# Points Scan — user reviews > 57 indexed App Store user reviews of Points Scan by Straight Path Apps, rated 4.80/5 from 2,740 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/points-scan/id1087200658/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/points-scan/id1087200658.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,385 · 4★ 197 · 3★ 79 · 2★ 27 · 1★ 52 ## What do users think of Points Scan? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 🚀 Convenient scanning feature - 💡 Helpful for AR goals - 🙌 Teacher-approved **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes - 🔍 Unable to find many books - 🤔 Inconsistent search results - 🤯 Buggy barcode scanning **Commonly reported bugs** - Scanning issues with books starting with 0 - Incorrect character display in search results - Sudden inability to search by name or author - Compatibility problems with older devices **Most requested features** - Include word count information - Add ability to mark books as completed - Improve search functionality - Expand book database coverage ## Newest reviews (18 of 57) ### 4/5 — Pretty good *2025-12-22, version 2.41* Love the but it is super slow some times and when I tipe the first few words then it just loads for like a hour but other then that I would totally recommend it ❤️❤️❤️ ### 4/5 — Exits me out *2024-02-12, version 2.41* When I am using the app, i click on the barcode sign and scan my book. Then when i go back, and scan another book, it gets all glitchy and just stops. But, easy solution, just click on the barcode button on the bottom. Now i went to search up a book on this app (i was online shopping for books) and i go search up the authors last name: Reid. The author is Taylor Jenkins Reid, and I scroll down all the way to the bottom, and her name is there! I click on it, nothing happens. I click on it again. And the app just closes. I tried clicking on the authors before and after her name, and they worked perfectly fine. ### 2/5 — Doesn’t Find All Quizzes *2023-12-01, version 2.41* When this app works, it’s great. The problem is that too often when I scan a book, it says there is no quiz. When I type it in on my laptop, it finds a quiz. This app is hit or miss. ### 3/5 — Not easy to use *2023-11-12, version 2.41* It was so hard for me to get the book code and like the other review said it Doesn’t find books ### 3/5 — Not Accurate *2023-08-26, version 2.41* This app does not find books that are accelerated reader. Even using the bar code or typing the title it is unable to find titles. I have to use my laptop to find the quiz numbers and levels. It would have been helpful to use this app on the go if it searched correctly to find books. ### 2/5 — Unreliable *2022-11-16, version 2.41* The app keeps closing on me as I search for an author. Many books are not in the system. Also, it constantly autocorrects book names and author names on me when searching for something specific. Can’t this feature be turned off? Finally, when looking for a book title, some are simply impossible to find because of how they have been logged. For example, “The Swindler’s Treasure” will be in the system as, “The Swindler”s Treasure.” Why??? ### 3/5 — Freezes *2022-01-26, version 2.41* Freezes when using app. Some difficulty locating popular authors & titles. ### 2/5 — Not great *2021-07-23, version 2.41* The app closes all of a sudden after a few searches. A lot of times the books won’t pull up by their title, but will if you search by the author’s last name. A lot of work to find book info. ### 3/5 — Books are in AR system but don’t appear when barcode is scanned *2021-02-14, version 2.41* Using the Accelerated Reader program to level books. Many books in this app say they can’t find barcode but the book in actually in the system using either author name or book title. May want to update barcodes for scanning purposes. ### 3/5 — This app needs work! *2021-02-02, version 2.41* It’s useful yes, but it needs work. You can’t find certain books which are definitely in the point system. Please fix this problem. ### 3/5 — Very Buggy *2020-11-14, version 2.41* The app is great, but has tons of bugs and a new update hasn’t been released in six months (as of November 14). The scanner tends to misread codes that start with a zero, and rotating my device by accident doesn’t scale the view to fit the screen properly, whether I start in portrait or landscape. Also, a few characters commonly used in book titles are misinterpreted when I type them into search and are shown as a different character in search results (including the apostrophe, which is misinterpreted as quotation marks "). ### 4/5 — Incredibly convenient but occasionally crashes or freezes *2020-05-02, version 2.41* This app is increase incredibly helpful and convenient, but occasionally crashes or freezes. If it didn’t crash/freeze, it’d get 5 stars. Makes the job of a teacher SO much easier! ### 2/5 — Ar finder *2020-04-08, version 2.4* You really need to add more books! I am glad to have this app, but it does not Scan codes. well ### 4/5 — App usually works *2020-03-27, version 2.4* I like the idea of the app and it generally works. However, barcode