Comparison

eMembership Card vs Beanstack Tracker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

eMembership Card

Access your digital membership cards and reduce physical clutter. This app provides renewal updates, benefit information, and directions to participating institutions. It also offers direct contact options for staff and integration with digital wallets.

Highlights
  • Download digital membership cards
  • Automatic renewal updates
  • View membership benefits
  • Reciprocal benefits information
  • Museum directions via Google Maps
  • Direct contact to staff
  • Push to Apple Wallet
Features
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Download your membership cards and reduce one more plastic/paper card you have to carry.(Only for those institutions that have signed up to provide digital membership cards through this app. Card in the App updates itself after renewals Get membership benefits info within the app. Get info on reciprocal benefits at other museums that are included in your membership. See what additional benefits you can get if you upgrade to another membership type. Get answers to Frequently Asked Questions Google map integrated to find live directions to the museum. Touch to call the Membership staff. Quick email to Membership staff Push membership card to Apple Wallet (iPhone version only). If you do not find your institution when you open the app, please contact their membership staff to provide you eMembership card facility. eMembership cards can only be downloaded for the institutions who have signed up with MuseumAnywhere to provide you digital cards on smartphones.

About

Beanstack Tracker

This app encourages reading for all ages through engaging challenges and easy progress tracking. It allows family profiles, individual logging, and offers features like barcode scanning and reading timers. It prioritizes user privacy by not selling data or showing ads.

Highlights
  • Motivating reading challenges
  • Easy reading progress tracking
  • Barcode scanner for titles
  • Reading timer and logging
  • Streaks and badges
  • Reading recommendations
  • Friend leaderboards
  • Reading fundraisers
Features
Currently charting
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Beanstack helps schools, libraries, and families bring the fun back to reading with reading challenges, easy tracking, and insightful data. We invite students, families, and readers of all ages to a world of reading inspiration and motivation. You can create profiles for everyone in your family within a single library or Beanstack Go account, or you can use SSO to sign in to any of your students’ school accounts and swiftly toggle between them. Beanstack helps you grow your reading habits together, while also logging and tracking reading progress individually. We never sell your data or use it to show you ads, so Beanstack is safe for everyone. Features: - Join motivating reading challenges created by librarians, educators, and reading specialists. Our ever-growing reading challenge collection features seasonal challenges like summer reading, yearlong literacy initiatives, and diverse custom challenges for all ages, levels, and communities. - Track reading progress and create an all-time reading log. - Use a barcode scanner to quickly and easily find titles. - Record reading sessions with a reading timer or log an entire book with a click. - Achieve streaks for reading multiple days in a row and badges for reaching reading goals. - Complete fun enrichment activities and leave book reviews. - Access reading recommendations and resources. - Add friends from your organization to see what they’re reading and compete on leaderboards. - View reading stats, including totals and averages of time spent reading and titles read. - Participate in reading fundraisers: Raise money for your organization with reading! With Beanstack’s reading fundraisers, you can earn badges while collecting donations to fund important priorities at your school or library. Beanstack is created by Joyful Reading Co, where we're dedicated to nurturing a lifelong love of reading through engagement, access, and data-driven insights.

Screenshots

eMembership Card4 screens
Beanstack Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

eMembership Card and Beanstack Tracker both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 66% of Beanstack Tracker's written reviews are positive against 20% of eMembership Card's. Beanstack Tracker also leads on ratings volume (100K vs 4.8K) and chart position (#160 vs unranked). eMembership Card's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for eMembership Card against 4.8 for Beanstack Tracker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beanstack Tracker has 100K ratings behind it against 4.8K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 20% of eMembership Card's written reviews are positive against 66% of Beanstack Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

eMembership Card ships an update every 6 weeks, Beanstack Tracker every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
eMembership Card versus Beanstack Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereMembership CardBeanstack Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (4.8K ratings)4.8 (100K ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews66.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.8K100K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#160 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInfiCare, IncZoobean, Inc.

Customer experience

eMembership Card

All ratings4,835 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral2.1%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews80 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative70.0%

Beanstack Tracker

All ratings99,537 ratings
Positive94.5%
Neutral3.1%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews659 reviews
Positive66.5%
Neutral13.2%
Negative20.3%

User reviews

eMembership Card

From 4.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Convenient to access membership cards
  • 💡 Useful app for managing memberships

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Issues with adding cards to Apple Wallet
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes or loading problems
  • 🐛 Search function not working as expected
  • 🐛 Incompatibility with newer devices

Beanstack Tracker

From 100K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Convenient for tracking reading
  • 🚀 Barcode scanning feature
  • 👍 Ability to track multiple readers
  • 👍 Motivating with achievements and badges

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inconsistent logging and tracking issues
  • 🤔 Confusing user interface and navigation
  • 🤔 Limited customization and personalization options
  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches, especially with timers and syncing
  • 🤔 Cumbersome process for logging books and reading

Bugs and requests

eMembership Card

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Cards not appearing in Apple Wallet after successful addition
  • Infinite loading or 'Loading Institutions' screen
  • Crashes when trying to access certain features

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add support for Apple Watch
  • Improve search functionality
  • Provide better instructions for troubleshooting

Beanstack Tracker

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Incorrect logging of reading sessions and progress
  • Inability to edit or remove previously logged books
  • Compatibility issues on tablets and iPads
  • Timezone-related bugs causing lost reading streaks

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to backdate reading sessions
  • Calendar view to easily see monthly reading progress
  • Option to log quantity of books read instead of just time
  • Personalized book recommendations based on reading history
  • Improved syncing and data management across devices

In-app purchases

None

eMembership Card

No in-app purchases

None

Beanstack Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is eMembership Card free?
eMembership Card is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beanstack Tracker free?
Beanstack Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, eMembership Card or Beanstack Tracker?
Beanstack Tracker is rated higher. eMembership Card averages 4.7 out of 5 from 4.8K ratings, while Beanstack Tracker averages 4.8 from 100K ratings.
Do eMembership Card or Beanstack Tracker have ads?
Neither eMembership Card nor Beanstack Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, eMembership Card or Beanstack Tracker?
eMembership Card ships an update every 6 weeks, and Beanstack Tracker every 3 weeks. Most recently, eMembership Card was updated on September 18, 2026 and Beanstack Tracker on September 24, 2026.

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