Covers that do something
Every cover is a real link with a real hover card. Keyboard users get the card on focus, not just on mouse hover — which is more than most tier list tools manage.
Tier lists where every cover is a link.
Rank your books, then publish a page. Each cover links to wherever the book actually lives — Amazon, Royal Road, Goodreads, your own review — and hovering or tabbing to one shows the title, the author, and whatever else you tracked. Not a screenshot of a ranking.
Open the editor Source on GitHub
Free, MIT-licensed, runs entirely in your browser. No account, nothing uploaded.
This is the output
A real exported board, not a picture of one. Hover a cover — or press Tab to walk them with the keyboard — and click through to the book.
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What you get
Three ways out
A standalone HTML page you can host anywhere, a JSON file you own and can re-import, and a PNG for pasting into Reddit or Discord. The page and the JSON round-trip.
Covers saved once
Cover images are fetched once and kept locally, so lists keep working after a retailer rotates its image URLs — and so image export works at all.
Any book, any link
No catalog to be in. If you can point at a cover and a URL, you can rank it — including a serial with no ISBN, a Patreon chapter, or something you wrote.
Nothing leaves the browser
No account, no server, no analytics, no third-party scripts. Your lists live in your browser and in the files you export.
Fields you choose
Add whatever you track — hours read, volume count, where you dropped it — and it shows in the hover card. The format does not dictate what you care about.
How it works
- Add your books. One per line: title, author, link, cover URL. Paste a batch at once.
- Rank them. Drag covers between tiers, or move them from the keyboard.
- Save covers. One press stores every cover locally so the list stays put and image export works.
- Export. A page to host, a JSON file to keep, or a PNG to paste.
Is this the right tool for you?
Use booktier if
- You want the finished thing to be a page you own and host, not a post on someone's site.
- Your links should go where you say — a specific chapter, a review, a store page.
- You rank things no catalog has.
- You would rather not make an account.
Use something else if
- You want your list discovered by a community that is already there — LitRPGTools does linked covers with hover cards inside a LitRPG community, and that reach is worth more than owning the file.
- You want a consensus ranking across many people's lists.
- You want an image and nothing else — any tier list maker does that.
Run your own copy
booktier is static files — no build step, no runtime, no database. Clone it, put it behind any web server, done.
git clone https://github.com/elevatevt/booktier.git
cd booktier
npm run serve # http://localhost:8777The repository ships a hosting guide with response headers and per-host recipes, and a security document covering trust boundaries and the decisions worth making before you put a copy online. The Content-Security-Policy in that guide is enforced against a live browser by the test suite, not just recommended.