Shelved

Author:

🔗 davidntlai

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App Description

Just wanted to share and solicit feedback for my app Shelved. I used to like good reads, but the concept was simple enough that I decided to create a version of my own.

It’s meant to be minimalist first, so if you’d like a fully featured catalogue you may be best served by another app.

Current features:

• Search books to add to your shelf, with cover art
• Categorize into Wishlist, Read, Reading, Abandoned, and Shelved (for books you own but haven’t read)
• Tracking the book’s medium (ebook, paperback, audiobook)
• Personal ratings for read books
• Sort by priority, author, date read, date edited
• No data collected
• Free
• No sign up or login required

Planned features:

• Categorize books further (e.g. History, Fiction, etc.)
• More mediums to track (hard cover)
• Import and export features
• Page progress
• Book discovery (through some public API perhaps)

Not planned:

• AI features (unless they’re reliable, privacy-preserving, and easy to understand)

If anyone has any other ideas I’d love to hear them. This is a hobby project, but it’s pretty easy to add new features and Apple reviews this app pretty quickly as well.

Project Overview

Shelved is a minimalist book cataloging app for iOS, designed to offer a simple and free alternative to more complex cataloging apps. It allows users to search and add books to their shelf with cover art, categorize books into various lists, track the medium of the book, and rate books they’ve read. The app emphasizes privacy with no data collection and requires no sign-up or login. Future updates may include further categorization, additional mediums, import/export features, page progress tracking, and book discovery through a public API. The developer is open to feedback and new feature ideas, maintaining a focus on simplicity and user privacy.

Links

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Features & Benefits

✅ Minimalist and easy to use
✅ No data collection
✅ Free with no sign-up required
✅ Supports multiple book mediums
✅ Personal ratings for books

Areas for Improvement

🔄 Limited features compared to more comprehensive cataloging apps