PocketShelf Reviews: Is It Legit?

Name: PocketShelf: TBR Book Tracker
Rating: 4.4 (8 reviews)

PocketShelf: TBR Book Tracker

Klemens Strasser

🔧 Utilities

📚 Books

Customer Experience

Positive experience84.6% of reviews

Neutral3.8% of reviews

Negative experience11.5% of reviews

~ Based on 26 written reviews from the US App Store.

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Is PocketShelf Legit?

PocketShelf: TBR Book Tracker appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for PocketShelf is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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Awesome app. Poor widgets

Great app. I’d like to use the widgets but they will only show the very first book I added. I have something else under “currently reading” that I wish it would show. I even archived the old book.

Shayveeeye

10 days ago

Response from developer

Hey! Thanks for the kind words and sorry to hear about the widget, this is definitely a bug! Could you reach out through support so that we can figure out what’s going on? Cheers, Klemens

Sehr gute App, sehr guter Support

Update:
Der Entwickler hat prompt geantwortet und mir gezeigt, dass es sowohl einen Einmalkauf gibt.
Vielen Dank dafür.
Entweder ist der Neu oder ich hab‘s einfach übersehen, sorry.
Die App ist genial und wenn jemand bereit ist den In-App-Kauf zu tätigen wird er mit einem grandiosen Programm belohnt.

…schöner fände ich es, wenn ich einen Einmalkauf statt eines Abos tätigen könnte.

So kommen wir leider nicht ins Geschäft.

Bill Geets

18 days ago

Response from developer

Hey :) Danke fürs Review und die netten Worte! Aber es gibt einen Einmalkauf: Bei der Paywall einfach unter „Du magst keine Abos?“ auf den Button „Andere Optionen anzeigen“ klicken. Da kommst Du zur Einmal-Kauf-Option! Liebe Grüße, Klemens

Payant

L’app devient payante à partir de 3 livres alors que d’autre son gratuite ou devienne payante à partir de 30 livres

Didith936

21 days ago

Really cool

But the button to manually add a reading session doesn’t work every and the whole app just crashes

cguuct

a month ago

Response from developer

Hi, we’re so sorry for the inconvenience! This should be fixed with our latest update, please give it a swirl and let us know if you have any other issues 🫶🏻

Amazing book tracker

It's an amazing and delightful book tracker! I love it.

Amonete

4 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you very much for these kind words 🫶

Great app overall

The multi-book tracking feature is great by itself, but the apps sleek design really makes it stand out. The adoption of Liquid Glass, the satisfying sounds and haptics, and even the background audio which I always use when reading make all the experience feel really polished.

Player25050

5 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks a lot for the kind words 🫶

Love this app

The app is great, does exactly what it says it does. Love having a record of what I have read and when. Really looking forward to the planned features that are coming like ratings! The customer support is absolutely fantastic too!!

fishcustardfortea

5 months ago

Perfect for reading more than one book at a time

The app is really good if you read more than one book at a time and/or make longer breaks before continuing to read. With the notes that you can write down for each book you can get quickly back into the story. I take a two month break and forgot what happened? No problem I just read trough my notes and Iam back on track.

Also the glossary is really great I always have problems remembering peoples name. With the glossary I can add an entry for every charakter and make a short note who that person is. There are many different categories for glossary entries not just for characters but also for places, events, concepts and many more.

NH8411

8 months ago

Excellent

Have been waiting for an app like this forever. There’s almost nothing more I need than this well built MVP

tangtastic1

9 months ago

So Good!!!!

This app is so amazing. I use it to track what I read and is extremely useful if you read more than one book at a time. You can play music while you read, which definitely helps with concentration. The notes are so useful aswell, as I often take long breaks between chapters and end up having to re read it.

I wish that you could add more books to your TBR list without having to pay for premium but overall great app!!!

🫶🏽🩷🫶🏽🩷

9 months ago

Great App from Klemens!

