New things on Moodshelf, month by month.
Long articles in the reader now show how far along you are. On a wide screen, a column of small marks on the left edge follows each section as you read; hover over it to see the contents and how many minutes are left, and click any heading to jump there. On a phone, a thin line across the top fills as you go. Also fixed: a long link inside an article no longer pushes the reader sideways on a phone.
On a shelf several people add to, Following credited everything to the shelf's owner. Now each entry names the person who added the items, and says whose shelf they went on when it isn't theirs. You'll also see what people you follow add to other people's public shelves, and your own adds no longer appear in your Following.
When people add to your public shelf, visitors now see them next to your name, and each item they added says who added it. People who only view the shelf aren't named. Also a few small fixes: a note added from a shelf's Add tile always lands on that shelf, you're told if an item saved but couldn't go on the shelf, your own items no longer say they were added by you, you can select items with the keyboard, and the owner's avatar sits on top of the stack with every initial readable.
Signing in to a different account on the same browser could briefly show the previous account's items, moods and shelves on Home before yours loaded. Now you only ever see your own, and signing out clears them from the browser.
You can now invite people to a shelf with a link. Open Share, turn on Invite link, pick whether people can view or edit, and paste it into any chat. Anyone who opens it can join, and people new to Moodshelf sign up first. Turn the link off whenever you want, and turning it on again gives you a new one. Someone who joins a shelf that's still empty now sees that it's empty, not a prompt to add their own things. Invite links are part of Plus.
Anyone can sign up now, no invite needed. The free plan holds 200 items and comes with moods, shelves, search, and the browser extension. Plus is $7 a month or $60 a year. It lifts the limit and adds your taste map, which appears once you have 200 items, along with the portrait written over it and shelves you build with friends. If you joined while Moodshelf was invite-only, your free Plus ends today. Everything you've added stays free, and you have room for 200 more.
An item's comment now has a Private and Public switch beside its heading. Switch it to Public and people who find that item on one of your public shelves, or on Explore, see your words under your name. Comments stay private until you switch them, and the small info icon tells you exactly who can see yours. Your own comments are now editable wherever you open your item, Explore included. We also fixed a bug where clicking in and out of a comment box that hadn't finished loading could wipe the comment.
Open an item, then one of the shelves it's on, and the shelf now appears straight away. Before, the item lingered on screen for a moment first, and the shelf page sometimes wouldn't scroll until you reloaded.
Every list of shelves now shows who can see each one: a globe for public, a lock for private. You'll see it when you add to a shelf, on an item's shelves, and in the browser extension. The shelf picker in Add items also shows how many items each shelf holds.
You can switch a shelf between private and public again. For a while, Save in the Share window did nothing unless you had typed an email to invite someone. When you open an item, any private shelf it's on now shows a lock, the same as in the add-to-shelf menu. And when you rename a shelf or change who can see it, every place that shows it updates straight away.
Moving between Home, Shelves and Explore is quicker now. The tab you tap lights up straight away. Pages you just left open instantly when you come back.
Opening an item now works like opening a page. Press Back to close it. Press Forward to bring it back. On Home and your shelves, an open item also keeps its place in the address bar. Reload and it stays open.
A shelf can now have more than one curator. Open a shelf and press Share. Invite a friend by email. Editors can add and remove items with you. Viewers can look but not change anything. Inviting people is part of Plus.
Open a shelf from a feed, look around, and come back: you land where you left off instead of at the top. Before, every detour cost you your place and you had to scroll past everything you had already seen. Public shelves also keep the items you have scrolled through, so a long one comes back whole rather than rebuilding from the first few rows.
The Shelves page now offers a few shelves drawn from what you keep saving, named for what they are about. Open one to see the items it would hold, rename it, leave out anything that does not belong, and make it a shelf. If a suggestion is not for you, say not now and it stays away until that part of your library grows.
New shelves are now public by default, so others can find them on Explore. You can make any shelf private when you create it or later, and your existing shelves stay exactly as they were. On Explore, hover an item to see who added it, and follow them straight from the item's details. When you pick a username, you'll see right away whether it's free. Private shelves now show a small lock wherever you add items to a shelf.
Some things arrive with no name worth reading. A saved image often shows up as the file it came from, all hashes and numbers, and a saved quote can show up with nothing at all. Those now get a name that says what they are, written from the thing itself and checked before it is used, so a picture of a skater in a graffiti tunnel says so instead of reading tumblr_ohtf72oNs71qzuq4lo1_500.gif. Titles you wrote yourself are left alone, and anything renamed is still yours to edit.
