Eagle Shelf

A custody system for physical books.

Now on the App Store · iPhone & iPad

A local-first, books-only catalog for people who own and care for a collection. Your library lives on your device — no account, no feed, no cloud.

View on the App Store How your data stays yours

What it looks like

Screens from the shipping app on iPhone. The library shown is sample data.

Eagle Shelf library list showing The Left Hand of Darkness, Dune and A Wizard of Earthsea, each with reading status, condition, format and printing. — **The books you own**Condition, format and printing, visible at a glance.

A Dune entry expanded to show two copies of one edition: an Ace Books 1990 hardcover marked Fine and Signed, and a mass-market paperback marked Good. — **Two copies, one edition**A signed hardcover and a reading copy stay separate records.

A copy detail screen with an Edition section listing title, author, publisher, year, edition and ISBN, above a This Copy section listing reading status, disposition, printing and condition. — **Edition facts, copy facts**Bibliographic details above; what is true of your copy below.

Eagle Shelf About screen stating the library is stored locally on the device, no account is required, and describing backup, restore and optional ISBN metadata lookups. — **Stored on your device**No account. Export a backup whenever you want one.

What Eagle Shelf is

Eagle Shelf helps you keep an accurate, private record of the books you physically own. It treats your collection as something to be stewarded — distinguishing the edition of a book from the specific copy you hold, with its own condition, location, and notes.

Local-first

Your library is stored on your device. No account required.

Books-only

A focused tool for physical books — not a do-everything app.

Editions & copies

Catalog the edition and the individual owned copy separately.

Collector-oriented

Built around ownership and stewardship, not status updates.

How adding a book works

You stay in control of every entry. Eagle Shelf offers several ways to add a book, and always includes a review step before anything is saved:

Manual entry — type the title, author, ISBN, and other details yourself.
ISBN scan — use the camera on supported devices to read an ISBN barcode into the form.
Metadata lookup — optionally fetch details after entering or scanning an ISBN (requires a network connection).
Copyright-page scan — use on-device OCR to suggest edition-related details from a photographed copyright page.

Scanning and lookup are assistive, not automatic identification. Suggested ISBN, edition, and printing values are always presented for your confirmation before they are saved.

What Eagle Shelf is not

No account and no sign-in.
No social feed, followers, or sharing layer.
No reading-recommendation engine.
No cloud-first storage and no subscription.

Backups are user-controlled files you export and import yourself. See the Privacy Policy for the full picture.

Get Eagle Shelf

Eagle Shelf is available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. It is a one-time purchase — no subscription, no account, and no ads.

View on the App Store Read the support guide