AR Book Assistant User Reviews

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Idea

I’ve used this app for a little bit and it is really useful but I have one suggestion that I think could really help. PLEASE put an “add all to library” button in history! This would make adding things to the library so much easier.

This is a great app would recommend. I also really love the scan feature!
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Sometimes Inaccurate

I love the scanner and I love that I can add books to be read and then mark off what’s been read, but I can’t look books up by title, and the scanner and ISBN sometimes return inaccurate results, saying the book is not an AR book, when it is. So whenever it says something is not an AR book, I have to go to the AR website and look it up the long way anyway. I assume it’s because I might have an old or unusual edition (we get many of our books used). If they could add a search by title feature in the app, that would be great so I could still add those books to our book shelf.
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Response from developer

UPDATE: the search by title/author is now available. Please let us know if you have any feedback. Thanks for taking the time to provide your feedback on the app, this helps us making it better for everyone. The scanner/ISBN behavior that you describe is the expected behavior in case you scan a book whose ISBN (the series of numbers below the barcode) is not referenced in AR website. Indeed, this often happens for older versions of books. The great news is that the search by title/author is planned to be delivered this weekend! So please stay tuned and give it a try as soon as it’s out!

Good app, Great potential

I overall think this app has a very promising potential. Unlike some other AR apps I’ve tried, this one’s ISBN scanner actually works. I also like how it functions as a AR assistant, not just a scanner. However, there are a few key points where this app could be improved. For one, you should have the option to look up books by title/author, not just by ISBN. This would be helpful when I don’t have the book on me at the time and don’t want to have to look up it’s ISBN number. Another helpful feature would be points tracking. I would like to know how many points I have achieved over the year/quarter/semester. After all, It’s called an AR book assistant, not AR book lookup. Overall, I think that this is a great app, and with a few added features and design tweaks, this could become the best AR app out there.
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Response from developer

Thanks very much for your encouragements and constructive feedback. We really appreciate that you took the time, this is really helpful. The app is fairly new (1 month old) and we are working hard to bring more feature to our users. The search by title/author is the next feature that we plan to deliver soon.

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