ShelfLife is a beautiful home for your books and your reading life.

Track the books you read, organize them on stunning digital shelves, and share your taste with other readers. ShelfLife is a book tracker that provides a beautiful place to record your books and easily create shareable visual collections for social media. Arrange your library by mood or memory or whatever makes you happy.

BEAUTIFUL BOOKSHELVES
Arrange your books on fully customizable shelves you can arrange, style, decorate, and share. Build a bookshelf for any mood, genre, or moment, then export a gorgeous shelf card to Instagram, Messages, and more. Find books by name, author, barcode scanning, or ISBN.

SHOW US YOUR SPINES!
Finally you can see your books arranged sideways like you would in real life. Upload photos of your book spines to the community gallery and select your perfect spine image to display. Stack and turn books for variety and add decor objects to really personalize your shelves.

YOUR TOP 12
Choose the twelve books that define your taste. Your Top 12 is your shareable statement of who you are as a reader.

TBR AND READING LISTS, ORGANIZED AND VISUALIZED
Mark books as To Be Read and have a shelf for the seasons or a stack for a single obsession or author tribute.

BOOK SIGNAL — RECOMMENDATIONS FROM REAL READERS
Ask for a book recommendation and hear back from readers whose taste overlaps with yours. Real people, real reads connected by the kinds of books they read.

CAN'T FIND YOUR BOOK? ADD IT
Missing a book or your exact edition? Add it yourself and it's there for every reader the moment you save. Spot a wrong title, author, cover, or page count? Fix it with Edit Book Details. For manuscripts, advance copies, and anything meant just for you, add a private Custom Book.

BOX SEAT — AN OPTIONAL MEMBERSHIP
ShelfLife is free. Box Seat supports the app and adds extras: a new Decor Drop of decor and backdrops every month, more color themes, a picture frame for your own photo, resizable decor, custom backdrops in any color, your own photo as your avatar, unlimited Custom Books, a book concierge who tracks down hard-to-find books for you, and a gold frame around your avatar. Box Seat is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly. Cancel anytime in your store account settings.

A READING FEED OF YOUR PEOPLE
Follow the readers you trust and see what they're reading, finishing, and reviewing, in a simple chronological feed.

READING WITH FRIENDS AND BOOK CLUBS
Follow your friends, your book club, and find readers whose taste overlaps yours. See what they're starting and finishing, trade recommendations, and celebrate every finished book together.

HOMESCREEN WIDGET
Display your bookshelves on your phone's homescreen with the app's shelf widget

REVIEWS THAT MEAN SOMETHING
Rate books, write reviews, and read honest opinions from real readers instead of bots and consensus noise.

THE PEANUT GALLERY — WHERE THE SPOILERS LIVE
Every book has a Gallery door, and finishing the book unlocks it. Inside: hot takes, unpopular opinions, and beautiful pulled quotes from readers who just turned the last page too.

FEATS — READING CHALLENGES, YOUR WAY
Join a community feat or set your own! Set a yearly challenge, read a classic a month, or dream up a feat that's entirely yours. Use custom feat types like the Read the World feat which lets you fill out a full map with your book picks' covers. Track your progress book by book, then share the finish line. ShelfLife is a reading tracker that give you customizable options for how you want to view your progress.

COMING FROM GOODREADS OR STORYGRAPH?
Import your reading history with a CSV file and organize your library the way you always wanted.

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