Comparison

Beanstack Tracker vs Riverview Elementary

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

Riverview Elementary

Stay informed about school events, receive customized notifications for your student's organization, and access weekly cafeteria menus. The app also provides district news and a staff directory.

Highlights
  • Event listings with calendar integration
  • Customizable student organization notifications
  • Weekly cafeteria menus
  • District news and announcements
  • Staff and department directory
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Introducing the official app for Riverview Elementary NEVER MISS AN EVENT The event section shows a list of events throughout the district. Users can add an event to their calendar and share the event with friends and family with one tap. CUSTOMIZE NOTIFICATIONS Select your student’s organization within the app and make sure you never miss a message. CAFETERIA MENUS Within the dining section of your student’s organization, you’ll find an easy to navigate, weekly menu, sorted by day and meal type. GET UPDATES In Feed and News, you’ll find updates from the administration about what’s going on in the district right now to keep you informed with the latest announcements. STAFF & DEPARTMENTS Find relevant staff and departments under an easy-to-navigate directory.

Screenshots

Beanstack Tracker4 screens
Riverview Elementary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Beanstack Tracker at 103K against Riverview Elementary's 1. Beanstack Tracker also leads on chart position (#203 vs unranked). Riverview Elementary's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Riverview Elementary holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beanstack Tracker has 103K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Beanstack Tracker versus Riverview Elementary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeanstack TrackerRiverview Elementary
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (103K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings103K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#203 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZoobean, Inc.Silver Lakes J1 School District

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

Riverview Elementary

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Beanstack Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

Riverview Elementary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beanstack Tracker free?
Beanstack Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Riverview Elementary free?
Riverview Elementary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Beanstack Tracker or Riverview Elementary?
Riverview Elementary is rated higher. Beanstack Tracker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 103K ratings, while Riverview Elementary averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Beanstack Tracker or Riverview Elementary have ads?
Neither Beanstack Tracker nor Riverview Elementary shows ads.

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