Booqly - Your Social Bookshelf

Catalog your library, journal your reading, and identify a whole shelf with a single photo. Editorial reading software for people who take books seriously.

Booqly is editorial reading software for people who take books seriously.

Track what you're reading, what you've finished, and what's waiting on the shelf. Capture highlights as you go. See what your friends are reading. And — when you want to add a whole stack at once — point your camera at a real shelf and let Booqly identify every visible spine.

WHY BOOQLY

– A book journal that looks like one. Editorial layout, warm paper-and-ink palette, real serif type. No gamification, no streaks designed to nag you.

– Shelf scan (beta). One photo, every book identified. Take a picture of your shelf and Booqly's AI returns the titles and authors in seconds. Confident matches go straight into your library; uncertain ones are flagged for your review. Free, capped at five scans per account.

– On-device highlight insight. Snap a page or paste a quote and Booqly's on-device AI (Apple Intelligence) extracts themes and a one-sentence summary. Runs locally on capable iPhones — never leaves your device.

– Read together. Sync up with friends on the same book — see who is on which page, and leave notes pinned to the page they belong to, so nothing spoils what is still ahead. Free for any group size.

– Reading you actually own. Export your entire library as CSV or JSON whenever you want. Your data, your bookshelf.

WHAT BOOQLY DOES NOT DO

– No ads. – No subscription tier — Booqly is free during launch. – No selling your reading history to anyone. – No streak shaming.

REQUIRES iOS 26. Some on-device AI features need an Apple Intelligence-capable device.

FOR FEEDBACK sven-eric@molzahn-software.de

Booqly is independent software made by Sven-Eric Molzahn.