Sortabout

Sort Your Shelf Out

Sortabout is a gentle bookshelf sorting game.

There is no score. No timer. No “wrong” order.

No streaks, no levels, nothing chasing you.

You arrange a shelf of beautiful old books — by colour, by author, by title, or by their Dewey Decimal numbers — and when the shelf looks right to you, you're done.

That's the whole game.

It was made for people who are a little too online. Every choice serves calm: you choose when you are done, no-one else. Nothing is ever judged, and when you finish, a breathing light gently suggests this might be a good moment to look away from the screen.

• No scores, no timers, no judgement — ever

• 464 real public-domain books to arrange. If you see one you like - click through and download it to your e-reader for free.

• Sort by colour, or by names and numbers — author, title, or Dewey Decimal

• A Colour Lab for designing your own palettes allows more than 5,000 unique shelf combinations

• Reading-room atmospheres and adjustable book heights to match your mood exactly

• Gentle generative sound and soft haptics that mix under your own music, podcast or team meeting

• No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no internet — nothing is collected, ever

• Every game is a "self-portrait" to share with those worthy to truly know you

Sort a shelf. Feel it settle. Put your phone down.