Beanstack Tracker App Reviews

Beanstack. Beanstack is aa terrific app. You can write reviews, see other reviews, add friends, log reading, you can do challenges with activities and so much more! It is a place of reading, and a place of knowledge, and community interaction (and service)! It helps children and adults want to read. It is a digital fun library app that you can keep! And I didn’t say it costs money. However it was rated four stars by me and not five only because of a little bad quality of the app itself. So if it blanks out on you close the app entirely, and log back on. That’s annoying, but other than that it’s a very good app.

Glitchy since updates. I would typically have given this app a five star review. I love being able to track my kids and my readings. It works well with our library’s reading challenges. However, the updates over this summer have made it incredibly glitchy and frustrating to input our readings. Freezing up after you hit log and not letting you do anything for 5-10 seconds. I am often trying to log multiple things at one time between myself and kids. So the freezing up has made my typical 2-3 minutes to log everything become more of a 5-10 minutes.

A Great Reading Tracker. Hello, I’m a full time mom of five😱 this app has given me the ability to track summer reading without the old pen and paper😁 We can be on the go and still remember all the books that have entertained us all summer long. The scan is easy to use. Most books are quickly logged. The book that is not found with the ISBN can still quickly be logged. It’s amazing to see how many stories have past through our home. My kids will finally get their party at school for reading this summer.😃 They will go back on this app and write down everything or I will encourage the school to get connected 👍 love this

What happened to the start and end page tracker?. Changing my rating from 1 star to 4 because I received a response and solution to the issue mentioned in my previous review. Very pleased with the app’s customer service. Original review: We’ve been using this app every day for over a year and just recently the start and end page tracker disappeared and now there’s only an option to put in how many pages you’ve read. PLEASE BRING BACK THE OPTION TO PUT IN THE PAGE YOU STARTED ON AND THE PAGE YOU ENDED ON!!! I’m giving it a one star until this is fixed because it’s crucial to being able to track reading. Yes, I know there’s a “pages read” input option, but it was better the way it was before since that number was calculated by the app based on the page you started on and the page you ended on.

Beanstack. I love how the app is used to keep track of reading and better that you can access a timer and activities and challenges to keep you busy and that you get to write down reviews and let your opinions be known to the others. The app is flawless but I want to suggest a challenge that you can do with friends and not just compete like maybe a writing contest or messaging with friends and showing them awesome books that are perfect for them and maybe you could start giving suggestions based on the last books they read. I could write a whole essay about how great it is but long story short this app is amazing!

Not worth the trouble. I’m halfway through the county summer reading program and am going to start using the paper logs they provide instead of Beanstack because it’s confusing to use. It doesn’t tell you how far along you are in your progress in the program. Also, the way it’s designed to log reading time doesn’t work well when you read shorter books. The only real benefit is that you can record the titles that you read. But even that is limited, because there’s so few titles included in their database. So many popular books by popular authors are missing. There’s the option to enter them yourself, but it gets tiresome to do that with nearly every entry. There’s badges that you can win, too, but that’s meaningless to my three year old and my seven year old doesn’t care. I actually work at my local library and so I see firsthand that the vast majority of parents are using paper logs, not the app. Not worth it.

Great app, but could be even better!!. I’m enjoying using this app to track my baby twins’ reading, but I’d love to see it improve a bit more. I’d like to have more books be able to be scanned by the ISBN, as it takes some time to type the title and photograph the book (and then that still doesn’t connect the ISBN to that book in the future, so you have to either re-enter the book or find it in past books read!). Also, I’d love to just easily be able to enter an estimate of total minutes read during a session instead of entering minutes per book. Honestly, the whole app could benefit from quicker (1-2 screen) entries - the quicker the better, especially for parents of very young readers who have lots of small, shorter books that are being read (and not a lot of extra time with said little ones)!! And I’d love to be able to easily view the total number of books read per child on some sort of home screen.

Does not work, spins.. I’m really disappointed that this app does not work. Had no problems until today and cannot get it to open. It spins. To make reading important these apps need to work. If I could give it a negative I would. I will continue to read but no longer interested in wasting my time trying to get useless apps to work. And interesting that there is no response from the developer. Enforces my low opinion of the lack of care. Update, response from the developer that means “I” would need to submit a ticket to have them research the problem with their product. Again, I’m not going to submit a ticket. I’m too busy to spend time trying to get a developer to fix this issues with their own product. I’m not a beta tester. Score remains the same. The product spins and will not show any data. Worked fine for a couple weeks and then stopped.

ISBN Issues. This app is ok. We’ve used Beanstack for logging our summer reading for the past three years and this year, I’m not sure the improvements are improvements. The ISBN scanner has only worked for about five books (out of 30 or more). When I enter the ISBN, that hasn’t worked either. The search for a book function is gone from previous versions and so, when I am forced to enter the book title and author information, no picture of the cover is shown/available; and I have to figure out how many pages are in it. I do like that we can log and track reading for parts of chapter books so that it doesn’t look like I’m not reading anything, when in reality I’m 499 pages into an 800 page book. My conclusion is that something is wrong with the app’s ISBN data base access. Fix that AND bring back titles searches.

Improved Immediately - still cumbersome to use. WOW! I put a review up saying I hated the app because you can't toggle between kids and have to completely log out and log in another child. It was changed by the next day. I know others had mentioned it, so it may have been lucky timing, but that was impressive. It is still difficult to navigate, so that adds some frustration. The learning curve is steep. For a reading app, I think it shouldn't be that hard. Enter the book, enter aht you read, mark that you finished it, be able to go back and find it. Why it's all in different sections is beyond me, and why some entries are only available at different times is also confusing. It shouldn't be this hard.

The Christian Imagination. What role should the followers of Christ take in regard to experiencing art? Is it important for them to read beyond “The Word” and explore the printed word in literature? If so, why? How do they differentiate between works of art that express truth and beauty and works that don’t? Dr. Leland Ryken, professor emeritus of Wheaton College, takes on some hefty philosophical issues related to the Christian and art. Authors in this anthology include Ryken himself, as well as J.R.R. Tolkien, Frederick Buechner, Annie Dillard, Madeleine L’Engle and others. Be prepared to read this book slowly and carefully in order to savor the wisdom contained between the covers. It is not only thought-provoking, but also challenging as it inspires a higher level of understanding and appreciation for art in literature.

Easy to use and motivating. This app is everything I need all in one. It records the book I am currently reading, lets me track minutes read and page by page (optional), and was easy to connect with my public library’s summer reading program. I have two readers under my profile and am able to track each person’s progress. My favorite part is the built in timer. I can scan the book I am beginning, check the details, and start my reading session. The timer keeps track and even gives me an option to pause when my child interrupts. When I’m done, I simply press done and submit my time.

Amazing. I have ADD so a lot of the time, I lack the motivation to read and easily lose the motivation to complete books. With this app’s features that track the time spent reading, averages your pages read per session, and the progress you’ve made in the book I’m motivated to finish any of the books I’ve read. I liked the program when it was made available for my library’s patrons last year for their summer reading program. I had no idea it was actually this permanent and I can’t wait to continue to use it through the year!

