Built for the shelves in a house.

Home libraries and collectors.

Every decision in Lektava is settled by asking whether it serves a household or an institution. Institutions get bulk administration, role hierarchies, single sign-on and per-branch everything. A house needs none of that, and every one of them would make the app worse for the people it is actually for.

The result is a product that stays small: one library you actually use, a handful of people who share it, and the books themselves as the only thing there is a lot of.

Because half a shelf is unspellable.

Most cataloguing software assumes one title in one script. That assumption breaks in a diaspora household, where a shelf runs from Middlemarch to මඩොල් දූව and back, and the software can represent exactly one of them. Lektava gives every book and every genre an English title, a Sinhala title, and the title as printed — so a search finds the book in whichever language you happened to think of it.

What people ask first.

Libib gives you 5,000 items free. Why does Lektava stop at fifty?

Because they are not the same offer. Libib's free tier is a single-user catalogue with no lending and no sharing, and the moment you want either it is $99 a year. Lektava's free tier is the whole product at a smaller size — lending, sharing, multi-script titles, the public page — and the step up is $40. Fifty books is meant to be excellent, not merely generous.

What happens when I reach the limit?

You stop being able to add new books. Nothing already catalogued is deleted, hidden, or made read-only — you can still edit it, search it, lend it, and export all of it. A limit that took things away would make importing your collection a risk, and importing your collection is the entire point.

Can I get my data out?

Always, completely, on every plan including the free one. Every book, note, loan and review. If you spend two months cataloguing eight hundred books, that catalogue is yours and it leaves with you.

Is there a trial?

No clock. The free plan is the trial and it does not expire. When a paid plan makes sense you will know, because you will be looking at a book you cannot add.

Who can see my library?

Nobody, until you say so. A library is private to you and the people you invite. Every library can also have a public page if you want one — a plain, readable list you can send to somebody — and that page is free on every plan.

Is this for a school or a public library?

No, and deliberately not. No column-mapping import wizard, no roles beyond owner and member, no bulk administration, no single sign-on, no branches. Saying no to all of that is what keeps the product small enough to be pleasant.