Beanstack Tracker 4+

Zoobean, Inc.

Designed for iPhone

    • Free

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Description

Beanstack helps schools, libraries, and families read more with fun reading challenges, easy tracking, and insightful data.

Open a world of reading inspiration with a library, school, company, or Beanstack Go account:
- 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 progress through books and create an all-time reading log.
- Use an easy barcode scanner to quickly add 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.

Perfect for students, families, and readers of all ages: Sign up everyone in your family within a single library, company, or Beanstack Go account, or use SSO to sign in to each of your students’ rostered school accounts and swiftly toggle between them. You can 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.

Pair with Badge Books: The Beanstack reading tracker app works hand-in-hand with our Badge Books to inspire young readers with custom reading challenges that include matching virtual and sticker badges, away-from-screen activities, and a reading calendar. Together, the Beanstack app and Badge Books inspire families to build a habit of reading that stays with children for life.

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, library, or company.

What’s New

Version 4.22

Various bug fixes

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
39.2K Ratings

39.2K Ratings

egturner ,

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. :)

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback! We have made significant updates to our mobile app recently and would recommend downloading the latest version. Activities may now be logged! If you are still experiencing any issues, please reach out to our support team here: usersupport@zoobean.com. Thank you for your patience! 

Sincerely,
Beanstack Support

Birdnest ,

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.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for using our app and for your feedback! We truly appreciate it. Our sincere apologies for the difficulties you've described. We are currently working to address these issues so that we can continue to improve our user experience. If there are any other ways we can help, please reach out to our support team here: usersupport@zoobean.com. Sincerely, Beanstack Support

Aloha.boy ,

Love the App Despite Some Oddities

UPDATE:

It seems as if the Beanstack developers decided the mobile app needed refreshing but the changes make it more frustrating for long time users. Most changes I can deal with or ignore but the recent moving of the field to log daily minutes read is bizarre at best. The log page has been reconfigured to first display the “Have you finished the book” line, followed by a “View More” tab that is where they moved the log minutes field. Common sense suggests a reader would want to log their daily minutes over the several days of reading the book then toggle the book completed field. The previous version did indeed allow us to log minutes first, then tap the book completed tab below it. It was easy to follow and enter data. Not now.

I have used the app since it was recommended by our library for reading contests it has offered over the years. I log my minutes daily even when the app fails to recognize them in my streak. I love the barcode scan feature even when it adds the wrong title—maybe 10% of the time. And I like the cumulative data of my reading activity. Overall a highly useful app for us bibliophiles. I wish its use was a bit more simplified though.

Developer Response ,

Hello - we're very sorry to hear about your experience with our mobile app so far and truly appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback. Just to note, the change may be related to what your library has specifically required for their challenge - what is required in a challenge is what is shown about that dropdown. If you'd like to share more, we're always happy to listen and chat further. Please feel free to reach out to usersupport@zoobean.com if there are any additional details you'd like to share, as we're always looking for ways to improve our user experience. Thank you again! Sincerely, Beanstack Support

App Privacy

The developer, Zoobean, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

  • Contact Info
  • User Content
  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data
  • Sensitive Info
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