What’s New 3.0.0
On a computer it now fills the whole width instead of sitting in a narrow strip, and on your phone it opens as a smooth slide-in with a back arrow and a Contact button that gathers all your links in one tap.
Published 2026-06-22 · Reviewed 2026-06-22
Version 3.0.0 brings 69 customer-facing changes to ARC Library. Role or platform labels appear only where a change is specific to that experience.
New
A Fully Customizable Dashboard
Your dashboard is now truly yours. On desktop and tablet, open Edit layout to drag cards into any order, resize each one wider or taller, and hide the ones you don’t use, the calendar and your daily quote included.
One Library Card per Book, in Every Format You Own
Your library now shows ONE card for it instead of one per format, with small format pills along the cover so you can see at a glance which editions you have. Tap it to open the version that makes the most sense, the one you’re reading, or the one you last touched.
Switch Between Versions Without Leaving the Book
A book’s page now shows version tabs (Physical / Ebook / Audiobook) when you own more than one format. Tap a tab to swap to that edition’s details, narrator, audio length, cover, and per-version notes, no more closing the book and re-opening another card.
Progress & Status Stay in Sync Across Formats
Reading status, review status, promotion status, and progress stay in sync across every version of a book by default. Each sync type can be turned off independently in Settings → Library Display → Version Sync.
Add or Delete a Single Version
The version tabs have a “+ Add version” pill that opens a short wizard for the new edition, it stacks under the same book right away.
Per-Version Details: ISBN, ASIN, Country, Language & Narration
Each edition can now carry its own ISBN and ASIN (separate fields, handy for audiobooks and Amazon-exclusive editions), its own country and language (a UK paperback isn’t a US paperback), and audiobooks get their own narration rating and cover.
An Update Button That Follows the Book
The button at the bottom of a book’s page adapts to where the book is, guide a freshly-requested ARC through setup, log reading progress, sort out a wishlist book, or wrap up with a rating.
Plan Your Reading on a Calendar (Premium)
Go beyond a TBR month and pencil in the exact days you plan to read a book. A chunky read spanning June, July and August now slots into all three monthly TBRs automatically, and the Due Soon strip gains quick actions to plan or start reading without opening the full book page.
Your Monthly TBR, Now a Resizable Bookshelf (Premium)
Your Monthly TBR can now look like a real bookshelf, each book a spine coloured to match its cover and sized by its page count, with the book publishing soonest pulled out cover-forward.
Settings Follow You Across Devices: Live
Change your sort order, theme, or any synced preference on one device and watch it appear on your other open devices within seconds, no refresh needed.
Upload Profile Photos & Book Covers From Your Device
Upload a profile picture or a book cover straight from your phone or computer, no more hunting for a public image URL. We compress and resize every image on your device before saving so it loads quickly everywhere.
Manage Your Own Genres & Tropes
A new Settings screen, Manage My Lists, lets you tidy the genres and tropes you added yourself: rename a typo, merge duplicates, or delete one (it’s also cleared from any of your books that used it). Your private entries only, never the shared catalogue.
Scan a Barcode to Add a Book
iOS, Android
Adding a book just got faster. No more typing out long titles or ISBNs by hand.
Take a Cover Photo with Your Camera
iOS, Android
Anywhere you can upload a cover, adding a book, editing one, or the quick cover editor, there’s now a “Take a photo” option on your phone. Choosing an image from your library still works exactly as before.
Kindle Highlight Import, Now on Mobile and More Robust
You can now import your Kindle highlights right from the Quotes section inside any book on mobile, tap the upload icon next to the + button.
A Review-First Book Database
The Book Database now opens with what the community is reading right now, fresh reviews, a “Top rated” shelf ranked so well-reviewed books rise above one-off perfect scores, and review snippets with ratings right on the cards.
Bingo: A Readable Full View and a Share Card
Bingo now has a zoomed Full view with readable, thumb-friendly cells. Share card exports your current board as a polished 9:16 image with covers and completed squares.
Pin Your Favourite Screens
iOS, Android
Choose up to four shortcuts, like Statistics, TBR, or Reviews, and they’ll sit at the bottom of the menu for one-tap access. Tap “Edit” to pick your own, and your choices follow you across all your devices.
Search the Menu
iOS, Android
Looking for something specific? Just start typing in the menu’s search box to jump straight to any screen, no scrolling required.
A Themed, Interactive Landing Page
Web
Our home page now dresses itself in real ARC Library themes, pick Witchy Moon, Fall is in the air, Horror Night and more and watch the whole page transform, with the theme you choose following you right into your new account.
Classic, Reimagined with Day & Night
The Classic theme has been rebuilt with a clean, crisp look inspired by iOS, soft system grays, white cards, and a calm blue accent, and now comes in both a bright daytime look and a true dark nighttime one. Flip between them with the sun/moon button or in Settings → Theme.
A “Today” Card That Leads Your Dashboard
A friendly hero card now leads your dashboard, showing exactly what needs you today, what’s due soon, anything overdue, and how far along you are in your current read.