Cumbersome and Tedious. I hate this app. I would not be using it if it wasn’t for a fundraiser at the school. It could be less tedious if you only have one kid, but it’s absolutely terrible if you have more than one kid. You have to completely sign one kid out and then fill all of their information in again in order to log in their information. You can’t just toggle back-and-forth between kids. entering reading logs and editing times and pages and if it’s completed or not is also extremely cumbersome. It’s not easy to edit, and it’s not easy to even find where the info goes that you are trying to put in. you’re better off just writing it on paper. It would take you less time and you would be a lot less frustrated. I will definitely be talking to the school about never using this again. It’s not worth it.

Strange bug out of nowhere - Timezone issue??. Last month when I was visiting California from Colorado, I lost my reading streak of nearly 300 days out-of-nowhere, which baffled me because this tracker is what keeps me on top of reading daily, even when I’m not in the mood. I found out the following morning of my supposed missed day (June 9), saw in the calendar there was a hole, and yet when I checked the overview of the book itself, it said Date Last Read was June 9. Later, I checked in the reading sessions list, it has two June 10 entries which was inaccurate, it should’ve been only 1. The only thing I can think of is that I read my book late at night (11-ish) which at my usual Colorado time would’ve been after midnight and may have counted it towards the following day. Seems wack to force users to adhere to a timezone their account may be registered under regardless of where they physically are, unless there’s gonna be a displayed clock within the app.

Straightforward, Easy to Use, Some Annoying Bugs. Generally the app works and is easy to use although there are times when it will not recognize ISBN numbers. It seems that it logs according to EST because at 9pm PST it starts adding books to tomorrow. I also keep maxing out the number of books for the day which then bounces them to tomorrow. For example I read 18 books to my daughter today, and it says I have read 15 today and 3 tomorrow. Last time I went over the ‘maximum’ it then adjusted the max the following day but did not adjust the logging. Overall I really like this app and it is a great way to track for the summer reading challenge but hope the developer is able to chase out the remaining bugs.

Love the app but wish viewing past statistics was more user friendly. I love the Beanstack app! It is easy to use with a build in timer or the option to quick log. I love how you can edit titles to change the cover photo or length depending on your addition and how you can easily connect with your library for reading events. The one change I would make would be when looking at the highlights and statistics, I wish their was a way to view your monthly data. You can look at data for the past “month” but it’s the past 30 days. I want a way to view each calendar month and be able to see all the titles I completed in any given month and the stats for that month. The only way I’ve been able to do this is if there is an event that lasts for just a month but I would like to be able to do so without needing an event because there is not always one active.

Great app!. I love Beanstack. It makes it so easy to track my reading and see what books I’ve read and how far I have left in the books. I love the activities and the serotonin I get from getting achievements 😅 I would love if we could get personalized recommendations based on the books we read/upload onto Beanstack. Obviously I don’t know the ins and outs of how the app automatically knows the books based on the barcode but I feel like it wouldn’t be too hard to incorporate that feature into the app. In the very least, I think it would be nice to give us keywords of the books we read to make it easier to search for similar books. Maybe it could make recommendations for books based on other readers who read similar books. I. E.: i read the hunger games and I’m looking for something else to read that’s similar. Maybe it can look at another user who also read the hunger games and see that they also read Divergent so it recommends that book to me.

The best reading tracker app ever. It’s really helpful for little kids who are always wondering how much did I read what you adults because no matter the age, you can always track your reading and I don’t know about you but for me in school and we’re doing the Rathon. It’s just so much easier with Beanstack. You would have to track your reading on a paper but now you can track it on your phone on your computer on your iPad, you can track it on so many different devices. And that’s why you should get Beanstack mediately. You will have no regrets whatsoever and that’s why being stuck gets a five star review.

Super App w/1 small bug. This app is absolutely fantastic!! I can log my younger daughter’s reading and awards, monitor my older daughter’s reading and awards, and keep up with my own. My older daughter can also log and keep up with her own reading and awards. It is very intuitive. Books can be logged in various ways, and there are many routes to get to an individual’s record. The only part that does not work very well is the timer. It cuts off when the iPod or iPhone “automatically” stops and does not save the time for the book being logged for time spent reading.

Update limitations. Latest update doesn’t allow me to manually enter the number of minutes my children read…only page progress. Their Summer Reading Program rewards are based on the time spent reading, not total pages completed. Also, for our small kids, they listen to audiobooks as part of their goal which is impossible for us to know how many pages they’ve read. Also, is it possible to have a reading “team” option that counts the number of minutes/pages your friends and you have completed? The friend competition is intimidating to our family’s younger readers.

Great Reading App! But…. Beanstack is a great app, and my school uses it to encourage students to read. I wanted to download the app so I could easily access it during summer for the summer reading challenge. However, when I first opened it, it was not what I expected at all. The app doesn’t take up the whole screen. Instead of having the app take up my whole screen, there are two black rectangles on either side of the screen. I realize that this is because you are supposed to use it on a phone, but I have an iPad and it would be nice to have adjustments for iPads. This is also a good idea because as of iPad version 15, you can split-screen it with reading apps. Other than that, it is a great app! It’s wonderful for tracking reading and encouraging students to read every day! 📖

Very nice book tracking. I love the app. With four kids it’s easy to track the books and their reading. The only downfall I have is the timer. Every time I log a book and start a session if our phone or tablet goes goes to sleep the tracker stop and the app closes out. I understand I can change my setting in the phone to not go to sleep but I or the kids forget to go back and change it after reading which leads to dead tablets sooner. But I love the app none the less just wish it worked better for the timer because my kids love the timer. They can independently read and know that they’ve completed their goal.

Great app!. We have been enjoying this app for a couple of years now. It’s so convenient: we have it downloaded on our son’s iPad and my phone, so we can always log his reading wherever we are. It’s much easier for us than trying to remember where his paper-log is. Our son likes to keep track of his progress and scrolling through all the books he finished over the years. Our library has access to his online log and sends out notices when he has earned a reward. Adding book titles in Beanstack is so easy: you just scan the ISBN-number. You can set a timer for each reading-session or you can just log how many pages you read. A great app — highly recommend it!

Getting better. Worth it because it’s freeeee. I like how easy it can be to track reading and I look forward to installing this on my children’s iPads now that they are old enough to track things themselves. A lot of issues that I had last year with the app seemed like they are getting cleaned up to be a little better. It isn’t the best app ever, but it’s free and encourages my kids to read. A bit frustrating is my youngest daughter’s account. Over a year ago I registered her for a 1000 books before kindergarten challenge. She is finished with kindergarten and I simply want to remove the old challenge. It is listed as “ongoing” though so it doesn’t have an end date, like last year’s summer programs. So now she’s just registered for this program forever?? I have been all over this app trying to find a way to remove that old challenge and there isn't anything. Why can’t I remove a challenge just as easily as I registered for new ones? And I have to apparently leave this feedback in a review because there’s no “contact us” type of section anywhere in the app either.