scan feature would be great if it worked all the time. Searching for a book seems to work best by typing in last name only of author then looking to see what books that person has written. If you are lucky enough to find your book on the list, hooray! This makes being in a bookstore and searching to see if the book you selected is the appropriate level tedious, but it gets the job done! ### 1/5 — HORIBLE *2020-03-19, version 2.4* THIS IS A HORIBLE APP ### 3/5 — Scanner not working *2020-03-09, version 2.4* Scanner not working. It did at first but now it’s not working. ### 1/5 — Freezes a lot *2020-03-04, version 2.4* After scanning more than a couple books in a row it freezes ### 1/5 — No Spanish language books *2020-02-23, version 2.4* We were excited to get this app but it lacks and Spanish books. This is a problem if your kid is in a Spanish immersion program. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Malfunctioning *2025-09-27, version 2.41* It doesn’t scan every book at the library. It keeps saying it not found. But I know they are in my children’s AR level. It doesn’t work as it should. Out of 10 books, it scanned once. Unreliable! ### 1/5 — Doesn’t Find Books *2025-09-02, version 2.41* Many books that are available on the Renaissance book find website don’t show up here. It used to work years ago but doesn’t seem to anymore. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2025-04-18, version 2.41* The app will not let me download it. The worst app ever. ### 1/5 — Most titles missing *2023-12-10, version 2.41* Many titles are missing compared to arbook finder’s website. Kind of useless if i have to check another site. ### 1/5 — Not as good as others *2023-10-07, version 2.41* This app is not as good as some others available. It might not be getting updated, not sure, but unable to find some books books that should be listed. Wish I could get a refund. ### 1/5 — Can’t search *2022-04-26, version 2.41* Suddenly I cant search by name or author. But if I scan the barcode it comes up. ### 1/5 — Horrible:/ *2022-01-10, version 2.41* This app never works for me. I always try to scan the books for my child and it will freeze and kick me out of the app. Horrible!!!! ### 1/5 — Loading... *2021-04-15, version 2.41* Just downloaded. Scans into an endless loading screen. ### 1/5 — Useless *2020-09-28, version 2.41* Would have been ideal if it recognised any books. I could understand it not working with new books but classics like The Silver Sword and The Wolves of Willoughby Chase don’t work either. ### 1/5 — Teachers say this is inaccurate *2020-08-28, version 2.41* I had two teachers, one of them a school librarian, tell me that this app is not always accurate and that they prefer the AR Book Finder website. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — It is so much easier to find ar books with this *2025-10-15, version 2.41* Love his app ### 5/5 — I love this app *2020-05-17, version 2.41* My b eat friend showed me this app and this is amazing since I have an A. R goal which is 25 points and this helps so much! Great app! ### 5/5 — Great app *2019-12-23, version 2.03* Super easy to use. Great app!!! Recommended to my daughter’s teacher. ### 5/5 — Teacher Approved *2019-10-22, version 2.03* EVERY elementary teacher who uses AR MUST have this app! This has saved me some serious time! I scan, write the quiz number in the inside cover, and BOOM, my students easily test! ### 5/5 — Ads inappropriate for kids *2019-10-04, version 2.03* This app works fine, but it flashed an advertisement for another app. I understand that free apps have advertisements, but this app advertisement was entirely inappropriate for children. I am glad neither of my young kids were viewing this points scan app when the ad flashed up. The maker of Points Scan should more carefully vet their advertisers. I will be deleting this app in lieu of one that my children can always view. ### 5/5 — Love it *2019-09-26, version 2.03* I really wanted a list of books I could use to help my 2nd grader know what books would challenge his reading skills but not be too difficult. This has solved my problem. ### 5/5 — Blessing to any parent! *2018-05-07, version 1.9* This app has saved me so many times this school year. It offered clear, concise information that I needed to help my child succeed during AR testing. This app is very easy to use and so far hasn’t had any “bug” issues for me. Thank you!!!!!! ### 5/5 — So helpful! *2018-03-02, version 1.9* The scanning function of this app is so helpful! Love it! ### 5/5 — Awesome!!!! *2017-12-06, version 1.9* 12/6/2017 - So far so good! This app is amazing!! ### 5/5 — I love it!! *2017-10-27, version 1.9* I am impressed it works so easily to just scan the books ISBN barcode and it pops the info! I used to use the AR app, and it quit working after the last update. But, even if it was still working, I would want this for the scanning! I loved that app because it told me my kids’ scores and where they were vs. where they needed to be, but I’m loving this scanner!! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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