About: 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.
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What is Bookshelf? Bookshelf is an app that helps users track their books, build a reading habit, and remember what they read. It allows users to add books they have read, are reading, or want to read, and provides insightful stats and trend reports to improve reading habits. The app also offers reading goals, streaks, and reminders to stay motivated, and allows users to write and review notes and quotes to remember what they read.
- Quick Add: Users can build their library by searching through millions of books, scanning any book's barcode, or adding their own.
- Book Lists: The app provides NYT Bestseller lists and hand-curated collections to help users find their next great read.
- Everything Tracker: Users can easily manage book collections, reading status, star ratings, reading dates, and more for all their books.
- Reading Sessions: Users can start a session and the app will track everything so they can focus on reading.
- Reading Stats: The app visualizes users' reading habits over time with charts and reading stats.
- Reading Goals: Users can create a reading goal for the year to motivate themselves to read more or challenge their friends.
- Estimated Completion Time: Users can see how long it will take to finish any book with their average reading speed.
- Reading Streaks: Users can stay motivated by keeping up their streak.
- Smart Notes: Users can use cards to jot down notes or vocab, write a summary, or prepare study questions. They can also scan text directly from books to add them to their cards or add their own rich text.
- Knowledge Quizzes: The app offers spaced repetition quizzes on users' note cards that will significantly increase their retention.
- Reading Reminders: Users will never forget to read or test their knowledge with timely notifications.
- Goodreads and Reading List Import: Users can get started instantly by importing their existing libraries with a tap.
- Cloud Sync: The app syncs between users' iOS devices so their library is always up-to-date.
- App Icons: Users can make Bookshelf their own with beautiful custom home screen icons.
- Library Export: Users can export their library as a CSV file to never fear losing their books or notes.
- Dark Mode: The app offers a beautiful dark mode for eye-saving reading during the night.
- Bookshelf Gold: Users can upgrade to Bookshelf Gold for additional features such as reading streaks, smart notes, knowledge quizzes, reading reminders, cloud sync, and library export. Gold Lifetime charges the user's Apple ID account once for infinite Gold status, while Gold Yearly and Gold Monthly charge the user's Apple ID account for 12 months or 1 month of Gold status, respectively, after a 7-day free trial unless cancelled within 24-hours before the end of the trial. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless cancelled within 24-hours before the end of the current period.
- The app allows users to track the books they have read and plan to read in the future.
- The reading session feature is a great addition, allowing users to track their reading time and number of pages read.
- The interface is simple and elegant, resembling Apple products.
- The app helps users organize and retain information from nonfiction books.
By classicssonnets (Steph L)
I’m a book blogger and new to Bookshelf. I read a mix of Advanced Reader Copies and Backlist as well as new releases a month. I loved that Bookshelf had the books I’m reading as Advanced Copies. I also love the note cards, as I’m not one that writes down quotes I want to remember, now I can just put them on a note card. I love the quizzes option, although I haven’t tried it yet. I’m also a big fan of the stats it gives you. I took a star out of the rating because in my phone Bookshelf stopped working. I press it, but it never opens. Luckily I was able to restore my purchase of Gold for the year on my IPad which seems to work great. Oh! Also, I love how Bookshelf has a timer or just let’s you read if you don’t want to set a timer, or if you want to keep reading.
By Katiejojensen
Not only can you track the books you have read and are set on reading in the future, BUT, you can now have reading sessions where you can track the time you read (through Bookshelf you don’t have to watch a clock and record it) and how many pages!! This is AMAZING for me. You can also of course rate the books and record notes about them as before. The new update has thoroughly wowed me! My favorite new feature is probably the data you get through the reading sessions!
By rachelsettle
This is exactly what I needed. A simple and elegant way to track my wish list reading, and progress through books. I love how the interface looks just like the Apple products, sometimes I forget I’m not in an iPhone book app made by Apple developers. The feeling of checking off a book as finished is great! Building up a virtual library of knowledge:) thank you!
By CCDancer10
I love the set up and ease Bookshelf has! My only issue is that I wish there was a “Did not finish” option. There are books that I didn’t finish for one reason or another that I want to keep track of, but don’t want them counted as a book I’ve read.
Currently I have a DNF collection, but I cannot remove it from the read collection with out removing it from my library completely.
If this feature could be added that would be amazing!
By Kristinks
I have long looked for a good way to summarize my learning when I read nonfiction books. Up until I discovered Bookshelf, I went about it in a haphazard, unorganized manner. Bookshelf helps me keep track of the books I read, and fully organize the information I want to retain and refer back to in the future.
