Comparison

Beanstack Tracker vs Smile Source Events

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

Head to head
About

Beanstack Tracker

This app encourages reading for all ages through engaging challenges, progress tracking, and motivational tools. It allows families to manage multiple reader profiles and offers features like barcode scanning and reading timers. The platform is designed to foster a lifelong love of reading.

Highlights
  • Motivating reading challenges
  • Progress tracking and reading logs
  • Barcode scanner for titles
  • Reading timer and book logging
  • Streaks and badges for goals
  • Book reviews and recommendations
  • Friend leaderboards and stats
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.

About

Smile Source Events

Access conference schedules, presentations, and speaker information. Take notes, message colleagues, and share details directly from the app. Designed exclusively for event attendees.

Highlights
  • View schedule and presentations
  • Access speaker details
  • Take notes on sessions
  • In-app messaging
  • Share information via tweet/email
Features
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***For Attendees Only The Smile Source Events mobile application allows you to view the schedule, presentations, exhibitors, and speaker details from the Smile Source conference. Users can take notes on presentations and exhibitors. Additionally, users can share information with attendees and colleagues with in-app messaging, tweeting, and emailing.

Screenshots

Beanstack Tracker4 screens
Smile Source Events4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Beanstack Tracker at every 3 weeks against Smile Source Events's every 11 months. Beanstack Tracker also leads on ratings volume (103K vs 28) and chart position (#209 vs unranked). Smile Source Events's advantage is 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 — 4.8 for Beanstack Tracker against 4.8 for Smile Source Events. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beanstack Tracker has 103K ratings behind it against 28, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beanstack Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Smile Source Events every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Beanstack Tracker versus Smile Source Events: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeanstack TrackerSmile Source Events
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (103K ratings) — better4.8 (28 ratings)
Positive reviews66.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings103K — better28
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 11 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#209 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB105 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperZoobean, Inc.Smile Source Marketing, Inc.

Customer experience

Beanstack Tracker

All ratings102,738 ratings
Positive94.5%
Neutral3.1%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews699 reviews
Positive66.8%
Neutral12.9%
Negative20.3%

Smile Source Events

All ratings28 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral3.6%
Negative3.6%

Bugs and requests

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

Smile Source Events

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Beanstack Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

Smile Source Events

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beanstack Tracker free?
Beanstack Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Smile Source Events free?
Smile Source Events is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Beanstack Tracker or Smile Source Events?
Beanstack Tracker is rated higher. Beanstack Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 103K ratings, while Smile Source Events averages 4.8 from 28 ratings.
Do Beanstack Tracker or Smile Source Events have ads?
Neither Beanstack Tracker nor Smile Source Events shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beanstack Tracker or Smile Source Events?
Beanstack Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Smile Source Events every 11 months. Most recently, Beanstack Tracker was updated on November 11, 2026 and Smile Source Events on November 2, 2026.

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