Read your own PDFs
Add a PDF from your device — or send one straight to Shelfgoal from any app with “Open with”. Title, page count and cover are read from the file.
Works fully offline No account, no sync
Finish what’s on your shelf.
Shelfgoal is a reading tracker that is also the reader. Add your own PDFs, and your progress, sessions and pace are measured as you read — privately, on your device, with nothing uploaded anywhere.
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Android · phone and tablet. PDF for now; more formats later.
Saturday · 29 Aug
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Features
Every other tracker logs books you read somewhere else.
Shelfgoal is the reader and the tracker in one, so progress is measured rather than self-reported — and the reading itself is the part that got the most attention.
Pages that turn
In page mode the leaf rotates on the spine as you drag, tracking your finger rather than playing a canned animation once you let go. Or read as one continuous scroll.
Sessions, measured not guessed
The clock starts when you open a book and stops when you leave. Pages, minutes and pace are recorded without you logging anything — and an idle guard stops a forgotten app inflating your stats.
Notes pinned to the page
Notes, quotes, questions and ideas, each attached to the page you were on. Tap one to jump straight back. Search across every note in every book.
Goals and streaks
Books a year, minutes a day, pages a day. Live rings, pace against target, and a streak with a grace day so one bad evening does not undo a month.
Stats worth opening
A year heatmap, pages and minutes over time, average session length, and the hour of day you actually read most.
Focus mode
Silence notifications while a book is open and get them back the moment you leave. Paper, sepia and night reading modes, plus rotation lock scoped to the reader.
Built for phone and tablet
One pane on a phone, two on a tablet. Landscape throughout, dynamic type respected, and every animation degrades to a fade when you ask the system to reduce motion.
Privacy by design
Offline is not a setting here. It is the architecture.
There is no server to hold your library, so there is nothing to leak, sell or subpoena. Your books, notes and reading history live in one database on your phone — and the ads that keep the app free never get to see any of it.
No account needed. Open the app and read. Registering is optional, unlocks nothing, and attaches none of your library to it.
No upload. Books are copied into the app’s own storage on your device. They are never sent anywhere.
No analytics, no trackers. No usage statistics, no crash reporting, no attribution SDK. The free version shows ads — that is the only thing in the app watching anything, and it never sees your books.
Your data, exportable. Export everything to JSON, or your notes to Markdown, whenever you want. Wipe it all in two taps.
How it works
Three steps, and then none.
Add a book
Pick a PDF with the system file picker, or share one to Shelfgoal from Files, Drive or your browser.
Just read
Progress, session length and reading pace are recorded while you read. Nothing to start or stop.
Watch the shelf empty
Goals, streaks and stats build themselves out of what you actually read — not what you say you read.
Your shelf is not going to read itself.
Shelfgoal is in the final stretch before release. The library, reader, notes, goals and stats are all built and working.
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