Beanstack Tracker vs FlowHQ Parent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Motivating reading challenges
- Easy reading progress tracking
- Barcode scanner for titles
- Reading timer and logging
- Streaks and badges
- Reading recommendations
- Friend leaderboards
- Reading fundraisers
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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.
FlowHQ Parent
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FlowHQ Parent keeps you connected to your child's martial arts school. See what's coming up Your child's next class, school announcements, and recent activity — all on one screen when you open the app. Check in when class starts When your child's class is about to begin, a check-in card appears on the home screen. Tap once and they're marked in. No paper sign-in sheet, no queue at the desk. Hear from the instructor After class, instructors can send a note home — "Great effort", "Helped a classmate", or something to work on this week. It appears alongside that class in your child's history, so you know how the session actually went. Track belt progress Follow rank, curriculum and what your child is working towards. Book and pay for special sessions Reserve a spot for parents' nights out, seminars and trials. Choose to pay a deposit, pay in full — often at a discount for paying early — or pay cash at the school. Keep an eye on payments Your recent payments in one place, whether they were made by card or handed over at the front desk. Your school runs everything you see FlowHQ Parent is the companion app for schools using FlowHQ. If your school already has your email address on file, you can create your account right in the app; otherwise your school can send you an invitation. Attendance, ranks, schedules and payments are all maintained by your school, and the app shows exactly what they have on file.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FlowHQ Parent at daily against Beanstack Tracker's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Beanstack Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, FlowHQ Parent daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beanstack Tracker | FlowHQ Parent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (102K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 102K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zoobean, Inc. | Metesis LLC |
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
FlowHQ Parent
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Beanstack Tracker
No in-app purchases
FlowHQ Parent
No in-app purchases
Questions
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