Press Kit

Bookshelf is a beautiful, fully-featured and privacy-first book tracker app (unlike Goodreads) for the book lover in all of us.

Bookshelf is a beautiful, fully-featured and privacy-first book tracker app (unlike Goodreads) for the book lover in all of us.

Bookshelf is a beautiful, fully-featured and privacy-first book tracker app (unlike Goodreads) for the book lover in all of us.

Overview

Bookshelf is a beautiful, AI-enhanced reading tracker app that helps people track their library, build a lasting reading habit, and better remember what they read.


From AI book recommendations to powerful habit tracking features, Bookshelf is the only app you’ll need to build a lasting reading habit this year.

Assets

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Features

Key features

  • Beautiful, intuitive design (unlike Goodreads)

  • Add any book, and organize your library to your heart’s content

  • Find your next favorite book with AI recommendations

  • Save highlights and quotes, then actually remember them with our Daily Review

  • Track and improve your reading stats, and stay motivated with streaks


Build Your Library

  • Quick Add - Build your library by searching through millions of books, scanning any book's barcode, or adding your own.

  • Book Recommendations - Find your next great read with AI recommendations and NYT Bestseller lists.

  • Everything Tracker - Easily manage book collections, reading status, star ratings, reading dates, and more for all your books.

  • Reading Sessions - Simply pick up a book and start a session—we’ll track everything so you can focus on actually reading.


Improve Your Reading Habits

  • Book Chat - Chat with our AI librarian to easily generate summaries and flash cards, discuss key ideas, and much more!

  • Reading Stats - Visualize your reading habits over time with charts and reading stats.

  • Reading Goals - Create a reading goal for the year to motivate yourself to read more or challenge your friends!

  • Estimated Completion Time - See how long it will take to finish any book with your average reading speed.

  • Reading Streaks - Stay motivated by keeping up your streak!


Remember What You Read

  • Smart Notes - Use cards to jot down notes or vocab, write a summary, or prepare study questions. Scan text directly from books to add them to your cards or add your own rich text

  • Daily Reviews - Spaced repetition reviews for your notes that will significantly increase your retention, guaranteed.

  • Reading Reminders - Never forget to read or test your knowledge with timely notifications.

Key features

  • Beautiful, intuitive design (unlike Goodreads)

  • Add any book, and organize your library to your heart’s content

  • Find your next favorite book with AI recommendations

  • Save highlights and quotes, then actually remember them with our Daily Review

  • Track and improve your reading stats, and stay motivated with streaks


Build Your Library

  • Quick Add - Build your library by searching through millions of books, scanning any book's barcode, or adding your own.

  • Book Recommendations - Find your next great read with AI recommendations and NYT Bestseller lists.

  • Everything Tracker - Easily manage book collections, reading status, star ratings, reading dates, and more for all your books.

  • Reading Sessions - Simply pick up a book and start a session—we’ll track everything so you can focus on actually reading.


Improve Your Reading Habits

  • Book Chat - Chat with our AI librarian to easily generate summaries and flash cards, discuss key ideas, and much more!

  • Reading Stats - Visualize your reading habits over time with charts and reading stats.

  • Reading Goals - Create a reading goal for the year to motivate yourself to read more or challenge your friends!

  • Estimated Completion Time - See how long it will take to finish any book with your average reading speed.

  • Reading Streaks - Stay motivated by keeping up your streak!


Remember What You Read

  • Smart Notes - Use cards to jot down notes or vocab, write a summary, or prepare study questions. Scan text directly from books to add them to your cards or add your own rich text

  • Daily Reviews - Spaced repetition reviews for your notes that will significantly increase your retention, guaranteed.

  • Reading Reminders - Never forget to read or test your knowledge with timely notifications.

Key features

  • Beautiful, intuitive design (unlike Goodreads)

  • Add any book, and organize your library to your heart’s content

  • Find your next favorite book with AI recommendations

  • Save highlights and quotes, then actually remember them with our Daily Review

  • Track and improve your reading stats, and stay motivated with streaks


Build Your Library

  • Quick Add - Build your library by searching through millions of books, scanning any book's barcode, or adding your own.

  • Book Recommendations - Find your next great read with AI recommendations and NYT Bestseller lists.

  • Everything Tracker - Easily manage book collections, reading status, star ratings, reading dates, and more for all your books.

  • Reading Sessions - Simply pick up a book and start a session—we’ll track everything so you can focus on actually reading.


Improve Your Reading Habits

  • Book Chat - Chat with our AI librarian to easily generate summaries and flash cards, discuss key ideas, and much more!

  • Reading Stats - Visualize your reading habits over time with charts and reading stats.

  • Reading Goals - Create a reading goal for the year to motivate yourself to read more or challenge your friends!

  • Estimated Completion Time - See how long it will take to finish any book with your average reading speed.

  • Reading Streaks - Stay motivated by keeping up your streak!


Remember What You Read

  • Smart Notes - Use cards to jot down notes or vocab, write a summary, or prepare study questions. Scan text directly from books to add them to your cards or add your own rich text

  • Daily Reviews - Spaced repetition reviews for your notes that will significantly increase your retention, guaranteed.

  • Reading Reminders - Never forget to read or test your knowledge with timely notifications.

Who is this for?

Bookshelf is for the book lover in all of us. Whether you already love to read, want to build a better reading habit this year, or aspire to become a more well-rounded person, there’s something for everyone with Bookshelf.

Why did I build Bookshelf?

After graduating college and finding myself with an abundance of free time over the summer, I thrust myself into reading voraciously, picking up the next book immediately after putting the last one down.


But I quickly realized that, although my book count was increasing rapidly, I wasn't actually retaining much of what I read. I built the first version of Bookshelf—at that time, a simple, offline-first book tracker with a single text field for capturing relevant notes—to help me process and better remember what I was reading.


A few weeks after launching on the App Store, Bookshelf was featured as one of Apple's "Apps We Love" and voted #2 Product of the Day on Product Hunt—signals that I had stumbled upon something interesting.


Fast forward 4 years, and Bookshelf has grown to a fully-featured app helping readers of all types, with over 225,000 downloads and 2,000+ 5-star reviews.

Pricing

Bookshelf is a free app, and allows users to track unlimited books forever. An optional Gold membership is available to remove all other limits from the app, enable iCloud syncing, provide free token refills for AI features, and much more.


Gold Monthly: $5.99

Gold Yearly: $29.99

Gold Lifetime: $69.99

Get it for free!

Read more this year with Bookshelf.

Supercharge your reading habits today.

Supercharge your reading habits today.

Get it for free!

Read more this year with Bookshelf.

Supercharge your reading habits today.

Bookshelf is made by Alex Gerrese, a book-loving product designer & developer.

Bookshelf is made by Alex Gerrese, a book-loving product designer & developer.

Bookshelf is made by Alex Gerrese, a book-loving product designer & developer.