Leave a Review Book Club by BookMovement
Has potential
This app has some great features, including the ability for each group member to be able to add their choice options for the next month’s book and the “like” button to allow the group to vote individually and anonymously. It is also convenient that when you set up the meeting time, you can opt for it to send your group members reminder emails, which is helpful considering everyone has other things going on.
I really wish there was a way to allow for a moderator or someone to oversee/manage it though, as I am the one in my group who sets it up every month. It is annoying that I have to tell the people in my group to go back and delete last months picks, and other things like that. It is also very glitchy, which can be quite frustrating at times. If they would fix these things the app would be much better.Show lessashketchum2026
Very Helpful
This book club app has been very helpful in organizing our Bookclubs. I have three Bookclubs using it. It is so nice that it automatically generates emails announcing the next Bookclub date and choice of book and sends reminders. It has saved me a lot of time answering the same questions over and over, “what is our book next month? When is our next Bookclub? ” 🙄
What is even more invaluable in my opinion are the emails we get from Pauline with giveaways, new book suggestions and opportunities to zoom with authors! This is the best feature!!
I also love the reading guides, the suggestions for Bookclub questions and sometimes even menus and drink ideas!
Plus, Pauline, the founder, is always available to email and is very responsive.Show lessJanaLovesBooks
Responsive
Although this app has experienced glitches in the past, the owner is responsive to correcting them and to meeting the needs shared by its users. The app allows me to quickly manage the several book clubs I participate in quickly and easily. What would make it even better is it allowing quicker messaging to members via the app or via text as opposed to email. 👌🏻Show lesslorysakay
Has potential- but can be frustrating
I want to love this app! I love that it lets us add our books up front (one of my groups pick all our books at the start of our year; and the other group picks just a few months at a time). I love that we can scroll back to see our previous reads I love that it sends reminders to start the book a week before the meeting. I love that we can add books our group has discussed but don’t want to pick as an official read just yet.
I wish that i could have a place to add my own questions or talking points for the books as I am reading. I know there’s a tab for “questions” but rarely are there any questions there; nor does it let me enter my own.
I wish there was a spot for a running group chat. Some book group conversations aren’t book specific.
And I find it very frustrating that the app itself doesn’t have a “delete” meeting option.
And it is definitely most annoying that it keeps pulling a very incorrect book cover (I wonder if it’s a trick to promote some new books). I have replaced this cover multiple times and it immediately reverts to the wrong book. The title of the book at the top of the page is correct- but definite wrong cover. The website actually shows the correct book cover. But not the app. So I know they have the correct cover in their database.
So much potential for this app to be amazing. But a few very frustrating glitches and a lack of some basic logical functions. 🫤Show lessJPAland
Developer Response
Hi--it's Pauline, founder of BookMovement. I want you to love this app too & I hate that you are frustrated! First, you have a web version of your page on BookMovement.com (same login as app) which has full functionality (you can delete your meeting there.) Second, about the book covers, nothing sinister! Just a bug we are fixing in our new update coming next week. & as for the reading guides, I hand-input discussion questions, so if you email me at Pauline@bookmovement.com, I can look up and see your upcoming picks and hunt down discussion questions for you. & please email me anytime and thanks for your feedback.Believe it or not, I have non iPhone using friends.
Couldn’t use this app for my book club as some members do not have iPhones. It appears this app is not available cross platform. Disappointing. 3 stars for iOS only, especially for an app used within a group setting so it divides us and excludes friends based on phone choices. Even if everyone in my book club had iPhones, I wouldn’t go with this app because I’d be stuck with having to keep the club an iPhone only book club. Or with trying to figure out a work around if someone switched or someone new joined.
It would have been two stars, but this looks like a well designed app. I really wanted to try this app for my club hence my disappointment in it only being available on iPhone. I’d say I hope it expands but by then I’ll have decided on a different app and if I spent time getting everyone all set up, I’m unlikely to go through changing it.Show lessPkjcggyv
Great App!
Great way to keep our Book Club organized!!Gilchn2
Simple and helpful
Our club votes periodically on a set of books to read over the coming year or so, and our organizer is great about entering the schedule in BookMovement. That makes it simple to see what’s coming up in the next few meetings, or go back to remind myself when we read a certain book. I mostly use the My Clubs section, but occasionally go look at suggested books. Too bad I don’t have time to read them all.Show lessterry-2617
Great Book Club App!
Our book club relies on this app. It’s a smooth way for us to communicate and stay organized. Pauline is always accessible and will help out if needed. Love using Book Movement!Rjs345678
Perfect for Today’s Book Clubs
I started using this app pre-COVID to help organize our book club group. We have a very transient book club group with members constantly joining and others moving out of the area. Before Book Movement we were using a group chat, but it became a full time job trying to keep the recipients up to date. With the book movement app, members can remove themselves from the group, and the host/manager can add group members easily- right at their first meeting!
I also started a virtual book club with my mom and sisters (also pre-COVID), and the book movement app has been so helpful in keeping us organized.
Since COVID, book movement has been so helpful in keeping us organized and giving us something to look forward to each month. I would definitely give book app 5 stars!Show lessorangejuliss
Excellent tool for book clubs.
We’ve been using the App for 2 years and it’s been great. It’s saved all the emailing and issues we had in the past. If it ‘hasn’t worked’, it’s because some book club members aren’t willing to try something different - ie user issues, not App issues. On the odd occasion where there’s been a genuine tech issue, a quick email to support and it’s fixed. They are super responsive. I’ve recommended it to another book club I belong to and we use it there with great success. I highly recommend.Show lessYM NZ
