Comparison

Bookshelf vs Biblio.ink

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

Head to head
About

Bookshelf

Organize your entire reading life, tracking physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks. Set reading goals, log sessions, save quotes, and visualize your progress with detailed statistics and a reading habits heat map. Discover new books and connect with friends.

Highlights
  • Smart book organization with custom shelves
  • Reading timer and session tracking
  • Save quotes and notes with OCR
  • Flexible reading goals and progress tracking
  • Detailed statistics and insights
  • Reading habits heat map
  • Monthly and yearly recaps
  • Purchase and borrowing logs
Features
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The best reading tracker for physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks. Whether you're managing your TBR pile, tracking a BookTok recommendation, or building a reading habit - Bookshelf is the book journal, reading log, and library organizer you've been looking for. Switching from Goodreads or StoryGraph? Import your entire library in minutes. SMART BOOK ORGANIZATION Organize your books into Reading, To Read, Wishlist, Finished, and Abandoned shelves - or create unlimited custom shelves with your own icons and colors. Drag and drop books between shelves. Tag books with custom color-coded labels for easy filtering. Sort by title, author, rating, date added, start date, finish date, last read, pages, publication date, and more. Track series, editions, and co-authors. Add books by searching or by scanning ISBN barcodes - even in bulk scan mode. MULTIPLE VIEWS, YOUR WAY See your library the way you love it: a cozy 3D bookcase view, a flexible grid with adjustable cover size and spacing, or a detailed list. Customize progress indicators, goal badges, and shelf appearance down to the smallest detail. READING TIMER & SESSION TRACKING Start the built-in reading timer whenever you pick up a book. Use the stopwatch for open-ended sessions or set a countdown alarm for timed reading. Log pages read, reading percentage, and session duration. Track audiobooks with chapter-level, minute-precise listening sessions. Re-reading a favorite? Track multiple readings per book. Quick-start a session right from your home screen widget. QUOTES, NOTES & REVIEWS Save your favorite quotes by typing or scanning straight from the page with OCR text recognition. Attach photos to your notes for a richer book journal. Write reviews and rate every book you finish. FLEXIBLE READING GOALS Set goals for pages, reading time, or number of books across any date range - daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or anything in between. Pin your most important goals, show visual badges on book covers, and celebrate completions with animated confetti. DEEP STATS & INSIGHTS Explore your reading like never before: reading pace and velocity, rating trends, abandoned-book rate, genre and author distribution charts, a reading-pattern clock showing when you read best, milestones, history, and year-over-year comparisons. Unlock tiered achievements as your library grows. MONTHLY & YEARLY RECAPS Beautiful monthly summaries and full yearly recaps - your longest and shortest books, five-star reads, first and last finishes, top quotes, genre breakdowns, streaks, and month-by-month highlights. Like Spotify Wrapped, but for your reading life. Export and share as an image or PDF. PURCHASE LOGS Track purchases, borrowed books, and lending history. Set return-date reminders so you never forget to return - or get back - a book. Log price, location, and personal notes. READING FEED Follow friends and explore their shelves, reviews, and stats. Stay inspired with a feed of reading activity from people you follow and the global community. Control exactly what's visible on your public profile. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Keep your reading front and center with customizable home screen widgets for your current reads and reading timer. 18 STUNNING THEMES Choose from themes like Nordic, Forest, Cyberpunk, Lavender, Pink, and more - each in light and dark. Decorate your shelves with 50+ adorable book nooks across 11 categories. Personalize shelf size, spacing, progress indicators, and your profile widget layout. EASY IMPORT Import from Goodreads or StoryGraph with a CSV file, or scan your physical books with the built-in barcode scanner. Sync your reading across devices, with Kobo e-reader sync supported. Build your shelves. Set your goals. Track your reading streak. Fall in love with reading again. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Biblio.ink

Organize your physical and digital book collections in a visually stunning 3D library. Browse your books on shelves, maps, or constellations, and enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Share your curated shelves with others.

Highlights
  • Unified 3D library for physical and digital books
  • Multiple viewing modes: Shelf, Cascade, Map, Constellation, List
  • Integrated EPUB & PDF reader with markup support
  • Add books via barcode scan, photo, or manual entry
  • Shareable shelves via web link
  • Local-first data storage with iCloud sync option
Features
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Your unified library in 3D, your physical books and ebooks live together. Drop in an EPUB or PDF and watch it become a hardcover you can pick up, browse, and read. Biblio turns a folder of files into a library you actually want to visit. Every book stands on a real 3D shelf, spine, cover, and page edges you can reach in and pick up, turn over, and start reading. A pile of downloads becomes a collection you browse the way you browse a bookshelf at home. One library, every kind of book Your ebooks and your physical books live side by side. Scan a barcode, photograph a whole shelf at once, search by title or author, or add a book by hand. However it arrives, it stands on the same shelf. See your collection, your way • Shelf: your whole library on beautiful 3D shelves; pinch to see every book at once • Cascade: flip through your books like flipping through records • Map: Your library on a world map: books pin to the places they're about, and tapping a place fans out its covers. Pan, zoom, and switch between Map and Constellation in the Graph view. • Constellation: a quiet map of how your books connect to one another • List: search, sort, and organize in a tap A reader that gets out of the way Clean typography, smooth page turns, and a layout built for long reading. PDFs support markup with Apple Pencil. Your place is always saved. Share a shelf with anyone Publish a shelf to your own page at biblio.ink and send the link to a friend — no account required to view. Yours, and private Biblio is local-first: your library lives on your device. Turn on iCloud to keep it in sync across iPhone, iPad, and the web, privately. Biblio is for people who love books — not just reading them, but keeping them, arranging them, and coming back to them. Terms: https://biblio.ink/terms

Screenshots

Bookshelf4 screens
Biblio.ink4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Biblio.ink at every 2 days against Bookshelf's every 2 weeks. Biblio.ink also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 88%). Bookshelf's advantage is ratings volume (39 vs 6) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Bookshelf sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Biblio.ink sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Biblio.ink holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bookshelf has 39 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Bookshelf's written reviews are positive against 100% of Biblio.ink's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bookshelf ships an update every 2 weeks, Biblio.ink every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bookshelf versus Biblio.ink: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookshelfBiblio.ink
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (39 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings39 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.5 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size171 MB83 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTiago Almeidagroov creator limited

Customer experience

Bookshelf

All ratings27 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%

Biblio.ink

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Bookshelf

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Features$2.991 Month
  • Premium Features$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime (promo)$99.99
  • Lifetime$199.99
6 purchases

Biblio.ink

Subscriptions4
  • Biblio Member Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Premium Member Monthly$11.991 Month
  • Biblio Member1 Year trial$49.991 Year
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  • Biblio Premium Member1 Year trial$99.991 Year
One-time2
  • Library$29.99
  • One-Time Purchase$149.00

Questions

Is Bookshelf free?
Bookshelf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Biblio.ink free?
Biblio.ink is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bookshelf or Biblio.ink?
Biblio.ink is rated higher. Bookshelf averages 4.8 out of 5 from 39 ratings, while Biblio.ink averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Bookshelf or Biblio.ink have ads?
Neither Bookshelf nor Biblio.ink shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bookshelf or Biblio.ink?
Bookshelf ships an update every 2 weeks, and Biblio.ink every 2 days. Most recently, Bookshelf was updated on November 8, 2026 and Biblio.ink on November 10, 2026.

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