Shelfie Library Manager vs OnlyBooks

Shelfie is a calm, private home for the books you own. Catalogue titles, remember where they live on your shelves, curate lists, and keep lending straight—all on your iPhone and iPad. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Add books by scanning the ISBN barcode or entering details manually • Pull in titles, authors, covers, and more from public book databases (Open Library, with Google Books as a fallback when information is thin) • Track reading status: waiting, reading, or finished • Organize with custom lists—including Favorites out of the box • Map books to physical shelves and optional shelf photos • Log loans: who borrowed what and when you expect it back • Attach your own cover, shelf, or in-book photos from camera or library • Search across titles, authors, notes, series, and borrower names • See simple stats: book count, total pages, and approximate storage for images PRIVATE & YOURS Your library syncs through iCloud using CloudKit. Data is tied to your Apple ID and stored in your private database—we don’t run our own servers for your catalogue. LANGUAGES English and Turkish interface. REQUIREMENTS Sign in to iCloud on your device for sync. An internet connection is needed to look up book metadata and covers. ATTRIBUTION Book information and cover art may come from Open Library and other public sources; respective providers may apply their own terms.

Your books deserve a better home than a spreadsheet. OnlyBooks turns your reading life into a beautiful virtual bookshelf — every book you own or have read, arranged as spines just like a real shelf. Add a book in seconds, watch your collection grow. A shelf that looks the part Books are rendered as spines with their real cover art and colours. Customise the wall, adjust shelf colours, and make it yours. Track what matters Log when you started and finished a book, or simply mark it as read if you can't remember the dates. Your stats page shows how many books you've read each month and how many pages you've powered through. Find any book instantly Search the Open Library catalogue of millions of titles to add books with cover art, author, year, and page count filled in automatically. Add several books at once with multi-select. Stay organised Tag books by genre, series, or anything else. Filter your shelf by tag, reading status, or month to find exactly what you're looking for. Your data, your device Everything is stored locally — no account, no cloud, no tracking. Export your entire library as a backup and import it on any device.