Spinely: Bookself Organizer

Binary Meadow

About this app

📚 Spinely turns your real, physical bookshelves into a beautiful catalogue you carry in your pocket — scan a barcode, snap the spine, and sort your shelves any way you like. No account, no ads, no tracking. 🚀

Point your camera at a book's ISBN and Spinely fills in the title, author, cover, series, category and year for you — or search by title, or add it by hand. Photograph each spine, tag its colour, and build your bookcases exactly as they sit on the wall. Then reorganise everything with a single tap.

📖 Log your whole collection:

• Scan an ISBN barcode for instant details
• Search by title or ISBN, or add a book manually
• Auto-fetched cover, author, series, categories and publication year
• Photograph and crop each book's spine
• Tag each spine's dominant colour

⭐ Key features:

✔ Organise any shelf instantly by author (first or last name), title, series, spine colour, category or publication year
✔ Stack multiple sort orders — e.g. Category, then Author — and Spinely sorts by each in turn
✔ Title sorting ignores a leading "The", "A" or "An"
✔ Colour sorting arranges spines around the colour wheel for a satisfying rainbow
✔ Recreate your room: add unlimited bookcases, each with its own shelves
✔ The overflow pin: drag to set a shelf's cut-off — extra books grey out and flow to the next shelf, confirmed with a tap
✔ Browse your full library grouped by author, series or category
✔ Track how many books you own and spot gaps in a series
✔ Retake any spine photo — the latest shot always stays crisp

🔒 Private by design:

✔ No accounts, no ads, no third-party analytics, no tracking of any kind
✔ Your bookcases, shelves, photos and notes stay on your device
✔ Spinely only reaches the internet to look up a book you scan or search — nothing about your library is uploaded

📖 Made for book lovers

Whether you own one overflowing bookcase or a whole wall of them, Spinely helps you see, sort and celebrate your collection — and plan a tidy-up before you touch a single book.

Bring your bookshelf to life. Scan, sort and see your collection like never before.

Credits: book covers and details shown when you scan or search are provided by the Open Library and Google Books APIs and belong to their respective rights holders. Spinely is not affiliated with either service; all trademarks belong to their owners.

What’s new

Book spine photos no longer stretch down the detail screen — the preview is now sized to fit, so the layout stays tidy whatever the spine's proportions.

Editing a book happens in one place: Edit details now holds the spine photo, its colour and everything else. The separate spine colour screen has been removed.

Fixed retaking a spine photo not re-detecting its colour.