Comparison

Beanstack Tracker vs Letter Tiles

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

Letter Tiles

This app helps children practice spelling by arranging letter tiles to form words. It offers a general A-Z practice mode and specific levels designed to complement a popular language arts curriculum.

Highlights
  • Arrange letter tiles for spelling
  • Practice A-Z letters
  • Levels K-3 for curriculum
  • Interactive word building
Features
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Children can practice spelling by arranging the tiles into words. The Practice A-Z tiles portion of the app is useful to anyone. The Levels K-3 portions of the app are intended for use with the Good and the Beautiful Language Arts Curriculum.

Screenshots

Beanstack Tracker4 screens
Letter Tiles1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Beanstack Tracker at 4.8 against Letter Tiles's 3.7. Beanstack Tracker also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (102K vs 67). Letter Tiles'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 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beanstack Tracker has 102K ratings behind it against 67, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Beanstack Tracker's written reviews are positive against 58% of Letter Tiles's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beanstack Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Letter Tiles every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Beanstack Tracker versus Letter Tiles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeanstack TrackerLetter Tiles
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (102K ratings) — better3.7 (67 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better57.7% of reviews
Number of ratings102K — better67
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#184 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZoobean, Inc.The Good and the Beautiful LLC

Customer experience

Beanstack Tracker

All ratings101,897 ratings
Positive94.5%
Neutral3.1%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews679 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral13.0%
Negative20.3%

Letter Tiles

All ratings56 ratings
Positive67.9%
Neutral5.4%
Negative26.8%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive57.7%
Neutral11.5%
Negative30.8%

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

Letter Tiles

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Beanstack Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

Letter Tiles

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beanstack Tracker free?
Beanstack Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Letter Tiles free?
Letter Tiles is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Beanstack Tracker or Letter Tiles?
Beanstack Tracker is rated higher. Beanstack Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 102K ratings, while Letter Tiles averages 3.7 from 67 ratings.
Do Beanstack Tracker or Letter Tiles have ads?
Neither Beanstack Tracker nor Letter Tiles shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beanstack Tracker or Letter Tiles?
Beanstack Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Letter Tiles every 5 months. Most recently, Beanstack Tracker was updated on October 23, 2026 and Letter Tiles on October 22, 2026.

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