Improved
A Cleaner Public Profile
On a computer it now fills the whole width instead of sitting in a narrow strip, and on your phone it opens as a smooth slide-in with a back arrow and a Contact button that gathers all your links in one tap.
Your Email Stays Private
Your profile no longer prints your email address for anyone to copy. Visitors reach you through a friendly Contact option only when you choose to allow it, and you now set your public email in one place, so it can never disagree with itself.
Your Profile, in Your Theme
Your public profile now shows in your chosen theme, with the background scene glowing softly through the card to match your card-transparency setting, and it updates instantly when you switch themes.
A Tidier, Better-Organised “My Corner”
Your own profile page is now organised into clear, cozy sections, your identity, reading tastes, and links each in their own panel, in neat two columns on a computer and a clean, well-spaced stack on your phone, with matching stat chips.
Easier to Set Up Your Public Profile
A clear “Public Profile” card now sits right at the top of My Corner, so you always know how to set up, publish, and manage your shareable Reader CV, no more hunting for a hidden settings button.
A Rebuilt, Tap-to-Edit Book Page
Every detail, progress, dates, status, genres, links, ratings, narrator and more, now opens a tidy editor when you tap it, on both phone and desktop.
Every Theme Comes to Life
Your library now sits in front of a living, illustrated scene on theme after theme, and each one moves. Flip day/night with the sun/moon button, and every scene respects your “reduce animations” and “background scenery” settings, turn them off any time for a calm, still backdrop.
Frosted-Glass Cards & Easier-to-Read Text Everywhere
Every theme now shares the same softly frosted, slightly see-through cards for a cohesive, modern feel, and we went through every single theme tuning hundreds of text colours for proper contrast.
A Redesigned, Visual Theme Picker
Picking a theme is now a visual experience: each theme shows a real preview of its background scene instead of little colour dots (Cozy Moments even previews its day and night looks side by side).
Due Soon, Your Way
Your upcoming and overdue deadlines now live in a dedicated, resizable Due Soon card. Deadlines now also respect your real commitments: review, promotion and return dates take priority over publication dates, and personal (non-ARC) books appear when you’ve opted them in.
Currently Reading Grows With You
Resizing the Currently Reading card now reveals more, not just bigger text. Make it taller to surface your progress, days to your deadline and a finish-date projection, plus quick buttons to mark a book finished, jot a quote, or set it aside.
Book of the Day Grows With You
The refresh button pages through every open request, so there’s always something new to find, and the featured cover now displays as a real standing hardback.
A Smarter Reading Pace Card
Your daily page target is now the star of the Reading Pace card, a big, glanceable number with your nearest deadlines listed below, each showing the pace that book needs.
A Resizable Calendar Card
The calendar is now a card like any other. On mobile, it also lists your next few events right under the week, two-week, and month views.
A Calmer Dashboard Header & Activity Feed
Every card now shares the same header style with a useful one-line summary, the activity feed folds repeated edits of the same book into a single line, and an empty notes pad tucks itself into a slim prompt until you tap it.
A Faster, Complete Start
Opening the app now shows your library immediately from its saved copy while the freshest data quietly loads behind the scenes, no more staring at a loading screen when your books are already on your device.
Edits and Saves That Survive Connection Hiccups
If your internet drops at the exact moment you save a change, the edit now stays on screen and saves itself automatically once you’re back online, with a small heads-up so you always know where things stand.
A Redesigned Mobile Menu & Navigation
iOS, Android
Tapping “More” now opens a tidy panel that rises right above your navigation instead of a long side drawer, grouped, easy to scan, and sized to your phone.
Smoother Mobile Editing
iOS, Android
Every edit sheet on your phone, dates, numbers, text, the month picker, multi-pick lists, and ratings, now has a Clear button, your current picks show as removable chips at the top of multi-pick lists, and a reliable month grid makes setting a TBR month a single tap.
Detail Pages Slide In Like a Native App
iOS, Android
Opening an author, team, request form or public book on your phone now slides in as a full-screen page from the right (with a back chevron and a swipe-from-the-edge gesture to dismiss), matching the feel of every other detail page.
A Much Nicer Home on Tablets
Using ARC Library on a tablet got a big glow-up. The side navigation now shows a name under every icon and keeps the same layout when you rotate, the dashboard calendar shows your week’s events with full, readable titles next to a compact month view.
Teams, Redesigned as a Tidy Roster
Your teams now appear as a clean, scannable list grouped into Active, Pending application, and Inactive sections.
Readers & Authors, Easier to Browse
Tapping a reader in Find Readers now opens a full-width profile page, bio, stats, favourite genres, beloved tropes, format preferences and social links in one scroll, and reader cards lead with the genres a reader loves and stay the same height so the grid lines up.
Reviews, Polished Everywhere
Your in-progress drafts now always appear on a book’s Review tab (even before you’ve rated or finished it), starting a review reopens your existing draft instead of quietly creating a new one, the Save button locks while a review is created so one tap means one review.
Cleaner, Searchable Pickers
The Publisher, Provider, Series, Genre, and Trope pickers now share one clean look with a search box at the top and your most recent choices pinned as a “Recently used” shortcut.