Search now looks at what each result actually is before deciding the order, so the thing you meant comes first instead of whatever happened to share a word with it. Searching for serif typefaces brings back typefaces, not every page that says "font" in passing. Asking for something you already own is better at noticing: when your shelf genuinely holds an answer, it says so and shows you, and it stays quiet when it does not.
Items now move between Home and the Bin the instant you delete or restore them. A restored item goes back to its old place on Home right away, a deleted one is waiting at the top of the Bin, and deleting or restoring a few in a row no longer makes any of them blink back for a moment.
The Display panel in the reader is quieter and easier to read at a glance. Text size is now a slider that runs from small to large, and each width option shows the shape your paragraphs will take. The font choice previews itself, and the panel matches the rest of the app on your phone too.
Something you had just deleted could be missing from the Bin until you reloaded the page, if you opened the Bin while the undo was still counting down. It now shows up straight away. Restoring an item also confirms it the moment you click, instead of a beat later.
Deleting something no longer makes it vanish the moment the undo fades. It goes to the Bin, the trash icon in the sidebar (on your phone, tap your avatar), and waits there for 30 days before it is gone for good. Restore puts it back exactly where it was, on the same shelves, with its highlights and note. If you have saved the same link again since, the two quietly become one. You can also clear things out early, one at a time or all at once.
The Following tab on Explore is now a feed. Each entry shows who added what and the shelf it landed on, newest first, with the new items standing on the shelf. Tap an item to look closer, or open the shelf to see the rest. Searching or filtering still shows everything from the people you follow as a grid.
Quotes on a shelf you share by link were showing only their first line, cut mid sentence, while the same shelf looked right to you when signed in. A visitor now sees the whole quote, and whoever said it.
A quote you saved from are.na was showing the note you wrote about it instead of the quote itself. If the note was a link, that is all you saw. The quote was never lost, it just sat behind its own footnote. Now the quote is the card, and your note sits underneath it as a small line of credit, which is where it was always trying to be.
Long quotes were also stopping short, cut off partway through a sentence with no way to reach the rest. They arrive whole now, and open instantly when you click into one.
You can now rename an item. Open it, click its title, type, and it saves itself. Screenshots and camera uploads that arrived with a filename for a title finally get to be called what they actually are.
Your comments count in search too. Search used to match the words in a comment literally; now it understands what you meant, so an item you wrote "reminded me of my grandmother's kitchen" on turns up when you go looking for it later without remembering exactly how you put it. Renaming works the same way, and a typo or a slightly different word no longer hides an item you commented on.
Saving a picture straight from Bing's image search used to save the search results page instead of the picture itself. Right-clicking a result and saving it now grabs the actual image.
Saving an image straight from a search results page (Bing's image search, for instance) could land with the wrong title, the wrong description, and no thumbnail at all, borrowed from the site's own homepage instead of the picture you actually saved. Image saves now always keep the title and cover they were captured with.
Reading in Kindle's web app now works with the extension the way any other book source does. Saving the page you're reading adds the book itself, with its real title, cover, and author, not a generic webpage. Highlighting an excerpt (tap Copy in Kindle's own highlight popup) offers to save it as a quote attached to that same book, so it shows up with your other highlights instead of as a loose scrap of text.
You can now copy a saved quote straight from its card in your library, not just from the detail view. Also fixed a case where the copy button would go missing entirely on some highlight saves.
Some book saves from Goodreads were missing a cover, especially ones with a subtitle, a series name, or an omnibus edition attached to the title. Those now find their real cover. A Goodreads page of quotes from a book also used to show up looking like the book itself; it now shows the book's real cover with the quotes listed underneath, the way a highlight import would look.
Adding something just got shorter. Type a thought or paste a link into the same box and moodshelf figures out which it is. Tapping the plus button takes you straight there now, no menu in between. Every shelf also gets its own quick spot to drop a note, link, or image right into it, and pasting or dropping one anywhere on a shelf's page lands it there too. And the comment field on a saved item's detail view is now labeled "Comment", so it reads as your own remark rather than another note.
Search now understands full questions, not just keywords. Ask "something quiet for sunday morning" and your shelf answers in its own voice, pointing at the exact things it means. When nothing on your shelf fits, it looks beyond it and recommends a few things worth your time, with a line on why. A small constellation of your moods speaks for the shelf — it stirs while it looks, and settles when it's done.
