Shelvanize™
Your shelves, in order.
Your books, cataloged.
Shelvanize is a native app for the books you actually own. Pick an arrangement and get the exact order to put every book back, building your collection along the way by scanning a barcode, photographing a cover, or typing a title.
The reason it exists
The arrangement engine
Tell Shelvanize how your shelves should read. By Library of Congress call number, by author, by title, or by height. The engine turns your whole collection into one exact order, start to finish, and any book the scheme cannot place lands in a named section at the end instead of being guessed at. The same books and the same scheme give the same order, on either platform.
What Shelvanize does
Books without barcodes welcome
Scan a barcode and Shelvanize matches that ISBN against a catalog of more than fifty million editions we host ourselves. A real collection is also full of pre-ISBN paperbacks, small-press printings, and hand-me-downs no barcode will ever find. Photograph one of those and the app reads the lines of text off the cover, you say which is the title and which is the author, and they land in the add form for you to check.
Offline first
Your collection lives on your device, and everything that touches your own books works with no signal at all. It stays yours, too. Export the whole collection to CSV or JSON at any time, free, with no account required.
Never capped
Add ten books or ten thousand. The collection is never capped, and everything you type, scan, or photograph stays readable, editable, and exportable. That holds forever, not until an upsell.
Shelves and lending
Group your books onto shelves you name, in the order you want them. Note who you lent a book to and when it is due back, and your device will remind you. A tool for your shelves, not a network. No feed, no followers, no ads.
On the roadmap
On the roadmap See whether your local library can lend a book before you buy another copy.