Really clean and thoughtfully designed reading tracker. I like how easy it is to log sessions, add notes, and pick up exactly where I left off. Makes staying organised with reading really feel effortless.

Charlie Browney

9 months ago

Good but...

Really good but I would like it if i would be able to read the book.

LenLen3145

9 months ago

Happy to support indie devs!

Lifetime purchase! Great app guys and looking forward to the future releases!

rapidxgr

9 months ago

Love it

Beautifully designed book tracker

HeWhoUsesApps

9 months ago

Response from developer

You flatter us! Thank you 🫶🏻 - Frank & Klemens

Easy & fun

It’s a great way to keep organised when reading different books or writing if you put a book down and come back a lot later!

Joe_Harrison

9 months ago

Response from developer

Glad to hear that, Joe! Happy reading! - Frank & Klemens

Excellent!

I managed to get back into reading last year after a 20 year hiatus and this has been hugely helpful in keeping track of everything. Love it!

joethephish

9 months ago

Response from developer

Amazing! Now keep the momentum going! We’ll be here to support you with that 🫶🏻 - Frank & Klemens

A bit confusing.

it’s a bit confusing. When I add notes I can’t seem to see them anywhere. I only have options to see my glossary. Also I think the on-boarding should be done in app to show how to do different things

cocoa97

10 months ago

Response from developer

Hi! Thanks for the review! The notes are visible in the “Where you left off” section of the book overview - There is a button saying: “All Notes”! But could you also please reach out to us about your Onboarding feedback? We would love to discuss that further with you! Cheers, Klemens

Rushed

I really wanted to like this app after seeing it featured in the App Store’s 26 Apps for 2026, but it feels rushed. There’s no way to edit a book’s information once it’s been added, you have to delete the entire book and add it again making sure you don't make any mistake in the process.

And the final nail in the coffin: for an app that’s meant to help track reading progress, there’s no way to mark a book as finished. I set my progress to 100%, and the app told me to continue from 101% in the next session 😂

Osofem

10 months ago

Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for trying out the app! You can edit a books information without deleting it. Just open the book and click the button in the top right corner. The only thing you can’t change is it’s type: (between a physical book, an audiobook or ebook), as that might mess up your previous tracked sessions. You can also set a book as finished reading - just edit the book and set its reading status to “Finished”. Lastly - the 101% thing definitely is a bug! When you reach the end of a book, you usually get a celebration screen and it’s automatically marked as finished. Would you be so kind and send me more details via mail, so that I can reproduce and fix the issue? Thanks! Klemens

App Crashes

Tried to sign up to app, but after the signature step & press continue, the app crashes. Is there a current bug going around?

Sharkill4

10 months ago

Response from developer

Hi! Yeah this was an annoying bug in that version of the app. It has been fixed in the latest version, super sorry for the annoyance 🥲 Cheers, Klemens

Tolle App, trotzdem gelöscht

Die App finde ich Klasse, leider konnte ich kein Buch, das ich eingegeben habe, finden oder nur auf Englisch oder Französisch. Ich spreche beide Sprachen und lese oft französische und englischsprachige Autor*innen. Da ich zur Entspannung lese, lese ich die Bücher ausschließlich in meiner Muttersprache. Sollte es mit der Zeit von meinen Lieblingsautor*innen die Bücher in deutscher Übersetzung geben, bin ich gerne bereit ein Abo abzuschließen.

14.12.2025
Heute getestet ob ich ein Buch hinzufügen kann und es hat funktioniert. Abo wurde nun abgeschlossen. Vielen Dank für die tolle und nützliche App.

Stern43

10 months ago

Response from developer

Hey! Danke für das Review! Wir haben in der letzten Version (1.0.5h unser Datenquelle deutlich erweitert - jetzt solltest du hoffentlich keine Probleme mehr haben deutsche Bücher zu finden. Am besten auch immer den ISBN eintippen oder scannen, dann finden wir auch die richtige Auflage des Buchs. Falls es noch Probleme gibt, bitte per Mail melden und wir schauen uns das an! Liebe Grüße, Klemens