Apple Books MCP Server

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Apple Books runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 392 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 2 Jul 2026.

Access your Apple Books library, annotations, reading progress, and highlights through Claude

Installs per day peak 160 · avg 76 · -4% w/w

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392

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pypi · apple-books-mcp

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2 Jul 2026

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Apache-2.0

License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Apple Books every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add apple-books-mcp -- uvx apple-books-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apple-books-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "apple-books-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.apple-books-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["apple-books-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apple-books-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "apple-books-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apple-books-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "apple-books-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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Apple Books — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Apple Books?

Apple Books runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package apple-books-mcp was installed 392 times last week.

How do I connect Apple Books?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls apple-books-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Apple Books?

The pypi package apple-books-mcp was installed 392 times in the last week. Week over week that is -4%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Apple Books open source?

Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Python and 57 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.