Cannot save account info. Last year, my daughter used beanstack at school to log reading minutes. This year, my son is at the same school and so I needed to add him to our account. The app would not let his account information be saved. I would have to login with clever badge every time. So I deleted the app and re-download it. Now it will not save my daughters or my sons account information. I am having to do the whole long login process every time: pushing "let's go" then finding our site, and taking a picture of their clever badge. Then I log their information, sign out, and go through the whole process with the other child. I don't understand why it is not saving their information. I even tried logging onto the website and it's no different. I should be able to toggle between their accounts with more ease. I have emailed our district tech person and contacted beanstack, but have not heard from either.

App glitches and deletes streaks. After the third time of our streak randomly deleting, I am leaving a review. This app is fun for the library challenges however we have logged nightly and there are glitches in the app that will randomly reset your streak. Tonight, we read and logged the completed book in our profiles. My son was at 724 days before reading tonight and after completing his book, he is at zero with no streak! The calendar and logs show he has read every night but the streak shows nothing instead of the 725 days that it should have been. We watched the 724 day streak get wiped out. Reentering details of tonight’s session did nothing to fix it! This has happened twice to him and once on my profile, forcing us to start over each time.

App Says It’s No Longer Available to Me. This has been great for about the last year and just when the summer reading programs were about to start here it stops working? That doesn’t make any sense! Update: Whatever push they did fixed the problem and I’m back to very happy with the App. Last critique is that occasionally there are books I’m reading on the Kindle that I can’t find doing an ISBN search. You can manually put the title and info in, so not that big a deal. Still firmly a 4-star app.

It makes reading more fun!. Without Beanstack i didn’t read as much but with the Beanstack app I read much more I get so much funny achievements and badges I even read for one hour I was able to increase my stamina. But the only problem was that when I typed in one hour it didn’t believe and flagged me. I set a timer so why didn’t the app believe me. But I was fine with that. I read more than thirty minutes a day and right now I have a seven day streak! Today I read this book called the door of no return and it’s a book from Ghana! (I’m from Ghana as well 🇬🇭) And even my mum wants to read it. Now I love reading and it increases my love for being an author! Thank you so much Beanstack for the magic you have done!

Frustrating UX, Lacks Polish. While I love the contests and stats, the overall user experience is frustrating. Using the app for only 15 minutes, I already ran into a handful of bugs and and had to wade through some confusing, non-intuitive UX paths. They included: adding a profile picture, entering birthday in the account creation process, searching for books by author’s name, searching for books written in another language, strange book cover formatting, etc. This isn’t meant to be a negative review. I think the app has great potential and these should be fairly simple fixes. Hoping for a new version or version update soon, as the idea, the design, and the base are all in great shape.

Great but missing important features. Overall great app! Easy to use and convenient. My kids enjoy recording their books. The major feature missing is a “to read” option. I use an app to track my reading and also use it to drop in a book that I want to save to read later. When talking to another parent that might recommend a book, I currently can’t use this app to save books to read in the future. So, I need to use something else to store all the books I would like them to read. This is a pain because this is THE best book app for kids. This is such a minor addition & could be similar to the “lists” option already available. Please give us a list option to store books not yet read, and this app is five stars!

Cannot add a book without assigning start date :-(. The most obvious feature does not exist. It was perplexing to try to add new books I just picked up from the library before sitting down to read them with the kiddos. Essentially one is stuck picking a start date or the default today is entered. As for the books we read and forgot to scan we have to go through the same process then back date each book it is almost not worth it. I decided to write them down and found it was faster and can take the list to the library to show the same process. They laughed too. All the parts are here in the app just add a button for scan ISBN then add to library of books. Then at least the book is available when the kids pick it out of the stack to read it. Additional add a calendar view to add book I read this week for quick logging. I am not doing this for badges as much as teaching my daughters to keep notes on their progress for themselves. Feel free to contact me directly for detailed feedback if you are the developer I am happy to help. So much for feedback the new version is horrible, the user interface is so limited. Most of all the product design team clearly does not use the app everyday and night we have just about given up... tonight we have to re-Enter every book because they do not show up in the recent list... what a complete let down the new version misses he most obvious fixes.

Keeps Freezing. **Update- Since writing a 2 star review and getting a response from the developer, I have not had a problem with the app. It’s strange. I haven’t done anything different, yet the app has not froze like previous times. I track reading for 6 people daily for the summer reading program and to show my kids their improvement over the school year. I have updated to a 4 star review. Good work Zoobean Inc! I have a love-hate review for the Beanstack app. 5/10 times I go to input reading times and progress, the app freezes and I can’t do anything. I wait a day and it is still frozen. I turn my phone off, the app still won’t let me click on anything. It just stays on the same page. I have 6 people (4 kids) on my account tracking their reading. We love the app, but I cannot stand that it keeps freezing up. The only thing that works is deleting the app and reinstalling it. That gets old real fast when it’s 3-4 times a week.

Going downhill fast. I never loved Beanstack. My local library uses it for their “challenges” and my school aged kid needs it to participate. However, over the past month or so, every update results in more errors. Currently, any time I enter a reading session, the app just randomly adds multiple listings for the same reading session. Furthermore, some reading session never show up in the log. I was already frustrated by the fact that it’s impossible to tell whether any given reading session is included in the number of books completed, an issue that had made logging thousands of picture book reading sessions difficult. Perhaps the app works better for adult books and the issues we’re having are due to the massive number of reading session, well over 4000 in three years with a nursery schooler who sometimes did over a dozen books a day. But when we’re going to try something new when the current summer reading challenge ends unless Beanstack fixes our issues.

Best Reading App Ever! Absolutely Phenomenal!. * Children Friendly. * Reading Timer. * Reward System. * Record Keeping- logs timer entry & allows page tracking. * Ability to mark book as complete or incomplete. * Ability to track multiple books at once. *Best part is that all members are under one login in one app and recorded separately. * * Keeps stats for growth measures. I am grateful to have been introduced to the app by our local library. With this app my family has found a fun way to get back on track with our daily reading. This app is fun and easy to use for children. My children loves the independence that it allows. They can scan and track their readings on their own. They love the reading timer and that it can track the pages read just in case you misplace your bookmark. My husband and I love that we can finally see the entire family’s progress all in one space instead of using our reading log spreadsheet. This app is way more fun to interact with. Overall; If it makes the children happy than we are happy.

Convenient for library hoppers & multiple kiddos. We visit a couple different libraries. It’s nice to be able to log the books from each one, and to participate in different summer reading programs. I also like the ease of logging for more than one kid. My 4-year-old loves scanning each book and clicking “start” and “finish”, and then seeing all of his progress. The only thing preventing a 5th star would be the annoyance of having to manually log books that don’t show up when scanned, and noting the number of pages (Really? Early reader books rarely list numbers on the pages!). Other than that, I really like it.

Useful, but buggy. I’m using the app through my library for the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten challenge. It’s great for logging books quickly and keeping count! I love that I can scan in most ISBN codes. However, if you want an accurate log, there are some issues. I’ve logged a past reading and it attributes the reading to the wrong day. If you’re trying to track number of books a day, you may have issues. This evening, I read two books and logged them, but the chart in Highlight -> Completed -> Week shows 0 for today. Sometimes this corrects itself if I close the app, but not always. The log number is always right, but the other data interpretations are often off.

