WebShelf vs TabPad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WebShelf
Organize your digital life by creating custom libraries, shelves, and books to store online or offline pages. Easily arrange content and secure your collections with a password.
- Customizable libraries, shelves, and books
- Store online and offline pages
- Drag-and-drop arrangement of content
- Password protection for collections
- Organize research and personal interests
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WebShelf allows you to organize your online experience in a way that works best for you. You can create libraries, with a bookcase containing one or more shelves. Each of these bookshelves contains books, which in turn contain pages (either online or offline*). You can fully customize libraries, shelves, books and pages with the names and descriptions you like. For example, you might create a book called recipes, which contains your favorite desserts, main dishes and so forth. WebShelf is also there if you want to research topics, such as how to start a small business. You can quickly build books about how to apply for a license, obtain certifications, connect utilities and so forth. WebShelf also allows you to customize the order of items in your libraries with shelves, books and pages easy to arrange as you please. So, you can organize your collection however you'd like, at any time. And speaking of which, each user can have their own library to collect information and it can be locked with a password, if you prefer, to avoid the possibility of someone modifying your collection of pages. * Please note that offline pages may not always appear exactly as the online version due to dynamic content used by some web pages.
TabPad
Organize your notes with a colorful tabbed interface, similar to sticky notes. Pin important notes to the top and quickly find what you need with keyword search. Cloud synchronization is available for seamless access across devices.
- Colorful tabbed note organization
- Pin important notes
- Keyword search functionality
- Cloud synchronization
- Cross-device support
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Colorful tabs like stickies allow you to switch from one note to another -You can pin a specific note to the first tab. - Keyword search - Cloud Synchronization (charged)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: WebShelf at 100% against TabPad's 50%. WebShelf also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). TabPad's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 7 months vs every 29 months). On ratings volume there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
TabPad is free to download; WebShelf costs $0.99 up front. TabPad sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. WebShelf asks for nothing beyond the download.
WebShelf holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of WebShelf's written reviews are positive against 50% of TabPad's.
WebShelf ships an update every 29 months, TabPad every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WebShelf | TabPad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 29 months | Every 7 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Steven Sipe | Shigenori Kumagai |
Customer experience
WebShelf
TabPad
In-app purchases
WebShelf
No in-app purchases
TabPad
- Upgrade(macOS)$2.99
- Upgrade(iOS)$3.99









