✦  A home for home libraries

Every book deserves a room.

Photograph a shelf and Shelf Inn reads each spine, checks your books in, and remembers exactly where they live — what's waiting, what's finished, and who borrowed what.

Scroll — every book turns to meet you
Sapiens · Catch-22 · The Alchemist · Empire of Pain · Atomic Habits · સરસ્વતીચંદ્ર · Ikigai · The Goldfinch · Shoe Dog · Midnight's Children · મળેલા જીવ · The White Tiger · On Writing · Siddhartha · Sapiens · Catch-22 · The Alchemist · Empire of Pain · Atomic Habits · સરસ્વતીચંદ્ર · Ikigai · The Goldfinch · Shoe Dog · Midnight's Children · મળેલા જીવ · The White Tiger · On Writing · Siddhartha ·

The rooms of the Inn

Not a spreadsheet with a book icon — a place your library actually lives, from the photograph on the wall to the friend who still has your copy.

Photograph, don't type

Point your camera at a shelf. Shelf Inn reads every spine — a full bookcase is catalogued before your chai cools.

Your books, your colours

Each spine's colour is sampled from your own photograph, then refined. Your shelf on screen looks like your shelf on the wall.

A ledger for lending

Check books out to friends and family by name. The shelf dims their spine until it comes home.

Tonight's read, chosen

One tap runs a slow roulette across your unread pile and pulls a book off the shelf for you.

The real shelf, mapped

Your photograph is kept, zoomable, with every catalogued book outlined in place. Find any book by sight.

Reads your languages

English, ગુજરાતી, हिंदी and most scripts on your shelves — regional editions included.

Checked in, in three moves

From a wall of five hundred books to a searchable, visual library — one photograph at a time.

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Photograph a shelf

One shelf or the whole bookcase — tall photos are read shelf by shelf, automatically.

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A quick check-in

Correct anything misread, tag the location once, and every book is checked in together.

03

The Inn remembers

Statuses, ratings, reviews, borrowers, and exactly which shelf every book calls home.

Your library has been waiting for an innkeeper.

Free while the Inn is young. Your books stay on your device.

Open the Inn