biblog vs shelff

Biblog is a quote collection app designed for you to save the words that move your heart. Its usage is very simple. Just capture the words that catch your attention and select them. We will then save beautifully and make them easily searchable. Perfect for those who: - Love books and words, and want to keep the beautiful quotes. - Highlight important quotes in books but forget where they highlighted them. - Find it cumbersome to write down or type out favorite quotes in a notebook or on a PC. - Want to compile impactful quotes from analog media like books and newspapers to digital media like web articles into one scrapbook-like place. Features of biblog: - Smart OCR Capture quotes the moment you find them. Easily scan analog media like newspapers and books. - Quote Export Export your collection as images. Share them with beautiful typography. - Barcode Scanning Supports barcode scanning. Read book information from barcodes worldwide. - Notes & Tags Organize your favorite quotes with notes and tags. Create your own unique collection. When you're struggling, quotes can spark an idea. When facing adversity, a single quote can be a turning point. When in despair, a chance encounter with quotes can save you. From books and newspapers, posters, or around the city, you can find a phrase that could change your life. Are you ready? Let's embark on a journey to find beautiful quotes.

shelff is a bookshelf for the books you own as PDFs — technical books, scanned books, DRM-free ebooks. One-time purchase, no subscription, no account. And no ads. Everything lives in your iCloud Documents. You are never locked into a proprietary database. Metadata is saved as JSON files alongside your PDFs, so even if you stop using the app, your data remains yours. ■ Library - Organize with folders or browse in a flat list - Filter by categories and tags - Group multi-volume works and magazine back issues into collections, with custom ordering - Sort by title, author, date added, or last read - Filter by reading status (unread, reading, finished) - Full-text search across your PDFs - Switch between grid and list views ■ PDF Reader - Immersive full-screen reader - Single page, two-up, and two-up with cover layouts - Left-to-right (LTR) and right-to-left (RTL) support - Highlights with optional comments - Jump from table of contents or annotation list - In-document text search - Crop margins per book, with mirrored or separate settings for facing pages and optional cover exclusion - Brightness adjustment - Encrypted PDFs supported ■ Metadata Management - Edit title, author, publisher, publication date, and more - Auto-extract initial values from PDF metadata - Automatic reading status transitions (starts reading, finishes at last page) ■ Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight - Open a book, continue reading, or change reading status from Siri and Shortcuts - Find and open books in your library from Spotlight ■ Data Transparency - All data stored as files in iCloud Documents - Metadata and display settings (layout, crop, etc.) in JSON; annotations in the PDF itself - Annotations are saved as incremental updates, so existing content such as OCR text layers in scanned books stays intact - Accessible anytime from the Files app - On your Mac, an AI agent with shelff-mcp can search and organize the metadata JSON in your iCloud