What’s new

Discover tab

A new Discover tab in the bottom navigation for browsing friends' libraries, seeing books in common, and finding your next borrow. The start of Plumerie's social layer.

Friend connections

Send and accept friend requests, browse each other's bookshelves with privacy controls, and see which books you both own. Want list cross-referencing shows when a friend already has a book you're looking for — borrow before you buy.

Bug fixes and refinements

Small improvements across the app based on early user feedback. Nothing flashy — just making what's already there work better.

Multilingual metadata

Books added via ISBN scan or Google Books search now pull in the correct metadata for their edition — including titles, author names, and publisher information in the original language. Previously, searches defaulted to the English-language record regardless of the edition in hand. Finnish, French, Spanish, and German editions now resolve correctly. More languages are on the way.

Edition linking

When multiple editions of the same work exist in your library — say, a paperback and a hardcover, or a translated edition alongside the original — you can now link them together. Linked editions appear as variants on a shared book record rather than as separate unrelated entries. Useful for collectors and translators-in-progress alike.

Borrower invite flow

Lending a book to someone who isn't on Plumerie used to end at logging their name. Now you can optionally send them an invite link. If they join, the loan appears in both your libraries automatically. They can mark it returned from their end; you'll be notified. If they don't join, the loan record stays exactly as it was — no friction either way.

Location settings

You can now define named locations for your books: rooms, shelves, boxes in storage, a friend's place you keep meaning to visit. Each book can be assigned a location, and the library view can be filtered by it. Useful for collections spread across more than one physical space.

Family admin panel

Households with a shared Plumerie account can now designate an admin. The admin can manage which books are shared across the household, set borrowing rules, and see a unified view of the whole collection. Individual members keep their own want lists and reading statuses private.

Mobile polish

A round of fixes focused on the mobile experience: smoother navigation, better tap targets, and a more reliable sign-in flow on phones.

New name, new look

The app gets its permanent name — Plumerie — along with a new visual identity, custom domain, and a design system applied across every screen. Plume the cat makes a quiet first appearance.

New foundation

The entire codebase moves to a new development environment. No visible changes for users, but this is what makes everything that ships afterward possible.

Plumerie is born

The first working version of the app goes live. You can add books by scanning barcodes or searching by ISBN, organize them with tags and reading status, track locations, and share a library with your household. It's rough around the edges, but it works.