Better Bookshelf

Your books live in three places — your shelves, your Kindle, your Audible library. The best parts of them live in a fourth: the passages you highlighted while reading. Better Bookshelf is the first app that brings all of it together in one beautiful, private library that works entirely on your phone.

SCAN ANYTHING, ADD EVERYTHING

• Point your camera at a barcode and the book appears with full details and cover art

• Batch mode keeps the camera rolling so you can catalog an entire shelf in minutes — each scan buzzes, auto-adds, and flags duplicates as you go

• No barcode? Old hardcover, damaged spine, library binding? Snap a photo of the cover and AI reads the title and author and finds the book for you

• Four book databases work together behind every lookup, so vintage, obscure, self-published, and audiobook-only titles resolve where single-source apps give up

• Prefer typing? Enter an ISBN or search by title and author

ONE LIBRARY, EVERY FORMAT YOU OWN

• Own a book in paperback, on Kindle, AND on Audible? See it once, with badges showing every format you own

• Import your Kindle and Audible libraries directly, and formats merge automatically — no duplicate entries

• Moving from another app? Bring any CSV export and the columns are detected and mapped automatically

• Re-import the same file anytime; your library never duplicates

REMEMBER WHAT YOU READ

• Connect Readwise once, and every book on your shelf shows the highlights you made while reading it on Kindle or Audible

• Browse passages book by book, star your favorites, and revisit them like marginalia in a book you love

• Filter your entire library down to just the books you highlighted

• Your catalog stops being an inventory and becomes a record of everything your books gave you

ORGANIZED THE WAY READERS ACTUALLY THINK

• Reading status (read, reading, unread) with a stats bar that shows your library at a glance

• Private ratings and reviews — your opinions, for you, not for an audience

• Tags, genre and author filters, year ranges, and fast search that looks through titles, authors, genres, tags, and descriptions

• Grid view for browsing covers, list view for working through your collection, flexible sorting, and bulk actions for big libraries

• Missing covers or thin details? One tap refreshes metadata and artwork across your whole collection

NEVER LOSE A LENT BOOK AGAIN

• Mark any book as lent, with a name and date

• A visible badge on the shelf and a dedicated filter show exactly which books are out and who has them

• The number one way books disappear is a forgotten loan — not anymore

YOUR DATA IS ACTUALLY YOURS

• Everything is stored on your device — browse, search, and organize your whole library with no connection at all

• Back up your entire collection — books, tags, ratings, highlights, and cover art — to your own Google Drive with one tap, and restore it on any phone

• Turn on auto-backup and the app quietly protects your library every time you open it after changes

• Export everything to CSV anytime and take it anywhere — no lock-in, ever

• No account to create. No ads. No social feed. No tracking. Nobody watching what you read.

BUILT FOR REAL COLLECTIONS

Whether you are cataloging three shelves or three thousand books, Better Bookshelf keeps up: fast scanning, instant search, and smooth browsing at any size, on your phone and tablet.

PERFECT FOR

• Cataloging a lifetime of shelves before a move, a downsize, or an insurance inventory

• Readers who buy the paperback, the ebook, and the audiobook — and want one shelf, not three

• Highlighters and note-takers who never want to lose a passage again

• Book lovers leaving bloated, ad-filled reading networks for something calm, fast, and private

Your library is one of the most personal things you own. It deserves an app that treats it that way — private, permanent, and completely under your control.

Scan it. Own it. Remember it.