Bookshelf helps you track your books, build a lasting reading habit, and better remember what you read—now with powerful AI-powered discovery tools to help you find your next great read!
Add books you’ve read, books you’re reading, and books you want to read. Improve your reading habits with insightful stats and trend reports. Stay motivated with reading goals, streaks, and reminders. Remember what you read by writing and reviewing notes and quotes.
BUILD YOUR LIBRARY
• Import & Sync – Import your existing libraries from Goodreads, Kindle, StoryGraph, or Reading List with a tap.
• Quick Add – Build your library by searching millions of books, scanning any book's barcode, or adding your own.
• Book Recommendations* – Discover trending books, find books based on your mood or any prompt, and browse curated collections to find your next read.
• Everything Tracker – Easily manage book collections, reading status, star ratings, reading dates, and more for all your books.
• Reading Sessions* – Pick up a book, start a session, and we’ll track everything so you can focus on reading.
IMPROVE YOUR READING HABITS
• Book Chat – Chat with our AI librarian to generate summaries and flash cards, discuss key ideas, and much more!
• Reading Stats – Visualize your reading habits over time with charts and reading stats.
• Reading Goals – Create a reading goal for the year to motivate yourself to read more or challenge your friends!
• Estimated Completion Time – See how long it will take to finish any book with your average reading speed.
• Reading Streaks* – Stay motivated by keeping up your streak!
REMEMBER WHAT YOU READ
• Smart Notes* – Use cards to jot down notes or vocab, write a summary, or prepare study questions. Scan text directly from books or add rich text of your own.
• Knowledge Quizzes* – Spaced-repetition quizzes on your note cards that will significantly increase your retention, guaranteed.
• Reading Reminders* – Never forget to read or test your knowledge with timely notifications.
OTHER FEATURES
• Cloud Sync* & Daily Backups – Sync between your iOS devices so your library is always up-to-date, or restore from previous backups.
• App Icons – Make Bookshelf your own with beautiful custom home-screen icons.
• Library Export* – Never fear losing your books or notes with CSV library exports.
• Dark Mode – Beautiful during the day, gorgeous and eye-saving at night.
*Some features require Bookshelf Gold for access or unlimited use
Gold Lifetime charges your Apple ID once for permanent Gold status. Gold Yearly charges your Apple ID for 12 months of Gold status after a 7-day free trial unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the trial ends. Gold Monthly charges your Apple ID for 1 month of Gold status on purchase confirmation.
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I used to LOVE this app. It was my go-to for tracking my reading sessions and cataloguing my library.But now, it’s loaded with issues. I can no longer pause and resume reading sessions from my lock screen like I used to. It works for a bit but then just stops appearing. I constantly have to re-enter dates from reading sessions as they seem to randomly disappear.Thankfully I also use another app (one which creates stat cards when you finish a book which I upload onto social media), so I always have a backup of my sessions.Hopefully the issues get sorted as I would happily re-review this and give it the 5 stars that - until recently - it deserved!
The best book tracking app EVER.
(more love)
I have tried sooo many book tracking apps to catalogue my collection but have never managed to get past logging the first 10/20 books because of clunky UI, bad formatting etc. I have just finished entering my entire 900+ book collection on to this app and it has been a dream.This app is everything I have ever wanted from a book tracking app. It is beautifully designed, so easy to use, the organisation features are great so I can keep all my series together. My favourite feature is the wishlist. I love that I can have a separate little library of books I want, and then if I buy that book I can move it over to my main collection with a few taps. My only criticism would be I wish there was a way to manually organise the order of books in your library. Despite changing the author’s name etc. in the settings, I still sometimes have a few rogue books that get mixed up and don’t stay in order. But that is such a small issue and really does not take away from this being a truly wonderful creation. I would recommend this to anyone ◡̈
New update v v buggy!! Great app, very very expensive though
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Update: recent update has almost broken this app, such an incredible amount of bugs. Please undo whatever you’ve done, it’s dreadful. Great app but massively expensive for full features, I wish there was a reduced £ tier for those who don’t want the AI features. I don’t see myself using them personally but understand their use and some people would find them helpful. Customisable fields would be helpful too as well as bigger thumbnail previews as some of the images are incredibly low res, would also love to see a small addition to the series field that allows you to state which book in the series that specific book belongs to as it isn’t obvious in a lot of titles unless you do a separate search and manually add the info into the title, sorting by release date does not always solve this issue so some way to indicate book order within the series bit would be really helpful. Similar app for other things such as shows/movies or other trackable things would be amazing too or even an app that would handle both, would happily pay full cost for integrated app.
Amazing App
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It’s modern in comparison to ‘goodreads’ in my opinion. sure it’s currently not as popular but it’s a lot more appealing and simple to the eyes. I love the features of saving definitions and quotes. The reading sessions are great, at a time where I may not have my phone on me I wish there was a feature that enables you to input the pages you read and it estimate how long you took based on your past reading history otherwise when I’m marking the percentage of my book left to read it shows as 0 minutes of reading time for that session. However, there is one HUGE idea that I would hope may be brought about in the future and thats a friends list. All my friends on goodread are able to see eachothers books and communicate via comments with other people. I wish this app had a social feature it would be an absolute game changer. Regardless, love this app a lot ❤️Keep improving, I plan to pay for the LifeTime Access really soon
[UPDATED] Better Book Scanning - Barcode scanning is more reliable, and scanned books now load more complete book details and cover images.
[FIXED] This update also improves reading sessions and Live Activity syncing, recommendation filters, custom cover photos, author sorting, and overall stability.
As always, I love hearing from you - tell me what you'd like to see next via the in-app Feedback or Roadmap (find both in Stats -> Settings).
Happy reading!
Version 2.18.18
The developer, Alexander Gerrese, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Provider
Alexander Gerrese
Size
297.1 MB
Category
Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
