Wonderful!
Wonderful app for book tracking, chat, recommendations, planning and celebrating your reading and reviewing
Abusive, Racist App Creators w/ No Accountability
The creators of this app unconditionally support coercive control and are anti-survivor.
The creator and her team engage in vicious, extreme bullying of vulnerable adults and children experiencing domestic violence.
The creator and support team collude with writers who have perpetrated harm in multiple marginalized communities for decades.
The creator and the team actually participate in and escalate the abuse. They justify and excuse violence towards vulnerable disabled adults and behave violently to survivors who advocate for themselves and their safety. They inform on victims to the perpetrators and have engaged in months of horrific emotional abuse.
They relentlessly attacked one deafblind survivor for months.
When the creator and support team target vulnerable people with relentless bullying, they use coercive control to silence and isolate those who seek accountability.
They evade accountability for their harmful behavior through narcissistic stonewalling, institutional betrayal, and cult-like communication control. So this is not a safe place for vulnerable adults, children, or marginalized people.
The app creator and support team also engages in vicious attacks of fact-checkers and undermine basic media literacy.
They are unconditionally loyal to authors who engage in research misconduct by erasing fact-checked and critical reviews. There is a severe lack of media literacy skills and an environment of coercive control that promotes disinformation.
They also are unconditionally loyal to authors who have been repeatedly investigated and found guilty of research misconduct.
There is also rampant white supremacy, ableism, and audism on this app.
The creators relentlessly support white people who lie about being Black and Indigenous even when the authors have been investigated and proven beyond-a-doubt to be white, non-Native people who do not belong to the tribes they falsely claimed to be members of.
The creators of this app relentlessly attack reviewers who discuss an anther’s history of cultural identity theft and fraud in their reviews.
They erased the library of someone who was abused by a white writer during quarantine to shield the perpetrator from accountability. The writer was white and had been exposed for falsely claiming to be Black.
They blocked any honest discussion of writers like Andrea Lee Smith, Thomas King, “Qwo-Li Driskill” and others exposed in the national and international media as white.
This app markets itself as better than Goodreads and as a welcoming, loving community, but the moment you confront something that isn’t right it devolves into something vicious and extremely destructive. The creators of this app are narcissistic bullies.
They also do not pay workers. They rely completely on exploitive labor practices.
They create sharp class divisions and hierarchies between their clique of bullies and “wormfluencers” and users on fixed incomes who don’t pay the monthly fee. If you are critical of the rampant classism, they engage in relentless, neverending emotional abuse.
On top of all that, the app is horrible designed by someone with no skills. It is plagued by huge, horrible bugs that never resolve because this developer refuses to pay anyone with actual qualifications or skills to work on the app. She recruits “volunteers” to do all of the work for free, which is not even legal business practice.
So if you are looking for an ethical alternative to Goodreads, this is not the place.
The creator and her team engage in vicious, extreme bullying of vulnerable adults and children experiencing domestic violence.
The creator and support team collude with writers who have perpetrated harm in multiple marginalized communities for decades.
The creator and the team actually participate in and escalate the abuse. They justify and excuse violence towards vulnerable disabled adults and behave violently to survivors who advocate for themselves and their safety. They inform on victims to the perpetrators and have engaged in months of horrific emotional abuse.
They relentlessly attacked one deafblind survivor for months.
When the creator and support team target vulnerable people with relentless bullying, they use coercive control to silence and isolate those who seek accountability.
They evade accountability for their harmful behavior through narcissistic stonewalling, institutional betrayal, and cult-like communication control. So this is not a safe place for vulnerable adults, children, or marginalized people.
The app creator and support team also engages in vicious attacks of fact-checkers and undermine basic media literacy.
They are unconditionally loyal to authors who engage in research misconduct by erasing fact-checked and critical reviews. There is a severe lack of media literacy skills and an environment of coercive control that promotes disinformation.
They also are unconditionally loyal to authors who have been repeatedly investigated and found guilty of research misconduct.
There is also rampant white supremacy, ableism, and audism on this app.
The creators relentlessly support white people who lie about being Black and Indigenous even when the authors have been investigated and proven beyond-a-doubt to be white, non-Native people who do not belong to the tribes they falsely claimed to be members of.
The creators of this app relentlessly attack reviewers who discuss an anther’s history of cultural identity theft and fraud in their reviews.
They erased the library of someone who was abused by a white writer during quarantine to shield the perpetrator from accountability. The writer was white and had been exposed for falsely claiming to be Black.
