Snapshelf: Scan & Read Aloud

Point your camera at a printed page and Snapshelf turns it into text you can listen to, translate, organise and search. A book, a letter, a handout, a label, a PDF — capture it once and hear it whenever you like.

Everything happens on your iPhone. There is no Snapshelf server, no Snapshelf account, and nothing you scan is ever uploaded. Most scanning apps send your document away to be read. Snapshelf has nowhere to send it.

SCAN
• Reads printed text in around 25 languages, following the languages your iPhone is set to
• Capture with the camera, or import from Photos or a PDF
• Recognition runs on the device, so it works with no connection at all
• Scans are stored compactly, so a large library stays small on your phone and in iCloud

LISTEN
• Every voice installed on your iPhone, including Apple's Premium and Enhanced voices
• Lock Screen and Dynamic Island playback with a progress scrubber
• Skip fifteen seconds either way, and change the playback speed
• Handles calls, Siri and headphones being unplugged properly
• Opening Snapshelf no longer stops the music you were already playing

TRANSLATE
• 21 languages using Apple's on-device Translation framework
• Download a language once and translation works offline afterwards
• Your text is never transmitted to a translation service

ORGANISE
• Playlists and hashtags
• Search across everything you have ever scanned
• Share a snippet's text and the original scan through the standard share sheet
• Dark mode throughout, or follow your system setting

SYNC
• Snippets, playlists and translations follow you between iPhone and iPad
• Through your own private iCloud account, not ours

PRIVACY
Your scans, the images behind them and the recognised text stay on your device and, if you enable sync, in your own iCloud. We collect crash reports and a small number of anonymous product-interaction events, which contain nothing you scanned. There is no advertising identifier and no tracking.

FREE AND PRO
Snapshelf is free to download, and everything is unlimited for your first week.

After that, the free tier keeps unlimited scanning in every language it reads, as many snippets and playlists as you like, full search and sharing, and every voice on your phone. It also includes ten snippets listened to and ten translated each week, on a rolling seven-day allowance — so there is always some waiting for you when you come back.

Snapshelf Pro removes both weekly limits and adds iCloud sync across your devices. It is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase that never renews and is shareable with up to six family members. Current prices are shown in the app before you buy.

Subscriptions are billed through your Apple Account and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel any time in Settings ▸ Apple Account ▸ Subscriptions.

Requires iOS 26. Runs on iPhone and iPad.

Terms of Use: https://snapshelf.app/terms/
Privacy Policy: https://snapshelf.app/privacy/

Questions and feedback: hello@snapshelf.app