to peek.

YOUR COLLECTION
- Import your whole library from Goodreads or StoryGraph in one go.
- Scan a barcode to add anything new in seconds.
- Signed, numbered, and sprayed edges badges.
- Custom shelves, ratings, reading progress, and series that show how many you own and have read.
- Duplicate warnings before you buy a box book you already own.

KNOW WHAT YOU SPEND (AND SAVE)
- Monthly and yearly spending, split between subscriptions and preorders.
- A running total of the money skipping has saved you.
- Multi-currency with daily rates.

PREORDERS, DROPS, AND SALES
- Special edition preorders from any store, plus a wishlist of the ones you have not ordered yet.
- A calendar of drops and warehouse sales in your local time, with an alert before a watched sale starts.

CRATELOG PLUS, IF YOU WANT TO SUPPORT IT
- Everything above is free and stays free. Plus is an optional monthly or annual membership that helps cover what the app costs to run.
- Subscription Review: each box on the one to three measures you pick, from cost and skips to resale and edition design.
- Compare: your boxes side by side on cost per month, cost per book, skips, ratings, and reading.

THE HONEST PART
Cratelog never skips, cancels, or buys anything for you; you act directly with the box company. Your collection is private, and deleting your account never touches your real subscriptions.

Cratelog is an independent app made by one person. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any book box company. Brand names are used only to describe which services you can track.

Free to download and free to use. Never pay for a box you didn't want again.