BbitbbitBook
Read, record, and collect — a reading journal app with a passbook and character collection
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About
Finish a book but can't remember what it was about a month later?
BbitbbitBook was built to make reading records as frictionless as possible. Search by title or scan the barcode on the back cover — your book is registered instantly. Jot down a memorable quote, snap a photo of the page, and highlight it with a digital marker. Every feeling you had while reading stays captured.
As you log books, your "Reading Passbook" fills up and you earn Carrots. Spend your Carrots to collect Bbitbbit characters — turning reading into something you look forward to collecting.
Launched on iOS in May 2023. A web version is available at bbitbbitbook.com, and an Android app is coming soon.
Features
- Library Management — Organize books into Read / Reading / Want to Read
- Barcode Scan — Scan the back-cover barcode to instantly search and add a book
- Memo & Quotes — Save highlights as text, photos, or OCR-extracted text
- Image Editing — Draw highlights, underlines, and notes directly on photos
- Reading Passbook — Every book adds a transaction to your passbook and earns Carrots
- Bbitbbit Collection — Spend Carrots to collect Bbitbbit characters (gamification)
- Reading Stats — Visualize yearly/monthly counts, genre breakdown, and habit patterns
- New & Popular Books — Latest titles via the National Library of Korea API
- Multi-platform — iOS app + web version with real-time data sync
Tech Stack
- iOS: Swift, UIKit, Realm Swift, Firebase (Firestore, Auth, Crashlytics)
- Web: Firebase Hosting-based web app
- Book Search APIs: Naver, Kakao, National Library of Korea, Aladin
- Image: Kingfisher, ZLImageEditor
- OCR: Apple Vision Framework