Comparison

Beanstack Tracker vs Shedd Go

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
Read full description

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

Shedd Go

Explore the diverse aquatic and terrestrial life at Shedd Aquarium from your mobile device. Discover animals, save your favorites, and plan your visit with interactive maps and exhibit information. The app is fully translated into Spanish.

Highlights
  • Explore aquarium animals
  • Search for specific species
  • Scan QR codes for exhibit info
  • Save favorite animals and exhibits
  • Interactive building map
  • Multilingual support (Spanish)
Read full description

Dive into the world of fishes, mammals, birds, reptiles, jellies and bugs at Shedd Aquarium — right from your mobile device. Find your favorite animals faster using the search feature, at the aquarium, or at home. At the aquarium, scan QR codes to find out more about the animals in each individual exhibit. Save your “likes” for animal species, exhibits, or individual habitats on a single screen. Plan your visit by reviewing our building map. This app is fully translated into Spanish. Specify the language at any time by tapping the "more” navigation icon and selecting "language."

Screenshots

Beanstack Tracker4 screens
Shedd Go4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Beanstack Tracker at 66% against Shedd Go's 0%. Beanstack Tracker also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.2) and ratings volume (101K vs 13). Shedd Go's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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

Beanstack Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beanstack Tracker has 101K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Beanstack Tracker's written reviews are positive against 0% of Shedd Go's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Beanstack Tracker versus Shedd Go: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeanstack TrackerShedd Go
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (101K ratings) — better3.2 (13 ratings)
Positive reviews66.5% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings101K — better13
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#157 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.014.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZoobean, Inc.SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY

Customer experience

Beanstack Tracker

All ratings100,827 ratings
Positive94.5%
Neutral3.1%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews659 reviews
Positive66.5%
Neutral13.2%
Negative20.3%

Shedd Go

All ratings13 ratings
Positive46.2%
Neutral15.4%
Negative38.5%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

Shedd Go

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Beanstack Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

Shedd Go

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beanstack Tracker free?
Beanstack Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shedd Go free?
Shedd Go is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Beanstack Tracker or Shedd Go?
Beanstack Tracker is rated higher. Beanstack Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 101K ratings, while Shedd Go averages 3.2 from 13 ratings.
Do Beanstack Tracker or Shedd Go have ads?
Neither Beanstack Tracker nor Shedd Go shows ads.

Other comparisons