They blocked any honest discussion of writers like Andrea Lee Smith, Thomas King, “Qwo-Li Driskill” and others exposed in the national and international media as white.
This app markets itself as better than Goodreads and as a welcoming, loving community, but the moment you confront something that isn’t right it devolves into something vicious and extremely destructive. The creators of this app are narcissistic bullies.
They also do not pay workers. They rely completely on exploitive labor practices.
They create sharp class divisions and hierarchies between their clique of bullies and “wormfluencers” and users on fixed incomes who don’t pay the monthly fee. If you are critical of the rampant classism, they engage in relentless, neverending emotional abuse.
On top of all that, the app is horrible designed by someone with no skills. It is plagued by huge, horrible bugs that never resolve because this developer refuses to pay anyone with actual qualifications or skills to work on the app. She recruits “volunteers” to do all of the work for free, which is not even legal business practice.
So if you are looking for an ethical alternative to Goodreads, this is not the place.
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Meh.. nice for the vibrancy
The app constantly glitches or fails to show my full shelves, sometimes for days at a time until it randomly works again. It is a nice colorful app but beyond that, very poor software and not functional for exports or tracking.
Please help
I love this app only lately when I put in a name of a book it shows it’s there but doesn’t show up at all but the number of books added in currently reads is there but there is no show of the book or the cover.
I want to like it
But it’s missing what feels like really basic features. You can’t really build out your backlog, any books you mark as complete will be marked as read in your current calendar year with seemingly no way of changing it. So just updating books you’ve read in the past will completely throw off any reading challenges you set for yourself in-app
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Wanted to give more stars
Love the idea - as someone who knows they should read more, I sought out an app to motivate me to read more and landed on this. Whilst it is a little clunky - loved it at first. Unfortunately, books don’t always appear on the shelves when you add them or don’t show, even if the ‘number of books’ reflect the existence of the book on the shelf, it’s just not visible. Good effort but needs more work to iron out glitches. I want to add this app to my youth group (200 children) but don’t feel I can due to glitch
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LOVE
love this app so much!! So user friendly and such a great community that’s been built. I can’t wait to watch it keep growing <3
The CUTEST Book/Social App!
I love the worms and this app is literally the cutest.
My fave wormy book community
This is far more than a book tracking app. It’s the most bookish, wholesome and friendly corner of the internet. We’ve built a really lovely community together here. Come and join us
so cute
This app is so colourful, pretty, and fun! I would love for more people to use it because it’s truly so amazing! It’s like eating a packet of delicious gummies
Love this app!
This is such a cute way to track my reading - I really love the app design and the other users are really nice, an actually good internet community!!!
Cutest app for reading
Love the vibrant colors. Love that I can decorate my worm. Love the shared shelves. The cutest!!
Bookworm Limited
Although I applaud the social aspect of sharing books, this app is not going to suit my needs. 1. It did not find the last book I read. Granted it was a young adult book, but I enjoy them as a former school librarian and belong to a book club at the public library that reads them. 2. I need something that tracks my reading in more detail for my Read Challenge for the American Cancer Society for the month of August.
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The BEST book app out there
Obsessed with this app. I’ve gotten so many book recs and have been inspired to read so many books from others’ reviews! Super cute and engaging. Honestly this app helped me get back into reading and I’m so grateful. I’ve read 49 books so far this year and I think that’s largely due to Bookworm!
Has promise
I want to love this app. But so many books are missing and it’s annoying. Even if you submit it, it doesn’t get loaded.
It looks nice, but you have to pay for stats
It looks like a cute little app, but I only used it for about two minutes because you have to pay a subscription fee just to see your stats. That’s ridiculous
Not so ethical to paywall content written by users
So this app claims it’s better than GoodRead, yet the first thing I see is that it set up paywall for you to see book review content written by its users.
How is that “better” than goodread? I don’t think self claiming “indie” justifies this👎🏻
How is that “better” than goodread? I don’t think self claiming “indie” justifies this👎🏻
I love the idea
I want to love this app. But there are a lot of books not listed and I end up having cover massing on books I’ve read. Please fix this and add the book and replace it in our read folder. Not worth paying for when it’s not updated.
Perfect alternative to goodreads
Want a fun, supportive, hilarious book community (and an amazing discord server to boot)? Download this app immediately.
Cannot Permanently Delete Profile, Even After Reaching Out To Support
I attempted, three times, to delete my profile to no avail. I reached out to the Bookworm Reads support team, and got no response.
