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

I prefer Beanstack to Storygraph because this app was developed to ensure diverse reading and I like that. The ONLY issues I continue to have are it misses some log ins when I update my daily reading, which messes up my streak, and there are quite a few book titles that I have to manually log in. With that said, this is an easy to use app and it's a fun motivation to keep reading!

I like being able to keep track of my daughter's reading with this app and being able to join challenges through my public library. Lately the app has been glitchy, it doesn't record the readings or they'll appear sometimes but not always. The streak counter is also not accurate, even if there are no gaps in the days we've read, it will only consider a random amount of days as a streak.

Awesome app! I've just started and it's been great to view my reading progress so far! It's a simple app, although it took some time to navigate and find out where everything was, the app's purpose just basically keeps track of how much you read in a duration and over time. I really wish there was a way to add little notes to each book though, like a little personal log to each reading. This feature would also be helpful for books we have to manually plug in, since it's harder to keep track.