Stats screen is even more personal now. Decide which charts you want to see and reorder them!
Build the bookshelf you've always wanted.
Shelfy turns reading into a cozy daily ritual — a beautiful private library, a focused reading timer with soundscapes, and the quotes and ideas you'll actually keep.
"It just feels good to use. I catch myself opening the app instead of Instagram." — Kim T.
"The shelves are so cute and customizable. Worth the annual fee." — MamaMaestraKP
— YOUR PRIVATE LIBRARY —
Add books by search, barcode, or photo of the cover. Watch them appear on a stunning 3D shelf you can customize end-to-end: wood textures, picture frames, statues, even the way your spines look. It's a bookshelf that finally feels like yours.
— A READING RITUAL, NOT A CHORE —
Start a focused reading session with ambient soundscapes — rain, cafe, fireplace, forest. Track time and pages without breaking flow. Pause when life happens, pick up where you left off.
— CAPTURE WHAT YOU LOVE —
Snap a page and Shelfy turns it into a clean text quote. Save bookmarks with a tap, search across every book you've read, and stop losing the lines that mattered.
— DISCOVER WHAT TO READ NEXT —
Swipe through personalized recommendations tuned to your taste. Build a TBR pile that actually excites you instead of one you keep avoiding.
— STATS THAT MOTIVATE, NOT GUILT-TRIP —
Daily, monthly, and yearly reading stats. Reading speed, longest streaks, favorite genres. A Year in Review that's actually fun to share. Earn achievements as you go.
— A SMART READING COMPANION —
Ask questions about any book as you read. Get a plot recap when a side character returns 200 pages later. Discuss themes, explore ideas, and remember more.
— IMPORT YOUR BOOKS —
Coming from Goodreads or StoryGraph? Bring your entire library, ratings, and shelves in one tap. We even auto-detect series and add the missing volumes.
— READS LIKE A PHYSICAL BOOK SHOULD FEEL —
Saw a book on TikTok or Reels? Share the video to Shelfy and we'll add it to your shelf. iCloud sync keeps your library identical on every device. Widgets, Siri shortcuts, and a yearly challenge keep reading top of mind.
Shelfy is a subscription-first reading app, built and supported by a tiny indie team who reply to every email. We don't sell your data, we don't run ads, and we don't gamify reading into a chore. We just want you to fall back in love with books.
Start your shelf today.
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Shelfy Pro subscription unlocks all features.
TERMS: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
This app seems really cool. It has all the necessary tools, but it limits your logging ability to three books total, unless you unlock premium content.
Developer Response
Thanks for the kind words and a feature request! Adding reading sessions with a past date is now available in Shelfy's version 1.7.1 and should be released shortly by Apple. You can find it in the "Reading sessions" screen. Let us know if this works as you've expected!
I hate to rate this app this low, but…
Gadgetaddy
I really really love this app. It’s truly everything I’m looking for in an app. It has a beautiful shelf display for your collection, ambient music that matches your books themes when starting the timer, A LOT of customization including adding your own custom images to the shelf. The really neat this is I’m assuming AI can highlight the subject and not add the background so creating custom statues or trophies or whatever you want to display is super easy. My biggest gripes is: no in-system automatic cloud syncs. It relies on iCloud which isn’t an automatically sync when you open the app or in the background system. My other issue It’s a bit expensive. $35/yr or $100 on time. I’d bite on the one-time purchase, but without auto and background cloud syncs at that premium price makes this app useless for me. Dev’s, update me when you fix the cloud syncs.
Too many performance issues.
rodtrig87
App sounds great, if I am able to experience it in full. For the yearly price I’m paying, I hope to use the app to its full experience. Issues with searching and adding a book, issue with the discovery section being blank or not able to load anything on the pages. Customer support lacks in responses. Seems like I wasted my $$ on this. Hoping I can get a partial refund or something. Not worth the $$ or subscription
Developer Response
Hey, sorry for the rough experience. We reached out via email after seeing this — not sure if it landed in spam. Quick update: the Search and Discover bugs you hit have since been fixed, and the app should be running smoothly now. If you'd like to give it another try, or need help with anything (including a refund through Apple), please email us at hello@shelfy-app.com — we'd really love to make this right.
Excellent
MamaMaestraKP
I haven’t ever felt like a book space was the right one for me until now! The shelves are so cute and customizable. The customer service and response to questions along with great updates is worth the annual fee!
- Goodreads import is now much faster
- Stats are now modular - you can decide which ones you want to see and reorder them
- New charts in Stats: see how many books you've read in different languages
Version 2.1.5
The developer, Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Murakhovskyi, 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 but it is not linked to your identity:
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Information
Seller
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Murakhovskyi
Size
115.1 MB
Category
Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
