Beanstack vs. Accelerated Reader vs. READsquared

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

Provides tools and best practices for rallying around community reading goals

Includes a Streaks systems to encourage readers to log every day

Facilitates school competitions among classrooms, grades, and individual students

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

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

Facilitates Bingo challenges including reading, activity, and review goals

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

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

Offers AI-powered Book Talks with Benny for open-ended, age-appropriate reading conversations.

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

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

Provides system for "freezing" students with unusual log entries

Includes a system for detecting and preventing counterfeit logging

Allows for daily logging limits and log limit warnings

Uses social tools including leaderboards to create transparency and community monitoring

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

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

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

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

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

Offers readers the option to write book reviews

Includes tools to easily upload data for readers using paper only

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

Includes family registration

Provides customizable data and insights dashboard

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

Provides custom and scheduled reports

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

Instant answer dashboard + AI-powered insight tool

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

Highlights classroom library books to students for each of their teachers

Motivates students to read books in their classroom libraries

Provides school and district level administrators insight into classroom libary connections

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

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

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

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

Integrates with Alexa and voice technology

Each client provided an individual client success manager

Each client site given regular quality assurance reviews

Kick-off calls and staff training opportunities

Complementary and professionally designed customizable marketing resources

Custom designed landing pages, reading challenges, and virtual badges

Access to Facebook user group with over 3,000 members

Regular Q&A sessions with school success experts

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

Helpdesk support, customized troubleshooting, and dedicated customer support

Annual sponsored summer and winter reading challenges

Provides annual reports evaluating data and trends

Offers printable reading logs that compliment virtual reading challenges