Shelfie vs Grape Notes Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Shelfie
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Shelfie turns your screenshot and photo chaos into an organized, searchable library โ powered entirely by on-device Apple Intelligence. Nothing ever leaves your iPhone. Every image you import is automatically analyzed, tagged, and categorized using Apple's Vision, Natural Language, and Foundation Models frameworks. Screenshots, photos, receipts, whiteboards, documents, signs, handwritten notes โ Shelfie knows what it's looking at and makes it instantly findable. INTELLIGENT ORGANIZATION โข Works on both screenshots and regular photos โ the picker defaults to screenshots but you can toggle to your full photo library โข Auto-categorization into 19 smart categories: Receipts, Conversations, Articles, Code, Maps, Social Media, Email, Calendar, Settings, Shopping, Travel, Health, Finance, Food, Documents, Entertainment, Education, Music, and Other โข AI-generated tags, one-sentence summaries, and key highlights (prices, dates, action items) โข Entity extraction โ people, places, and organizations pulled automatically โข Tappable detected data โ URLs open Safari, phone numbers dial, addresses jump to Apple Maps POWERFUL SEARCH โข Full-text search across every pixel of OCR-extracted text โ screenshots, signs, receipts, handwriting โข Smart AI search understands natural language: "receipts from last week", "photos of whiteboards", "messages from John" โข Spotlight integration โ find any image straight from your Home Screen โข Siri Shortcuts: "Search images in Shelfie", "Find image in Shelfie" VISUAL DISCOVERY โข Similar images surface automatically using visual fingerprinting โข Content Graph โ explore your library as a constellation of related ideas โข Auto-generated Collections plus custom Groups for manual organization PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS โข Your Context โ tell Shelfie about yourself (work, hobbies, life) and Apple Intelligence writes tags, descriptions, and group names that actually fit you. Stays on your device, syncs only via your private iCloud โข Combine multi-page screenshots into a single item โ drag to reorder, Apple Intelligence suggests the right top-to-bottom order, and overlapping OCR text is deduplicated. Originals are kept and back-linked โข Multi-select mode to summarize several images into a single AI briefing with themes and action items โข Quote Card Generator creates shareable image cards in five styles and three sizes โข Share Sheet support โ send screenshots and photos to Shelfie from any app โข Editable personal notes on every image โข Import up to 50 images at once from the photo library, take a new one with the camera, paste from the clipboard, or share up to 10 at a time. After importing from Photos, Shelfie can offer to delete the originals so you free up space โข Automatic screenshot detection (optional) โ Shelfie spots new screenshots on your phone, shows how many are waiting, and adds them in one tap. A gentle notification can remind you when a few have piled up โข Imports are fast: images appear immediately and AI analysis continues in the background while you browse PRIVACY FIRST All image analysis happens on-device. No cloud AI. No ads. No cross-app tracking. Your images โ and everything Shelfie learns about them โ stay yours. Your library syncs across your Apple devices through your own private iCloud container, which only your devices can read. Shelfie collects anonymous, non-tracking usage analytics โ which features get used, never your images or their contents โ to guide what we improve next. REQUIREMENTS โข iOS 26 or later โข Apple Intelligence-capable device (iPhone 15 Pro or newer) for summaries, smart search, and quote generation โข OCR, categorization, and similarity features work on all supported devices โข No account required Stop scrolling through Photos looking for that one image. Let Shelfie find it for you.
Grape Notes Pro
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NEW IN 2.0: scan a page of handwritten notes and turn it into an editable checklist. Every scan is now a searchable PDF, and you can find any word you wrote. All of it happens on your iPhone or iPad. No account, no subscription, nothing uploaded. Grape Notes Pro is a private notes and scanning workspace. Scan paper, read photos of notes and whiteboards, import files, or just type. Then search, organize, and export everything. TURN SCANS INTO NOTES - Turn into Note reads a scan or photo and rebuilds it as editable Markdown - Larger handwriting and short lines like "Decisions:" become headings - Checkbox marks, bullets, arrows and numbered lines become real lists - Lines starting with TODO, Action or Follow up become tasks - Lines that wrapped on paper are joined back into paragraphs - The original scan is kept, and the new note shows where it came from SEARCHABLE PDFS - The text read from each page is embedded as an invisible layer, so search, select and copy work in the Files app and other PDF readers - Read Text Again makes scans from earlier versions searchable too - Find in Scan highlights every match on the page, with next and previous buttons - Scanned pages are sized to print at Letter width HANDWRITING AND PRINTED TEXT - Printed text and handwriting are read on your device - The language can be detected automatically, or you can pick the languages you write in - Custom vocabulary for names, jargon and abbreviations - Turn off spelling correction for part numbers and codes - Works best with clear handwriting FROM PHOTOS - Pick up to 30 photos of pages, whiteboards or receipts - Rotate, reorder, filter and delete pages in the Scan Studio before saving - Apply one filter to every page; Black & White now gives crisp black-and-white pages FIND ANYTHING - Library search matches every word you type, in any order, ignoring accents - Best matches come first, with a highlighted snippet showing where the word is, even deep inside a scan - Spotlight on your Home Screen finds notes and scans (you can turn this off) - Siri and Shortcuts: Scan Notes, Notes from Photos, New Note, Search Notes SMART DETAILS - Found in This Note lists dates, links, email addresses, phone numbers and street addresses - Tap a date to set a reminder, or a number, link or address to open it - Summarize long notes: on iPhone and iPad models with Apple Intelligence (iOS 26 or later), the on-device model writes the summary; on other devices the app picks the key sentences EXPORT - PDF export now runs over as many pages as the note needs, with headings, lists and checkboxes formatted - New: Rich Text (.rtf) for word processors and a web page (.html) - Export many items at once as separate PDFs or as one combined PDF - Plain text, Markdown, JSON and password-protected PDF are still here EVERYTHING FROM 1.x - Markdown editor with toolbar, live preview and tappable checklists - Custom notebooks, tags, pins, sorting and filters - Reminders with local notifications - Note Map links related notes and flags possible duplicates - Library Insights and a daily writing goal - Note templates and an offline Markdown reference PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No account, no sign-in, no ads, no subscriptions - No analytics or tracking - Your notes, scans and imported files stay on your device
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Shelfie at $0.49 against Grape Notes Pro's $3.99. Grape Notes Pro's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Shelfie costs $0.49 and Grape Notes Pro $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Shelfie ships an update every 5 days, Grape Notes Pro weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shelfie | Grape Notes Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.49 โ better | $3.99 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days โ better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BCLG APPS PTY LTD | Robert Corbin |
In-app purchases
Shelfie
No in-app purchases
Grape Notes Pro
No in-app purchases