Adding a Book, Faster and Friendlier
The search step of Add Book now opens with a bookish prompt and the search field near your thumbs, results look like proper cards (bigger cover, bolder title, year/pages/publisher chips and a chevron), and the format chips are easier to tap.
Better-Organised Settings
Settings are now grouped under clear, labelled sections so you can find things at a glance instead of scanning one long list. The “Vibrations & Haptics” toggle is now easier to reach too.
A Roomier Creator Hub
Creator Hub now opens with the same simple two-tab layout on every screen size, a “Creator Hub” tab for your calendar, next tasks, and insights, and a “PR List” tab for your PR tasks.
Crisper, More Consistent Icons & Buttons
We refreshed the small buttons and controls across the app, close, edit, save, search, the chevrons that open and collapse sections, and the action buttons at the top of every detail view, with a cleaner, more consistent icon set that recolours to match your theme.
Report a Bug or Request a Feature
The Report an Issue form now lets you choose whether you’re reporting a bug or requesting a feature, so your ideas get tracked as ideas instead of getting lost among the bug reports. Every “Report Issue” button across the app now uses this one reliable form.
Log Progress Now Updates Promotion Status Too
The Log Progress sheet on your phone now has a Promotion Status row right under Reading Status, pre-set to the book’s current value, so finished-and-promoted books only need one tap-tap-save instead of bouncing into the detail tabs.
A Softer Landing for “Did Not Receive”
Mark an ARC as Did Not Receive and we’ll offer to move it to your Personal Book Wishlist instead, so a book you still want to read doesn’t disappear into a closed pile.
Finished Books Read as “Read · Pending”
A book you’ve finished but still need to review or promote now shows “Read · Pending Review” or “Read · Pending Promo” on its card, instead of looking like it’s still just “Received”. Books you’ve marked “Will Not Review” or “Will Not Promote” no longer clutter your Overdue list.
A Smoother, Safer Sign-In
The sign-in and sign-up window now dresses itself in whichever theme you picked, shows the password rules up front with a show/hide toggle, and explains exactly what’s left before Create Account unlocks.
Refreshed In-App Tips for Everything New
The little guided tips that show you around have been updated for 3.0, they now point out the new Today and Due Soon cards, card transparency, the one-card-per-book version switcher, Manage My Lists, the Author Database.
Fixed
Your Whole Library, Every Time
We fixed the sync timing issues where a book you’d just added could vanish, or your whole shelf could briefly empty out, after a shaky connection; the app now keeps your saved books in place and waits for a clean sync.
No More Off-by-a-Day Dates
Dates now show and save exactly as you enter them, no more start dates, finish dates, due dates, publication dates or team join dates quietly jumping to the day before depending on your time zone, and they’re formatted the way you picked in Settings.
Smarter, More Honest Statistics
A pass over your numbers so they tell the truth. Reading speed now measures how fast you read when you’re actually reading (from your start and finish dates) instead of sliding toward zero over time; Genre Diversity caps sensibly (10+ genres reads as fully diverse).
A Cleaner, More Accurate Book Database
Hundreds of books that were showing “Unknown author” have been reconnected and re-fetched, and new books added from an online lookup now keep their author every time.
Renamed Filters Update Everywhere
When you rename, add, hide, or delete a custom filter, the change now shows up in your Library filter bar right away, no more seeing the old name until you reload.
Percentage Progress Shows Correctly on Phones
For books with no page count that you track by percentage, the progress card on the book detail screen now reads “70%” instead of mistakenly showing “70 pages”. The progress bar and remaining amount are accurate too.
No More Broken-Image Icons
When a cover or profile picture link stops working, we now show a friendly themed placeholder instead of the browser’s broken-image glyph, everywhere covers appear, from currently-reading cards and the TBR strip to bingo squares and public pages.
Book Descriptions Read Cleanly Everywhere
Blurbs now keep their formatting, paragraphs, bold, italics, lists, everywhere they’re shown, instead of occasionally showing raw code tags, and short previews on library cards stay neat.
Submitting a Form With a Cover No Longer Hangs
Adding a sign-up form to the Forms Catalogue with a cover image no longer leaves the Submit button spinning forever. Cover processing now always finishes (or gives way gracefully) so your form saves.
New ARCs No Longer Get a Surprise Reviewed / Promoted Date
Picking the Reviewed or Promoted status while adding a new ARC no longer silently stamps today’s date in the Reviewed Date / Promoted Date field. The date is left blank for you to set when (or whether) you want.
The “Enjoying ARC Library?” Prompt Fits Every Screen
On smaller phones and short desktop windows the review prompt was cutting off the “Maybe later” and “Don’t ask again” buttons. The buttons now stay pinned at the bottom of the prompt at every size, so you can always tap whichever option you want.
Clearer Due Soon Countdowns
The day counts on your Due Soon card are now crisp and easy to read. We removed a soft glow that was making the numbers look blurry, and on phones the “Today” and “Tomorrow” labels no longer get cut off.