Beanstack Tracker

Zoobean, Inc.

About this app

Beanstack helps schools, libraries, and families bring the fun back to reading with reading challenges, easy tracking, and insightful data.

We invite students, families, and readers of all ages to a world of reading inspiration and motivation. You can create profiles for everyone in your family within a single library or Beanstack Go account, or you can use SSO to sign in to any of your students’ school accounts and swiftly toggle between them. Beanstack helps you grow your reading habits together, while also logging and tracking reading progress individually. We never sell your data or use it to show you ads, so Beanstack is safe for everyone.

Features:
- Join motivating reading challenges created by librarians, educators, and reading specialists. Our ever-growing reading challenge collection features seasonal challenges like summer reading, yearlong literacy initiatives, and diverse custom challenges for all ages, levels, and communities.
- Track reading progress and create an all-time reading log.
- Use a barcode scanner to quickly and easily find titles.
- Record reading sessions with a reading timer or log an entire book with a click.
- Achieve streaks for reading multiple days in a row and badges for reaching reading goals.
- Complete fun enrichment activities and leave book reviews.
- Access reading recommendations and resources.
- Add friends from your organization to see what they’re reading and compete on leaderboards.
- View reading stats, including totals and averages of time spent reading and titles read.
- Participate in reading fundraisers: Raise money for your organization with reading! With Beanstack’s reading fundraisers, you can earn badges while collecting donations to fund important priorities at your school or library.

Ratings and reviews

update: The recent update fixed the issues. Thanks for fixing it so quickly. Adding one more star! :) We used to love this app to track the books we read as part of challenges and various programs and events with the library. But with the latest update, the scanning function is not working at all and neither does the camera. It's all greyed out! That means we won't be using this app much anymore, which is sad.

I'm enjoying the app for keeping track of mine and my kids reading. I do wish that I didn't have to jump through so many hoops while trying to mark down what book was read because currently you have to search for the book then select the reader even if you did switch over to say yours or your kids profile, and then select what you'd like to do around two times before it even marks down what you'd like it to. Simplifying that part would make it so much more enjoyable to use.

We use this app to participate in my child's yearly school reading challenge. This is our 2nd year with it, and at first, it was great, but about 6 months ago, I began to constantly get errors, and the app crashing with a notice that says "something went wrong, please try again later." I have deleted the app and installed it again over and over. Other parents have also told me they have has the same experience.

What's new

- Various bug fixes and user experience improvements