Fun, but needs minor work. So, before we get started I would like to state that the following is just a few suggestions, and not in any way meant to discourage the app from being used. Cons: so first of all this app is great! I would say it is 3 1/2, but I rounded up. I think the biggest problems with this app are the wording. If kids are trying to log stuff it better be Clear. Not to mention the + button. I think right when you log in there should be a big green button saying log instead. The app shouldn’t have tabs, and SHOULD have better instructions. Pros: this makes online book clubs fun! It is fairly easy to access from any device, and it has good parental controls. If you are unsure about getting this app? I would say go for it! Have a nice day!😊 -Tigger

Logging issues. This would be a 5 star app if logging reading wasn’t such a pain. 1. No matter how many times I pick the correct profile before starting the reading timer it always logs it to the wrong profile. My son and I are both doing reading challenges and I’m constantly having to delete my reading from his profile after using the reading timer. I click MY profile then MY book and then start reading session and when I finish it’s logged MY book on his profile along with the minutes read. 2. If I leave the app when logging a new book to check who an author is or the number of pages in the book it makes me start all over again logging the book details. Also the same thing happens if we need to check the internet for an answer to one of the library activities. 3. I wish there was a way to just synch what we’re reading to the app right from our kindles.

What’s with all the update this month. And even more. Hasn’t needed updates in forever. Now suddenly it’s every other day. Looks like the released a version that wasn’t completely ready and are now putting out fires. Sadly I had to drop it to one. Why? More and more updates. Developers should test for problems before releasing an update. Not update nonstop. 11 updates in 2 months. Update ( pun intended ). Even more updates. Now you have to pick a reader. They are adding extra steps to every time you read. I use it to track my time reading. I need it for a reading sorority I’m in. But it’s getting complicated since every other day you have to update. And the amount of screens you have to go through to just log.

Unusable. I was hoping to use this for a library reading challenge. So I downloaded it and went through the process of adding myself as a reader, and even got the little green bar and check that said that I was successfully added. Then I went to the discover page and nothing loads, so I hit the top right to the profiles, no profiles were listed. So I closed out the app and reopened it and when I did, I had to remake my profile so I did again once I went to the app after creation nothing would load so I once again reopened it and for a third time I had to re-create my profile. Right now I have re-created my profile five times and nothing will load. I cannot use the app because nothing will load and my profile will not save. Very disappointing.

Choose reader?. Overall, I’m satisfied with Beanstack. It can be fairly frustrating when the title/author combination doesn’t return the proper item, but that isn’t a frequent occurrence. This resulted in the reading log for one of my books being split between two listings (neither of which matched the cover art of the edition I actually read). And now I’m pretty annoyed with the recent update that requires me to choose a reader when I am the only reader on the damned account. This will ensure that I only use the app for the summer reading programs at my libraries, though I can see where it might be interesting to use it more.

Great start, needs UI improvements. Love that my library is using an app now for books tracking! Love the barcode scanner too. Updates are needed: if a book has a reading log, we need the option to hit a checkmark or swipe to say it’s completed. Example: My library did a program by pages in the summer, so we didn’t mark any books as completed since we were re-reading a lot. Now we are doing a program with lifetime books completed and I have to enter a new log to have the option to mark a title as completed. Also: you have to tap in the exact right spot to add text, it’s not intuitively the whole line or the title for logging past readings. That’s frustrating. I feel like there are lots more ways to make it easier to log and edit. Every log should be able to count for pages or time or books completed vs picking one and that log can only be used that way. Etc. keep working on it! Love the concept!!

Switches readers. I’ve been having an issue with it switching who’s reading. I have multiple people on my account since my child can’t have her own and every time I start her reading session it adds it to mine and I have to manually enter hers and delete it from my account. It’s super frustrating! It works fine for my account and I do appreciate making an app so we can still do the summer reading program with COVID happening. Update: I am now having issues with it giving raffles tickets for my daughters activities. She earned nine and it said she had none. She is bummed because obviously that’s how they get their prize for summer reading!

Over complicated. I have been trying to scan the kids books in for summer reading but it tells me I can’t get credit for just scanning/ logging a 15 pg story book, I also have to put how much time I spent reading it to them. It shows we’ve only read a page or two of some books and finished others. I have no idea what the rhyme or reason is. There should absolutely be a simple read/finished whole book in one sitting option, esp for kids. I have a huge stack of picture books we just read but it’s far too much effort to try to “get credit” for them in this app. Also, it should connect to library accounts so that all the books we checked out automatically appear and then we can just mark as read.

Beanstack challenges don’t allow/count the last day. We have been using the Beanstack app along with the Badge Book. Mostly everything works great. But there are 2 problems! One, if we read in the late evening it assigns the following date to the reading. For example we read from 10:20-11:00 PM on May 30th and when I select done it records that we read from 10:20-11:00 on May 31st. I don’t know exactly when the cutoff is for it to log reading as the next day but this messes up our challenges for badges. And if the app knows the time how come it doesn’t know the date? Two, the last day of each month (last day of challenges) don’t count for the challenges. So we read for 40 minutes from 10:20-11:00 on May 30th. It logs it as May 31st (see issue one) and doesn’t count it as reading towards May’s Challenges. It is 1:30 am on May 31st and we don’t have access to continue to work on May challenges or to complete any of May Challenges activities. If I tried to go into any activities for any challenges dated May 1st-31st it won’t load them. They show as grey lines. This happened for April as well.

Frustrating. I really like this app. I started using it over the summer with my local library for myself and my son during the library’s summer reading program and liked the app so much that I decided to subscribe to Beanstack Go unlimited to get more from the app on my own! Here’s where the problems start. I paid for the subscription, and ever since the app has been telling me that I haven’t. It’s not a cheap subscription either ($60/year). I contacted the help desk and let them know what was going on and got a reply asking what trouble I was having logging in to my account. I’ve replied to that email more than once now and have gotten no responses back. It’s starting to feel like ZooBean took my money and ran, and I’m pretty upset about it. They’re not responding to my emails anymore and writing this review is the last thing I can think of to get their attention. I just want what I paid for. 🙃🥲

Great reading log. We have been using this for 3+ years now. We love how it can track for multiple members of the family. Barcode scanner has been improved and usually finds our books. We still have issues with the calendar and streaks logging correctly. Sometimes if you ‘quick log’ a book it doesn’t count it as read or logged. If you don’t select ‘finished book’ it doesn’t count it. This makes things really hard to go back and correct when my kids don’t enter the books the exact way. I wish you could select on the calendar the date and it would show you which books were read and by who. That way I could check everyone’s logged books at the same time. Some days I have had to enter a book multiple times for 1 day to count but it is timely to go back and double check. Also the bar graph is not very useful the units are all off and don’t accurately measure what my kids have read.

