Shelfside: Book Tracker

You read with the phone face up on the table. So the timer should live on the Lock Screen, not behind three taps inside an app. Start a reading session with one tap and it runs as a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Pause or finish it from there. SCAN A SHELF Point the camera at a barcode and the book appears — cover, title, author, page count. The scanner does not stop between books, so you can move along a shelf without tapping through a form for each one. No ISBN on the book? Add it by hand. SESSIONS, THEN NUMBERS Start, pause, resume, finish. Pages from and to. Shelfside builds your weekly strip, your pages per minute and your session history out of that, with nothing for you to fill in afterwards. YOUR LIBRARY IS FREE AND UNLIMITED Every book, no cap, forever. Grid of covers, search, a lent-out marker for the ones that walked off. Cataloging your shelf is not something anyone should charge you for, so we do not. WHAT COSTS MONEY The Lock Screen timer and the Control Center control are free — the way you read shouldn't be behind a paywall. Pro is the record side: full statistics, the weekly strip, and CSV and JSON export. $2.99 a month, $17.99 a year, or $24.99 once, forever — prices vary by country. Subscriptions renew until you cancel them in your Apple Account settings. The one-time purchase is yours for good. WHAT LEAVES YOUR PHONE Two things: the ISBN, when you scan a book and it looks up the cover, and anonymous crash reports with no book titles, ISBNs or reading data in them. Not what you read. Not when. Not for how long. There is no account, no feed, no followers, no reviews and no recommendation engine. Apple Watch is not in this version. It is planned, and this listing will not pretend otherwise. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://vexellabspro.com/privacy-policy/shelfside