Shelf Scanner. User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience5.6% of reviews
Neutral0.0% of reviews
Negative experience94.4% of reviews

~ Based on 18 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Shelf Scanner. Safe?

Shelf Scanner. appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Shelf Scanner. is 86/100.

This assessment is based on 128 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

85.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
11.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 127 App Store ratings for Shelf Scanner..

Is Shelf Scanner. Legit?

Shelf Scanner. appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Shelf Scanner. is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

The app doesn’t work

I tried taking photos of my book shelf but it just doesn’t give me any suggestions or information. Totally useless app. Tried the trial version but why would anyone pay for it if it doesn’t work?

This app doesnt work

Junk. Doesn’t scan bar codes, doesn’t show text you type, no way to ask for help. Don’t waste your time.

Nasty

Awful

Useless

There is nothing good about this app. It gets the books mostly wrong on a shelf, massively overinflated the value, and it’s impossible to do anything with results of a scan - like remove the wrong ones or ave the correct ones.

Hopeless

Purchased the weekly option, let the app have full access to pics. Still not working. Type in isbn, still not working. Use camera still not working. Waste of money. No way of refund. What a scam.

Trial

I’m brought the trial thank God because I’ve been trying to scan books and it does nothing and it’s good till sept 3.

Shelf scan doesn’t work at all

Shelf scan is the function I wanted but it doesn’t work at all. Shows no books can be identified, but if I pull them out and use the barcode feature, it can find them. Complete waste of time and money since the shelf scan was what I needed. If that’s what you are looking for, find another app.

All behind payments

AND wants to access your entire gallery!? What for?

Marty

I paid for the app, which is supposed to scan my books.
It wanted access to all my photos for some unknown reason,which I denied I decided to try again and open the app which said I had denied access.
So I went into settings and gave it access to all my photos all my videos, turned everything on and still said I was denying it access.
In other words it doesn’t work!
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Cannot Get It To Work At All

I tried taking photos of books on the shelf, I tried scanning the barcode on some books and I tried typing in the ISBN. Nothing worked. I’m using an iPhone 14 Pro, so the app should be compatible. Great idea though.

Buggy

I was able to scan one book. I tried entering in the numbers directly and it just sat there doing nothing waste of time.

Doesn’t work sometimes

I have used this app a lot to source books, and overall it’s been pretty good. Today, though, I made a special trip to Goodwill on my lunch break and the app wouldn’t function correctly. I scanned shelves and it said it found no books. I wasted my lunch break and time, which is disappointing.

App does not scan shelf’s

Do not buy app

Can’t Find Books

I thought this app was too good to be true…and apparently it was. It couldn’t find any books on my shelves. It couldn’t find manually entered ISBN. All it could do was find 50% of the barcodes it read.

Saves so much time.

Efficient

100% Inaccurate

I love the concept of this app, but it has a looong way to go. I started a free trial of the pro edition and took a photo of a shelf of hardcover books. It misidentified every single one. Safe to say, I immediately canceled my trial.

insanely expensive for such a poorly designed/barely functioning app. you have to pay in order to use it ( no light version/ 1 use a day type deal) & would never ever pay 7$ a week or 70$ for a year

Not good

Don’t do it..Super to slow scan, when it finally does accept scan you can’t tell right away-doesn’t show book after scanned or the sources of resell prices- poorly represented info. Feel dooped and want a refund UGH!