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

Great app to keep track of your books. You can use both duration and page number to track where you are or just skip straight to finished. This got 4 stars because one thing I wish it had was a private noting ability. I'm able to keep track of books I read but not able to make personal notes on how I liked or disliked it, without posting a review to the whole community. Sometimes I have things I personally dislike (especially if I didn't finish) that have nothing to do with the author's skill.

Honestly, I love the app, but I wish the ISBN search worked better because it can never find my book. I manually have to enter the title each time & each day when I log reading the screen glitches & jumps around when I click done. Sometimes, the app shuts down altogether, so I wish they could get that worked out so I could give them 5 stars.

My public library used Beanstack for their Summer Reading Program, so thanks to using this app I claimed 2 free books, a tote bag, a magnet, and several bookmarks! Well, my hours of reading did that, but I wouldn't have tracked them without y'all, haha. Currently participating in the Winter Reading Program, and I'm able to easily track both my & my husband's hours read. Very convenient and straightforward. I've tried other apps for tracking before and it never took, but Beanstack works for me.

What’s new

- Various bug fixes and user experience improvements