Calibre Sync

Recently started to build out my ebook library in Calibre and was looking for an easy way to get the books from my cloud storage (pCloud) into my preferred ebook reader apps as most of them do not natively support pCloud. This was exactly what I needed! I don’t have a giant library of books, about 1,400, but the app syncs and downloads the covers so it’s really responsive. This makes browsing and searching the library on my phone super fast and easy! When I want to load up a book I simply download it in the app and then share it to the ereader app. Super simple! If I had to provide one critique it would be that the UI could maybe use a slight refresh to give it a more modern feel. But functionality is most important and in that regard it 100% gets the job done!

The app worked great at first but stopped syncing new books added to Calibre. I hoped that changing cloud services would help but it did not. I wish iCloud worked with this app to try that. It’s been 5 months since the dev said iCloud would be integrated in the near future. With what books I can sync the app is great.

I have thousands of ebooks and have been limited to accessing them via Calibre on my pc, which I then use to transfer to my Kindle. Yes I can access the books via OneDrive on my iPad but it’s not the smoothest or best managed. So I was delighted to find this app. Actually, I’m delighted to find this app works as advertised and quite quickly. It’s much easier to find and download my books and digital comics. My one critique is that it wants to use the Mail app, rather than what the user has set their default mail app to be. I prefer Outlook so I never bothered to setup the Mail app. When I tried to use the “send to Kindle” function it failed because of this limitation. And because I’ve configured my accounts in Outlook and the mail setting, I can’t add them to Mail. While I appreciate being able to download and read on any of my iOS devices, I prefer doing so in Kindle as it syncs progress across all devices. For me, five stars would be: Fix the app to use the configured mail app Have an option for “automatically send to Kindle” Set preferred reading apps by type ie set Comix as the preferred app for cbr Being able to launch preferred app from this app