Scan Your Bookshelf With Your Phone
Velato lets you pan your camera across a full shelf and catalog every book automatically. No ISBN barcodes, no pulling books out, and no tapping through one title at a time.
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Shelf Scanning
How the Book Spine Scanner Works
Velato turns shelf cataloging into one continuous motion, so the scan feels closer to filming a panorama than running 50 separate lookups.
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Open Velato and point your camera at your shelf
Start with the full row in view. Velato is built for shelves, not one-book checkouts.
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Pan slowly - the AI reads every spine in real time
As you move across the shelf, the scan updates continuously and keeps recognizing titles.
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Your full library appears, organized and searchable
The shelf becomes a digital library you can search, sort, and revisit whenever you want.
Why It Matters
Why Scanning Spines Is Harder Than It Sounds
Most book scanning apps still depend on ISBN barcodes. That means pulling out each book, flipping it over, and scanning the back one at a time. On a shelf of 50 books, that is 50 separate scans before your library is even started.
A handful of apps claim to read spines from a photo, but accuracy is the real bottleneck. Users report correct identification on roughly 9 out of 15 books. Velato's AI was built specifically for spine recognition, trained on how books actually look on real shelves.
After The Scan
What You Get After the Scan
The scan is only the start. Velato turns a physical shelf into something you can actually use.
A searchable digital library
Every detected title lands in one place, so you can browse what you own without standing in front of the shelf.
See the main product overviewShelf-by-shelf organization
Velato remembers where books live, making it easy to find the exact shelf a title belongs to later.
View the feature walkthroughAutomatic market value calculation
Your collection is not just cataloged. Velato also calculates used-book value as part of the same flow.
See how pricing fits into the product
Reader Reactions
What Readers Are Saying
Speed and ease are the first things readers mention once they try a full-shelf scan.
"I scanned five shelves in less than a minute."
"One sweep of the camera, and 30 books just... appeared. It's actually addictive."
"My bookcase has 2 columns, 5 rows each. I scanned them all in less than 5 minutes."
Scan. Organize. Share.
Join the readers turning their physical bookcases into beautiful digital libraries. Free to download on iOS.
"I scanned five shelves in less than a minute."