BookShelf — A literary record

Track every book, every session, every mood — privately, on your device. Editorial typography. No ads, no accounts, no tracking. Built for readers who keep notes.

BookShelf is an editorial reading tracker for people who treat books like company. Every shelf you keep is private, every detail is yours, every screen is laid out in serif type on cream paper.

— What you can do

• Add books fast: scan an ISBN with your camera, or search by title or author. Covers, descriptions, page counts and publication dates land in your library automatically. • Track sessions: tap a button when you sit down to read. BookShelf times you, you log the pages, you tag the mood. Watch your rhythm emerge. • Rate, review, remember: a five-star rating with quarter-star precision, an open review field that doesn't impose a character limit, and a clean editorial layout that makes you want to come back and finish the thought. • Mood, pace, content warnings: eighteen mood tags, four pace tags, eighteen content warning categories — the same vocabulary the literary community already uses. • See your year: charts of pages per month, minutes per month, your current reading streak, top moods, books finished this year. Numbers framed the way a literary supplement would. • Carry it everywhere with iCloud: your shelf syncs to your private iCloud — same Apple ID on a new device and your library is already there. No accounts, no servers, no email signup. • Share what you're reading: tap the share button on any book to send an editorial poster — cover, your rating, your favourite line — to Messages, WhatsApp, Mail, AirDrop, or Instagram Stories.

— The promise

BookShelf is built around a quiet idea: your reading is yours. There is no account to create. There is no profile to fill in. There is no feed, no recommendation engine, no advertising. The app never tracks you and never asks to. Book searches are sent only to Google Books for the lookup itself — never with your identity attached. Everything else lives on your device, in your iCloud, full stop.

— Made for the way books deserve

The typography is serif. The palette is paper, walnut and ochre. The buttons feel like deckle-edged bookmarks. If you have ever wanted a reading log that looks like it belongs next to your real shelves rather than next to your social apps, BookShelf is built for you.

Read well. Keep notes. Stay private.

— What's free, what's Pro

BookShelf is free to download and use for tracking and rating books, scanning ISBNs, and writing reviews. BookShelf Pro unlocks reading sessions, mood and pace tagging, content warnings, advanced statistics, unlimited ISBN scans, share cards, and iCloud sync — for a one-time $24.99 in-app purchase. Yours forever, no subscription.