Track your life in culture.

Films, shows, books, games and albums in one library. Log what you finish, rate it in half-stars, and see what your friends are into.

Free forever. Android is on the way.
What goes on it

Five kinds of media. One library.

Most people keep a film diary in one app, a reading list in another and their game backlog nowhere at all. High Shelf holds all of it, with the details each kind needs.

Films

A diary with watch dates, ratings and reviews.

Want to Watch · Watched

Shows

Where you are in a season, and when the next episode airs.

Want to Watch · Watching · Watched

Books

Reading progress and the right edition of every book.

Want to Read · Reading · Read

Games

A backlog you can actually see, from wishlist to finished.

Want to Play · Playing · Played

Albums

Rate whole records and keep the ones you return to.

Want to Listen · Listened
The app

Keep track first. Stats when you want them.

Your library looks like a wall of covers. Logging takes two taps. The stats are there when you get curious.

High Shelf library screen: media-type and status pills over a grid of film posters

Your library

Every film, show, book, game and album, filtered by status.

Logging Interstellar: status set to Watched, five stars and a short review

Log in two taps

Pick a status, give it stars from ½ to 5, add a review if you feel like it.

Stats screen with a media-type breakdown, daily activity heatmap and rating distribution

See your taste

Your media mix, daily activity and rating spread, across everything you track.

Moving in

Bring your history with you.

Export from the app you use now and drop the file into High Shelf. Ratings, dates and watchlists come across and get matched to the catalog automatically.

Settings → Import. Free for everyone, and you can re-import any time.

Stats

Find out what kind of critic you are.

Half-star ratings add up. After a few hundred logs you can see how generous you are, what you keep coming back to, and how your year went.

Rating spread

Example profile
½11½22½33½44½5

This year on the shelf

Example profile

Wrapped, free

Your year in review as a card you can share. Nobody pays for this one.

Lists, together

Ranked or unranked lists, and shared ones your friends can add to.

Friends, optional

Follow people for their reviews and activity, or keep the whole thing to yourself.

Questions.

The short answers. There's more in the full FAQ →

Is High Shelf free?

Yes — free to use, forever.

What can I track?

Movies, TV shows (including next-episode air dates), books, video games, and music albums — all in one library instead of five separate apps.

Can I bring my existing library over?

Yes — import from Letterboxd, Goodreads, IMDb, Trakt, TV Time, or Simkl from Settings → Import. It matches your existing entries against High Shelf's catalog automatically.

Is it social?

As much or as little as you want. Follow friends to see their activity and reviews, or just use it to track your own library privately — there's no requirement to post anything.

Is High Shelf available on Android?

Android support is in progress. iOS is available now on the App Store.

Is there a paid version?

There's an optional High Shelf Pro subscription for extra stats and themes, but everything core is free.

Start your shelf.

It takes a minute. Importing takes two.