Calibre Companion

Name: Calibre Companion
Rating: 3.13428 (283 reviews)

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Calibre Companion

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3.1

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Gold Tree Consulting LLC

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$1.99 – $14.99

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User Reviews for Calibre Companion

Keyboard Covers Up Fields/Buttons, No Way to Resolve

When trying to input server data, the keyboard covers up the buttons and fields, preventing you from seeing or selecting covered fields or even clicking ‘OK’ to confirm your entry. Also, unless you’re going to pay a subscription for what largely appears to be an app with the same functionality as the free web page created by Calibre for accessing books on the server (which works great in iOS except for the constant need to re-enter credentials as though I was accessing a financial account), you’ll be confronted with annoying ads for the paid version every time you open the app. I might consider paying if it was a one-time fee, but a subscription model is for me, like with most things, out of the question. I’d rather pay $200 once than $5 per month—I don’t want to have to remember the charge, and I want to have something approximating genuine ownership of the things that I buy.

chad_fitz, May 03, 2020

I didn’t buy this app expecting that a subscription is required!

I purchased this app a month ago today for $4.99 plus tax. At first it did not work for me because it would not let me sign in to my OneDrive account. Calibre Companion’s App Store page said they were working on fixing this, so I decided to wait. Meanwhile, a couple weeks later, I figured out how to enable 2-step verification for OneDrive, and I was able to log in with Authenticator. Today I saw there was an update to the app, but now it tells me I need to become a premium member (monthly/yearly fees), but I did not see anything about this before the update! I did not buy this app with a view to continued purchases.

ChesterGreenBird, Mar 13, 2020

Worked great until the upgrade.

After the upgrade, this app seems to have a mind of it’s own. I also lost all of my books. Plus I can’t get the app to do anything now. It was just a big waste of money! It bothers me that the developers released a buggy update with KNOWN PROBLEMS and seemingly no concern for potential loss of an entire library of books. It also bothers me that when I bought the app, I believed it to be a one-time purchase. The new developer is planning on making this app subscription based. Great, now we are going to be nickeled and dimed on something that should be free to use after the initial purchase. Based on the way we have been treated by this developer, I will be reluctant to purchase anything by Mr. Cohen again. Greed and ineptitude have ruined a great product.

CyFan 96, Nov 07, 2019

version 1.3.1 buggy on ipad

I have been using CC for a while on my iPad and iPhone and it has worked without flaw in the past, but since IOS 11 came out it has been kind of glitchy. It was offline for a while but now the update has made it compatible with IOS 11, it is working fine on my iPhone, but still a few issues with iPad.The app serves me well and I do recommend it for getting your books from calibre to your preferred device.

DsrtTrkr, Oct 08, 2017

Subscription Methodology

I don’t think subscription is the appropriate model for this app. My stuff is stored in OneDrive, so I view this app as a portal to access my existing content that I could easily just access by opening OneDrive itself. Tweetbot used to do it so you would pay $5 for each new installment of the app (version 2, version 3, version 4) instead of a monthly subscription. I like and appreciate Calibre and hope the devs get paid but that’s just my two cents. I’d gladly pay a $5-10 one time fee every time the app gets a big upgrade. The only thing I don’t like about the app is how I have to tell it to open OneDrive every time I want to reconnect. I only have one library, so I wish it was automatic.

JakeUsernameIsTaken, May 12, 2020

For what it’s worth

Like the majority of the recent posts and reviews on this app, I am greatly disappointed with the developers decision to go subscription! I have been using calibre library on my laptop, and Calibre companion on my iPad and iPhone for many years having paid for and appreciated it’s simplicity and flexibility. I am simply disenfranchised by this and so many other applications which in recent times, developers have decided to, Basically take advantage of those who have respectively purchased an application in a market please where virtual commodities seem to imply that the consumer has less rights to propriety subsequent to purchase then in a typical brick and mortar commodities industry. It is time that Apple or the App Store take the lead in a market place where regulations are still significantly lagging and either antiquated or inappropriate , in the rapidly changing virtual market place, and develop policies that protect the consumer of their commodities and hold vendors to the usual implied contractual responsibility to their consumers. Consideration could be given to how “possession” is defined and perhaps those who have previously purchased and now “possess” an application on their device can, by way of a grandfather clause, be protected from back end coercion into subscription charges that we’re not part of the original purchase terms and agreement. Sorry Calibre for the rant, but you deserve it!

