App Profile: READsquared

Gracieee_123

Rating: 1/5

I really wanted to like this app! I’m using an Iphone 8 plus so maybe that was the issue? When trying to play the colored square game it said to “double tap the screen to start” and when I did that nothing happened/it wouldn’t start. So then I went to the crossword puzzle game and the buttons at the top overlap onto the letters. The functionality just isn’t the best unfortunately. I also found that when I would select the icons on the left hand side to go from games to the home section or maybe to the log that I would have to wait 5 or 10 seconds till it went to that screen. At first I thought it was frozen but it turns out it was just loading. I really want this app to be successful and I fully support it!! Just hoping these things can get fixed!!

Camia t

Rating: 2/5

Please have it remember all the past books I entered so I don’t have to retype them when I don’t read just one continuously. Please tell me what I badges are ahead and what I have to do to earn them so it doesn’t seem like I randomly get some random level badge every other time I enter reading. Or at least tell me what the badge stands for later (by clicking on the badge) so it has some meaning, but really, I would rather know what to work toward. What comes after adult level? How many levels of adult are there? I feel like I’m blindly accumulating meaningless trophies There are 15 different icons on the tiny side panel and none stand out from the others. Either reduce this number, move it to the home page or at least make the icons look like what’s behind them. Don’t tell me I earned zero points when I took the time to write a book review. If I get no points then send a different message that tells me you got the submission but doesn’t make me feel left out or like I did it for nothing. If this is all about time spent reading, why is there no easy way to time my reading in the app? Just a “start reading” and “stop” button would be good but better to be able to connect with kindle and estimate reading time off percentage read. I’m using this app only because I want to compete with my school and district in reading and I wish the link to the competition was on the home page.

bobbz64

Rating: 2/5

This app is rough. We’re using it for the library program 1,000 books before kindergarten, but it takes longer to record the books in the app than it does to actually read some of the books to my 1 year old. Obviously a lot of those books are re-reads, but there is no way to select previous books and instead you have re-type all the info in to save it. So typing in the the 13 digit isbn on a tiny phone pad (while minding a baby) is your best option. The scanner option is trash, It only works on 1 out of every 5 books, and you have to retake the photo at least 6 times (to get the right angle?) before it maybe can read it. I don’t understand why reading a barcode is difficult? Every other app does it without a problem? Anyways I don’t want to completely trash this app because it is free and libraries use it but I would much rather pay a little to get an app that is better!!!