Summer Library Reading Challenge. I love how convenient it is to log reading minutes for our summer library reading challenge. I especially love how I can log minutes for all the kids and myself when we are reading aloud all together. It is frustrating, however, that I am not able to do the same thing for activities and destinations. The summer library challenge includes not only reading, but also activities and visits to sites in the community. While I can log reading for multiple members of the family at the same time, I am unable to do the same for site visits and activities for all the members of my family. Since all my kids come with me, and there are six of them, it’s very, very tedious to have to enter all the site visits individually for each person. Hope this can be fixed for next year’s challenge! It will make tracking our participation in the library summer challenge much more fun. :)

Great app that needs improvements. Our library is using Beanstack for their summer reading program since the building is physically closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our entire family is participating. We decided rather than have all four of us have our own account, we would create one account and have four “readers” in the account. What is frustrating is that the app doesn’t let you add a “default” person to your device. For example, every time I open the app, my 13-year-old’s “profile” loads rather than my own, creating the unfortunate opportunity for me to add my books, reading minutes, or completed Activities to his “reader account” rather than mine. At the same time, my 16-year-old’s iPhone, opens to MY account rather than his, and my wife’s iPhone opens to my 16-year-old’s. So it would be nice if Beanstack could add an option to set a default user, or at the very minimum open the app to the last reader account that was previously opened. Also, I wish you could edit previously added books. For instance, I tried adding a book by scanning the ISBN. However, it wouldn’t scan, so I added it manually. Later, when I discovered I was scanning the book incorrectly, I wanted to redo it, but that would have required me to delete the book and re-add it, thus losing my minutes and pages read.

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Wish you could backdate readings. The app is pretty good, once you’re familiar with navigating. I don’t bother with logging minutes or pages, that’s not particular user friendly, I always just quick log books. I also wish there was a way to back date a reading - we had a great streak going but lost it even though we did read yesterday, but I forgot to put the sessions in :(

It’s 5 stars but………. The app wouldn’t let me write reviews about the book I read so I think there is a fault or my school hasn't allowed it can you plz check my school is tarniet p-9 college Kind regards: a person from tarnier p-9 college

Bedtime is boring. I loved bedtime is boring💖 Beacase Billy noticed something important👱🏻

Your the best ! !. Been stuck let you communicate with books it is an educational summer activity

Beanatack. Very hard to control

Chaotic app, could be simplified a lot for efficiency. I deleted this app after trying to track my reading for a program my library runs for a month. There are too many options for tracking and navigation is not straight forward. There is no easy way to see your logged reading summarized on a calendar. I logged a few days on the website and it came up as the book having been ‘completed 12 times’ in the app. I could not figure out how to fix this. Another book had two different versions logged, no idea how that happened. I prefer other apps even though they aren’t linked into my library’s reading program.

Josie Morris User. I am a medical records manager who has to go Through and track many records. This App is not even as user friendly as the clunky medical records databases that are 20 years old. When we have a list of books to add you have to go back in to the log separately and like add each one. It should be that you can add books like a List. As it takes too much time to Add books when you are reading quite a few. Thanks kind regardS Josie

Poor UX and buggy. We use the app as my local library uses it for a pre-school reading program. Nothing more frustrating than having the app prompt you to "update user" every single time you select that user but won't let you save the details/ stop the prompt from coming up.

Good. Brr skibidi dop dop dop yes yes

Great program supported by our local library.. I have been using the app for a bit over a year after our local library used for a summer reading program. We used to make posters for each book series we were reading to mark the books as we read. My 5 y/o also loves looking back at what books she had read. Using the app is much quicker and easier. She can scan herself, she can look back at what we have read, she can look at the reading challenge badges she earns. The app can be a little slow at times but I am still giving 5 stars.

Awesome. Awesome 🐉

Shadow And Bone. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo was an absolute amazing book that I highly recommend. Shadow and Bone has a very dark but thrilling plot. I will 100% read this book again as well as its sequels ‘Siege and Storm’ and ‘Run and Rising’.

Fg. Darteck the flame ball

Recommend to all book lovers. I love this app it helps you track your reading and you can enter fun reading competitions through it one problem though it has certificates and badges.

Unfortunately the only choice. We’re doing a 1000 Books Before School program with our local library, and they recommend this app. I think it’s probably the worst app I’ve ever used. If an ISBN isn’t already in the database (which doesn’t seem regularly updated as lots of my books are NOT recognised), manually entering the information doesn’t add it to the database or even my own copy of the app, except the recent section which is very short, so I have to do it every time. I have twins and although I select both readers, it randomly doesn’t add to one of my sons profiles so they’re always out of sync. The toggle switch to indicate whether you’ve finished a book should remember your last selection. One of my sons has read a book every day for 156 days in the calendar, but the streak comes up as a random number (it’s like 49 now). There’s no place to save favourite books so you can add them regularly without scanning them. Some of the ISBNs are wrong.

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Great app, little flaws. I love how this tracks my reading. It struggles to read the book codes though, so I end up manually inputting all the information and taking pictures of the covers myself.

Good but manual entry doesn’t work. My son is an avid reader and is loving the challenge. However we noticed the manual entry form won’t load. It just hangs.

Great Idea. Not intuitive.. Not easy to navigate.

Amazing for logging books in!. When I got this app, It automatically asked me which program I was going to be with. When I logged in, I realized that the amount of events always are ready, so if you want to try a new activity, I definitely recommend this to keep your mind going!😄

I lost my streak. I was doing great but my thing restarted help

5/5. Beanstack is a really helpful app for me cause I’m doing the ultimate summer challenge and I don’t feel like having to colour on a piece of paper everyday when I read like I had to last year so this is much much better

Good. It’s great to have you in Calgary

Amazing. I love being able to keep track of my reading, and being able to participate in challenges!

Beanstack Tracker. Amazing

Fun App. Easy to use for any age!

Lost Streak. The app is ok but I had a 29 day streak going but when I downloaded the app it seemed to reset the streak back down to 0. And now it isn’t counting my streak at all even though I’ve been logging my reading for the past 4 days. Pls fix this

Couldn’t have imagined anything better than this!!. It’s so easy to track your reading and encourage book time. Love the app

Nearly perfect. Just missing an Apple Watch version for the timer. Would be nice not to have to have my phone around all the time while I’m reading (more tempting to browse lol). Widgets would be a great addition as well for the timer. Quicker to setup than having to go to the app all the time.

Really Confusing. I really WANT to love Beanstack. My local library is using it for a summer reading challenge and I was stoked, thinking it was a great idea to get into the habit of reading more. Then I tried using the app and found myself very disappointed by how confusing it is. I don’t often finish a book in a single day, but I don’t keep track of the minutes I read either. I tried to log a book I read over the course of 5 days and for some reason it logged it as my reading 5 books…or rather, as my having read the same book 5 times. I could find no way to fix it, only to delete that entirely from my reading log, and now it won’t let me go back and log that reading I did last week. I guess you can’t log your reading retroactively? The website isn’t much better. I could find no instructions as to the proper way to log. There is nothing in the FAQ about it, or about how to fix a mistake in the log. I could keep trying to puzzle it out on my own I guess, but the difficulty using Beanstack detracts from the pleasure I get from reading, so I likely won’t bother. It’s a great idea in theory, and it’s a shame that in practice it’s so difficult.

