Bookshelf: Reading Tracker 4+
Track library, TBR & book list
Alexander Gerrese
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Bookshelf helps you track your books, build a lasting reading habit, and better remember what you read.
Add books you’ve read, books you’re reading, and books you want to read. Improve your reading habits with insightful stats and trend reports. Stay motivated with reading goals, streaks, and reminders. Remember what you read by writing and reviewing notes and quotes.
BUILD YOUR LIBRARY
• Quick Add - Build your library by searching through millions of books, scanning any book's barcode, or adding your own.
• Book Recommendations - Find your next great read with AI recommendations and NYT Bestseller lists.
• Everything Tracker - Easily manage book collections, reading status, star ratings, reading dates, and more for all your books.
• Reading Sessions* - Pick up a book, start a session, and we’ll track everything so you can focus on reading.
IMPROVE YOUR READING HABITS
• Book Chat - Chat with our AI librarian to generate summaries and flash cards, discuss key ideas, and much more!
• Reading Stats - Visualize your reading habits over time with charts and reading stats.
• Reading Goals - Create a reading goal for the year to motivate yourself to read more or challenge your friends!
• Estimated Completion Time - See how long it will take to finish any book with your average reading speed.
• Reading Streaks* - Stay motivated by keeping up your streak!
REMEMBER WHAT YOU READ
• Smart Notes* - Use cards to jot down notes or vocab, write a summary, or prepare study questions. Scan text directly from books to add them to your cards or add your own rich text
• Knowledge Quizzes* - Spaced repetition quizzes on your note cards that will significantly increase your retention, guaranteed.
• Reading Reminders* - Never forget to read or test your knowledge with timely notifications.
OTHER FEATURES
• Goodreads and Reading List Import - Get started instantly by importing your existing libraries with a tap.
• Cloud Sync* - Sync between your iOS devices so your library is always up-to-date.
• App Icons - Make Bookshelf your own with beautiful custom home screen icons.
• Library Export* - Never fear that you'll lose your books or notes with CSV library exports.
• Dark Mode - Beautiful during the day, gorgeous and eye-saving during the night.
*BOOKSHELF GOLD
Gold Lifetime will charge your Apple ID account once for infinite Gold status. Gold Yearly will charge your Apple ID account for 12 months of Gold status after a 7-day free trial unless cancelled within 24-hours before the end of the trial. Gold Monthly will charge your Apple ID account for 1 month of Gold status on confirmation of purchase
Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings. For more information, see our Terms and Conditions at bit.ly/2NNm93Z and Privacy Policy at bit.ly/31Mad8s.
What’s New
Version 2.16.3
[NEW] Your Library, Your Way – Show, hide, and reorder all your homepage sections and collections to build the perfect Bookshelf for you.
[NEW] A Reading Now Style That Pops – Enjoy a more colorful design for your in progress books, and a button to quickly start, pause and resume reading sessions.
[FIXED] Some important bug fixes, including books not showing and improved reliability for iCloud Sync.
As always, I love hearing from you so please use Bookshelf’s in-app feedback form or new Roadmap feature, which you can find in Settings.
Ratings and Reviews
Its sooo useful!
I can’t believe this app is free. I downloaded so many other apps that were wayy too expensive for what i can afford and finally finding an app where you can take so many notes about the books im reading is truly useful! Im now motivated to read more books thanks to “summarize”
Loved the app! Cheers to the developers ❤️
Oh, so close…
Once i downloaded this app, I was amazed! Everything I needed was free and worked great! The navigating is smooth and the menu is beautifully minimal.
HOWEVER…
Just a few hours after downloading the app, it got a huge update. At first it seemed fantastic, I was very happy with all the updates and thought they were great ideas that many more book tracking apps should add!
Then I realised they had added a new subscription, one that was a bit overpriced in my opinion. I thought that it was still alright, that I won’t have any trouble if I don’t pay. Then a bit later I realised that the now “free” version is a worse experience of what the app used to be.
Only 3 reading sessions per week? I understand having a collection and a tracking limit to the number of books, but limiting the sessions per week, and only allowing 3?! Same thing applies to the newly added “Cards” system, which is a wonderful one, IF one was allowed to make more than 3 per week without paying.
I’m very disappointed, I really thought this was gonna be my way of tracking for forever, but seeing the other, far cheaper, lifetime options out there, this one just isn’t worth it anymore.
3 stars, because if you are able to afford 16,99 a month along with all of your other subscriptions, this app will work wonders.
Developer Response ,
Hi there, thanks for your candid feedback and I'm glad you've been enjoying Bookshelf!
As a solo developer who's been working on making Bookshelf the best book tracking app for 4 years now, I'm constantly trying to find the balance between making my app as accessible to everyone as possible, and still being able to generate enough revenue to continue this as a business.
I truly believe that the free version is quite generous and should give you everything you need to track your library forever (I've removed the book limit forever), and the Gold version exists for those who want additional features and want to take their reading to the next level.
If you have some suggestions for how to make Bookshelf more accessible or fairly priced, please feel free to email me at alexandergerrese@gmail.com and I'd be happy to chat :)
App Privacy
The developer, Alexander Gerrese, 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 Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
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Alexander Gerrese has identified itself as a trader for this app and confirmed that this product or service complies with European Union law.
- Address
- 1557 McAllister St San Francisco California 94115 United States
- Phone Number
- +1 2149343321
- alexandergerrese@gmail.com
- Size
- 125.9 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Bookshelf LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Bookshelf Gold (Yearly) 24,99 €
- Bookshelf Gold (Yearly) 29,99 €
- Bookshelf Gold (Lifetime) 69,99 €
- Bookshelf Gold (Monthly) 5,99 €
- Tokens Refill (Large) 9,99 €
- Tokens Refill (Medium) 5,99 €
- Tokens Refill (Small) 0,99 €
- 250 Tokens 9,99 €
- 120 Tokens 5,99 €
- 20 Tokens 0,99 €
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.