Medical Knowledge, Organised.
Every guideline, protocol, lecture, and reference you receive — PDFs, images, videos — organised by specialty and topic. So the next time you need it, you actually find it. In seconds.
Whether you're a doctor, nurse, resident, or student — critical medical information reaches you every day. The problem is what happens to it after that.
Colleagues share protocols, case studies and guidelines over WhatsApp and Telegram every day. Critical information is buried in chat history — impossible to retrieve when you're with a patient.
Downloads folder has 800 files. Three versions of the same guideline, none labelled properly. You spend more time searching than actually using the information.
Quick clinical notes on the phone's notes app, WhatsApp self-chat, sticky notes — none connected to the case, specialty or topic they belong to.
Standing in front of a patient, you need a drug dosage, a protocol, a reference image — and the file you saved two weeks ago has simply vanished.
MedShelf is built for everyone in medicine — doctors, nurses, residents, students. It organises your knowledge the way clinical thinking works: by specialty, by topic.
Your Medical Library
Browse files the way your curriculum is structured — Anatomy, Pharmacology, Cardiology and 30+ more specialties with nested topics.
MedShelf scans WhatsApp, Telegram, Downloads, DCIM and more — bringing all your scattered medical files into one place with one tap.
Capture a thought instantly. Notes live inside their topic — so your Pharmacology note is always next to your Pharmacology files.
Import 50 files in one go. Select a folder, pick a destination specialty, done. MedShelf handles the rest.
Built from scratch for how medical students actually work — not a generic file manager with a coat of paint.
Snap photos of paper notes, prescriptions or printouts. Auto edge-detection, perspective correction and B&W enhancement happen on-device via Google ML Kit — single page becomes a JPG, multi-page becomes a clean PDF.
Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, bullet/numbered lists, indents, headers, blockquotes, links, undo/redo and 8 highlight tints. Write notes that look like a textbook page — fully offline.
Every file row has a visible Share button. Send to WhatsApp, Email, Telegram, Drive, AirDrop — any app on your phone — in two taps. No digging through menus.
Preview PDF content without opening it. First-page thumbnails are rendered instantly so you know exactly what's inside before you tap.
Scan 11 directories including WhatsApp, Telegram, Downloads, DCIM and more. Filter by file type. Import directly to any topic.
Select multiple files or an entire folder at once. Assign them all to a specialty in one step. Progress bar so you know it's working.
Pre-loaded with Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology, Pathology, Cardiology, Neurology and 25+ more. Add custom topics too.
Easy on the eyes during late night study sessions. Toggle between light and dark from the home screen instantly.
Store lecture recordings and video files alongside your PDFs and notes. All your study material in one place.
Your files are stored locally in a MedShelf folder on your device. No forced cloud upload. You're in control.
No complex setup. No account required to get started. Open the app and your library is ready.
Install from the App Store or Play Store. On first launch, a quick tutorial shows you the main features — takes about 30 seconds. You pick your specialty focus (MBBS, MD, Nursing etc.) so MedShelf shows the most relevant topics first.
Takes 30 secondsThree ways to get content in:
Find on Device — MedShelf scans WhatsApp, Telegram, Downloads & 8 more folders, surfaces every medical file already on your phone, and lets you bulk-import.
Scan — Tap the Scan button to snap a paper document with the camera. Edge detection, perspective correction and contrast enhancement happen on-device via Google ML Kit. Multi-page captures auto-stitch into a single PDF.
Share — While reading anywhere on your phone, hit Share → MedShelf and the file lands inside the right specialty.
Three ways in. Zero friction.Files land in the correct specialty folder automatically. Tap Browse by Specialty or Browse by Topic on the home screen to navigate your library. Each specialty has sub-topics — e.g. Cardiology → ECG, Heart Failure, Valvular Disease.
Structure mirrors your curriculumTap the Quick Note box on the home screen. The editor gives you bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, bullet/numbered lists, headers, blockquotes, indents, undo/redo, and 8 highlight tints. Pick a topic, save — your formatted note lives next to your PDFs in that specialty.
Notes that actually look like notesOpen any specialty, see all your files and notes together with thumbnail previews. Tap a PDF to read it, tap a note to edit it. Every file row has a visible Share button — send to WhatsApp, Email, Telegram, Drive, or any app on your phone in two taps.
Your library, your wayMedShelf is built on a simple principle: your study material belongs to you, not us.
Your files are stored in a MedShelf folder on your own device. No forced upload to any server.
We do not sell, share, or monetize your personal data or study materials. Ever.
MedShelf works with zero internet connection. No sign-in, no server calls, no background uploads — ever.
No sign-up, no account, no email required. Uninstall the app and every file is gone — nothing left on any server.
The Scan button uses Google ML Kit's on-device document scanner. Camera is active only while scanning. No images are uploaded.
Free to download. No subscription. No ads. Just a clean, fast medical knowledge organiser — built by a medico, for everyone in medicine.
Free · No subscription · Available on iOS & Android