By Nebraska Jones
Bookshelf is beautiful and could be very useful, but there is no way to enter page numbers with the keypad. You have to click through or scroll through each individual number, which is incredibly inefficient, especially as you get farther into books. This needs to be fixed immediately, as it makes Bookshelf barely functional.
By josiahpetermann
I love being able to sync between devices now. Hopefully I can get it to refresh and work soon 😆
Is a desktop site coming soon by chance? It would make typing a lot easier!
By jkappakappa
Originally rated 2 stars because the search function didn’t work, but the developer fixed that. I’m excited to use Bookshelf now, its UI is very elegant and smooth, and it has some very convenient features!
By MrSirLouis87
Very helpful and neatly organized app. Find nearly any book by searching for it and keep track of your at home library with ease with a great looking UI.
By Ryan Nisbet
I love Bookshelf . I usually listen to audiobooks so I am unable to write notes in them. My only fear would be the developer decides to stop supporting Bookshelf and I lose all my notes. Would love a way to export it all.
By Margaux Del
I have been searching for an app with a beautiful design that allows me to keep track of the books I read and such. Bookshelf does just that. However, the search button is dysfunctional. It lags so much. I hope this can be fixed soon..
By vaslnk
Actually love Bookshelf. Especially after the bug fixes in the latest update.
Helps me remember what I read
By Funk_Shui
Fast, reliable, and constantly improving.
Any for chance a for a companion Mac app?
By seigenj
I'm giving it an average review because I haven't really used it. The lack of diversity in the list of suggested best novels of all time was so disappointing that I couldn't continue in good conscience.
By jarredkotzin
Easy to use, clean interface, exactly what I’ve been looking for.
By GCP2003
it's insane that I have to pay a premium even to chart my reading progress.
Bookshelf could put ads on here and allow users to chart progress without paying yet they've chosen not to!
By 梦伊然
Hope support OPDS
By JJshark2000
Brilliant concept and well executed!
By Sandscribbler
Update:
I originally rated Bookshelf 3 stars because of some usability issues. The developer responded quickly, and fixed all of them. Bookshelf is now much more enjoyable to use. 👍
One enhancement that I would find helpful involves what I imagine is a bit of an edge case. I'm currently reading a book that was self-published. As such, Bookshelf can't find a book cover for the thumbnail image. Currently in my “Library,” that book is represented by a blank book cover with the words “No image.” That's fine as far as it goes. The problem is that I can't tell what the name of the book is! It would be sweet if the name of the book could be used with (or instead of) the thumbnail in cases like this.
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(Original review)
I want to like Bookshelf, and I wouldn't leave a review if I didn't care. But Bookshelf isn't yet ready for regular use.
First, I really appreciate the option of entering the book's title, author, and publisher by simply taking a photo of the bar code. Two thumbs up there!
Where I ran into difficulty was with the interface.
* I couldn't select a finish date without also selecting a start date. That bugged me. I don't particularly care when I started reading a book. It may be nice to have that option — but only as an option. I just want to jot down some key things about a book and get on with my life.
* Even after setting a start and finished date, the status remained set to "Reading List." That wouldn't be so bad except that...
* I am unable to manually change the status from "Reading List" to "Finished." (The button seems to be overlapping the trigger for the "Summary" section.)
* I had trouble setting the star rating accurately. Either the touch area is off a little, or it isn't large enough.
* After entering a summary and some notes and then scrolling back up, the stars in the star rating are half covered by the Summary section. Only by exiting back to the Library and reselecting the book can I see everything properly again.
I would be happy to pay a dollar or two for an app like this. But if it doesn't work without causing frustration, it's not worth using — even if it's free.
By <--- 5 stars bro
Deleted, just use good reads.
By Nash grier fake
I have been searching for an app with a beautiful design that allows me to keep track of the books I read and such. Bookshelf does just that. However, the search button is dysfunctional. It lags so much. I hope this can be fixed soon..
By AIG Dudes Rock!
The best most app for those who love to read and remember the books they have read.
Yes. Bookshelf: Reading Tracker is very safe to use. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 1,808 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.6/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for Bookshelf Is 64.8/100.
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Bookshelf Gold
- Gold Lifetime: $49.99 (one-time payment for infinite Gold status)
- Gold Yearly: $29.99/year (after a 7-day free trial, unless cancelled within 24-hours before the end of the trial)
- Gold Monthly: $4.99/month (on confirmation of purchase)
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