Beanstack vs. Reading Counts!

Choosing a reading motivation and management platform is no easy task, so we’ve compiled a comparison chart to help you pick one that aligns with your reading program goals while allowing teachers to monitor students’ independent reading.

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Key Features

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Allows users to create, participate in, and manage reading challenges

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Provides tools and best practices for rallying around community reading goals

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Includes a Streaks systems to encourage readers to log every day

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Facilitates school competitions among classrooms, grades, and individual students

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Includes recognition and incentive tools including virtual badges, tickets, and drawings

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Includes Friends and Leaderboards features that lets users share their reading log

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Facilitates Bingo challenges including reading, activity, and review goals

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Includes a reading fundraising system to help schools and libraries raise money

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Offers teachers the ability to create custom reading challenges for their classrooms

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Provides system for "verifying" students as having demonstrated reading integrity

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Includes "Take A Closer Look" system for flagging unusual logging entries

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Provides system for "freezing" students with unusual log entries

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Includes a system for detecting and preventing counterfeit logging

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Allows for daily logging limits and log limit warnings

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Uses social tools including leaderboards to create transparency and community monitoring

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Includes optional fill-in-the blank or multiple choice questions for some titles

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Provides highly-rated mobile app with over 75,000 reviews

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Scans ISBN numbers in a single step using the web and mobile apps

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Include timer in the web and mobile app for tracking reading sessions

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Facilitates reading list challenges that allow specific titles to be featured in a reading challenge

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Offers readers the option to write book reviews

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Includes tools to easily upload data for readers using paper only

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Offers teachers and librarians the ability to log for entire classes or individual students to track sustained silent reading and read alouds

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Includes family registration

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Provides customizable data and insights dashboard

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Shows trends in Lexile Level for independent reading by student, classroom, grade level, and school building

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Provides custom and scheduled reports

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Includes reporting, insights, and leaderboards based on readers, classrooms, and grades for teachers and librarians

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Provides system for teachers to quickly scan in each book in their classroom libraries

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Highlights classroom library books to students for each of their teachers

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Motivates students to read books in their classroom libraries

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Provides school and district level administrators insight into classroom libary connections

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Integrates with Clever, ClassLink, and other single sign on and school rostering systems

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Imports reading automatically from ebook platforms, including Boundless and Epic!

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Includes a tandem connection feature allowing users to link individual library and school accounts

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Connects to the library's catalog for book lists and suggestions

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Integrates with Alexa and voice technology

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Each client provided an individual client success manager

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Each client site given regular quality assurance reviews

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Kick-off calls and staff training opportunities

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Complementary and professionally designed customizable marketing resources

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Custom designed landing pages, reading challenges, and virtual badges

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Access to Facebook user group with over 3,000 members

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Regular Q&A sessions with school success experts

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Featured webinars, school roundtables, and on-demand EDU training

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Helpdesk support, customized troubleshooting, and dedicated customer support

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Annual sponsored summer and winter reading challenges

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Publishes and delivers original high interest nonfiction content

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Provides annual reports evaluating data and trends

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Offers printable reading logs that compliment virtual reading challenges

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What Customers Are Saying

“I find Beanstack very easy to use and it doesn't take much of my time. Thank you for providing us with this tool to encourage students to read more!”
Michele O'Brien Prairie du Chien Area School District, Wisconsin
“Beanstack has revolutionized reading at our school in a month. I wanted to change the culture of our school to be about reading and that's happening.”
Karen Firstbrook Spring Grove School, California
“Beanstack is a great way for students and teachers to manage reading logs and see what they love to read. It is a great tool for librarians as well, as we can easily access reports and challenges to keep readers engaged!”
Megan Gaynor Solon Springs School District, Wisconsin
“Beanstack is easy to use as a student and as a teacher. The students love to complete challenges and log their reading minutes. It has been more successful than any other school-wide tracking program we have tried.”
Julie Pszczola Cobb County School District, Georgia

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