Pricing
Priced for a collection, not an institution.
Two limits govern the whole product: how many books a library holds, and how large a cover file can be. Everything else follows from those.
Billed once a year. Each plan shows what that saves.
| Feature | Free $0forever No card, ever A shelf or two, catalogued properly. Start free | Plus $40/year Save $20 a year A household library that lends. Start free | Pro $80/year Save $28 a year A collection worth insuring. Start free |
|---|---|---|---|
| Books | 50 | 1,000 | 2,500 |
| People | You + 1 | You + 3 | You + 7 |
| Libraries | 1 | 5 | Unlimited |
| Loans | 3 active | Unlimited, with borrower accounts | Unlimited, with a lending board |
| Export | Complete, always | Complete, always | Complete, always |
| Activity history | 90 days | 1 year | Unlimited |
| Public library page | Auto slug, with a Lektava badge | Custom slug, no badge | Custom domain, multiple curated pages |
| Titles in English, Sinhala and the original script | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Authors, publishers, series, genres | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Favourites, wishlist, shelves, tags | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Reading status, progress, notes, reviews | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ISBN lookup and metadata enrich | Unmetered | Unmetered, plus bulk enrich | Unmetered, plus bulk enrich |
| Import | Reads the whole file, lands the first 50 | Full | Full |
| Stats and goals | Current year | Full history, streaks, Year in Books | Full, with per-member breakdowns |
| Loan reminders and digests | In app | In app and by email | In app and by email |
| Duplicate review and merge | Not included | Yes | Yes |
| Bulk edit and bulk move | Not included | Yes | Yes |
| Collection valuation report | Not included | Not included | Total and per-shelf value, exportable |
| Scheduled backups | Not included | Not included | Weekly export, emailed |
| Cover upload size | 2 MB per file | 10 MB per file | 10 MB per file |
| Cover storage | No limit — covers are downscaled on upload | No limit | No limit |
| Support | Community | Priority | Priority |
Lektava is pre-launch: paid plans are not open for purchase yet. Sign up free now and the limits above are simply the shape of things when they are. Regional pricing is applied automatically where it applies.
01Never gated
Four things you never pay for.
- Export, always
- Every book, every note, every loan — complete, on any plan, whenever you want it. Your catalogue is yours.
- Sharing down to zero
- Whoever you invite gets their own account for free. Nobody has to pay to read the shelf you built.
- Your public page
- Every library can have a public page. Paid plans drop the badge and take a custom address; the page itself is never the thing you buy.
- Nothing is ever deleted
- Past a limit you cannot add — but everything already catalogued stays visible, editable and exportable. No hostages.
02How the limits behave
The rules underneath the table.
A cap is only fair if you know exactly what it does before you hit it. These four decide that.
- Past a limit, nothing disappears
- You stop being able to add. Everything already catalogued stays visible, editable and exportable, forever. Over-limit data is never deleted and never hidden behind a paywall later.
- An import shows you the whole file
- Bring in a file of 812 books on the free plan and Lektava reads all 812, lands the first 50, and tells you the other 762 are waiting. You see the real size of what you would be buying.
- The free plan is the trial
- No fourteen-day clock counting down from the day you signed up. Take a year over your first fifty books if that is how long it takes.
- One plan covers the library
- The owner pays; everyone invited joins free and keeps their own account. A member seat does not eat into anything they do with their own shelves.
Fifty books is a real catalogue.
Start there. Decide about the rest when the shelf makes you.