My absolute favorite app
I LOVE StoryGraph! First off, the features are awesome. I like seeing the AI recommendations even if they aren’t always helpful 🙄 I think it’s awesome when leaving reviews how you can rate the pace of the book, the mood, etc. As a reader who is drawn more to character based stories, it’s nice to see that info when starting a new book. One of the best parts is the content warnings. I do have a few triggers/things I don’t want to read about, and knowing what subjects are in a book is awesome. The app is very deep and personal to me. I enjoy the privacy levels, since I have a private account. But I also like friending people to see what they’re reading, because finding similar users gives me great suggestions. Half of my books this year have spawned from that. The app itself is a bit glitch-y on my Ipad, but nothing I can’t handle. I’ve recommended this app to at least five people and will continue doing so! I also love the update that allows you to sort reviews of a book by stars, it’s helpful. Incredible app! Even if I’m not logging my book, I enjoy just looking at other books and scrolling books on there haha. It’s the best kind of library. :) ❤️❤️
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I love the apps new new features!
First off, being able to see who has liked my community feed is actually super nice, and some other updates have been great additions to the app! The SGAI has gotten a lot more helpful in its recommendations, and I feel that I’ve found a lot of great books on here based on those. I haven’t been reading as much recently, but it’s super easy to just jump back in and update everything. I also feel so accomplished, having hit 100 books this year (101 right now) and I would only know that because of StoryGraph.
Thank you so much to the wonderful team and developers behind this app!!
Edit to review:
I love the apps new new features!
First off, being able to see who has liked my community feed is actually super nice, and some other updates have been great additions to the app! The SGAI has gotten a lot more helpful in its recommendations, and I feel that I’ve found a lot of great books on here based on those. I haven’t been reading as much recently, but it’s super easy to just jump back in and update everything. I also feel so accomplished, having hit 100 books this year (101 right now) and I would only know that because of StoryGraph.
Thank you so much to the wonderful team and developers behind this app!!
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Bad UI
They’re incorrectly caching pages between menu items. So if you go to challenges back to home, you’re still shown the challenges page unless you hit the home icon a second time. Amateur hour on this app.
Great concept, but AI recommendations need work
I love the idea of this app, but the AI recommendations have been disappointing. Despite completing the preferences quiz and listing my favourite books, the suggestions seem poorly matched to my tastes.
More concerningly, the AI analysed Hyperion and claimed I’d never rated it, despite my profile clearly showing a five-star review. It then confidently explained why I might not enjoy a book I consider my favourite!
There’s real potential here, but the AI needs to make better use of existing ratings, reviews and reading preferences to provide genuinely personalised recommendations
More concerningly, the AI analysed Hyperion and claimed I’d never rated it, despite my profile clearly showing a five-star review. It then confidently explained why I might not enjoy a book I consider my favourite!
There’s real potential here, but the AI needs to make better use of existing ratings, reviews and reading preferences to provide genuinely personalised recommendations
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The coziness of a bookshelf in a digital app
This app has heart. The creators listen to user suggestions and it doesn’t feel like a money-making app. Sure it has some faults and UI could be a bit more appealing, but I’ll stick with it because I know this app is FOR book lovers.
So helpful! Changes the reading game.
Where has this app been all my life? Probably right here and I didn’t notice.
I thought about building my an app like this assuming nothing like this existed. I researched, found this app and love it!
I thought about building my an app like this assuming nothing like this existed. I researched, found this app and love it!
Slow Loading Speed
The UI design is clean and I like charts and tags to give you a better idea of a books structure and theme, but the app was running so slow and had to constantly swap from one tab to another to load the screen. The UX using the app was poor and hope the loading speed improves as it can be frustrating.
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Essential, but unstable
Constantly blank pages, ignored inputs or application becomes fully unresponsive.
Best reading app
Obsessed. User friendly, tons of awesome stats for free, and an incredible founder who is super responsive to the community. If anything ever happened to this app I don’t even know what I would do IM BEING SERIOUS
Simply love
I love everything about this app. I love the giveaways (which I’ve won 2 of in the past year and a half) and its ease of use!
