BookWyrm

BookWyrm

A BookWyrm client for Android.

PrivacyDragon Reading Social Network

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Description

This is an Android client for BookWyrm – a federated social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. It is just BookWyrm put into a webview element, nothing special – but it adds some convenience on top:

* bookwyrm links can be made to open with the app (e.g. clicking on the link to someone's userprofile will open that from your own bookwyrm instance)
* thanks to that, you can immediately follow them easily if you want.
* it lets you easily return to your own home timeline when viewing something like posts, on another bookwyrm instance, because the 'back' button is then modified for that.
* You can also search for books by scanning the ISBN, no matter what instance of Bookwyrm you use.

<b>This application is <u>not</u> an official client!</b> (An official client does not exist yet, as far as I know)

The ISBN scanning feature is created with the zxing-android-embedded library.

What’s new (1.3.9)

* Security improvement (Disable WebView file access in HandlerActivity)
* Adaptive icon improvement
* Fix returning to log-in screen bug
* Dependencies have been updated to newest versions.
* Compiled for up to Android 15 now.

Anti-features

Properties of this app that are worth knowing about before installing.

  • NonFreeNet

Versions

Version Date Size Requires Android Download
1.3.9 current
041c1fe9a5e24766…
2026-05-30 14 MB API 23
1.3.8
58a8d9d06d232675…
2025-01-26 12 MB API 23
1.3.6
f42a835de6ed1268…
2025-01-10 3.6 MB API 23

Permissions

What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.

  • Internet accessSend and receive data over the internet.
  • CameraTake photos and videos.
  • PhotosRead images from the media library.
  • WRITE_MEDIA_IMAGES
  • bookwyrm.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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