Mindonly0, Jul 06, 2020

This is a scam!

I bought the premium application several years ago while it was developed by another company. Now, with the latest upgrade by the new developer, this application reverted to a trial version, asking for a subscription fee. I understand that the new developer wants to move to a subscription model to found the development. Nevertheless, it should have done that by creating a new app and leaving the old one unmaintained. I am not sure that the operation performed by the developer complied with the terms of the App Store. In any case, I consider it quite inappropriate. I urge to have my application (the one that I pay for) back. If not I am gong to escalate the issue to Apple.

piovac, Mar 19, 2020

This is a wonderful app!

I absolutely love this app. The amount of stories I have in Calibre is insane. And to have an app on my iPad that allows me to connect remotely is awesome! The subscription part isn’t too big of an issue, about the price of KU for a month, except this one is for a year. Totally worth it in my opinion. I’ve had the app for a few days now, I haven’t come across any issues. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who wants an app that can make it easier to get your books or stories to your tablet without the hassle of connecting or emailing to yourself and what not. Definitely 5 stars from me.

ShadowReikaz, Jun 03, 2020

Background Refresh

Even as a free version user, I find this app very helpful for accessing my Dropbox-stored libraries. It takes advantage of some of the primary advantages I see to using Calibre, including tag searching and cover display. The biggest complaint that I would like to request some attention to is whatever goes on while the app is in the background. I’m usually using my Calibre libraries during research, which often requires juggling multiple apps. When in the background, The app resets to the home screen and disconnects from my cloud server. You can imagine how annoying this is. I do also have two feature requests. I have two libraries in Dropbox. It would make more sense to me to select which library to connect to from the home screen, rather than connecting and loading a library & then having to switch. This seems counterintuitive, and I am constantly hunting for this selection. There’s also a bug of some sort that always indicates the library I want (but which isn’t currently connected) selected, so I have to toggle twice to get it to actually load.Finally, it would be lovely if some additional search functions loaded, as I find Subject my most useful tool for finding references. Thanks for making this handy tool! I’d be happy to chip in for its development, if you could see your way to abandoning the subscription model. There are too many of those in our lives these days.

snow-raven, Feb 01, 2022

Has worked flawlessly for for me for years

Man! I just do not get these negative reviews. It organizes the books in Calibre in a number of useful ways and provides a very easy way to transfer the books. My Calibre library is stored on Dropbox, so no matter where I am, as long as I have an internet connection, I can get any of my books without connection to my PC, which is quite useful since I never take my PC traveling. Sure there are a number of other ways to set up Calibre to access your books, locally and remotely, but none as simple and reliable as CC.

Yorye, Jun 27, 2018

Description

Calibre Companion (CC), recommended by calibre developers, is three applications in one: - a superb device-based calibre library organiser - a high-performance WiFi-based calibre device emulator - a calibre content server and cloud provider client (Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive) 1) CC is a device-based calibre library organiser. Once you put books on your device using one of the connection methods described below you can: - view a book's metadata (author, tags, series, rating, dates, etc.). - sort and group books by their metadata. - see book lists by cover or by list. - mark books read and sync this information with calibre. - launch your book reader application to read a book 2) CC can connect to calibre over WiFi and be detected by calibre as a device. Once connected, you use calibre to move books to and from your device.

Calibre automatically updates all the book metadata stored by CC to match the latest in your library. 3) CC can connect to calibre’s content server or to your cloud provider to browse your library and download books to your device. Supports Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive. For more information see our FAQ (http://cc_faq.multipie.co.uk/) Privacy Policy: http://faq.calibrecompanion.co/index.php?solution_id=1077 Terms of Service: https://calibrecompanion.co/terms-of-service/ Notes: CC is not a reader app. You must install and use one of the many excellent reader apps available. You must also already use calibre to manage your library of ebooks.