Comparison

Shelfie vs Readro

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

Head to head
About

Shelfie

Features
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Your digital ledger for a life well-read. Shelfie is a distraction-free, elegant reading tracker designed to curate your personal library. Built with privacy at its core and functioning entirely on-device, Shelfie transforms how you record, remember, and reflect on the books you read. KEY FEATURES The Archive: Manage your personal library with beautiful, tactile categorizations (Owned, Wishlist, Borrowed, Lent). Instant Barcode Scanner: Add books in seconds. Simply point your camera at any ISBN barcode to instantly pull high-quality covers, authors, and details from the global catalog directly to your shelf. Global Search: Don't have the physical book on hand? Search millions of books by title, author, or publisher to expand your digital archive. The Reading Ledger: Log your daily pages, track your current reading status, and set a yearly reading goal to build a lasting habit. On-Device Privacy: Your library is yours. All processing happens locally on your device to ensure a fast, secure, and deeply personal experience. Every great journey starts with a single page. Begin building your ledger today.

About

Readro

Features
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Readro is a calm, beautiful home for your reading life. Build your library, read right inside the app, and turn reading into a daily habit — without the noise of a social network. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY • Add books in seconds: scan the barcode on the back cover, search by title or author, or add them manually — cover photo included • Organize with three shelves: Reading, Want to Read, and Finished • Rate the books you finish and keep private notes on every one READ INSIDE READRO • Import your own EPUB or PDF files and read them as real pages, with your choice of paper colour and text size — or have them read aloud • Download thousands of public-domain classics in fourteen languages from Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg and Wikisource, free and legal • The timer runs by itself while you read, so every session is recorded MAKE READING A HABIT • Start a session with one tap, or "just 5 minutes" from the Today screen • Keep your daily streak — one missed day a week is forgiven automatically • Three weekly quests with targets that follow how much you read, and badges for streaks, books, pages, time and quests • A reminder at the time you choose, and an evening nudge when your streak is at risk • See where you stand: "at this pace you'll finish in about 9 days" POCKET PAGES — READ WITHOUT THE BOOK Leaving the house without your book? Photograph the pages you're on (up to 30 at once, straight from camera or gallery). Readro converts them to clean, readable text you can enjoy anywhere — or have them read aloud to you while you commute. KEEP THE LINES YOU LOVE Tap sentences in the reader to save them as quotes, or type them in by hand. Share any quote as a card, and meet one of them again on your Today screen. KNOW YOUR READING SELF • A weekly chart of minutes or pages, a reading calendar, and your totals • A per-book report card: how long each book took and your pages-per-hour • A home screen widget with your streak, today's minutes and current book PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. Your library lives on your device. Readro speaks 11 languages — English, Turkish, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese and Chinese — and works with books in any language.

Screenshots

Shelfie4 screens
Readro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Readro at every 3 weeks against Shelfie's every 4 months. Readro also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shelfie ships an update every 4 months, Readro every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Shelfie versus Readro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShelfieReadro
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB33 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperMehmet TarhanFaize Nur OZGON

In-app purchases

None

Shelfie

No in-app purchases

None

Readro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shelfie free?
Shelfie is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Readro free?
Readro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Shelfie or Readro have ads?
Neither Shelfie nor Readro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shelfie or Readro?
Shelfie ships an update every 4 months, and Readro every 3 weeks. Most recently, Shelfie was updated on October 2, 2026 and Readro on October 3, 2026.

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