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Shelfie a row
Phone parallel to the crate, shoot down the spines. One photo covers fifty records.
Photograph the crate. Get the collection.
One shot down a row of spines. We read every record and pull year, label, and pressing from Discogs (the part you used to type by hand at midnight). Next time someone holds up a copy at the shop, you will know in three seconds whether you already own it.
No credit card. Free to try. Cancel any time.
Kind of Blue
Miles Davis
Blue Train
Coltrane
A Love Supreme
Coltrane
Pet Sounds
Beach Boys
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
Songs in the Key of Life
Stevie Wonder
Hounds of Love
Kate Bush
Aja
Steely Dan
Mingus Ah Um
Mingus
Astral Weeks
Van Morrison
OK Computer
Radiohead
The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd
Vinyl + CD
both formats, same workflow
Discogs
year, label, and pressing pulled in
0 dupes
if you check before you buy
From phone to catalog, in under a minute
No typing. No barcodes. No data entry. Just hold up your phone and let the shelf become a catalog.
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Glance and clean up
Foil-stamped jazz pressings and Japanese imports get a yellow band. Two taps clean them up.
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A real crate, on your phone
Filter by genre, year, label. Search by anything. Pull pressing details from Discogs in a tap.
The shop test.
You are at the shop. Someone just put a Kind of Blue mono on the wall.
You think you have it. You think it is the wrong pressing. You stand there for two minutes pretending to read the back cover (we have all done this).
Open Shelfie. Search "Kind of Blue." There it is, with the year. You know in three seconds. Buy it or do not.
A real catalog lets you
- →Stop buying the same pressing twice (it adds up faster than you think)
- →Find that record you bought at the fair and shelved sideways three years ago
- →Hand a friend your crate link before they come over to listen
- →See your unplayed pile, your favorites, your gifts to give
- →Plan a listening night around what you actually own
A plan for every kind of collector
Start free. The numbers below are how many things you own, not how many you add per 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 collect
$4/mo
Up to 2,500 items
When the shelf is the hobby. Tell us what you own and we'll tell you what's missing.
- ✓Everything in Reader, plus
- ✓Smart recommendations: what to read or watch next, what's missing
- ✓Public profile at shelfiebook.com/u/yourname
- ✓Unlimited shelfies and re-shelfies
- ✓Custom cover art for the obscure stuff
- ✓Bring Shelfie into your favorite tools via the MCP server
Collector
For people who love to track
$12/mo
Unlimited everything
When 'how many do you own?' is a punchline. Built for serious shelves.
- ✓Everything in Bibliophile, plus
- ✓Unlimited libraries and items
- ✓Per-copy tracking: condition, edition, printing, signed, asking price
- ✓Find me one like this: semantic search across your whole library
- ✓Map the collection as a graph
- ✓REST API + command-line tools
- ✓Lent-out reminders, smart shelves, multi-shelf retake
Upgrade or cancel any time. We don't lock your catalog behind a paywall -- if you ever leave, you take everything with you.
Common questions
Vinyl spines are tiny. Does it still work?▾
Short answer: yes. Spine reading was built on bookshelves and the failure modes overlap exactly (tilted, glossy, sometimes upside down). Spines that cannot be read get flagged. Two taps fix them.
What about CDs?▾
Same workflow. CD spines are even narrower than vinyl, but the type is usually cleaner. Discogs covers both formats.
Pressing-level detail?▾
Discogs pulls year, label, country, and format. Specific pressing variants you fill in once. The fields stay where you put them.
What if a record is rare enough that Discogs is missing it?▾
It is in your library either way, with whatever Shelfie read on the spine. You correct the rest in two taps. Beats opening a new browser tab and a Discogs account.
Can I import a Discogs collection I already built?▾
CSV import is on the roadmap. For now, photographing a crate is faster than most Discogs exports for the records that actually live on your wall (the ones in the spreadsheet are usually not the problem).
Your shelves are waiting.
One photo. One catalog. Cancel any time.
Shelfie your crates