PulpShelf
Pulp Magazine Shelf
Only for iPhone
Free
iPhone
PulpShelf is the catalog for pulp magazine collectors.
Pulp magazines — the adventure, detective, western, horror, and science fiction periodicals of the 1890s–1950s — predate barcodes and standard identifiers. PulpShelf fills that gap with a complete, browsable database of the pulp era and a permanent Universal Periodical Number (UPN) for every single issue.
BROWSE THE COMPLETE CATALOG • 676 pulp titles and more than 42,000 individual issues • Cover images for nearly every issue • Full-text search across titles and issues — including renamed titles, so searching “Ka-Zar” finds the magazine it became • Publisher histories, format changes, and title genealogies • Every issue carries its permanent UPN reference number
TRACK YOUR COLLECTION — FREE, NO ACCOUNT NEEDED • Mark issues as owned straight from the issue grid • Collection stats per title and overall • Works fully offline — your collection is stored on your device • Export your collection anytime
FOR SERIOUS COLLECTORS PulpShelf Premium members additionally get cloud sync across devices, per-copy condition tracking, notes and photos of their own copies, want lists, scarcity ratings, and QR scanning of PulpShelf inventory labels.
Built by a collector, for collectors. The stacks are open.
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• Trouble with your account? You can now reach support from inside the app — there's a contact address on the Help page and on the sign-in screen.
• Refined how seasonal and combined issues are identified, so checklists match the published run more closely.
• Corrected a Western Yarns listing that included a 1942 issue we were unable to verify.
Also includes under-the-hood maintenance. PulpShelf now requires iOS 15 or later.
The developer, Matthew Moring, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
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Information
- Seller
- Matthew Moring
- Size
- 44.1 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Realistic Violence
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Horror/Fear Themes
Guns or Other Weapons
- Copyright
- © 2026 Steeger Properties, LLC
