Need a hand with BookLoom? Here’s how to reach us and answers to common questions.
Email is the fastest way to reach the BookLoom team. We typically reply within a couple of business days.
bookloom@shadowpuppet.netBookLoom is a companion app for book clubs and reading groups on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Members propose books, the loom picks the next read at random, everyone rates it 1–5 stars, and a shared history is kept — all synced through iCloud.
No. BookLoom uses your existing iCloud account for sync and sharing through Apple’s CloudKit. There is no separate BookLoom account, login, or password to manage.
Open the club, tap the share/invite action in the toolbar, and use Apple’s built-in sharing to send an invite link to anyone with an iPhone, iPad, or Mac signed in to iCloud. Invited members get read/write access to the shared club content.
A few things to check:
If sync is still misbehaving, open Settings inside BookLoom and check the Sync section for status details, or email us with what you’re seeing.
Your clubs, proposed and completed books, ratings, and notes live locally on your device and in your private iCloud account. ShadowPuppet, LLC has no access to your iCloud data, your Apple ID, or the contents of your shared clubs. See our Privacy Policy for details.
You can leave shared clubs from the club’s sharing menu and delete clubs you own from the clubs list. Uninstalling BookLoom removes its local data; data in your private iCloud container can also be cleared from iCloud system settings.
The current release of BookLoom is free with no subscription. Any future optional purchases would be processed by Apple, and we would never receive your payment details.
BookLoom runs on iPhone (iOS 17+), iPad (iPadOS 17+), and Mac (macOS 14+). It is a native SwiftUI app with the same density on every device.
Email bookloom@shadowpuppet.net with a short description of what happened (or what you’d like to see), the device you’re on, and any steps to reproduce. Screenshots help.