Extra vs ShelfApp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Extra
This app transforms your email inbox into a proactive personal assistant. It highlights important daily information, prevents missed deadlines and events, and allows you to take action directly from your messages. It organizes your life's communications by grouping less important items.
- Daily brief of important items
- Never miss deadlines or events
- Actionable insights from messages
- Organizes communications by grouping
- Proactive personal inbox
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Meet Extra - your life’s inbox. Your life already runs through your inbox: plans, travel, packages, bills, events, and conversations. Extra turns that overwhelming stream into a personal, proactive inbox for your life. It shows you what matters today and helps you take the next step. • Know what's important today. Extra gives you a calm daily brief with the things worth your attention. • Never miss what matters. Catch deadlines, travel changes, plans, packages, and important moments before they slip. • Turn details into action. Draft replies, schedule events, and handle the next step without digging through messages. • Keep life organized, quietly. Extra groups the noise so the important stuff is easy to find.
ShelfApp
Organize and save links, books, recipes, podcasts, and videos for later. Keep important content accessible with titles, summaries, images, and notes. Ideal for thoughtful reads and useful references.
- Save links and content
- Organize with notes and tags
- Keep titles, summaries, and images
- Share directly from other apps
- Access saved content later
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ShelfApp is a quiet personal bookshelf for the web: save links, books, recipes, podcasts, videos, and posts you want to revisit later. Paste a link or share into ShelfApp from iOS. The app keeps the useful title, summary, image, notes, tags, and recipe details together so the good stuff does not disappear into a noisy feed. Use ShelfApp for thoughtful reads, useful references, trusted recommendations, and long-form nuggets you want to keep close.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Extra at 408 against ShelfApp's 1. On price, rating, update cadence and 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ShelfApp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Extra has 408 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Extra ships an update weekly, ShelfApp every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Extra | ShelfApp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (408 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 408 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | BuildForever, Inc. | Jon Keseley |
Customer experience
Extra
ShelfApp
In-app purchases
Extra
No in-app purchases
ShelfApp
No in-app purchases
