Spinely
Scan spines, sort & visualise your shelves.
Spinely helps you organise the physical bookshelves you already own.
Define your bookcases and shelves, then log books by scanning their ISBN barcode — with a manual search fallback — and photograph and crop each book’s spine. Choose how to organise (by author, colour, category and more) and get a beautiful, interactive visual shelf.
When a shelf overflows, drag the pin inward to set its cut-off: overflow books grey out and flow to the next shelf, committed with a simple confirmation. Everything is local-only — your library stays on your device.
Highlights
Scan & catalogue in seconds
Log books by scanning their ISBN barcode, with automatic metadata lookup and a manual search fallback when you need it.
Your shelves, visualised
Photograph and crop each book’s spine to build an interactive, true-to-life visual layout of your bookcases.
Private & local-only
No account and no tracking — your library, spines and layout stay on your device.
Features
Bookcases & shelves
Define your real bookcases and shelves, then arrange your collection to match the room in front of you.
Barcode scanning & metadata
Scan an ISBN to pull in book metadata from Open Library and Google Books, with a manual search fallback.
Spine capture & crop
Photograph each book’s spine and crop it precisely, then tag its dominant colour for colour-based sorting.
Flexible organisation
Sort and distribute your books by author, colour, category and more, with an engine that lays them out across your shelves.
Interactive visual shelf
Browse a beautiful, true-to-scale representation of your bookcases built from your own spine photos.
Draggable overflow pin
When a shelf fills up, drag the pin inward to set its cut-off — overflow books grey out and flow to the next shelf, committed with a confirmation.
Get Spinely
Available for Android. Store listings are on the way — grab the latest build below.
Privacy
Spinely is local-first. Your bookcases, books and spine photos stay on your device and are never sent to us.
Read the Spinely privacy policy →