iPhone · iOS 18

Your collection,
finally catalogued.

MineralShelf turns a shelf of rocks, minerals, fossils, gemstones and meteorites into a proper catalogue — photographed, labelled with scannable QR codes, and backed up in a file you own.

Coming to the App Store Free for your first 10 specimens No account · no tracking

Works fully offline · Every photo and record stays on your iPhone

The MineralShelf catalogue in dark mode, showing a grid of photographed specimens
01

Catalogue it properly

Up to five photos and around fifty fields per specimen — species, formula, hardness, crystal system, locality, provenance, storage and value.

02

Find anything

Search every field at once, narrow by nine filters, sort eight ways. Built to stay quick with tens of thousands of specimens.

03

Keep it safe

One tap writes a complete backup — records and photos — as an ordinary ZIP file you can keep anywhere. Restore it on any iPhone.

Feature 01 · The catalogue

Every specimen, photographed and filed

A photo-first grid, category chips and a search field that looks at everything — name, species, formula, locality, storage, even the buyer of a specimen you sold. Sold pieces stay in the catalogue with a Sold label, so your history stays intact.

#0042
Species
Quartz · Amethyst
Formula
SiO₂
Hardness
Mohs 7
Storage
Cabinet 2 › Shelf 1 › Box 3
The catalogue grid, showing specimen cards with photos, names and species
Feature 02 · Specimen profiles

Room for everything you know about a piece

Physical measurements, scientific properties, where it came from and what you paid — each in its own section, all optional. A completeness meter nudges you to fill the gaps, and the map pin remembers exactly where you found it.

A specimen profile showing photos, quick facts and detail cards
Feature 03 · Labels & QR codes

Printed labels that open the right specimen

Three label styles, the details you choose, and sheets of them as a print-ready PDF on A4 or US Letter. Scan a label with MineralShelf — or just the iPhone Camera — and that specimen opens. The codes keep working after edits, and after restoring on a new phone.

The label sheet showing a QR label with catalogue number, name, species and locality
Feature 04 · Share posters

A specimen card worth posting

Pick a photo and the details you want, light or dark, and MineralShelf composes a 1080 × 1350 poster ready for Instagram or a club newsletter. Your choices are remembered for the next one.

The Share Poster screen with a composed specimen poster preview
Feature 05 · Expeditions

Remember the trip, not just the rock

Log rockhounding trips, mine visits, fossil hunts and shows with photos, a map pin, weather, who came along and the geology of the site — then link the specimens you found or bought. Open a specimen and the trip is one tap away, and the other way round.

An expedition page for the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show with dates, location and a map
Feature 06 · Collector Score

A dashboard that rewards the boring bits

Totals by category, value, top countries and how your collection has grown — plus an optional Collector Score that gives XP for cataloguing, filling in details, adding photos and logging expeditions. Seven levels, from Stone Seeker to Earth's Archivist.

The Summary dashboard with collection totals, Collector Score and a category breakdown
For dealers · optional

Selling at a show? Turn on Dealer tools.

Start a market encounter when you set up your table and it keeps running — every sale you record goes to that show until you end it. Scan a label to sell, or use Quick Sell for anything without a profile.

  • Revenue, profit and expenses per show
  • Profit worked out from the purchase price recorded at the time of sale
  • A full report when the show ends
  • Exported as a real .xlsx workbook for your accounts
A finished show's report: revenue, profit, expenses, profit margin, best sale and a payment-method breakdown
The Excel export preview, showing a Summary sheet with revenue, expenses and profit
Pricing

Free to start. One payment to go unlimited.

Free

10 specimens · 2 expeditions
  • Photos, labels, QR codes and posters
  • Expeditions and wishlist
  • Full backup and restore
  • No account, no advertising

MineralShelf Pro

One-time purchase · $24.99
  • Unlimited specimens
  • Unlimited expeditions
  • Dealer tools — shows, sales, revenue and profit
  • Not a subscription — pay once, keep it

Your collection is nobody else's business

There is no account to create and no server to sign in to. Records and photos live on your iPhone, the app works with no signal at the bottom of a quarry, and nothing is collected, measured or sold. Backups are plain ZIP files you control — open one on a computer and the photos are simply there.