You own hundreds of books. Do you know what's on every shelf?
Plumerie is a personal library app built for serious book collectors. Catalog your collection by scanning barcodes, track books across every room, manage series, and never buy a duplicate again.
The problem with a library that keeps growing
You have built a library over years, maybe decades. Books in the bedroom, the living room, the guest room, a storage box you forgot about. It is a real collection — and it deserves to be treated like one.
But memory is not a catalog. You have bought duplicates. You have spent twenty minutes hunting for a specific title you know you own. You have stood in a bookstore wondering if you already have this one. You have tried spreadsheets — too tedious. Goodreads — that is for reading tracking, not cataloging. Just remembering — which stopped working around book 150.
Plumerie is the missing catalog. A real home library system for a real collection, built for the way collectors actually think about their books.
How Plumerie solves it
Barcode scanning
Stand in front of your shelf. Scan. In fifteen minutes, your entire bookcase is cataloged with titles, authors, covers, and ISBNs. No typing required.
Multi-location tracking
Tag books by room, shelf, or home. "Where's my copy of Persuasion?" → "Guest room, top shelf." Done.
Series management
Group books by series in reading order. See which ones you own and which ones you are missing at a glance.
Want list
Track books you want separately from books you own. No more guessing at the bookstore whether you already have something.
A day in the life
Saturday morning. You are at a used bookstore. You pull out your phone, open Plumerie, and search your library — you already own this one. You check your want list instead, find something you have been looking for for months, and buy that. You scan the barcode before you leave the store. It is in your catalog before you are home.
No spreadsheet. No second-guessing. No duplicates.
What you'd do without Plumerie
Most collectors end up with one of three systems: a spreadsheet that gets out of date immediately, a Goodreads account that was never designed for physical collection management, or nothing at all and just hoping memory is enough.
Plumerie is built specifically for the physical library. Every feature — barcode scanning, room locations, series grouping, duplicate detection — exists because collectors asked for it.
Common questions
Can Plumerie handle a library of 500+ books?
Yes. Plumerie is built for large collections. You can scan hundreds of books with the barcode scanner, organize them by room or shelf location, and search your entire library instantly. There is no cap on the number of books you can add.
How does barcode scanning work?
Open Plumerie on your phone and tap the scan button. Point your camera at the ISBN barcode on the back of any book. Plumerie looks up the title, author, cover image, and publishing details automatically.
Can I import my existing Goodreads library?
Yes. Export your Goodreads library as a CSV and import it into Plumerie. Your books, reading status, and ratings come over automatically.
Does Plumerie work offline?
Plumerie works in your browser on any device. You can search your library even with a slow connection. Your data syncs automatically when you are back online.
Start your library — it's free
Scan your first shelf in fifteen minutes. No credit card required.
