Wouldn’t recommend
Waste of money. Purchased this app to level hundreds of books for a classroom library. Over half of them didn’t even come up or it came up with the book but no level assigned. Download a different free book leveler and it found and had levels for at least three quarters of the books not found in this app.
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Disappointing Purchase!
I bought this app specifically for the scanner feature to easily identify reading levels of texts in my classroom. The scanner won’t work on a single book. I am using an iPhone 12 Pro Max and can see the camera is clearly picking up the standard barcodes (with EAN and ISBNs beginning with 978) but NO INFO POPS UP! Disappointing. If I wanted to type in ISBNs or titles all day, I could have just used Google.
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Great app but with some corrections
I use this app all the time but a lot of the books don’t come up with title or author. I feel like we should be able to input ones that are missing to help others. Even Scholastic books sometimes don’t come up.
Great start
This is a great and quick app most of the time. I do have a lot of books in my classroom library but don’t have scannable codes so there was a lot of entry by hand. Almost all of the books do you have a Lexile rating, but the others are hit and miss.
I hope there is an update soon to catch up some of the titles. I also hope that in the near future they give us someway to export our library so that we could create or print a spreadsheet of some kind.
I hope there is an update soon to catch up some of the titles. I also hope that in the near future they give us someway to export our library so that we could create or print a spreadsheet of some kind.
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Very disappointed!!
With virtual learning starting in the fall I wanted an app to help me find grade level text for my children. Out of the 10 books I scanned in like two were listed!!!Very sorry that I wasted six dollars on this app!!There should have been a way to try a few scans before purchasing. What a rip off. I wish I could request a refund!!If you were a mom with typical children’s books and young reader chapter books at home don’t waste your money!!
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Amazing!!!! & amazing support!
Loving this app to start my classroom library!!! Easy to look up/ scan! It’s nice that even some not leveled books are still in there to keep track! Would be nice to be able to add books that aren’t in! But over LOVE! & the support is AMAZING! I emailed about an issue I was having (user error) and within 30 minutes a REAL person emailed me back ready to help! Highly recommend!!!
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Amazing tool for the books they have in their system
I love this app, I think it is easy to use, and love that you can look at your library in so many different ways!
There are a few problems though that I feel could be easily fixed. If the book is not registered, whether by isbn number, title, author, etc. you cannot “add it” to your library. This is frustrating since you don’t want repeats. I’ve reached out several times to them through the contact us in the app, and I have received nothing back. Not even a “received it, we will get back to you”.
The other thing is adding pictures. I wish I could take a picture of the cover for the book. Many times there is a cover, but it can be wrong or gray. This would be a nice little easy fix to keep it updated and help with peace of mind when organizing.
Overall I love the product, want to keep using it, but I wish I could get these few issues resolved. It would help a teacher out!
There are a few problems though that I feel could be easily fixed. If the book is not registered, whether by isbn number, title, author, etc. you cannot “add it” to your library. This is frustrating since you don’t want repeats. I’ve reached out several times to them through the contact us in the app, and I have received nothing back. Not even a “received it, we will get back to you”.
The other thing is adding pictures. I wish I could take a picture of the cover for the book. Many times there is a cover, but it can be wrong or gray. This would be a nice little easy fix to keep it updated and help with peace of mind when organizing.
Overall I love the product, want to keep using it, but I wish I could get these few issues resolved. It would help a teacher out!
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Helpful
Very helpful for inventorying 80% of the books in my library. Wish there was a way to manually enter books that are not in the database. Or add some other sorting feature like AR. Still happy with the purchase but frustrated that I can’t inventory my whole library.
Disappointed
I was certain that this app would help me verify the levels of guided reading books I planned to use for my groups. The scanner did not scan, and I had to manually enter ISBNs. This wastes time. Then, no leveling Information was given for several books I looked up; only the title and author. I can get that information from the book. I would never have paid $6 for an app to tell me the title and author of a book. I really wish I could get a REFUND!!!
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Helpful app for young readers
I use this to identify books in our collection or at the library that are the right level for my daughter to practice reading. It’s very easy to use, especially with the barcode scanning feature. There are generally books that I can’t find, and I wish there was a way to submit those for review and have the reading level get added to them. If they’re not in the database I can’t even add them to my library (within the app). It’s nice that there is a decoder page to match up the various reading level scales, since not all books are rated on all the scales. Overall this app is still very helpful even with the drawbacks listed.
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Happy New Kinder Teacher
After 20 years I came back to Kinder. Instead of DEAR time there is Independent Reading as a part of a BLP. Both those and take home books need to be leveled to “Guided Readings” GR or F&P or back in the day Reading Recovery. I went online to A-Z database to type in my library books and few were found. I printed lists of books - tedious. After 15 min I now have 50% of my library scanned with this app! 90% were in this database and about 80% had a leveled score. About 50 of Joy Cowleys books are leveled. Thank you makers!!
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Books not in app!
I bought the bundle and I am trying to build a check out system. I wished I could manually put in books while you updated your library. It isn't helpful when someone wants to check it a book that isn’t on the list.
Great app!
This app is amazing! The only thing was I accidentally erased it and all of my books that I scanned in erased so now I need to rescan everything!! Is there any way to ensure all books can be saved on the app? I’m afraid if I get a new phone and the app does not transfer I will lose all of the books again.
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Easy to use!
This app has cut down on my work load for my kindergarten classroom. Even though it does not display every book cover, it make my library inventorying a breeze. I highly recommend this if you are a teacher regardless of grade level.
Lots of books missing
I bought this app as a parent trying to make it easier to select level appropriate books at the public library. More than half of the books I have scanned are not in this database. It is a great app when the book is included.
So many books not in database or …
in the database but no level is assigned. Although the app is easy to use with the scan function, the search function leaves a lot to be desired. Sometimes you have to type every word of the title to see it appear (closest matches don’t necessarily come to the top of the search field). Wish there were a more comprehensive leveler database.
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Love it!
Love the s scan feature. Also if a book doesn’t have a barcode, most times I find it in the library when typing it in. Amazing app!!
Missing genre
I want so much to love this app! Entering the books in was easy and I LOVE that you can merge with the checkout app. About 90% of my library was able to be uploaded. I wish I could add a cover of a book to the ones that don’t have one like you can do in the checkout app. My -2 on the Star rating comes because there is no genre attached to the books. A big problem I have is trying to figure out what book belongs to which genre when helping my class pick books out. Adding this to the app would make this app unstoppable! A 5+ rating!
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Disappointed
This app started working great the first few times then stopped scanning. I contacted tech support via email and they gave lots of suggestions for me but they didn’t help. I even uninstalled and reinstalled the app and still could not get the app to work. One thing that does work is typing the numbers in which is a huge PITA. But, using the voice to text mode makes it faster. And then there are some books that are not found in the app which is another disappointment.
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Okay
This app is okay. About 50 percent of my books were on here but I still have a couple hundred that still aren’t leveled. The book is in the app for a lot of them without a level which is very very frustrating. Over I would not recommend this and would use the scholastic free version because it has the same books but is FREE!
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