Fantastic Library App Reviews

This app helps me manage my physical media library. It takes a while to load, but other than that, its a nice and useful app. Good job!

A little slow on loading my library, but this app is exactly what I needed to keep track of my movies, books and records while Im out! Also great for seeing what Ive loaned to others.

It was working fine. But after the latest update, I cant even open the app anymore. Please fix. update. They released an update. Works wonder. Great app!

I really like the idea behind the app, but, with only some 60 books in the library it takes a very long time to load in. Ill stick with it for a little while longer to see if this problem is corrected, but I dont have the patience for the tedious wait every time the library has to load, and I have several hundred more books Id like to catalogue.

There are loads of Apps in the app store that promise to increase your productivity. Some of the ideas really are very good but the implementation is far from usable, the development status not even reaching beta. Sure, "fantastic library" still has some issues it needs to work on, such as library loading time, and it could offer additional functionality in some areas, however, that doesnt change the fact that this is a pretty neat app. Hey, it took me just 15 minutes to digitize a collection of about 100 books, with so much added info! And I can easily export the whole collection in a csv file and work on it in a different program if I want to. That deserves 5 stars.

Very good app, but they dont have Brazil barcode.

Best app I have used to date. I own lots of movies and games and books this lets me keep track of them all!!!

Ive been looking for an app that does this for a while now so Im very glad I found this for such a great price. The scanning works 99% of the time and even when it doesnt manually putting it in isnt that much of a pain. Everything is easily able to be altered so you can just find something that is close and change where need be. It keeps everything in alphabetical order but there is also the feature to create a series list so you can keep things in order whose titles dont allow for that (example: you can make a sub-list so you can put Batman Begins right next to Dark Knight even though Beetlejuice is in the middle. Which is great for my very specific OCD :). I only wish you could keep a backup copy of your lists on dropbox or any service of your choice. Other than that its a great app for a great price.

Id like to give this app 5 stars for the information it saves: name of CD, artist and even the songs on the tracks. However, I have not been able to get it to synch from my iPhone to my iPad or vice versa. It wiped the entries on one or the other in the process. It also doesnt recognize all bar codes. I had 10% come back no product identified. It also has a tendency to freeze and crash.. You have to restart the app to get it working again. But otherwise it really has the attributes for what I want. I hope they fix the bugs soon.

Easy to use and share between devices. Extensive library lookup although I have found some older books not listed. I use it to run our woodworking clubs library of about 150 items and growing.

As a person with a huge collection of movies, games, and CDs, this has just about been the perfect app for me. I can sync it across my phone and my iPad with multiple categories that are customizable which helps prevent me from buying repeats in my collection or loosing track of a film I loan out to a friend. It also has a nice, clean interface with box art displayed for each item and even summery and imdb info for a fair amount of the movies (you can add this manually as well for every entry). My only gripe is the camera scanner. It worked beautifully for a while and I was able to load my entire collection in just an hour or so (which for having around 500 items is pretty darn fast), but lately it has had lots of trouble sending the info to its server and getting any response. I will scan a barcode and it will stick on a "sending product information" message and never seem to recover. I usually have to just give up on the camera scanner, restart the app, and manually enter or search for the item which is a big buzzkill especially since the batch camera scanning was a big selling point for me. All in all this app has a great setup and is very easy to use making it essential for someone with a large or growing collection of any media, but until the issues with the camera scan are addressed Im not sure that I can recommend it over other apps within the same price range that claim to do similar things.

It works good but could be better

It was exactly what I was looking for. I needed a list of collection - this solved my dilemma!

The bar code scanner is much snappier than other apps Ive used. Would like to see a sync with Dropbox, but the features so far are great.

So far this app is working just as expected. Good not great. The app cant tell the difference between a book or a movie when it is scanned in. I have to move every item I scan into the right category. I would like to be able to go right to the letter of movie I am looking for without having to scroll thru page by page starting at A every time. It would be nice to tap the letter S at the top and just be able to go right to S with 1000 movies to scroll thru it does take time. Other then that it is nice to have my movie and book list on my phone when I am shopping I have bought more then a few movies more then once. *Thanks for the update. So far I like it and it is working. Move to 4 stars. I will update again to 5 stars if it keeps getting better.

Great app , needs a lil bit of improvement but still is a great app!!

My house is overflowing with books. For months I have been researching apps to help me organize and keep track of my piles in a way that could be easily shared with my husband who also makes purchases. Ive found it in Fantastic. The biggest deal maker for me is that it functions on my iPad2 with fast scanning! Other apps just wouldnt scan on my iPad. My husband quickly linked his devices so he also knows what we own. (Download the app, go to settings, link devices, use the same email and password for everyone who needs access to that library. You can set up multiple libraries if you have separate needs. I think Ill make one for books I want called Wish List!) Not only is the scanning speedy, but it is accurate and recognizes most of the books (only quirk is that it sometimes pulls up pics for interior pages or back covers--easily changed to web images or your own photo.) You can catalogue other media too, although I havent tried that yet. I wish I could mark books as read or not read, with the option to add custom dates/note. Sometimes you read a book more than once. Or which of the kids read it? (I only see an option to mark movies as seen or not.) Looks like the item descriptions are fully editable, with an option to add extra lines. I am still playing with that, so I dont know yet how it fills my needs to note a Newbery winner or autographed copy in a searchable way. Overall, I am excited to catalogue all our books with this app! (Then maybe Ill try movies!)

The new update is horrible. I used to organize my games by platform which is no longer possible as a great many filter options have been removed. The list view is nearly as resource heavy as the normal view which defeats the purpose for me. Much of the box art for my games are either not loading or load as the wrong box art. Alphabetical listing isnt functioning properly as many games are being listed out of order especially games numerical titles. In general this feels more clunky and sloppy than ever before. Some of it is better looking but good looks are not worth the loss of options or important functionality. I used to love this app and recommended it to many of my friends and customers. Not anymore.

I am unable to log into the app to synchronize the app to my phone

I love this app but its been crashing for the past week and a half, Im unable even to open it. Very frustrating, please fix!