Coming soon on iOS

Your whole library,
one scan away.

Bookshelf turns any pile of books into an organized, searchable collection — scan a barcode or a cover, and we handle the rest. Build it solo or with friends.

📷 Scan barcodes & covers
✨ On-device AI
👥 Shared shelves

Book detail with rating and notes
A Bookshelf library of scanned books

The tour

See it in action

A clean, fast home for every book you own — from the first scan to a shared shelf.

Library of scanned books grouped by collection
📷

Scan a book, watch it appear

Point your camera at a barcode or a cover and the book drops straight into your shelf — title, author, publisher, year and cover art filled in for you.

BarcodeCover scanAuto cover art

Book detail screen with shelf, star rating and notes

Rate, shelve & make it yours

Give any book a 1–5 star rating, set it as Read, Want to Read or Shelved, and jot down private notes — your take, kept to you.

Star ratingsShelvesPrivate notes

AI Reading Assistant chat suggesting what to read next

Ask the AI Reading Assistant

Not sure what to read next? Ask the assistant — it suggests titles from your own shelves and explains why. Powered by Apple’s private on-device AI, with an optional cloud model for Pro.

On-device & privateKnows your shelves

My Picks shelves — Read, Want to Read and Rated
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My Picks, sorted for you

Mark a book Read or Want to Read and it lands in the matching shelf automatically. Everything you rate collects under Rated — no filing required.

ReadWant to ReadRated

Global search across books, projects and people with matches highlighted
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Find any book the instant you think of it

One relevance-ranked search runs across every project, entry and collaborator — with the matching text highlighted so you spot it at a glance.

BooksProjectsPeople

Collaborators sharing a project
👥

Share a shelf with anyone

Invite others by username and build a collection together. Everyone gets full access, with conflict-free real-time sync across all your devices.

Invite by usernameReal-time sync

And more

A peek at the rest

Sign in in a tap, keep every collection in one place, and go unlimited when you’re ready.

Bookshelf sign-in screen
One-tap sign-in
Apple, Google or Facebook
Library tab showing all your projects
All your projects
Library, My Picks & Search
Bookshelf Pro upgrade screen
Bookshelf Pro
Unlock unlimited shelves

Smart recognition

Recognition that doesn’t give up

No barcode? No problem. Bookshelf works through a fallback chain until it finds your book.

Step 1
Barcode
Instant ISBN lookup
Step 2
Cover match
Image search online
Step 3
Local DB
Previously scanned
Step 4
OCR
Read the cover text
Step 5
Confirm
You pick the match

Under the hood

Everything you’d expect, done right

The quiet details that keep a growing library fast, safe and always in sync.

📁

Projects & collections

Group books by room, genre or reading list. Create, browse and manage collections in seconds.

☁️

Cloud sync

Your library lives in the cloud and stays in sync across every device — automatically.

📴

Works offline

Keep scanning and browsing with no signal. Everything reconciles the moment you’re back online.

🔐

Simple sign-in

Sign in with Apple, Google or Facebook — no new password. Pick a username and you’re in.

🤝

Role-based access

Share collections with the right people and control what collaborators can do.

🗒️

Rich metadata

Title, author, cover, publisher, year and ISBN — captured automatically for every entry.

Coming soon

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Bookshelf is launching on iOS, with Android to follow. Want to know the moment it’s ready?

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