App Profile: Goodreads: Book Reviews

Ray Wil 776

Rating: 4/5

I’ve had Goodreads since 2016 & it’s one of my favorite apps. I could go on & on about the positives like having all my books I want to read & have read in one place, being able to follow authors I like & get notifications when they have a new book coming, being able to discuss what I’m reading with others via the review section, etc. However, I find myself now using other reading apps more often as of January 2025 due to the reading challenge settings changing. Again, it had been the same since I started in 2016 & everyone loved it how it was. We loved seeing in one location all of our friends’ reading goals as well as our own & if we’re on track to complete the goal. We loved being able to talk about those books with friends & now don’t know what they’re reading unless it happens to appear in the feed. I truly don’t know why you guys got rid of them & am begging for it to return to how it was. Also, we’ve all asked for years, but please give us half stars when reviewing a book. There’s a big difference between a 4.5 star & 5 star book & we can use half & even quarter stars on other book apps which I find myself using more often now due to the goal change & lack of you guys listening to your users. These are simple changes & I really hope you listen so Goodreads can be even better!

bookzNERD

Rating: 3/5

Don’t get me wrong this app is helpful and I use it all the times but it can be pretty clunky sometimes The featured booklists on your page are kinda tricky to find again and I wish there was a whole tab for them with like recently viewed lists and recommendations and things like that because when you accidentally leave an amazing list and can’t find it it’s the worst. The biggest issue I have is it’s not the most new user friendly. I got this app and had so many books and shelves to create for my previous reads but it takes five clicks to add a book to a shelf. When I make a shelf it’s because I realize I have lots of books similar and so scrolling through my reads and clicking five times for each is not fun at all and takes all day. I wish there was a select tool so you could add multiple books to a shelf at a time this would probably make this review five stars. Another little issue I have (and maybe I just can’t figure it out) is Re reading. If I read a book multiple times why can’t I count both towards my reading challenge? It won’t be an accurate page count if it turns out that was just the one of the times I read the book that year. I feel like you should have multiple reading dates on your book info so it isn’t just showing the last time you read it. If this is a feature and I just haven’t found it then I apologize. Definitely needs a refresh I just looked at version history and it’s mostly bug fixes! This app NEEDS something new

raema00

Rating: 4/5

i use this app religiously but it needs an revamp BAD. the UI looks like it hasnt changed since day 1 and itd be nice if i could see my friends activity more often than i see ads on my feed 😑. would be nice if we could personalize our profiles, but not necessary. also recommendations or searching through genres could be greatly enhanced by further filtering of intended audiences—i dont want to scroll through twenty 20 childrens fantasy books before even finding one mediocre adult fantasy book im not interested in. ABSOLUTELY would benefit from half star rating system or even 10 star rating system im tired of seeing a 3 star review with “3.5 stars …” or a 1 star review with “0.5 stars…” in the actual review. the app is also not super user friendly and is generally clunky. lots of unnecessary tapping needed and idk what it is but the searching function is super clunky too. i feel like the search option should first search our shelves for matches before searching the rest of the database for matches. definitely need a multi-select option to make shelving multiple books easier. i have over 300 books in my read im not reshelving each individual book, jeffrey. add tags in reviews so we can filter by tags. basically more filtering options for everything. add private reviews only your friends can see so that they dont affect the overall review of the book (sometimes you can acknowledge a book is well-written and still hate it).