01/Latest Picks
It starts with a friend.
Jonas picks Dune for your Book Club, with five stars and a line about it.
Family · Latest Picks
Dune
Frank Herbert · 1965 · 608 pages
Jonas’s pick“Skip the appendices, read everything else twice.”
Book tracker for iPhone & iPad
Track every book you read, own or want, on a shelf that looks like one.
Four shelves. One library.
Reading
What you’re reading right now.
Up Next
On your shelf, waiting their turn.
Wishlist
Books you’d like to own.
Finished
Read and remembered.
- Reading
- Up Next
- Wishlist
- Finished
The life of a book
Recommend
One Recommend button on every book. Your Book Club, or anyone at all.
Book Club. It lands in their For You list, with your note, and Shelf can let them know.
Someone else. Choose Someone Else… and send the book in any app, with an invitation to a Book Club if you like.
iMessage
Shelf comes with an iMessage app. Send a book from your library without leaving the conversation.
Pick a book. Tap +, choose Shelf, then a cover. The book goes in with its shelf and your stars.
Anna taps the bubble. The book opens as a card in iMessage, with Open in Shelf and Buy on Amazon buttons.
In a Book Club? Turn on Also invite to my Book Club, and an invitation goes along. No Shelf on their side? Hold a cover and choose Send Link Instead: the link opens the book’s page on the web.
Add Book
Cover, author, summary and page count fill in by themselves. All you do is point, paste or type.
Scan the barcode. Shelf reads the ISBN and finds the edition.
Paste a link. From Amazon, Goodreads or any bookstore, or share it from Safari.
Details
Tap a turned-out book for its page. Everything about the book, and everything about your copy.
What it’s about
The summary, subjects and series, from Open Library.
The edition
Pages, format, language and publisher, and what other readers think.
Your copy
Its shelf, your stars (halves too), your notes and when you read it. The notes are only ever yours.
Your library
Each shelf shows the last 30 books you added. Tap See All to open the whole shelf as a bookcase, a wall of covers or a list, with sorting and filters.
Finished
5 books
2026 · 5 books
Looking for one book? Search finds it by title, author, ISBN or even your notes, on every shelf or just one.
Privacy
Your books live on your devices and in your own iCloud. Your Book Clubs see only the books you pick.
No account
No sign-up, no login, no profile.
Your own iCloud
Your library syncs privately between your iPhone and iPad.
An open catalogue
Books are looked up in Open Library, without anything about you.
No tracking
No analytics and no tracking SDKs. Nothing to opt out of.
Dark mode
Shelf follows your iPhone into dark mode: warm night paper, cream type and touches of mustard.
Scan a barcode or paste a bookstore link, and your first book is on the shelf.
