Delicious Library 3 App Reviews

This was one of the first apps I acquired for my new iMac back in 2007 and Ive been upgrading ever since. Before I found this little app I was using spreadsheets to keep track of my movies, CDs etc. Delicious Library makes it so much easier, fun and graphically pleasing to keep track of your items. The new iPhone scanning feature is an amazing plus and makes the task of entering a new item take only 1 second! If youre looking for a quick easy way to keep track of your belongings, I highly recommend this app!

A fan since it was first released. It gets better and better!

I had the short-lived Delicious Library app on my phone that synced my DL2 library with my Mac, because I downloaded it before it got pulled. It was great! Of course it doesnt work with a DL3 library. You gotta make an app that carries my library on my phone so I can see what I own when Im at the store--thats when I need it! FTP publishing is awful. There are other iOS apps that catalog books and movies--why not Delicious Library?

So Ill start by saying theres nothing wrong with this app. It just feels like what Delicious would loved to have made in 2008 or so. Its 2013. The Core Data database under the hood is certainly fast enough, and its portable enough that I bet we see this on iPad and iPhone in no time, with lighting controlled by gyroscope or something fancy like that. But the UI is so "not flat" it almost hurts. You get the sense, clicking through the app, that this is one of the first databases designed to slow you down a bit to enjoy the view. Bonus points, for all the properties available and the list view, which can be resized to smaller height rows (for my 13" monitor) and right-clicking the titlebar lets you see the items properties in a table and sort by them (e.g. location). But it feels like a "v2" -- better, just not the best it could be. That bookshelf worked so well for the first version, they cant let it go, but Id love to see a v3 that feels much lighter-weight, is cross-platform, perhaps even web-based. Thought Id write it myself so I just checked the AppleScript dictionaries: Delicious isnt listed. So thats one feature from v2 you might miss in v3. But as a tradeoff, theres likely an SQLite database you can work with instead, for those geeky enough. :)

This is a great app, I really enjoy using it :) The title pictures are beautiful and it helps to keep track of what Ive read against what I still need to read. It is also great for keeping track of what I plan to keep in my personal collection. I really enjoy this app.

Love the idea but feel that there is a bit of work to go yet - With books there is little to no recognition if the book is older then two or three years (manual search needed). Also think it would be helpful to be able to import to a phone etc.

Yes, its not perfect and having integration with my iPhone would be awesome. Still, its the best of its kind and among my all time favourites. I love being able to take my phone to scan instead of bringing everything to my laptop. All-in-all a tremendously useful app (and more than a little addictive; I find myself looking to scan and include all my treasures and gadgets.) I tell everyone about this and love when I can bring it to friends as a new discovery for them.

Delicious Library 2 is far superior in performance and visual look. Im afraid the only reason I purchased version 3 is for the iPhone scanner app support and Im afraid it was just not worth it. It is very dissapointing to see a product get slower and less useful as the product matures. Having over 1300 books in my collection, the shelf scrolling is slow to a crawl even on a new Retina Macbook! Zooming in helps slightly. Even list view which is quite basic is slow and laggy. Also dissapointing is the new UI and graphic design choices. The light white wood grain looks like finger grease that needs to be wiped off the screen and the titlebar is skeumorphic (real life metaphors) to the point of being obnoxious. Maximizing the application helps fix the titlebar ugliness. at its current state, I DO NOT recommend this product.

Love the mobile OS scanning, would like to be able to publish a lot easier to access view website. Tried view FTP and google drive and so far nothing is working great. The manual and and blog werent very helpful either. I would have given it 4 stars if the publishing was easier but that was a key feature I wanted.

I upload my books by ISBN as I do data entry and it is quicker for me but with this crap new you can’t do that! DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!!!

I definitely forget that I own things or forget what I’ve lent to people. This is a great app to keep track of media and things you own. I would give it a 5, but as of right now the app has been a bit buggy, at least for me. I would scan something and it would freeze up, forcing it to shut down. Mind you, I’ve only had the app for about a day now, my experience could change. Using the iPhone scanner app is neat too. I don’t have to bring over all of my things to my computer to scan.