Message our Telegram bot a link, a note, or a photo and it lands in your library in seconds. Connect your account once from the bot's first reply, then capture from your phone without opening the app. Changed your mind? Reply undo within 15 minutes. Manage the connection anytime from settings.
The observations in your taste portrait used to appear in no particular order, and shuffled around each time it refreshed. They now start with the corner of your library you have built up the most, and work outward from there. Tapping one still lights up that part of your map, and now the whole cluster lights, not just a few points in it.
Text saves used to appear on shelf cards as a plain icon. They now show up as tiny paper cards with the first lines of the quote on them, standing on the shelf next to your covers.
Your shelves now look the part. Covers stand upright on a wooden ledge at their natural size, books and films keep their shape, and anything that doesn't fit peeks out from the card's edge. Hover a shelf and the row slides along to show you what else is inside.
When you make a shelf public, its items now show up near the top of Explore instead of getting buried under more recent picks. Sharing a shelf finally puts it where people will actually see it.
The Explore wall stopped after the first 30 items, so most of a freshly shared shelf never appeared. It now keeps loading as you scroll until you have seen everything.
The grow-into-view effect from the home grid now works on Explore and inside shelves too. Wherever you open an item, the card grows from its spot and settles back when you close it.
Opening an item feels more physical now. The card you click grows from its spot in the grid into the detail view, and shrinks back into place when you close it. Works in current browsers, with the previous fade everywhere else.
Dialogs, dropdown menus, and toasts now ease in gently instead of popping into place, and toasts fade out when they leave. Opening an item from the taste map got its zoom animation back too.
When you open a save on desktop, the info panel on the right can now be hidden. Tap "Hide info" at the top to give the image or page the full width, and "Show info" to bring it back. Moodshelf remembers your choice, so the view stays the way you like it.
Tapping into a mood now shows only saves that actually belong there. Small or specific moods used to get padded out with unrelated saves once the real matches ran out; that's fixed, and it now adapts to how broad or narrow your own library is. Search across saved web pages got a bit sharper too, leaning more on matching words for cases where similar topics were crowding out the right result.
You can now jot down a quick note on any save, why you saved it, what you liked or didn't, anything worth remembering. Add one anytime from the details panel, or right after saving from the browser extension. Saves with a note get a small marker on the card, and your notes are searchable too.
Movies you save now list their director and cast right in the details, and you can search your shelf by either.
Some shelves were showing blank covers instead of their item previews, mostly for people with a lot of saves across many shelves. Shelf covers now load correctly every time.
Search now lives in the bottom nav on mobile, with a lighter header up top. In the reader, display options (font, size, theme) open in a quick bottom sheet instead of a separate screen, and highlights now feel snappier on iOS. We also fixed a couple of nagging glitches: your profile picture should show up reliably now, and shelf covers no longer go blank when a thumbnail fails to load.
When you add a link or images, you can now choose which shelf they land on right from the Add panel, or create a new shelf on the spot. The Shelves page also has a quicker way to start a new shelf from the search bar.
Moodshelf now imports your Goodreads library. Export the CSV from My Books, drop it into Add, then Import, then Goodreads, and every book arrives with its cover. There are also new step-by-step guides for bringing your Kindle highlights and your Goodreads shelves, at moodshelf.com/bring.
The free shelf now holds 500 items, up from 200. And when you import a file with more than will fit, Moodshelf tells you up front so you can choose what to do, and anything already on your shelf comes over without taking a spot. Also new: you can now read What's new without signing in, and the page wraps up more gracefully on phones.
Your taste map now has a Download button that saves your taste profile as a Markdown file. It includes your aesthetic signature, every named drive from your portrait, and your dominant moods. Add it to any AI project or chat as context and it knows what you're drawn to, what you return to, and how to give you recommendations that actually fit.
Moods on the home page now group your saves by genuine emotional quality, not just topic similarity. Every item in a mood actually belongs there, labels are plain and immediate ("Quiet Ambition", "Warm Nostalgia"), and your full library participates, not just images. Tap a mood and the results should feel right.
Your taste map now comes with a written portrait: a short reading of what you keep coming back to and why, with observations you can tap to light up the saves behind each one. You can share the whole thing as a poster. Search got sharper too, so you can now find posts by the name of the person who wrote them, not just their handle.
