Shelfside: Book Tracker

You read with the phone face up on the table. So the timer should live on the Lock Screen, not behind three taps inside an app. Start a reading session from Control Center or the Action Button and it runs as a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. You never open Shelfside to read. SCAN A SHELF IN MINUTES Point the camera at a barcode and the book appears — cover, title, author, page count. The scanner does not stop between books, so forty books take about three minutes instead of half an hour. No ISBN on the spine? Add it by hand. SESSIONS, THEN NUMBERS Start, pause, resume, finish. Pages from and to. Shelfside builds your weekly strip, your pages per minute and your session history out of that, with nothing for you to fill in afterwards. YOUR LIBRARY IS FREE AND UNLIMITED Every book, no cap, forever. Grid of covers, search, a lent-out marker for the ones that…