Collecting tips
How to catalogue a manga collection you already own
A practical way to get an existing shelf of manga into a catalogue — what to record, what order to go in, and how to handle editions, one-shots and the books no database knows.
Manga collection tracker for Android
Catalogue every volume you own.
Scan a barcode and the volume lands in your library. Open a series and the whole run is there at a glance: the volumes you own, and the gaps you don’t. No more standing in a bookstore trying to remember whether you’re missing volume 12.
Free to use. Lorebound Pro is a one-time purchase — not a subscription.
The bookstore moment
“Do I already own volume 12?”
Every collector has stood in an aisle asking it. Lorebound answers before you reach the till: open the series and the grid shows exactly which volumes are on your shelf and which aren’t. Spot a gap and one tap takes you to that volume on Bookshop.org.
It tracks the books you own — not the chapters you read. It doesn’t stream or host manga; it’s a catalogue of your physical collection.
How tracking works →- Owned of the whole run
- Progress across the series
- Every volume, as a cover
What it does
Built for the shelf, not the screen
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Scan a barcode
Point the camera at an ISBN and the volume lands in your library with its cover, series and number filled in.
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See what’s missing
Every series opens on a grid of its volumes, gaps dimmed. One tap takes you to the missing ones on Bookshop.org.
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Watch the shelf fill
Per-series progress bars and a collection-wide completion figure, updated as you go.
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Out of print, flagged
Mark a series out of print or dropped, then filter your library by it.
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Editions kept apart
Deluxe, omnibus and box-set editions are tracked as their own runs, with their own volume counts.
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Synced, or not
Sign in to sync across devices, or stay a guest with everything kept on your phone.
Inside the app
A shelf of any size, kept in order
Real screens from Lorebound on Android.
Your library, with a completion figure for the whole shelf.
Sort and filter a shelf of any size.
Group series however you shelve them.
Keep a wishlist of what you’re hunting for.
Pick a colour theme, in light or dark.
Yours, one time
Free to collect. Pro, once, forever.
Everything core stays free — scanning, your library, volume tracking, ratings and sync. Lorebound Pro is a single one-time purchase that unlocks the extras. No subscription.
Free
- Barcode scanning
- Unlimited series and volumes
- Volume grid and missing volumes
- Buy missing volumes on Bookshop.org
- Sorting, filters and groups
- Ratings and favourites
- New-volume badges
- Sync across devices
- Share image of your collection
Pro ONE-TIME
- Friends & social
- Wishlist
- Fifteen colour themes
- Profile photo
- Batch scan
- Bulk add volumes
- Loan tracking
- Monthly reports
- Export to CSV
Discover
Guides for collectors
Practical guides to cataloguing and completing a physical manga collection.
Start your catalogue tonight.
Scan the stack by the bed. By morning you’ll know exactly what’s missing.