The links you love,
entirely yours.
Shelf does exactly one thing, flawlessly: drop a link, grab the details, and move on. No subscriptions, no cloud lock-in.
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Features
Instant Metadata
Paste a URL, and watch Shelf instantly pull in the title, description, and a high-quality preview image. Intelligent background crawling bypasses simple anti-bot protections to ensure you always get a rich preview.
Seamless In-App Updates
Shelf actively checks for new GitHub releases in the background and installs them seamlessly over-the-air, keeping you on the latest version without the hassle.
Direct Share Integration
Found something interesting in Chrome, Twitter, or Reddit? Just hit "Share" and send it straight to Shelf. It's saved in a split second without even opening the app.
Collections & Tags. Perfected.
Group your bookmarks naturally. No messy nested folders—just name a collection, drop your links in, or add Tags to cross-reference and filter them effortlessly.
Pin Bookmarks
Pin your most important links to the top for immediate access
Bulk Actions & Sorting
Manage your library efficiently. Select multiple bookmarks to delete or move them to collections at once, and sort them exactly how you like.
Designed for your screen
Built with pure Material 3 and tailored for Android. Switch seamlessly between Light, Dark, or true OLED Black themes. Choose from 8 beautifully curated accent colors, or enable Dynamic Colors (Material You) to adapt to your wallpaper.
App Lock Privacy
Keep your saved links for your eyes only. Secure the app using your device's built-in biometrics
Lightning Fast Actions
Configure exactly what happens when you tap a link. Open it directly in your browser, bring up a quick preview card without leaving the app, instantly copy the URL to your clipboard, or share it out via the native Android Share sheet.
View it your way
Prefer a visual spread or a dense list? Toggle effortlessly between Grid and List view to browse your collection however you like.
Full-Text Search
Find exactly what you're looking for, the moment you need it. Instant full-text search across titles, URLs, descriptions, and your personal notes.
Personal Notes
Add context to your bookmarks with private, inline notes directly on the cards. No more forgetting why you saved a link.
Exact Reminders
Schedule notifications to remind you to revisit specific links at exactly the right time.
Your data. Your rules.
You own your bookmarks. Export them to JSON or HTML anytime. Import from your desktop browser just as easily. Works completely offline, prioritizing your privacy.
Peace of mind, built-in
Rest easy with automatic, daily backups saved straight to your device's internal storage and downloads folder. You never lose a thing.
Under the hood
Acknowledgements
Savr, by qeiq
First and foremost, the core of this application was built by qeiq in their amazing project Savr. Shelf is a fork of Savr, and without their fantastic open-source codebase, this project wouldn't exist.
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A massive thank you to Vishal Kumar Singhvi for Android-Link-Preview, which powers the metadata magic.
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