Perfect book tracker for nerdy readers (like me)!🙌🏽❤️
The minute I swapped Goodreads for StoryGraph, I knew I’d made the right choice and I haven’t regretted it since! I’ve used this app for years, and will die on the hill that it’s far superior to all other book trackers. The interface is clean and organized, the analytics are incredibly useful, and the book recommendations help me expand my taste without recommending overly cliché titles. Storygraph also makes it incredibly easy to add “non-book” titles like fanfiction and ARCs, which is a major plus. And the customizable tables and graphs that come with the Plus subscription are great, as well. I use this app at least once a day for updating my reading streak, and I’ve honestly never been not satisfied with it. Keep up the great work!
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Can’t scan my books
First time user here, and I really wanted to love the app since a friend had walked me through theirs—but it’s taken a half hour just to get the first 8 books of my collection scanned. ISBN and book covers seem to overwhelm the search system and it crashes out and errors. Goodreads is really intuitive when scanning ISBNs but I would like an alternative, I love LibraryThing for inventory, but maybe I’ll switch to that for the time being. This app was mostly a let down.
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4.75 stars rounded up 😜
-0.25 star because of the ugly calendar colours 😭 the colour lines seldom match the actual book covers. When they do match, the colours are mostly muddy. I’d love it if we can choose the colours ourselves with a colour picker/gradient wheel
Other than that, everything else about the app is great. Definitely the superior book tracker.
Other than that, everything else about the app is great. Definitely the superior book tracker.
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I would like it if I could comment on my friend’s reads.
Love this app, just wish I could engage more when I look at what my friends are up to. Love the graphs, love the buddy read feature especially.
Favorite
I love how this app focuses on tracking. The community is positive, and you can tell the developers think carefully about how to maintain that and make our experience the best it can be.
The Best
This app is incredible! So many editions of each book so I can find exactly what I’m reading. There are so many excellent stats that I love keeping up with as I read through the year! #1 reading tracking app.
Immediately Better than G**dreads
Wow a book tracking app that actually cares about its users!! Captures all my reading data, allows for more categories of feedback on books (which leads to better recs), and the interface is gorg!! Don’t waste another day on that other app, you can import all of your previously read books in a flash!!
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LOVE IT
Hands down the best reading tracker app out there. Simple, clean layout, love the AI aspect of it describing the books, the tags, and the percentage breakdowns. Only thing missing is a widget to update reading progress.
More of this (and that) please
Lovely app, great interface, no complaints. I just want a couple more features like RSS feed generation and Micropub functionality. I’m not particularly interested in social/community features on another platform and would rather be able to share what I’m doing on this app on platforms where I already have a presence.
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Incredibly powerful, genuinely caring creator, keeps getting better
This is the best book tracker I have ever used. It has completely transformed how I maintain my library and reading.
In addition, the programmer of this app genuinely cares. She is transparent about everything she is working on to make the app better. I will always pay for premium because I enjoy the extras and being able to influence the roadmap, but also I genuinely feel that this app is worth paying for.
It’s very refreshing technology.
In addition, the programmer of this app genuinely cares. She is transparent about everything she is working on to make the app better. I will always pay for premium because I enjoy the extras and being able to influence the roadmap, but also I genuinely feel that this app is worth paying for.
It’s very refreshing technology.
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One of the Best Book Tracking Apps*
*but could do with a couple improvements IMO.
Out of the book tracking apps I’ve used, this is def my favorite. I love the breadth of statistics offered and the structure of writing reviews. I find that the recommendations actually feel relevant for once and I like that you can filter by genre/style.
I also like that this app isn’t owned by Lex Luthor himself (*cough* g**dreads)… I digress.
IMPROVEMENTS:
-Totally just a personal wish, but I wish there was more customization for the UI. I don’t love the dark gray background and would love some alternate themes (especially a sepia or more neutral palette)
-I wish the chart for Books Read/Pages Read was a little easier on the eyes as well. I don’t have a specific replacement to suggest, but I think the graphic could be improved.
Out of the book tracking apps I’ve used, this is def my favorite. I love the breadth of statistics offered and the structure of writing reviews. I find that the recommendations actually feel relevant for once and I like that you can filter by genre/style.
I also like that this app isn’t owned by Lex Luthor himself (*cough* g**dreads)… I digress.
IMPROVEMENTS:
-Totally just a personal wish, but I wish there was more customization for the UI. I don’t love the dark gray background and would love some alternate themes (especially a sepia or more neutral palette)
-I wish the chart for Books Read/Pages Read was a little easier on the eyes as well. I don’t have a specific replacement to suggest, but I think the graphic could be improved.
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