# Shelf: Books with Friends — Track books, read with friends > Track books, read with friends (iPhone/iPad app by Brett Moller.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shelf-books-with-friends/id6812178461 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Brett Moller](https://appshunter.io/developer/1841499220) - Category: Books, Social Networking - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 54 MB - Languages: American English, Arabic, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish - Released: 2026-09-29 - Data updated: 2026-10-06 ## What is Shelf? Shelf is a catalogue of the books you own, the ones you have read, and the lines you kept from them. Your shelf is your profile. Opening a friend's shelf feels like standing in front of the bookcase in their living room, reading the spines. ADD A BOOK IN SECONDS Scan the barcode on the back. Point the camera at the cover and Shelf reads it without sending the picture anywhere. Or type the title and pick it from the catalogue. The author, the cover, the page count, and the blurb arrive with it. KNOW WHERE YOU ARE Move the bookmark to the page you reached. Start a sitting when you sit down and Shelf counts the minutes, on the lock screen, while you read. Finish a book and the date stays with it. THE LINES YOU KEEP Save a quote with the page it came from. Write the thought you had next to it. Both stay with the book, and a widget puts one of them back in front of you weeks later. FRIENDS, NOT FOLLOWERS Hand over your friend code or let someone scan your bookplate, and your shelves open to each other. The feed carries what your friends started, finished, and thought, and you can answer. No strangers, no follower counts, nothing ranked by a machine. A BOOK CLUB THAT HIDES THE SPOILERS Start a club, pick the book, agree on a pace. Every thought is pinned to a page, so nobody reads past where they have got to. Put books forward, vote on the next one, and the meeting turns up on everyone's lock screen on the day. YOUR SHELF ON THE HOME SCREEN Five widgets: the book you are in the middle of, this year's pages and your streak, a line you kept, what your friends are reading, and one plank of your shelf. Two of them draw on the lock screen too. YOUR YEAR IN BOOKS Every December, Shelf turns the year into cards worth keeping: the books, the hours, the longest sitting, the month you read the most. IT WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL The shelf lives on your phone. Add a book, log pages, or write a thought on a plane, and Shelf catches up when you land. SHELF PRO Hosting a book club and building shelves of your own need Shelf Pro. Joining a club, joining a friend's shelf, and the three shelves you start with are free. Shelf reads in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Simplified Chinese. Every screen follows VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion, and the rest of the system accessibility settings. Terms of Use: https://noah-moller.github.io/shelf-legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://noah-moller.github.io/shelf-legal/privacy.html ## Is Shelf safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Shelf. ## Is Shelf legit? Shelf: Books with Friends has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Shelf is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.1.2 — 2026-10-04 New in Shelf 1.1.2: • Shelf Pro now costs half what it did, monthly or yearly. It's the regular price, not a sale. If you already subscribe, you pay the new price from your next renewal. • Swiping between books on a book page is smoother. One book's backdrop fades into the next, with no seam between pages and no hard band under the toolbar. • In the scanner, the shutter button no longer hides behind the controls below it. • Search on a shelf is a field under the title again, so it no longer reopens by itself. ### 1.1.1 — 2026-10-03 New in Shelf 1.1.1: • Rate your books. Give a book you've read up to five stars, in half stars. Friends see your stars on your shelf, on the book and in their feed. One switch in Settings keeps them to yourself. • A question as you read. A book you're reading asks one short question. When you finish, your answer to the last one goes on the card friends see in their feed. • Active now. A green dot shows which friends have Shelf open. Turn off Show when I'm active in Settings to keep yours private. • Select several books on a shelf to change their status, add them to a shelf or remove them together. Swipe between books on a book page. • The plus in your library now opens the scanner, and books you add can go straight to Read. • Friends no longer get a notification for each old book you add as Read. • Tapping a friend request notification no longer opens the profile again every time you go back. • Signing in no longer flashes the welcome screen before Shelf opens. ### 1.1 — 2026-09-30 New in Shelf 1.1: • Thoughts and underlines. Share an idea that isn't tied to a page, with the book that sparked it or with none. Underline a friend's thought to keep it in your commonplace book and pass it on to your friends. • What other readers thought. When you mark a book Read, its page shows thoughts from readers beyond your friends. They stay hidden until you finish, so nothing is spoiled. • Lend and borrow. Say which of your books you'd lend, and ask a friend for one of theirs. Shelf keeps track of who has each book. • Readers you may know. See who a friend reads with, and get suggestions for readers you share friends with. • Scan a whole shelf. Move your iPhone along a bookshelf and the books go into your library as their spines are read. Part of Shelf Pro, on iPhones that support Apple Intelligence. • Report a thought from its menu, and block someone from their profile. ### 1.0 — 2026-09-29 No release notes. ## Apps similar to Shelf | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Book DNA: Book Recommendations](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/book-dna-book-recommendations/id6802356257) | — | Free | Books | | [BookTracker - Read log](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/booktracker-read-log/id6761607240) | — | Free | Books | | [BookEcho: Book Tracker & Log](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bookecho-book-tracker-and-log/id6759045118) | — | Free | Books | | [Marka: Book Tracker & Goals](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/marka-book-tracker-and-goals/id6813397587) | — | Free | Books | | [My Books Archive](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/my-books-archive/id6803915263) | — | Free | Books | | [Cozy Shelf Themed Book Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cozy-shelf-themed-book-tracker/id6783356565) | — | Free | Books | ## More apps by Brett Moller - [Deductify](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/deductify/id6788643181) All apps by Brett Moller: https://appshunter.io/developer/1841499220 ## Related topics [shelf control](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/shelf-control) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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