Book Tracker & Log: ReadShelf
Your Personal Reading Journal
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Track every book, build reading streaks, and truly understand your habits — with total privacy. Your data stays on your device. Stats,
goals, smart picks & widgets.
ReadShelf is a private reading tracker built to help you read more — and understand how you read — without ever giving up your data.
Perfect for tracking the books you're reading, building a daily reading habit, timing your sessions, rating and reviewing what you finish,
spotting patterns over time, and discovering your next great read.
Your books, your habits — and yours alone.
Private by design
No account, no login, no sign-up — just open the app and start
All your data is stored locally on your device by default
No analytics, no tracking, no ads — book search only queries public book databases (Open Library, Google Books)
Optional iCloud sync runs through your own private iCloud — never our servers
Build your library
Organize every book across shelves: Reading, Read, Want to Read and Did Not Finish
Add a book in seconds — search by title or author, scan its barcode, or look up an ISBN
Covers, author, page count, genres, series and custom tags, all in one place
Create your own custom shelves to read your way
Track your reading
A built-in reading timer logs your minutes and pages, session by session
See exactly where you are in every book with live progress
Capture favorite quotes and highlights with page references
Write rich reviews and journal entries for the books that stay with you
Rate beyond five stars: plot, writing, characters, pacing and emotional impact
Understand your habits
Beautiful stats: total books, pages and time read at a glance
Reading streaks, reading pace and your best time of day to read
Genre breakdown, top authors and rating distribution
Heatmaps and trends that show how your reading grows over time
Year in Review — a shareable recap of your whole reading year
Stay motivated
Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly reading goals
A forgiving reading streak: every 7 reading days earn an automatic rest day (up to 2 saved) — or count weekly and pick how many days a week you want to read
Earn XP, level up from Beginner to Legend, and unlock dozens of milestones
Challenges and milestones to keep the habit fun
Discover your next read
Personalized "For You" picks based on your taste and history
Popular titles from Open Library, plus recommendations that tell you why
On supported devices, on-device Apple Intelligence suggests your next book — privately, right on your iPhone
Reading on your Home Screen
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for your current book, streak and daily goal
A Live Activity tracks your reading timer straight from the Lock Screen
Apple Watch
On Apple Watch, start and pause a reading session, dial in your page with the Digital Crown and watch your daily goal ring fill — plus a complication for your watch face
A session running on your wrist shows up live on your iPhone, where you can control it too
Gentle reminders
A daily reading reminder to keep your habit going
A streak reminder so you never lose your run by accident
Premium includes
Full insights: advanced charts, heatmaps, trends and period comparisons
All goals: daily, weekly and monthly targets
All challenges and milestones
iCloud sync across all your devices
Data export
Unlimited custom shelves
ReadShelf stays simple while you log a session, and powerful when you want the full picture — track in seconds, understand in minutes.
Subscriptions
Auto-renewable Premium plans (1 month, 1 year)
A one-time Lifetime unlock is also available
Payment is charged to your Apple ID account
Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period
Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple account settings
Restore Purchases is available in-app
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://darianhanci-legal.web.app/datenschutz
ReadShelf 1.1 is our biggest update yet: a fresh design, a brand-new Apple Watch app and better ways to find your next book.
• Apple Watch: start and pause reading sessions from your wrist, log pages with the Digital Crown, keep an eye on your daily goal ring and add a complication. A session running on your Watch shows up live on your iPhone, where you can control it too.
• Discover: more personalized recommendations that tell you why ("Because you read …"), with a thumbs up or down.
• Better book search and sharper covers from more sources, including German and international titles. No cover? You get a beautiful placeholder instead.
• Redesigned Home, Library (grid, list, shelf view and multi-select) and book details, plus a reading calendar with your covers.
• A friendlier streak with automatic rest days (1 for every 7 reading days, up to 2) or a weekly goal, and small celebrations when you hit milestones.
• Reading reminders at the time you choose, easy to turn off anytime.
• Import from Goodreads, StoryGraph and Fable, free backup & restore, scan quotes with your camera, see when you'll finish a book, and check whether you're ahead of or behind your yearly goal.
• Lock Screen widgets.
• More for free: up to 3 custom shelves, plus genre and author filters.
• Siri & Shortcuts: start, pause or end a reading session, log pages and check today's progress by voice. Share books and quotes as image cards.
• ReadShelf now speaks 15 languages.
• Bug fixes and stability improvements.
The developer, Cengiz Darian Hanci, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Cengiz Darian Hanci
- Size
- 25.5 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. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 13 more
- English, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- ReadShelf Premium Lifetime $41.99
- ReadShelf Premium Yearly $14.99
- ReadShelf Premium Monthly $1.49
- Copyright
- © 2026 Cengiz Darian Hanci