Dear readers, A little update to hopefully make your reading a bit more enjoyable! - Reorder your books by title, author, or date added. - Automatic backup process for PocketShelf. You can now set up an automatic backup of your PocketShelf data; just specify a path, and the app will generate a backup for you automatically. - Manually select which books you want to import from a PocketShelf backup. - Fixed the time estimation when adding a book that you’ve already started. The time estimation did take that extra reading session into account, resulting in the app thinking you read super quickly. - Redoing the onboarding will now show the correct date on your library card. Wear it as a badge of honor. - Tap on a note in the notes view to edit it. - Fixed the widget in clear and tinted mode. Happy reading, Klemens & Frank

Dear Readers, It’s this time of the year where we get a new operating system for our devices with wonderful new features. We were hard at work to support as many as possible of them: - A redefined Widget experience: The widget was rebuilt from the ground up. Its now more colourful and supports many different sizes. In the two largest sizes, you will directly get your reading summary. - App Intents: We support App Intents now! You can start and stop reading sessions, add notes and do many other nice things by asking Siri or through the Shortcuts app. - Generated Glossary Items: We now generate glossary items from your reading notes with Apple’s local AI models. - Support for On-Screen Awareness: Ask Siri questions about the things you see on screen, like: “When is the next book of this author coming out?” Only available with Siri AI. We also have some bug fixes in store. The ones we can remember are: - Fixed a crash when trying to add a manual reading session. Thanks Luke for making us aware! - Fixed adding a manual reading session for Audiobooks. Also thanks Luke for making us aware! - Several layout fixes for books without a cover. Happy Reading! Frank & Klemens

Dear Readers, You might not believe it, but we *finally* added iCloud support to the app. It took a while because we did it alongside a major rewrite of our database, which also finally make some other features possible, like rating a book and re-reading books. (Coming soon!) We hope everything works out for you! If there is any hiccup, please reach out to us! Best, Frank & Klemens

Dear Readers, There was an issue where the app could not start in certain situations when you had eBooks in the app. This is fixed now! Happy reading, Klemens & Frank

Dear Readers, We ran into another issue with our search provider that made searching for books feel very slow. Not only is that fixed now, search is faster than before! Happy reading, Klemens & Frank

Dear Readers, We were experiencing an issue with our search provider, which prevented any search results from appearing in the app. This update will prevent any further such issues. Thanks a lot to Lewis for making us aware of this! We also added some more things to this update: - You can now search in the Archive - When adding a reading session manually, we automatically calculate the time you spent based on the previous reading session. - Some localization enhancements in Swedish and French (thanks David and Tim!) Happy reading, Klemens & Frank

Dear Readers, It's Global Accessibility Awareness Day! To celebrate, we have localised the app in many more languages and enhanced the support for bigger text sizes. If any translation sounds weird to you, please let us know and we will get it fixed as soon as possible! Best, Frank & Klemens

Dear Readers, Again a smaller update that updates how we reach our data source for searching for books. This should make it more reliable! Happy reading, Frank & Klemens

Dear Readers, Back to a smaller update with the following things: - Added support for importing your library from Book Tracker! - Fixed an issue where the app would crash when exporting your PocketShelf data (ouch!). Thanks, Christian, for letting us know! - Fixed an issue where you couldn’t add a reading session manually from a book you haven’t started yet. Thanks, Helen, for letting us know! Happy reading, Frank & Klemens

Dear Readers, This update got bigger than expected, coming with these features: - Support for importing books from StoryGraph - Sound effects and haptics, designed by Josh Mobley - 6 new ambient sounds that you can play while reading, like a fireplace, insects at night, and pink noise. Special shoutout to maggolin for her suggestions! Aaaaand two bug fixes: - Fixed a bug that prevented music and audiobooks from playing when the app was opened. - A fix for the cover image not appearing in the widget when the home screen was in the Clear or Tinted style. Thanks, Patric, for pointing it out. Happy reading, Frank & Klemens

