📚 Scan My Shelf

Point your phone at a shelf. Know every book on it.

Spines reads a whole bookshelf from one photo — every spine identified, prize winners flagged, ratings at a glance.

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iPhone app · from the team at spinesapp.com

How it works

  1. 1. Snap the shelf

    Charity shop, thrift store, used bookstore, library sale, a friend's front room — one photo covers the whole shelf.

  2. 2. Every spine, identified

    Spines picks out each book on the shelf and names it. No typing, no barcode hunting.

  3. 3. See what's worth pulling out

    Award winners — Pulitzer, Booker, Women's Prize and more — get flagged, ratings show at a glance, and anything from your wishlist appears at the top of your scan results.

Someone points a phone at a full bookshelf; the screen shows the shelf being captured

Made for second-hand shelves

Prize winners, flagged

Major literary awards surface right in your results, so the sticker-less gems don't slip past.

Ratings at a glance

Aggregate reader ratings for every identified book, side by side.

Your wishlist, working

Keep a wishlist in the app — when a shelf you scan holds one, the match appears at the top of your scan results.

Recommendations that fit

Personalised suggestions drawn from what you scan and shelve.

Twenty spines is a squint. One photo is a scan.

If you love used-book hunting, you already know the neck-tilt shuffle. Spines replaces it.

Get Spines on the App Store