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Take a shelfie
Hold your phone up to a shelf. One shot covers 25-50 books.
Photograph your bookshelf.
Get your library.
Take a shelfie of your bookcase. We'll read every spine and hand back a real, searchable, sortable library out of your physical books. It's time your library went digital.
No credit card. 100 books on the house. Cancel any time.
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Going Postal
Terry Pratchett
The Swerve
Stephen Greenblatt
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Dune
Frank Herbert
The Future
Naomi Alderman
The Every
Dave Eggers
Crystal Society
Max Harms
The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
Fourteen Days
Atwood & Preston
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
Assassins Anonymous
Rob Hart
30 sec
from a wall photo to a full library
0
barcodes scanned. ever.
100%
your data, exportable any time
From phone to library, in under a minute
No typing. No barcodes. No data entry. Just hold up your phone and let the shelf become a library.
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Glance and confirm
We mark which spines we read with confidence and which need a quick look. Two taps fix anything.
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Your library is real
Search by anything. Filter by anything. Browse covers. Sort the table. It's yours.
You own more than you think.
The first time a friend mentions a book and you say "I actually own that" with confidence, instead of squinting at your shelves for ten minutes, is the moment you realize you never really had a library before. You had a collection.
Now you have a library.
A real library lets you
- → Find that book your friend mentioned, by remembering the cover, not the title
- → Stop buying duplicates of books you already own
- → See what you've read this year, what you started, what you put down
- → Spot the gaps in your collection before you waste another bookstore trip
- → Hand a friend your library URL and say "borrow whatever"
A plan for every kind of reader
Start free. The numbers below are how many books you own, not how many you read in a month.
Reader
For light readers
$0/mo
Up to 100 books
Perfect if you've got a bookcase or two and just want to know what you actually own.
- ✓Photograph any shelf, get a real library
- ✓Cover grid, spines, stacks, and table views
- ✓Search and filter by title, author, year, subject
- ✓Read / unread / reading / abandoned + 5-star ratings
- ✓Notes, lent-to tracking, wishlist
- ✓Take your data with you: CSV, Excel, Goodreads, BibTeX export
Bibliophile
For people who love to read
$4/mo
Up to 2,500 books
When books are how you spend your weekends. Tell us what you've read and we'll tell you what's missing.
- ✓Everything in Reader, plus
- ✓Smart recommendations: what you should read next, what's missing from your collection
- ✓Share your library publicly at shelfiebook.com/u/yourname
- ✓Unlimited shelfies and re-shelfies
- ✓Custom cover art for the obscure books
- ✓Bring Shelfie into your favorite tools via the MCP server
Collector
For people who love to collect
$12/mo
Unlimited books, libraries, and shelfies
When 'how many books do you own?' is a punchline. Built for serious shelves.
- ✓Everything in Bibliophile, plus
- ✓Unlimited everything -- books, libraries, public profiles
- ✓Find me a book like this: semantic search across your whole library
- ✓First-pick reasoning: deeper analysis on Gaps and Profile
- ✓Map your collection as a graph
- ✓REST API + command-line tools, for power users
- ✓Lent-out reminders, smart shelves, multi-shelf retake
Upgrade or cancel any time. We don't lock your library behind a paywall -- if you ever leave, you take everything with you.
Common questions
How can a photo really do that?▾
We've spent the last few years getting freakishly good at reading text in messy real-world photos. A bookshelf full of tilted, glossy, decorative spines is exactly the case we built for. We tell you when we're sure (most of the time) and when we want a second opinion (rarely).
What if a spine is unreadable?▾
Photograph the cover instead. Add it manually in two taps. Either way, every book is in your library.
Can my friends see my books?▾
Only if you flip the switch. Libraries are private by default. Bibliophile and Collector subscribers get a public profile at shelfiebook.com/u/yourname when they want to share.
Can I move my Goodreads list in?▾
Yes. Drop your Goodreads CSV into Import and we'll merge it with anything you've shelfied. Same path on the way out -- export to Goodreads, Excel, CSV, or BibTeX any time.
Is this just Goodreads with a coat of paint?▾
Goodreads is a list of things you've read. Shelfie is what you actually own. Different problem, different answer.
What about my privacy?▾
Photos are processed for spine reading and stored in your private library. Public profiles are opt-in only. Your data exports any time you want it -- there's no lock-in.
Your shelves are waiting.
Take one photo. Get a library. It really is that simple.
Start free, no credit cardNot just books