Dear Readers, We’re happy to finally deliver the long-promised support for importing your Goodreads library. You can find it under “Import Books & Backup.” This update also brings a ton of other fixes, including: - Deleting audiobooks (thanks, Alexander!) - Incorrect time tracking in audiobooks - Wrong book selection when deleting a book in list view - Progress being shown incorrectly above 100% - Books with numerical edition numbers not appearing in search - Remaining time being shown for abandoned books - Issues with the archive when entering it from an empty main view Happy reading, Frank & Klemens

Dear Readers, This is a small update with a fix about entering ISBNs. They were sometimes not correctly detected if they contained white spaces or dashes. Thanks Ortholf and Peter for making us aware! Happy reading, Frank & Klemens

Dear Readers, This is a small update with a fix about entering ISBNs. They were sometimes not correctly detected if they contained white spaces or dashes. Thanks Ortholf and Peter for making us aware! Happy reading, Frank & Klemens

Dear Readers, This is a small update with the following changes: - Several fixes related to editing notes (thanks, Jannis, for your feedback) - Adjustments to the main view when you’ve finished reading all your books - Some minor paywall improvements Happy reading, Frank & Klemens

Dear Readers, This is a small update with the following changes: - Notes are now saved in backups, in case something goes wrong during your reading session - The paywall now displays user reviews - Reduced the app size by about 10 MB Happy reading, Frank & Klemens

Dear Readers, To celebrate the spookiest time of the year, we’ve prepared a special event for you! No tricks — only treats! Add a Horror or Thriller book to PocketShelf and read it at least once to unlock a special Halloween-themed app icon. Happy Reading, Frank & Klemens

Dear Readers, Isn’t it the greatest time to read a spooky scary book this month? This version includes the following additions: - Roadmap, where we show off what we are working next. The package used for it was made by legends Jordi Bruin, Hidde van der Ploeg and Antoine van der Lee - Book Genres: you can now mark the genre of a book. This works retroactively, so you don’t have to re-add the book We are looking forward to sharing more about the genres next week. Frank & Klemens

Dear Readers, This update includes two small bug fixes: - Fixed an issue where the page estimation was incorrect for books started before adding them to PocketShelf. - Prevented the note sheet from being accidentally dismissed while creating a new one. Many thanks to Holger for bringing these to our attention! Happy reading, Frank & Klemens

Dear Readers! This update addresses one of the biggest pain points our users had: finding books. We’ve added an additional data source that’s much larger - especially when it comes to non-English titles, such as German, French, and Italian books. This specific update now also fixes an issue when searching for books by scanning the ISBN. If you’re still having trouble, let us know. We can always add books manually too. Happy reading! Frank & Klemens

Dear Readers! This update addresses one of the biggest pain points our users had: finding books. We’ve added an additional data source that’s much larger - especially when it comes to non-English titles, such as German, French, and Italian books. If you’re still having trouble, let us know. We can always add books manually too. Happy reading! Frank & Klemens

We are back again with a small update. Here is what’s new: - Fixed a crash when entering the same value as start and end in the book settings - Improved the Widget UI since the previous iteration wasn’t great Happy reading! Frank & Klemens

We are back again with a small update. Here is what’s new: - Fixed several typos in German. Thank you Silvia for pointing this out! - Fixed several typos in Dutch. Thanks to Anne and Jane for pointing this out! - Fixed an issue where you couldn’t access the “Your Data” Screen. Thanks Tynan for reporting this! - Improved the layout in the widget. Thanks to Peter for pointing this out! - Made it more convenient to set your name during onboarding. Happy reading! Frank & Klemens

Welcome to PocketShelf! We’re tremendously excited to finally offer our app to everyone on iOS 26!  This version includes bug fixes & improvements and offers a fresh take at our iPad app. Happy reading, we’ll be here reading alongside you!

 - Frank & Klemens