Great. I like the different stats you can see as you read a book! I just wish there was a dark mode and an iPad app.

Don’t like the new update. Great app overall! I like the tracking features and timer for reading. I don’t love the newest update with the “choose reader” function. That should only be enabled if you have other people’s or children’s profiles linked to yours, now it’s an extra step to start the timer that’s not needed when you have a single profile.

The review system isn’t that great. When I downloaded the app everything was great until I noticed I couldn’t add a review but others could, I tried to fix it but nothing works and right now it is still not working. Please fix this bug, it could be something on my end, but I tried everything.

Confusing. It’s kinda confusing and not that user friendly.

Easy to use. I like beanstack and it is really helpful. What I do not like though, is that it does not work with iPad.

Awesome app!. Great app but a little hard to use at first but once you get used to it, it’s so easy and fun!

Not for me😔. I hate that you can only add ten books without going unlimited. It doesn’t have any information about how to get into the summer reading challenge.

Using the app. We find it a little hard to use. I do not feel it is as easy.

The app to get back into reading. I’ve been spending more time getting back into reading and I love how simple this app is. BeanStack is able to track the time and number of pages I’ve read. The only thing is that I would like to have a “bookmark” feature to help me remember which page I’ve left off at. I don’t read the books in time before I have to return them to the library.

Confusing. :(

Problem with isbn scanning. I love the app but the isbn scam doesn’t work for me. Pls fix this. Thanks.

Beanstack. I love that you can record the time you’ve read. It’s so awesome

App is Garbage!. This app is garbage. It worked fine until the most recent update. Now I cannot get it to load!

Beanstack. This app is awesome.

Needs features. I I would like to be able to add several days of reading at once. I’d also like to be able to undo it when I accidentally mark a book as finished.

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Much improved. App seems much improved from when I first used it a couple years ago. Been using it again this summer for the reading challenge. Took a bit to figure out all the in and outs of navigating it but works well so far! I love the scan a book option and quick logs. It’d be cool to set up a pop up daily reminder to log to keep your streak going. I sometimes forget to log.

I like this I’m not a fake person I’m real. I like reading so this is perfect for me meow sorry I just like saying meow it makes me happy so this is a perfect app for my reading so I learned to read from readingeggs and my family so yeah this is perfect I’m only 7 tho but I have the reading of a 10 year old so yeah I learn a lot from time to time so that’s my review for this app and this not a review from the app I am a real person named Amy Downer and if some thinks that then oh I will

Overheating. I’ll start with the classic “I never write app reviews, but with this app I need to.” Every time I use this app my phone starts to overheat. My phone is hot the entire time I’m using the app and it stops when I stop using the app. No other apps do this on my phone. Also, the app works extremely slow and will only work if my WIFI is on. The app will not work if I’m not connected to WIFI. I use this app frequently and especially when my kids are involved with reading challenges. It’s a bummer that this app is working awful since I use it frequently.

Can’t find the Reading Challenge. I’m participating in a reading challenge through my local library however I can’t find the challenge in the app. I would have given five stars because originally I was able to find it but then I logged out and it said I didn’t have an account anymore. But, while I was using the app I thought it was great. It was easy to log my minutes and activities. I personally believe that for the discover page of the app they should put a search bar so you can search for your challenge.

Can’t add multiple books at a time. You can’t just log the number of books you read each day...and maybe I’m weird, but we can go through a LOT of children’s books in one day, and logging each one individually is DUMB. And if you’re backlogged because you have better things to do than track which books you’re reading with your child? Oh boy. Forget about it. Add a feature for logging the QUANTITY OF BOOKS, not just minutes. Some reading challenges/ programs at our library about about the number of books read, not the time. I’ve honestly only given the app 15 minutes of my time trying to figure it out, and it just isn’t good for what it is supposed to do.

The challenges are awesome. The challenges are awesome but the app needs a little tweeting. I wish I didn’t have to have 4 separate uses. My son and I both share the app and then we have separate ones for our library challenges and the Beanstack go challenges. The logging process is cumbersome but now I have to do it twice to record for both challenges. Now they have removed the manually entering isbn numbers. Since we have been doing a lot of e-books that is even more work to log the books.

Still frustrated with this app. I have continued to use this app because this is what our public library uses to reward the kids for Summer reading but everyday the app has issues. Two days when I have gotten on to log my kids’ reading, I am unable to because it freezes or goes to an error screen. It’s also sporadic on when the kids receive their app badges. Even though they should earn them after every five days of logged reading, sometimes one child earns it while the other doesn’t until I submit the following day’s reading log. Again I think eventually it will be a great tool to use but for now it’s not that helpful.

Very slow and now freezes. When I first downloaded this app, it was very slow and took a while for actions to process. It slowly seemed to get better, but it’s reaction to clicks was still slow. Then recently, the app stopped working completely. When I open the app, it immediately freezes and I can’t click on anything or scroll. Now it is completely useless. If you could please fix the app to work and have a faster reaction, this app would be awesome. I love reading and like to track what I have read. When the app worked it was very handy to check my reading stats.

Great app, just a few suggestions.. I really like this Beanstack so far, one of my favorite book tracking apps. I would like a To Be Read section though, and if we could track our chapters as well. (for the audiobook readers) Also when signing up for the app it is a pain to put in your birthdate, it glitches really bad for some reason and takes a while to actually work. (I’ve checked with multiple people about this issue so it’s not my phone)

Just don’t log minutes incorrectly. I accidentally logged past minutes read as 22 hours instead of 22 minutes and while I figured out how to correct it on my phone, it didn’t update on the library’s system. They couldn’t correct it so I had to log the rest of my minutes by hand the rest of the summer, resulting in a pointless app. On the upside, I appreciate we can see all our past badges & achievements & can quickly select single or multiple readers to log minutes!

AWESOME!!!. This app is awesome! This app helps me know what type of challenges I’m getting into and tells me all the info about the challenges that’s needed! You should get this app if you love to read and love to track it. The only bad thing about it is that when I track my reading the words sometimes make me confused and I think that it’s telling me that I have to track my reading for the WHOLE book even though I’m only tracking for a day. But I really do suggest you get this app only if…YOU ❤️TO READ!!!

Only one thing needs improving. The search feature is the one very very lacking portion of this app. You can search author or title, not both. If a title is common, and you add title and author to the search criteria, it comes up with no results. You’re left typing in the ISBN. More functionality with the search tool would be great. The best option would be the ability to use the app and your camera to scan the barcode on the back of the book. Otherwise, the app is great.

What’s with all the update this month. And even more. Hasn’t needed updates in forever. Now suddenly it’s every other day. Looks like the released a version that wasn’t completely ready and are now putting out fires. Sadly I had to drop it to one. Why? More and more updates. Developers should test for problems before releasing an update. Not update nonstop. 11 updates in 2 months. Update ( pun intended ). Even more updates. Now you have to pick a reader. They are adding extra steps to every time you read. I use it to track my time reading. I need it for a reading sorority I’m in. But it’s getting complicated since every other day you have to update. And the amount of screens you have to go through to just log. The last update is this best. I love how every time you log a book it pops up in red “something has gone wrong” Now it’s wiped everything. All my books and challenges are gone.

