Comparison

WebShelf vs Shortify

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Shortify

This app condenses lengthy content like YouTube videos, articles, and documents into concise summaries. It integrates with your existing apps, saving you valuable time by quickly extracting the core information from any source.

Highlights
  • Summarize YouTube videos
  • Condense articles and blogs
  • Process PDFs and documents
  • Integrates with all apps
  • Shareable summaries
  • Track time saved
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~ Look, we'll keep this short: Shortify™ summarizes anything, including Youtube, articles, PDFs, blogs, documents, and more. It works in all your favorite apps. ~ Why? Because it saves you a bunch of time, and your time is super valuable. ~ Examples? • 15 min Youtube videos from friends ("you gotta watch this!") • Clearing out your backlog of 500 tabs ("I’ll read this one day") • Blog posts/thinkpieces that have a bit too much history • Sites/apps that are too cluttered (skips the ads/plugins) • Getting the gist of an article before committing to reading it ~ How? Open your favorite app or site, tap the Share button, and tap Shortify. ~ What else? You can get an even shorter summary. You can share your Shorts. You can see your stats, like time saved. ~ Pricing? You get 100 Shorts for free, then you pay for what you use. With 1000 Shorts at a reading speed of 238 wpm (Brysbaert 2019), you’ll get about 72 hours of your life back for the cost of 2 coffees. ~ Privacy? We don't collect any personal data. We don't use third-party trackers, ads, or any of those invasive things. There's no account signup, so there's nothing to delete. ~ I got other questions? johnny@shortifyapp.com

Screenshots

Shortify4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Shortify at Free against WebShelf's $0.99. Shortify also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 29 months) and ratings volume (34 vs 2). WebShelf's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Shortify is free to download; WebShelf costs $0.99 up front. Shortify sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. WebShelf asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WebShelf holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shortify has 34 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of WebShelf's written reviews are positive against 67% of Shortify's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WebShelf ships an update every 29 months, Shortify weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
WebShelf versus Shortify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWebShelfShortify
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.4 (34 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings234 — better
Update frequencyEvery 29 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB15 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSteven SipeThe Openly Operated Company

Customer experience

WebShelf

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Shortify

All ratings34 ratings
Positive88.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.8%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

WebShelf

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Shortify

One-time6
  • 100 Free Shorts - Signup BonusFree
  • 10 Shorts$0.99
  • Handcrafted Lux Icon - Mint$4.99
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  • 100 Shorts$4.99
  • 1000 Shorts$9.99
  • 10000 Shorts$49.99

Questions

Is WebShelf free?
WebShelf costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shortify free?
Shortify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, WebShelf or Shortify?
WebShelf is rated higher. WebShelf averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Shortify averages 4.4 from 34 ratings.
Do WebShelf or Shortify have ads?
Neither WebShelf nor Shortify shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WebShelf or Shortify?
WebShelf ships an update every 29 months, and Shortify weekly. Most recently, WebShelf was updated on October 12, 2026 and Shortify on October 8, 2026.

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