RedShelf

Name: RedShelf
Rating: 4.5 (7084 reviews)
Author: RedShelf

By: RedShelf App

Education

Overview

Version:

2.2.11

Last updated: 2025-11-24

Ranking

#22,469 ▼ 16

Overall

Features & Capabilities

RedShelf eReader is the companion app that gives you seamless access to your RedShelf textbooks across mobile, tablet, and desktop, with a unified reading experience that travels with you.

While you read, highlight text, take notes, create flashcards, define terms, and listen with read-aloud. All your highlights and notes sync across devices for continuous study.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Education

By:

RedShelf

Rating:

4.50

(7,084) 2 new ratings

Version:

2.2.11 Last updated: 2025-11-24

Version code:

879927883

Creation date:

2020-08-09

Compatible devices:

Size:

25.10MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-18

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 22,469 ▼ 16

Other platforms

RedShelf eReader (v2.2.11)

98,480 2.63

(1,785)

For Developers

Monetize with App Pass Boost with Extension Booster

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Developed by:

RedShelf

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/redshelf/id1511013608

Website:

https://www.about.redshelf.com/

User Reviews

Across reviews, RedShelf is seen as unreliable and frustrating. The most persistent issues are a white screen that blocks access, frequent crashes, and a need to reinstall the app. Users report repeated login prompts and verification codes to open books, plus poor offline support and download errors. Highlighting and annotation features are often broken, and text formatting can be unreadable. Customer support is described as ineffective. A few reviewers call it 'OK' or note brief periods of function, but the overall consensus is that the app is troublesome for digital textbooks.

Pros

Occasional brief stability: a reviewer noted it 'worked great for two days' before issues returned.
Mild acceptance: at least one reviewer called it an 'OK app'.
Designed to function as the digital textbook reader for school assignments.

Cons

Persistent white screen/blank page that blocks access to books and often requires reinstall.
Frequent crashes and instability; books won't load or the app force closes.
Offline/download issues: cannot reliably download for offline use; errors about 'already downloaded' and other download failures.
Repeated login/verification prompts to access books (email codes / sign-in required multiple times).
Highlighting/annotation and text formatting issues; highlighting is erratic and text can be unreadable.

Recent reviews

Like all half-baked e-readers that work with universities, this company provides half of the features for usability than any free option would have. It also has the wonderful habit of deciding that you are logged in multiple times, and will tell you that you can’t access the textbook you spent several hundred dollars to read. Unless your school forces you towards this money grubbing pit, avoid RedShelf. It’s as difficult to use and restrictive as you can imagine.

by Ca*****, 2026-04-26

There has been half a dozen times that I’ve needed material and it wouldn’t open. I wish I had spent the money on books instead of this. At least I could reference them! The password reset is garbage, and downloading for offline, same!