What about busy moms?. I’m sure all the features are really cool, but what about busy moms like me? I make my kids read for a set period of time, every day. But I don’t have time to “gamify” this. What I need is a feature to quickly catch up with the logging when the library’s summer reading program is almost over. I need to be able to enter a whole bunch of days with the same number of minutes, quickly. I counted, and a typical logging procedure for one day take 10 clicks! I don’t have time to do that for every day for every kid! Please help!

Frustrating UX, Lacks Polish. While I love the contests and stats, the overall user experience is frustrating. Using the app for only 15 minutes, I already ran into a handful of bugs and and had to wade through some confusing, non-intuitive UX paths. They included: adding a profile picture, entering birthday in the account creation process, searching for books by author’s name, searching for books written in another language, strange book cover formatting, etc. This isn’t meant to be a negative review. I think the app has great potential and these should be fairly simple fixes. Hoping for a new version or version update soon, as the idea, the design, and the base are all in great shape.

Frustrating.. Using this for my children for summer reading with the library. My kids don’t have phones so having to use an app really takes the accountability of them logging and seeing their progress. Many books can’t be found and I am wasting time looking them up online so I can enter them in. We go to the library a lot less often now as well since the summer book info is online. Out of sight out of mind. It’s more work for me and I am currently using a notebook so they can track their own progress and I will just give them a treat at the end.

Love hate relationship. I love the fact that you can log reading with relative ease but the app is so buggy, it makes it hard to edit titles. My kids (4&6) love to see the picture of the book covers. It’s a motivating factor for them. When you have to manually enter the title, or when the isbn scan doesn’t include a picture of the book, I have the task to find a screenshot and al edit the title. 9/10 it doesn’t work. Mostly immediately after an app update. It’s almost like the updates make the app more unstable than the older versions.

Garbage-doesn’t work in multiple ways. We have to use this for our library summer reading program or at least try to. Our library published a video on how to find them but searching by multiple names does not work. It isn’t found plus you get a nifty error screen. Then trying another route, going to the not associated choice and trying to sign into our old account gives you a totally blank screen. Uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times. Clearly the version fixing bugs published two days ago fixed nothing and maybe created these problems. Try again.

Only one minor problem with this app. I absolutely love this app! I guess maybe I should have given it 4 stars though because when entering a book I think you should be able to put that you read the whole book and it will automatically insert the total number of pages that the book has. Instead you have to put how many pages were read and then it asks if you read the whole book.

If it ain’t broke.... I like this app but it seems most of the changes are for parts of the app that work perfectly fine and don’t need improvement. For example, the previous version separated my books into currently reading and completed. Now, my books show up on both lists. This is unnecessary and it clutters up my currently reading list. Please change this feature and leave everything else alone. The only exception would be the timed session feature. The few times I’ve used it, the app closes out and deletes my session. THAT should be fixed.

Love App, Camera Doesn’t Work. I enjoy using the app, but have to manually add all books because the camera function does not work. I tap the camera icon to add a book and the app closes every time. I’ve logged out and back in. I’ve removed the app and redownloaded it and it still closes the app out when I try to open the camera. It makes me use the app less often because it’s not as convenient as it used to be.

Five star app. This app is awesome and it works great. Tracks all your reading and track the books you have read. There is a timer which times how long you read. Just start the timer and read. This also makes sure nobody can cheat. You can also use it for library challenges. I would recommend using this app.

Great way to keep track. I’m a prolific reader and there’s nothing worse than finding you’ve read a book before once you’re a couple chapters in. This app prevents that. Love the challenges and our library even has prizes occasionally. The challenges get you to read genres that you haven’t before or discover authors that may not be as famous.

Great for motivation, but too many updates!. I have used the Beanstack App since last July, and have found it to be really inspiring for picking up and reading books. I like that it shows you your progress in a book percentage-wise, and allows you to build upon consecutive days of readings for “reading streaks.” I also love the reading challenges. However, almost every time I open the app, it offers another update. Which I have never experienced with any other app. It leaves me wondering why it needs to be updated so much!

Book Tracker Tool. Beanstack Tracker allows you to record books you read via camera mode or manually inputting the information. Their options of tracking the book via timer, pages read, and manually inputting the time after reading. It even allows you to review each you read as well to help out fellow readers. BeanstackTracker allows adults and children to track their reading. Great tool to use!!

Not so easy to use. The app is a good idea for recording books, but not so easy when you are reading the same book to multiple kids. Trying to document for both kids is hard work, you try to log as quick reading, but it doesn’t record the time. You have to go back and manually add the time, then go back and check again that it actually saved. Frustrating when you are trying to have fun reading with your kids.

Site was a better experience. The app doesn't work as well as the site and, unfortunately, I can no longer get to the site. Could be pilot error on my part. But when i log in, it launches the app. The ISDN scanner is awkward at best and doesn't work great. The fact that there is no autofill/searching feature when entering titles makes this a bigger nuisance. Less functionality, less confidence–just not as good. Sure it's great to have an app but don't shut off what's already working (the ability to log into the site) for something that's almost working.

Great app, but. Beanstack is an overall great app for logging titles and keeping you motivated. But, I feel that with every update the app gets glitchier and laggier. Now, I can’t even delete unnecessary readers on my account. The app is so battery draining, and like I said, the updates seem to make things worse. I say this as politely as I can because I don’t want to be considered rude. I genuinely hope this gets fixed in the next update(s). If you read this whole thing, thank you for your time.

Switches readers. I’ve been having an issue with it switching who’s reading. I have multiple people on my account since my child can’t have her own and every time I start her reading session it adds it to mine and I have to manually enter hers and delete it from my account. It’s super frustrating! It works fine for my account and I do appreciate making an app so we can still do the summer reading program with COVID happening. Update: I am now having issues with it giving raffles tickets for my daughters activities. She earned nine and it said she had none. She is bummed because obviously that’s how they get their prize for summer reading!

Great with some quirks. *note* this review will cover the INDIVIDUAL version of the app This app is wonderful, and has been a great help for tracking all my books and jumbled reading times. I love how it gives me personalized stats, and how it encourages reading with a streak feature. I love its many profiles, one account setup, so many people can use the same device. I love how they give you the flexibility to add your own titles when they don’t cover one. But, I have noticed some issues I hope are addressed. For one, sometimes when I log reading, it won’t appear on the log until a close and reopen the app. Secondly, sometimes I log reading and it appears in the log, but it doesn’t appear in the streak. This is very annoying and I have lost long streaks because of it. All in all, it’s a great app, but some flaws that taint the experience.

Not even a hardcore reader. I love this app! I didn’t grow up a hardcore reader, I actually didn’t like it. Now that I’m older, I appreciate this app because it’s a positive reinforcement and allows me to see all of my progress and small wins add up over time. My degree is in psychology and this app makes sense to me from a psychology perspective. This app contributes to my excitement about reading! It’s wonderful! Get it!

