Shelf
Shelf app icon

Your library,
on your phone.

Shelf is a reader for the books you already have. Point it at your Calibre-Web, Komga or OPDS server, sign in once, and read on iPhone and iPad.

Coming soon to the App Store

Works with Calibre-Web · Calibre-Web-Automated · Komga · any OPDS catalogue

Shelf home: Continue reading, then rails of recently added books A book page with its cover, author and a Read button The reader showing a page of The Age of Innocence

A home that reads like a shelf.

Your reading in progress sits at the top. Underneath come the rails your server already offers, so the books you own are easy to find again.

  • Continue where you left off, right at the top
  • Recently added, unread, and your series in order
  • Browse by author, series, genre or publisher
  • Search, with your recent searches kept
Search results for Austen The home in dark mode

Read anywhere, even offline.

EPUB, PDF and comics open in a built-in reader that keeps your place on the device and writes it back to your server.

  • Paged or scrolling, in light, sepia or dark
  • Type you can adjust, including a font for readers with dyslexia
  • Downloads stay on your phone; progress made offline is sent later
  • Progress syncs through Kobo sync on Calibre-Web and natively on Komga
A page of Pride and Prejudice in the reader on iPad

Made for iPad, too.

A layout of its own on the big screen, and on the folding iPhone the pages use the whole inner screen and the outer one alike.

Shelf on iPad: unread books, series and recently added

Bring your library.

Shelf needs a server you run or have access to. Project Gutenberg and Unglue.it are built in, so there is something to read before you add yours.

Calibre-Web

Including Calibre-Web-Automated. Your shelves and progress, plus editing details, managing shelves and setting up Kobo sync from your phone.

Komga

Books, comics and magazines. A library of periodicals becomes a newsstand: one pile per publication, issues by year.

Any OPDS catalogue

Add the address of any OPDS feed, public or private, and browse it like the rest of your libraries.

Yours, and nobody else's.

No account with us, no analytics, no tracking. Sign-ins stay on your device, and Shelf talks only to the servers you add. Read the privacy policy.