The monetary graphs and values are interesting, and the iOS scanner works great. Overall a good interface. Lookups for books seem to have trouble with older paperback titles. The animation and movement doesn’t bother me much, but I’d prefer a way to turn it off. The wood molding that makes up the window border is annoying; the left and right overhangs “break” when I put the window to a screen edge.

This biggest flaw with this program is the fact that the data library is stored under the ~/Library folder. That was great when it was 2003 and you needed someplace to put index files. This is now 2014, Mac has gone to great lengths to hide this folder and on top of that, DL has failed to provide any sort of third party sync, whether iCloud or Dropbox or anything. In case you have a problem with your computer, the data is gone. Given the many options available today, that’s simply inexcusible. There are forum posts about hack workarounds, symlinking to Dropbox folders, which don’t work consistently and are ripe for corruption. Many backup programs skip hidden folders, and it’s certainly hard to try and restore even if they do. The onus should not be on the user to have to piece together indexes from ashes in case of disaster. Maybe the best days of DL are behind it, it certainly is not the hot product it once was. But if it’s still in active development, take into account the fact that you have been around a while, meaning your customers have a lot of data built up over the years. There’s no reason not to use tools that are available now to help protect it.

Seriously great. Love the visualization tools. Interface is faster and easier than before. The scanner is much less fiddly, works every time. Just great!

1) Fun Cute little animations, things wiggle on the shelves in response to your mouse, the laptop camera can be used to scan bar codes and DL3 will read the result aloud. My wife had such a laugh scanning "Darth Vader together we will rule the galaxy - by Darth Vader" she deleted it and added it multiple times. As I said fun. 2) Good at looking up prices Are you moving, doing insurance, or whatever. DL3 will look up prices on Amazon and give you a starting point for retail and current value. You can even set it up to use difference amazon stores (if you are in Canada or Australia). The only downside is the spreadhsheet export will not have a number for the column value. Killzone Mercenary shows up as "CDN$ 30.99" rather than a number you can add in a spreadsheet. I am sure some spreadsheet voodoo can untangle that, but it is still a usability glitch. 3) Needs iCloud or Dropbox Sync How many famillies have only one mac? DL3 should really allow more than one party to edit the library at the same time. What does it offer? You can use DL3 export on one computerfollowed by a non-distruptive DL3 import on another computer. This workflow can be used to allow individuals to export out their copy of the library to a dropbox folder, and ask another familly member to import the result into their copy. This is a poor workaround at best, could we pay a bit more money and get this fixed? An internet search offers you advice on the use of symbolic links to externalise your DL3 library to a dropbox folder - proceed at your own risk as there is not even a lock file. Consider these three points, if iCloud or Dropbox sync is a deal breaker then dont proceed with the purchase.

I just updated to the 3.3 version on Yosemite and it keeps crashing. I’ll change my review when this is fixed because I love the app but now it’s useless. :(

Since updating the app crashes on load every time. So much for quality control testing.

Program is so buggy that after you upgrade it to the latest and greatest version from the App Store, it will become totally unusable! Not impressed in the slightest! Fix it please or give me back my money! I had earlier versions directly from the Delicious but wanted the ease of the App store… Now I’m regretting that as updates are too slow!

I’m really really sad to have to say that. I really hope I’m the only one in that situation but I have my doubts. Something is making the program quit repeatedly. I haven’t been able to make a single entry. The initial problem was with downloading my DL 2 library. Maybe DL 2 had too many items not related to Amazon? I succeeded adding a book on my other computer, an old iMac 24 running on Snow Leopard . But nothing to be done with my brand new iMac 21,5 running on Yosemite. I even tried figuring it out directly with Apple but was referred to the the developpers. I’s my fifth day since I bought the App without a human response. I sincerely hope my next comment will be one to reverse that one.

Great app, finally something useful and powerful enough to manage so many different types of media. Integration with iPhone is simple and easy for scanning barcodes, simple setup and accurate! I catalogued my vinyl, iTunes, movies and console games with very little effort. Can’t recommend this app enough!