Really Enjoying this App. I have been using the app since March 2020 for Quarantine. I heard it recommended via the Reading Glasses podcast and started with their challenge and have added a few. My only qualm (not a deal breaker, but just to clean up the feed) is that I can’t find a way to preview any Challenge without registering. And then, if it’s a Challenge I register for and end up not wanting to do, I can’t find a way to unregister from the Challenge. If there’s a way to do this I’d appreciate knowing. Thanks!

Amazing. I have ADD so a lot of the time, I lack the motivation to read and easily lose the motivation to complete books. With this app’s features that track the time spent reading, averages your pages read per session, and the progress you’ve made in the book I’m motivated to finish any of the books I’ve read. I liked the program when it was made available for my library’s patrons last year for their summer reading program. I had no idea it was actually this permanent and I can’t wait to continue to use it through the year!

Amazing. This app is amazing , slay and so cool I am using this app for the Denmark library so I can read book from using this ( you have to read a book and you can use this app for any library in Forsyth county ) this app and it can time your mins so it give me points to when cool prizes and if you read 1 min of reading 1 point and one whole book is 20 points and you have to have 500 hundred points to enter the lithe

Love it and an idea. I love the Beanstack app. I found out about it through my local library when I did reading challenges. Ever since, I have kept track of my reading through the app. It is user-friendly and very easy. It helps me be motivated to read! An idea for the app is to add a feature where you can friend other readers and challenge them. You could see who reads the most and set of a profile. Having an outlet for the reading community to interact would add such depth to the app. Just a suggestion 😊

Beanstack is so awesome. It helps kids to win prizes at our school. If you read for a certain amount, you get a goat or banana award and it helps kids read more who never like to read I got into reading. I never liked it now in fourth grade I really like it and third I liked it From Alice with Forbes, lone Dell, Elementary, 10 fourth grade and never liked reading it now and third and fourth she loved it. Sincerely, Alice Forbes.

Useful, but not perfect yet.... Beanstack is a great app for tracking progress through books, but is lacking quite a few organizational features. It would be awesome to have the capability to keep a list of books you’re interested in but haven’t read yet separate from the books you are currently reading. It seems the best way to keep entries organized would be to have three tabs labeled “Reading,” “Completed,” and “To Read” (or something of the like) instead of simply “Entries,” where EVERY entry is listed including completed titles, and “Completed.” But that’s just my opinion ^^ On an unrelated note, when entering a title’s information manually, the app often lags dramatically. These and the ability to create folders to organize books by series or genre would make this app an easy five stars!

Okay. I like a lot of things about it, and most effective is being able to add all members of my family while logging a reading session, but I wish I could do that when logging a past reading session instead of having to add the same book to each members individual log, I also wish that when I mark a book as completed to send to archive it would do that for each member that is part of that reading session, again instead of having to archive each one separately for each family member later. But I love how easy it is to keep track of all the books we read together as a family!

Awesome app. This app is amazing!!! I love the challenges and it helps you interact with your local library and community. My next challenge is to read 50 books by the end of 2024 and I’m halfway there. Challenges are easy and can be completed by anyone. Paired with Libby (the app that helps find good books at your local library) this app is really helpful and I highly recommend it.

Beanstack review. This app would be way better if you didn’t have to time yourself on your reading. Last night I put the timer on for the whole night because in the course of three days I read for five hours, and therefore forgot to log my books. And I finished three different books but it won’t let me add the time it took me for each. Overall this app could be better and PLEASE a make it so we can type in the time it is frustrating having to time ourselves.

It’s very very cool but it’s hard for me sometimes. It’s cool sometimes but when I first got it I was very confused I didn’t know what to do it was just like my receiver app but now when it’s summer how long I read is how long how to get to call friends so for the time and I know how long of minutes I get to call friends so thank you being stack creators you are cool you are cool and I am thank you and I am thankful that this is here and goodbye I have to go to soccer adios amigos

Loved it!!. I loved tracking my reading through this app!! It’s helped me a lot with Summer Goals and Yearly reading goals. My only complaint is that I can’t just download it for my everyday use; I could only download it through my public library during its summer reading challenge. I think it’s so well in the writing/reading community to make this app open to the public without needing to be connected to the public library system.

Minutes are not consistent. I like the concept but I should not be able to say I read pages more than the maximum number of pages in the book. I also should know how many times I’ve read a book compared to how many time I have finished it. I would like to see a display of how all of my readers on one page side by side preferably. Lastly, my reading sessions do not consistently count toward the number of days read and my reading sessions do not always count toward my badges and or challenges. It seems like it is inconsistently counting my reading sessions and has resulted in me not achieving goals that we actually did achieve.

Bingo for library challenge messed up. This app is generally great for logging reading that my kids and I do for our library’s various challenges. But, after the recent updates, the bingo game for the current challenge is all out of whack. Instead of being 5x5, the badges are now arranged in 3 columns that are not equal length- making it impossible for me to show my kids how close to a BINGO they are as motivation. I know this is a small problem with one part of one library’s summer program, but it really hinders the effectiveness of the app as an encouragement tool.

App Says It’s No Longer Available to Me. This has been great for about the last year and just when the summer reading programs were about to start here it stops working? That doesn’t make any sense! Update: Whatever push they did fixed the problem and I’m back to very happy with the App. Last critique is that occasionally there are books I’m reading on the Kindle that I can’t find doing an ISBN search. You can manually put the title and info in, so not that big a deal. Still firmly a 4-star app.

Great App!. I’ve been using this app since I downloaded it this summer and I’ve loved using it! But every now and then when this app gets an update, the completed section includes all logged titles and not just the completed ones,, which is a bit bothersome when I want to look at my completed titles and I see books that I know I haven’t marked as “completed” :( Hope this can get fixed with the next update :D

Love Tracking Books. I love tracking books for my kiddo; however, it seems overly complicated for tracking a book. There’s multiple screens to navigate with no explanation as to which one is for what. Also, I was about 100 books in before I realized there’s some sort of flag that needs to be checked to indicate completed, hidden on screen 5 or something, but you can’t get to the check mark ever again once you’ve saved a book. One screen for entry seems much more straightforward.

Bring back search function please!. I love this app and have been using it since summer reading began and just kept it up. But in the most recent update the search function was removed and for the life of me I can’t figure out why. Now, if I’ve re-read a book that was logged ages ago I cannot simply search for it to do a quick log but must scroll through dozens of entries trying to find it. Please bring back this function. After that, 5 stars, easy!

Good, but books only. I’m enjoying Beanstack to track summer reading program goals. I especially like the barcode scan option to enter books. Looking forward to seeing the graphs fill out over time. But I’m disappointed that there’s no way to track newspaper and magazines. Current events are important— especially in 2020– and I will be reading these with my kids. I’d also suggest an alarm or push notification. “Time to read” in the morning or “Did you enter your reading today?” In the evening.

Update limitations. Latest update doesn’t allow me to manually enter the number of minutes my children read…only page progress. Their Summer Reading Program rewards are based on the time spent reading, not total pages completed. Also, for our small kids, they listen to audiobooks as part of their goal which is impossible for us to know how many pages they’ve read. Also, is it possible to have a reading “team” option that counts the number of minutes/pages your friends and you have completed? The friend competition is intimidating to our family’s younger readers.