Beanstack Tracker for Android

I like the App so much

I’m halfway through the county summer reading program and am going to start using the paper logs they provide instead of Beanstack because it’s confusing to use. It doesn’t tell you how far along you are in your progress in the program. Also, the way it’s designed to log reading time doesn’t work well when you read shorter books. The only real benefit is that you can record the titles that you read. But even that is limited, because there’s so few titles included in their database. So many popular books by popular authors are missing. There’s the option to enter them yourself, but it gets tiresome to do that with nearly every entry. There’s badges that you can win, too, but that’s meaningless to my three year old and my seven year old doesn’t care. I actually work at my local library and so I see firsthand that the vast majority of parents are using paper logs, not the app. Not worth it.

I am a librarian and utilize Beanstack for data and Summer Reading. However, the app sometimes freezes, doesn’t always have the most user friendly interface, and the search feature doesn’t find even common books unless you try the author’s name, or ISBN #. By the time I get to my third attempt I realize most casual users wouldn’t have gone to the effort to log. I would like the search feature improved.

Ok

It is very convenient to log books by scanning barcode. I don’t need to input every book my kids read! Save a lot of time!!!