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Shelfie the shelf
Even decorative typography on antiquarian spines reads cleanly (we tested it on the cases collectors actually own, not the demo shelf).
Built for shelves that have insurance riders.
Condition. Edition. Printing. Signed by. Dust jacket. Asking price. The fields that move a book from "I have a copy" to "I have THE copy" (which is, in the end, why we do this). Photograph the shelf, fill in what only you know.
No credit card. Free to try. Cancel any time.
The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway
On the Road
Kerouac
Ulysses
Joyce
Lolita
Nabokov
The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald
A Confederacy of Dunces
Toole
Slaughterhouse-Five
Vonnegut
Beloved
Morrison
Blood Meridian
McCarthy
Infinite Jest
Wallace
House of Leaves
Danielewski
The Recognitions
Gaddis
Per copy
track every edition you own, separately
First / signed
filterable from the library view
$ asking
and $ acquired, kept private
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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Fill in the collector fields
Edition, printing, signed by, dust jacket, asking price, acquired price. Hidden by default for non-collectors so the UI stays calm.
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Catalog like a pro
Filter by signed, by edition, by printing year. Each copy gets its own row. Insurance-grade exports any time.
Your spreadsheet has been trying.
Every collector has a spreadsheet. It started clean. Then came the second copy. Then the dust-jacket-only column. Then a row for the printing variant you got at a fair in 2019. The spreadsheet gave up around row 400. (Mine did, anyway.)
Shelfie is the catalog the spreadsheet was trying to be. Same fields, none of the formula errors.
A real catalog lets you
- →Track every copy of a title separately, with its own condition and printing
- →See your signed shelf, your firsts shelf, your reading copies, in one click
- →Keep asking prices and acquired prices side by side (private, never public)
- →Export a clean inventory for insurance, estate, or buyer due diligence
- →Hand an appraiser a single URL instead of a Dropbox folder
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
Will it tell a first edition from a later printing?▾
Short answer: no, not from a spine alone. Spine reading identifies the title. You enter the edition, printing, and signed status (those are facts you confirm in hand). The point is to make recording them once feel like nothing, not to guess them.
Can I track multiple copies of the same title?▾
Yes. The Collector tier opens a per-copy table. Reading copy on row one, signed first on row two, library binding on row three. Filter by any field.
Do my asking prices stay private?▾
Yes. The collector fields are never on the public profile. The public profile shows the books, not the prices.
What about insurance?▾
Export to CSV or Excel any time, with all collector fields. Drop it in your homeowner inventory or hand it to an appraiser. There is no lock-in (and there will not be, because if you ever leave, you take everything with you).
Antiquarian or rare titles. Will OpenLibrary have those?▾
Short answer: yes, more than you would expect. When a title is too rare for OpenLibrary or Google Books, the row is still in your library with whatever Shelfie read on the spine. You correct the rest in two taps.
Your shelves are waiting.
One photo. One catalog. Cancel any time.
Shelfie your collection