Book End vs Shelfless
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Book End
Easily track your reading progress with this app. Scan or import books, log reading sessions, and receive personalized statistics like reading speed and time remaining predictions. Develop your reading habit with helpful insights.
- Scan, search, and import books
- Log reading sessions with a timer
- Generate personalized reading statistics
- Predict time remaining for books
- Track reading speed and pages per hour
- Develop reading habits
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Book End is an app that helps you keep track of the books you're reading and generates reading statistics. Just like how a physical bookend holds up books on a shelf, this app helps you keep your books and reading organised. Book End allows you to easily scan, search and import books that you're reading into the app. Once you have your physical book open, you can use Book End to set a reading session timer. After completing your reading session, return to the app to log it, and it will automatically create personalized statistics for you. These include precise time remaining predictions for each book and exclusive metrics like your reading speed, and average pages read per hour. Overall, Book End helps you stay on track and develop your reading habit.
Shelfless
Visualize your reading history with a beautiful, interactive digital bookshelf. Move beyond simple lists and spreadsheets to appreciate your book collection in a unique, visual way, showcasing your taste and reading journey.
- Visual bookshelf display
- Track reading history
- Showcase book taste
- Interactive library
- Journey visualization
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Stop scrolling through lists. Start seeing your library. Shelfless turns your reading history into a beautiful, visual bookshelf. No more boring spreadsheets or text-only trackers—just your books, your taste, and your journey.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shelfless at none against Book End's 3. Shelfless also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 85%). Book End's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 1). On price, ads, monetization model and device support 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
Both are free to download. Book End sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Shelfless asks for nothing beyond the download.
Shelfless holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Book End has 21 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Book End's written reviews are positive against 100% of Shelfless's.
| Parameter | Book End | Shelfless |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benjamin Wheeler | KOOROSH KHADEMBASHI |
Customer experience
Book End
Shelfless
In-app purchases
Book End
- Small Tip$1.99
- Medium tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99
Shelfless
No in-app purchases
