Know what a book will do to you. Before you open it.
Photograph any bookshelf. See the emotional fingerprint of every book on it. Watch what your library quietly says about you.
“Reading lists tell you what someone has read. PagePulse tells you what those books did to them.”The frame we are building toward
Photograph any bookshelf. Read the room.
Point your camera at any shelf — your own, a friend's, a stranger's at a café. PagePulse reads every spine, looks each title up, and gives you back one composite Shelfie: a single artifact that says what this whole shelf feels like.
Every book gets its own fingerprint.
For any book in your library, PagePulse generates a chapter-by-chapter emotional map. Pulse, darkness, hope, complexity — the metrics a careful reader develops over a year of reading, surfaced before chapter one.
Your library, reading you back.
Reading persona. Genre landscape. Abandonment patterns. The shape of your taste, surfaced in one screen — the kind of thing a careful reader takes years to notice about themselves.
Bring your library, however you keep it.
Already have a reading life on Goodreads, StoryGraph, or a spreadsheet you've kept for years? Drop the CSV in. PagePulse reads it, looks every title up against a live catalog of millions of books, and pulls in real covers, ISBNs, and metadata as it goes.
- Photograph it. Point your camera at a shelf — Shelfie reads the spines and adds the books.
- Import from Goodreads. Built-in export instructions; the file works as-is.
- Import from StoryGraph. Same flow — your CSV, your books.
- Or any CSV. Title and Author columns are enough — the app does the rest.
Every imported book gets the full PagePulse treatment — fingerprint, pulse, persona signal — as if you'd added it by hand.
One price. Yours forever.
A paid app. No subscription, no ads, no add-ons. Sign in once with Google — same shelf on every Android device, today and any future one.
One tap to sign in. Same shelf on any device.
Google Sign-In on first launch — no email/password, no anonymous trial, no "save your stuff before it fades" nag. The app you paid for is yours, your library is yours, and so is the off-switch.