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A quiet place for what you want to read, watch and remember.
Books, films, shows, papers, places — everything you mean to get to, in one calm Mac app. Share what you choose with friends. Keep the rest to yourself.
Get Shelf for Mac
Free · macOS 14 or later · updates itself
Tuesday, 29 October
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You're in the middle of The Left Hand of Darkness.
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The Left Hand of DarknessUrsula K. Le Guin · 1969
SapiensYuval Noah Harari · 2011
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Everything you mean to get to.
Nothing shouting for attention.
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It fills itself in
Covers, authors, posters, abstracts and maps arrive on their own, from Open Library, Wikipedia, arXiv and more.
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One home for it all
Books, films, shows, papers, articles, videos, podcasts, music and places — each on its own shelf, all on one Home.
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Goodreads, kept in step
Connect your Goodreads profile and your books, shelves, ratings and read dates follow along — without ever touching what you added yourself.
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Calm by design
No counts, no streaks, no feeds that never end. A quiet greeting, what you're in the middle of, and what's next.
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Yours first
Your shelf lives on your Mac and works offline. Signing in is optional — it adds a cloud backup and friends.
Friends
Share a shelf, not your whole life.
Pick a @username. Follow people to see what they share with everyone, or become friends to see what they share with friends. Each shelf — and any single item — can be Only me, Friends, or Everyone.
- Everything starts private. Sharing is a choice, never a default.
- Notes, ratings and progress stay yours.
- See what friends finished lately, and add their picks to your own shelf in one click.
- A public page anyone can open — no app needed.
The Museum
Rooms to wander through.
World Currencies holds nearly 400 current banknotes from over 70 countries, each on paper that bends as you turn it, with the story of who and what it pictures. Flags & Anthems has every country's flag in woven cloth, and its anthem.
Japan's ¥10,000 note, Series F. Image: RegoParkRen, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Get Shelf
Free, for Macs with macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. Once installed, Shelf keeps itself up to date.
Terminal easiest
Downloads, installs and opens Shelf — no security prompts.
curl -fsSL https://shelf.rajjain.fyi/install.sh | bashHomebrew
If you already use Homebrew.
brew install --cask imrajjain/tap/shelfDownload
Unzip, move to Applications. The first time, open System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
Download Shelf.zip