Shelvd vs Enchanted Reads
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shelvd
Effortlessly log your reading progress by simply taking a photo of any page. This app organizes your library visually, tracks detailed reading statistics, and syncs with Goodreads. It also facilitates book club participation and helps manage your to-read list.
- Photo-based page logging
- Visual book shelves
- Goodreads synchronization
- Import entire reading history
- Detailed reading statistics
- Book club features
- Add books via cover photo
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Log your reading from a photo, not a keyboard. SHELVD is a book tracker that keeps up with how much you read, and keeps your Goodreads library and friends right where they are. FEATURES • Bookmark: Point your camera at any page or Kindle screen and SHELVD marks your place. It reads the page number and updates your progress in about two seconds. No typing. • Visual shelves: Your library lives as real, browsable shelves with spine art, not a list of rows. • Keep your Goodreads updated (Pro): Track everything in SHELVD and your Goodreads profile stays current on its own. Your progress, ratings, and finished books show up there automatically, so the friends you already have keep seeing what you're reading. No other reading app does this. • Bring your whole library: One upload imports your full Goodreads or StoryGraph history: ratings, read dates, and shelves included. • Reading stats: A heatmap of every day you've read, your reading pace, time-to-finish predictions, genre breakdowns, streaks, and progress toward your reading goals. • Book clubs: Read alongside friends, follow live progress on leaderboards, and share what you're into. Create and run your own clubs on Pro. • Snap a cover: Spot a book you want? Photograph the cover and SHELVD adds it to your want-to-read shelf (your TBR). • Hands-free Kindle tracking (Founders): Connect your Amazon account once and your Kindle reading logs itself, no photos needed. Your reading data stays yours. SHELVD never sells or shares your information with third parties. Terms of Use (EULA): https://shelvd.io/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://shelvd.io/legal/privacy
Enchanted Reads
Transform your reading experience with a magical tracker. Log books, monitor progress, organize your library, and gain insights into your reading habits. Features gamified elements, personalized recommendations, and community connection.
- Track reading progress and status
- Organize books with custom shelves
- Detailed reviews and notes
- Reading analytics and reports
- Gamified reading with XP and challenges
- AI-powered book recommendations
- Connect with a reader community
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Enchanted Reads is a reading tracker bound as a living grimoire. Log every book, arrange your bookcases by hand, write reviews and save quotes — and watch your reading grow into a world of its own. Version 3.0 redraws every screen, and the ? button on 29 of them opens a page guide. A GRIMOIRE FOR EVERY SEASON Fifteen seasonal themes, each with its own living particles, in light and dark. Let the calendar choose, pin the one you love, or switch the particles off. Pop-ups and sheets wear the season too: an ornamental frame over a blurred background. YOUR LIBRARY, THREE WAYS Browse your books as shelves, spines or a grid. Arrange your bookcases by hand, keep track of what you are reading, what is on your TBR, what you finished and what you put down. Add books with the ISBN scanner or by import, and narrow the list by rating, genre, series or trope. EVERY BOOK, EIGHT RIBBONS Each book opens to eight ribbon tabs: annotation, main characters, supporting cast, your review, quotes, tropes, gallery and discussion. Character cards carry portraits, and a relationship map shows who is connected to whom. Rate with stars and a spice level, and keep series and collections in order. SERIES AND COLLECTIONS See how far you are in every series and collection — 3 of 7 read — with your average rating and the community average, when there is one. Filter and sort by rating, and the books you have read are marked inside. ONE SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING Search your books, series, collections, tropes, genres and the catalog at once, and open any result. If you already own a book from the catalog, Open book takes you straight to it. READ WITH A LITTLE MAGIC A reading timer with ambient sounds. A reading fire that keeps your streak warm. A journal with templates and daily quests. On iPhone your session sits on the Lock Screen, and home-screen widgets show your book and your quote of the day. YOUR REALM Every book you finish adds to your Realm World, a small living world that grows with your reading. Find collectibles, place decorations, raise your companion, earn XP, achievements and titles. READ TOGETHER Add friends, join book clubs, start a buddy read, follow the activity feed and take on reading challenges. Report content and block readers whenever you need to; reports stay private. THE ORACLE An AI companion that learns your taste and suggests what to read next. READING REPORTS How much you read, when, and in which genres — as statistics and as cards you can share. ON IPAD AND MAC Books and the book form open as full pages, and layouts are built for landscape. TWELVE LANGUAGES English, Українська, Русский, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano, Polski, हिन्दी, 中文, 한국어, 日本語. PLANS Start free. Paid plans raise the limits for books, bookcases, AI features and storage. You can delete your account at any time in Settings. Open your grimoire. SUBSCRIPTIONS Enchanted Reads is free to use. Optional paid plans are auto-renewable subscriptions, billed monthly or yearly to your Apple Account. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://enchantedreads.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://enchantedreads.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Shelvd at 67% against Enchanted Reads's 0%. Shelvd also leads on rating (3.9 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). Enchanted Reads's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Shelvd sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $6.00 per month and Enchanted Reads sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shelvd holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shelvd has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Shelvd's written reviews are positive against 0% of Enchanted Reads's.
Shelvd ships an update fortnightly, Enchanted Reads weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Shelvd | Enchanted Reads |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (11 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Platform Thirteen | Enchanted Reads |
Customer experience
Shelvd
Enchanted Reads
In-app purchases
Shelvd
- Plus (Monthly)1 Month trial$6.001 Month
- Pro (Monthly)1 Month trial$12.001 Month
- Full Shelfie (Monthly)$18.001 Month
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- Plus (Annual)1 Month trial$58.001 Year
- Pro (Annual)1 Month trial$114.991 Year
- Full Shelfie (Annual)$172.991 Year
- Founders (Annual)$299.991 Year
Enchanted Reads
- Mage — Monthly$5.991 Month
- Archmage — Monthly$11.991 Month
- Grand Wizard — Monthly$22.991 Month
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- Mage — Annual$59.991 Year
- Archmage Annual$119.991 Year
- Grand Wizard — Annual$229.991 Year








