Box Seat is now live! Support ShelfLife with the optional Box Seat and receive monthly decor drops and additional decorative features.
ShelfLife is a beautiful home for your books and your reading life.
Track the books you read, organize them on stunning digital shelves, and share your taste with other readers. ShelfLife is a book tracker that provides a beautiful place to record your books and easily create shareable visual collections for social media. Arrange your library by mood or memory or whatever makes you happy.
BEAUTIFUL BOOKSHELVES
Arrange your books on fully customizable shelves you can arrange, style, decorate, and share. Build a bookshelf for any mood, genre, or moment, then export a gorgeous shelf card to Instagram, Messages, and more. Find books by name, author, barcode scanning, or ISBN.
SHOW US YOUR SPINES!
Finally you can see your books arranged sideways like you would in real life. Upload photos of your book spines to the community gallery and select your perfect spine image to display. Stack and turn books for variety and add decor objects to really personalize your shelves.
YOUR TOP 12
Choose the twelve books that define your taste. Your Top 12 is your shareable statement of who you are as a reader.
TBR AND READING LISTS, ORGANIZED AND VISUALIZED
Mark books as To Be Read and have a shelf for the seasons or a stack for a single obsession or author tribute.
BOOK SIGNAL — RECOMMENDATIONS FROM REAL READERS
Ask for a book recommendation and hear back from readers whose taste overlaps with yours. Real people, real reads connected by the kinds of books they read.
CAN'T FIND YOUR BOOK? ADD IT
Missing a book or your exact edition? Add it yourself and it's there for every reader the moment you save. Spot a wrong title, author, cover, or page count? Fix it with Edit Book Details. For manuscripts, advance copies, and anything meant just for you, add a private Custom Book.
BOX SEAT — AN OPTIONAL MEMBERSHIP
ShelfLife is free. Box Seat supports the app and adds extras: a new Decor Drop of decor and backdrops every month, more color themes, a picture frame for your own photo, resizable decor, custom backdrops in any color, your own photo as your avatar, unlimited Custom Books, a book concierge who tracks down hard-to-find books for you, and a gold frame around your avatar. Box Seat is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly. Cancel anytime in your store account settings.
A READING FEED OF YOUR PEOPLE
Follow the readers you trust and see what they're reading, finishing, and reviewing, in a simple chronological feed.
READING WITH FRIENDS AND BOOK CLUBS
Follow your friends, your book club, and find readers whose taste overlaps yours. See what they're starting and finishing, trade recommendations, and celebrate every finished book together.
HOMESCREEN WIDGET
Display your bookshelves on your phone's homescreen with the app's shelf widget
REVIEWS THAT MEAN SOMETHING
Rate books, write reviews, and read honest opinions from real readers instead of bots and consensus noise.
THE PEANUT GALLERY — WHERE THE SPOILERS LIVE
Every book has a Gallery door, and finishing the book unlocks it. Inside: hot takes, unpopular opinions, and beautiful pulled quotes from readers who just turned the last page too.
FEATS — READING CHALLENGES, YOUR WAY
Join a community feat or set your own! Set a yearly challenge, read a classic a month, or dream up a feat that's entirely yours. Use custom feat types like the Read the World feat which lets you fill out a full map with your book picks' covers. Track your progress book by book, then share the finish line. ShelfLife is a reading tracker that give you customizable options for how you want to view your progress.
COMING FROM GOODREADS OR STORYGRAPH?
Import your reading history with a CSV file and organize your library the way you always wanted.
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I’ve tried all the book shelf style book tracking apps (literally) and this one is by far the best! Easy to figure out, most flexible with decorating and personalizing and so easy to add missing books while also having an already big library of books in its system. It is so fun! It’s truly the best version of the many versions of virtual book shelf tracking apps and I’m so glad I found it!
Developer Response
Thank you for taking the time to leave this review! We're so glad to have you in the ShelfLife community!!! We have over 20 million books in our system and 4000 spines so far (2000 were added this month alone) and we're so grateful to all of you for filing missing book reports and uploading photos.
Best Curated Social Media Experience For Passionate Readers
Richard Shipe
This is the kind of curated social media for readers I’ve always wanted!I’m able to peer into the book tastes of my colleagues without digging too deep into conversations about their favorite books. Where messages and communication between users exist, it’s towards purposeful topic-driven prompts about the books. I’ve been able to neatly organize my book list, leave the notes I would want others to read about my takeaways for each book or collection, and best of all I’ve received awesome book suggestions with the app’s signal feature!I otherwise wouldn’t have considered the suggestions if I relied on recommendation algorithms alone.Please join!
Developer Response
🙌 🙌 🙌 thank you! Part of the reason we built ShelfLife is that we wanted to connect people over recommendations instead of relying on flaky algorithms or horrendous AI responses. Glad you like it!
Hits that happy spot in my soul
Justawhimaway
I love book trackers, but I’m very bad at book tracking because it doesn’t hit the dopamine as much as I want. This one hits the dopamine and has me running to add books I’m reading, have read, or want to read so I can make my bookshelf prettier on my tiny screen than irl. Thanks for the dopamine hits and for always listening to feedback 😍
Developer Response
Haha, I like how you phrased that, thank you for trying the app and we'll do our best to keep the dopamine flowing!!!
Love this app!!!
Birdieee3
I’m so happy this app showed up for me in an ad. I love putting my shelf together and seeing them like this. This is awesome for when you can’t afford books but still want to look at them lol They’re also so fast with adding books that aren’t there! I also love looking through others shelves. :)
Developer Response
And we're so happy the ad found you! We are excited to say that pretty soon you'll be able to add books without waiting for us too! Thank you for using ShelfLife and contributing your shelves for the community to enjoy!
What's new in ShelfLife?
- improvement: Cover photos: take a photo or choose one from your library, cropped to a book's shape. This works everywhere you add or edit a cover.
- improvement: Connection popups: "Back online" and "Still offline" messages now appear at the top of the screen.
- fix: Editions: the edit page refreshes your copy when it opens, so an edition you switched on the web or another device shows as yours. The cover step labels the edition's cover.
- other bugfixes
Version 2.1.4
Subscriptions
Box Seat Annual
All past drops unlocked, plus a new drop every month.
$44.99
Box Seat Monthly
Monthly decor drops, custom backdrops, themes and more.
$4.99
The developer, Fisherbird LLC, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Purchases
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
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Accessibility
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Information
Seller
Fisherbird LLC
Size
105.5 MB
Category
Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
