The facts
Name
BUONOMade by
The Bad Lemon, Udine, ItalyPlatforms
iPhone, Android and the webPrice
Free. No account, no subscriptionMarkets
UK, Italy, France, Germany, Netherlands, BelgiumWebsite
getbuono.com
15-second film
The same paperback, £10.99 new or £1.75 used, then every shop's price on one screen. Vertical, 1080 × 1920, no sound. Download MP4
About BUONO
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BUONO is a free app that finds the cheapest copy of any book across Europe, new or used.
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BUONO is a free book price comparison app for iPhone and Android. Scan a book's barcode or search by title, and BUONO compares new and second-hand prices for that exact edition across bookshops and marketplaces in the UK, Italy, France, Germany and the Netherlands. It is made by The Bad Lemon in Udine, Italy.
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BUONO is a free app that finds the cheapest copy of any book across Europe. Readers scan a barcode in a shop or search a title, author or ISBN, and BUONO lists every price it can find for that exact edition, new and used together, from cheapest to dearest. It compares bookshops such as Waterstones, Bookshop.org, Mondadori Store, IBS.it and bol.com alongside second-hand sellers like momox, medimops and Vinted. Prices in other currencies are converted to euros so they compare fairly, and readers can save a book to get an alert when its price drops. Every book also has a public price page on getbuono.com, so anyone can check without installing the app. BUONO is made by The Bad Lemon, an independent studio in Udine, Italy.
The founder
Typhanie Cochrane is the founder of The Bad Lemon, a creative studio that designs and builds apps.
Typhanie made BUONO for readers who love books but not full price, so that anyone holding a book in a shop can see in a second whether the same edition is cheaper somewhere else, new or second-hand.
The studio also makes RFYL, Pin It and Voice It.
How BUONO stays honest
BUONO earns a small commission from some shops when a reader buys. Here is what that does and doesn't change.
Sorted by price, always
The list runs from cheapest to dearest. Shops can't pay to move up it, and shops that pay no commission are listed too.
The reader's price never changes
The commission comes out of the shop's side. Buying through BUONO costs exactly what buying direct does.
The exact edition
Matching is by ISBN, so the price shown is for the book in your hand, not a different cover or format.
Prices from the shops themselves
Prices come from each shop's official product feed or API and are refreshed daily. No account is ever needed.
Logos & colours
#1332FF#FD1746#0B0B12#FFFFFFThe logos are white, for BUONO blue, black or a dark photo. Please don't stretch, recolour or rotate them.
Get BUONO
Interviews, a price check on a specific book, or data for a story: contact@thebadlemon.com