1000 Books Before Kindergarten

2.1
203 reviews
10K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

The concept is simple, the rewards are priceless. Read a book (any book) to your newborn, infant, and/or toddler. The goal is to have read 1,000 books (yes you can repeat books) before your precious one starts kindergarten. Does it sound hard? Not really if you think about it. If you read just 1 book a night, you will have read about 365 books in a year. That is 730 books in two years and 1,095 books in three years. If you consider that most children start kindergarten at around 5 years of age, you have more time than you think (so get started).

The 1000 Books Before Kindergarten app lets parents/caregivers keep track of their children's reading activity quickly and easily.

- Scan books into your library
- Keep track of reading activity for multiple readers
- Track your progress to 1000 books!

Please note:

USERS ARE REQUIRED TO REGISTER AN EMAIL ADDRESS TO USE THE APP.
Updated on
Nov 1, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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No data collected
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Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

2.1
199 reviews
Kayla Markowski
September 9, 2025
This app is very glitchy and has issues all the way around. Its not as user friendly as I would hope expecially for something that is used with small children. When adding a book to a reading list you have to first separately add it to the library and again add it to their list which is confusing and not easy to do because it has to be searched again to find the book you just imported, scanner sometimes doesnt work properly and a second scan will read the book, cannot update/correct entries....
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Rebecca Petch
July 7, 2024
Love the program, the app needs a LOT of work. Asside from the fact that it's slow to load and crashes a lot it's a lot of steps to deal with. I like the concept of the 'library' but I would love to see a progress selection for longer/# in 1 books and a way to track how many times a book as been read. It would also be very nice to be able to click finished reading when you scan a new book in. My child loves story's and will go thru 3-5 a night then we scan after reading so I takes lots of time
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Samantha Burnett
July 26, 2022
This app is in dire need of an update. As stated in other reviews, it is incredibly slow. It takes forever to add a book, even if if you scan it. Half the time the book is "unknown" even if it's a well known book, so it has to be manually entered. There's no way to edit preloaded information or your own information after submitting it. Half the books don't have cover pictures uploaded and you can't upload yourself.
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What’s new

Various bug fixes.

App support

About the developer
1000 BOOKS FOUNDATION
contact@1000booksbeforekindergarten.org
8987 W Flamingo Rd Ste 100 Las Vegas, NV 89147-0437 United States
+1 702-625-0584

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