Importing a large movie list could leave some films without their poster. Imports now pace their requests and retry hiccups, so posters and other details load reliably even on big batches.
After importing a lot at once, the moods on your home could thin out for a few minutes before filling back in. They now refresh in one step, once the new items finish processing, so the list settles instead of dipping first.
Books added through a Kindle import were arriving with just a cover and author. They now include the full synopsis, the same as a book you save one at a time, so the details panel reads properly.
In a save's details, a longer caption no longer flashes on screen and then vanishes a moment later. The text now stays put while you browse.
Importing your Pinterest saves while signed out now sends you to log in, the same as the other imports, instead of failing with an error.
Tidied up the detail view. Video descriptions no longer carry page clutter like sign-in prompts, transcript notes, or comment-box bits. Captions on saved posts no longer show up twice. And the description text reads more clearly now.
Save details got a polish. Books now show their real description instead of just the author, and book pages you save from a shop come through with their cover. Every save now shows where it came from and when. Posts from Instagram, X, and Pinterest read more naturally, with the account name up top and the caption as the text. We also cleaned up stray characters that were slipping into some titles.
Save a link that has no preview image and Moodshelf now grabs a screenshot of the page, so it shows up as a real picture on your shelf instead of a plain placeholder. When you save with the browser extension it captures the page exactly as you saw it, signed-in pages included.
You can now pull your saved pins into Moodshelf. With the browser extension connected, import everything you've saved on Pinterest and it lands as image cards on your shelf, ready to organize alongside the rest. Turn on Keep in sync and the new pins you save on Pinterest will keep flowing in on their own.
Opening a saved item now shows a cleaner detail view with a side panel that gathers everything in one place: the title and description, who added it, the shelves it lives in (each with its item count), and any highlights. On explore you can see who saved something and which shelves it appears in, and add it to a shelf of your own straight from the card.
Selecting items is calmer now. While you're picking cards, each one shows just its checkbox instead of a full row of buttons, so the grid stays clean and the actions you need sit in the bar at the bottom.
Your shelf reads calmer at a glance: each card now shows a single tidy title line instead of a block of text. Scrolling through a large library is smoother too, with covers staying put instead of flickering in and out as you move.
A few things got nicer:
Just deleted a card you actually wanted to keep? You now get five seconds to take it back, right from the bottom of the screen. Hit Undo, the card comes right back where it was. Navigate away in the meantime and the delete still finishes, so there are no ghost cards on the next reload. Plus the select circle on phones is visible again, so picking a few cards to act on works the way it used to.
Instagram and X bookmark imports are back to finishing in seconds instead of minutes. The dialog no longer sits on "Queuing..." while preparing images. Cover images still get a durable copy in the background after the import finishes, so cards keep looking right over time.
Instagram imports now bring in all of your saved posts, and Instagram covers stay visible long-term instead of going blank after a day or two. The Import dialog also notices when the extension finishes installing, so you don't need to come back and click around to move on.
The "What's new" link in your account menu opens this page. New updates, improvements, and fixes Moodshelf ships will land here, latest first.
Save covers load faster across the app, and they hold up better on slower connections too. If you haven't added a profile photo yet, your avatar now shows your initial on a colored background instead of a blank circle, so accounts are easier to tell apart at a glance.
Anything you've highlighted in the inline reader, on your Kindle, or imported from Readwise now lives on the original save card. Click a save to scroll its highlights, or drag through them in a side drawer.
The browser extension can now pull in your full Kindle library, X bookmarks, and Instagram saves. Connect once and they show up alongside everything else, no manual exports or files.
Copy a passage from anywhere on the web, paste it into Moodshelf, and it becomes a highlight with the source attached. No new tab, no extra clicks.
Search understands what you mean, not just what you typed. Multiple keywords work the way you'd expect, partial matches surface useful results, and meaning-based search finds related saves even when the exact words don't match.
Open any article save and read it inside Moodshelf, without opening the original page. The reader strips the ads and chrome, paragraphs are spaced for actual reading, and any passage you highlight there saves back to the same card.
Save covers no longer disappear when the original page goes down or swaps out its image. Whatever your save looked like the day you added it is what it'll look like next month.
A handful of shelf updates: publish a shelf with a toggle, credit contributors in an attribution row, and add new items from inside the shelf detail view.
Saves for movies, books, music, and articles now pull richer posters and covers from across the web. Less placeholder grey, more of the artwork that makes a save feel like a save.
