Bram's Reading App vs Shelf

Bram's Reading App is a toolkit for becoming a serious reader. Build a personal library, ask better questions, and turn notes into a connected system of ideas. **Core ideas** • Questions before completion • Annotations that deepen understanding • Parallel reading to make connections faster **What you can do** • Add books and track progress at a glance • Capture annotations quickly (including from the Share Sheet) • Link notes to questions and revisit what matters • Add characters, events, and settings to your book, along with their relationships • Find similar annotations across different books • Run timed reading sessions with a Live Activity timer • See your reading streaks with an annotation heatmap • Search books and annotations in one place • Explore a methodology for reading as a system • Add widgets for quick capture and selected books • Visually traverse your library with Quiz and Explore Whether you’re reading one great book or five at once, Bram’s Reading App helps you stay curious, intentional, and consistent.

Shelf finds your next favorite book. Tell Shelf a few books you love and it learns your taste — then hands you recommendations you'd actually want to read, each with a clear reason it was picked. No endless scrolling, no noise. Just good books, chosen for you. • Personalized picks that sharpen the more you react • "Loved by Readers" — see what the Shelf community keeps coming back to • Curated lists from Oprah, Reese, Obama, the Booker Prize, the Pulitzer, and more • Save books to your shelf, mark what you've read, pass on what's not for you • Share any book with a friend in a tap • No account, no sign-up — just open it and go Your taste, your shelf. Book recommendations that feel like they came from a friend who really gets you.