Comparison

Beanstack Tracker vs History Walks

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 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.

About

History Walks

Explore historic homes, businesses, and community buildings through self-guided walking tours. Features maps, historical information, and photos for each stop. Save and share your favorite locations.

Highlights
  • Self-guided walking tours
  • Historic home and business information
  • Maps for each tour stop
  • Historical photos
  • Bookmark favorite stops
  • Share favorite stops
Features
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Take self-guided walking tours featuring historic homes, businesses and community buildings within the community. The app is presented by the Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff Historical Society and the Grandview Heights Public Library. Users can explore a number of different walking tours. Tours include maps, historic Information, and photos for each of the stops. Users can also bookmark and share their favorite stops. About the Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff Historical Society The mission of the Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff Historical Society is to discover, collect, and preserve information, materials, structures, and landmarks which may help to establish interest in, and knowledge, of, the history of Grandview Heights and Marble Cliff. For more information visit www.ghmchs.org or email ghmctourhomes@gmail.com About the Grandview Heights Public Library The Grandview Heights Public Library (GHPL) is an award-winning, independent suburban library system known for progressive leadership and friendly, personalized service. GHPL is one of 13 U.S. public libraries to receive 11 consecutive five-star ratings from Library Journal. GHPL is a founding member (1988) and Administering Library of the Central Library Consortium (CLC). This cooperative of 17 Central Ohio

Screenshots

Beanstack Tracker4 screens
History Walks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Beanstack Tracker at none against History Walks's shown. Beanstack Tracker also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (101K vs 7). History Walks's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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 4.9 for History Walks. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beanstack Tracker has 101K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beanstack Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, History Walks every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Beanstack Tracker versus History Walks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeanstack TrackerHistory Walks
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (101K ratings)4.9 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings101K — better7
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#154 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB51 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperZoobean, Inc.GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS PUBLIC LIBRARY

Customer experience

Beanstack Tracker

All ratings100,827 ratings
Positive94.5%
Neutral3.1%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews665 reviews
Positive66.5%
Neutral13.1%
Negative20.5%

History Walks

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

History Walks

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Beanstack Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

History Walks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beanstack Tracker free?
Beanstack Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is History Walks free?
History Walks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Beanstack Tracker or History Walks?
History Walks is rated higher. Beanstack Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 101K ratings, while History Walks averages 4.9 from 7 ratings.
Do Beanstack Tracker or History Walks have ads?
History Walks shows ads; Beanstack Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Beanstack Tracker or History Walks?
Beanstack Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and History Walks every 7 months. Most recently, Beanstack Tracker was updated on October 2, 2026 and History Walks on September 26, 2026.

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