Shelf Scout: Books app icon Shelf Scout: Books by Roman Hladush
Home library organizer · offline iPhone utility

Your books, shelves, rooms, and loans in one local map.

Shelf Scout: Books helps you remember what you own, where each book is stored, and who currently has borrowed a copy. It is built for everyday home libraries, not for online catalogs, reading streaks, or shopping flows.

Explore the library flow See what stays offline
LocalNo accounts, cloud sync, barcode APIs, or web book lookup.
PracticalTrack rooms, shelves, exact spots, and temporary loans.
ClearOpen the app to know where the book is right now.

Designed around a real home, not an abstract catalog.

Books can live in rooms, shelves, boxes, or an unplaced area until you sort them later. Each card keeps the everyday context that helps you find a book quickly.

Library without the noise

Add a title, author, category, room, shelf, exact spot, notes, and favorite marker. Covers are optional; the product does not depend on scanning, OCR, or external metadata.

HomeSee total active books, current loans, overdue items, and shelves that need review.
LibrarySearch by title, author, notes, room, shelf, borrower, category, and status.
ShelvesGroup books by room and shelf hierarchy, including cabinet-to-shelf nesting.
SettingsAdjust review windows, lending rules, local data export, and visual preferences.

A lending desk for books that leave the house.

Shelf Scout treats loans as part of the library, so a missing book does not become a mystery. Returned loans stay in history.

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Add Book

Save the title, author, room, shelf, category, exact spot, and notes. Start from a shelf when you already know where the book belongs.

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Lend Book

Choose a saved person or write a name, then record the lending date, expected return date, and a short note.

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Watch Return

Normal, watch, and late states help separate regular loans from books that have stayed away too long.

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Return

Close the lending record, move the book back to owned status, and keep full history for future reference.

Private by product shape.

The core value is local memory: your books, shelves, rooms, borrowers, and notes stay on the device unless you choose to export them.

What it is not

Shelf Scout is intentionally not a reader tracker, store, ISBN scanner, social book network, or academic citation manager.

  • No accounts or cloud library
  • No barcode or cover OCR flow
  • No online metadata lookup
  • No social sharing or public profiles
  • No purchase links or marketplace layer
Book catalogFilter owned, lent, favorite, archived, category, room, shelf, and recently added books.
Shelf mapUse room groups and one-to-two-level shelf nesting to mirror a real home setup.
People ledgerRemember frequent borrowers, books currently on hand, and average return behavior.
Local dataUserDefaults + Codable storage, local JSON export/import, and no external catalog dependency.
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Shelf Scout: Books

Developer: Roman Hladush. A focused iPhone utility for people who want a simple local answer to “where is this book?” and “who has it now?”

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