StoryGraph: Reading Tracker for Android

Just started using it for buddy reads and I love it! Makes it so easy to react and share thoughts in the moment.

I like this app more than Goodreads. I’d like to see a dark mode or other way to customize colors on the graphs, and I’d like a way to override what others have called the book like mood or pace because sometimes I think it’s wrong, but I love this app!

I switched to mainly using Storygraph, because the toxicity to the social side of Goodreads exhausted me, and the stat and other review features are a plus. But I don’t feel the recommendations section is that intuitive. I tend to read in a lot of broad genres, but within those, I can be picky, and I wish there was a way to account for that. I loved fantasy and romance, but I’m *tired* of getting paranormal and urban fantasy romance recs, because I’m more of an epic fantasy person…with some exceptions, depending on author, tone, characters, etc. Also, I’ve definitely gotten some dark and taboo stuff that isn’t tagged as erotica (a genre I listed as “not interested” in my survey), and it happens way more often than I’d like. Also, why am I being recommended stuff I already have as “want to read?” There’s an option to not see them when doing a filter search, so why would they come up in standard recommendations?

It’s okay and could be great eventually, but for now it’s too disorganized and hard to use. - There’s no way to edit the started reading date, only add a finish date or reread dates. - Very disorganized in general and not easy to navigate. Too busy looking. - You have to go through so many steps just to do a review. And the “review” link is so small it often takes me a minute to find it. I like that it has a few more options than Goodreads, but those things honestly don’t make it worth the effort.

StoryGraph is an excellent alternative to Goodreads! I especially like the recommendations. You get personalized recommendations based on books you’ve read and how you’ve rated them. (GR used to have that, but not anymore.) StoryGraph also has better social features. The only improvements I suggest are: 1. automatically move books to your “read” list from “currently reading” when you mark your progress as 100%, and 2. allow custom lists/easier tagging. I’d love to be able to “shelve” my books by genre, audience, etc. more easily than typing in tags each time. A drop-down list of favorite tags to add quickly to any book would be great. Thank you for your response! I appreciate you getting back to me. One more question: how do I get to a tag page?