1000 Books Before Kindergarten

Name: 1000 Books Before Kindergarten
Rating: 4.3 (1611 reviews)
Author: 1000 Books Foundation

By: 1000 Books Foundation

Education

Features & Capabilities

The 1000 Books Before Kindergarten Chrome extension helps families support early literacy by tracking how many books you read to a newborn, infant, or toddler. You can scan any book into your private library, log readings for multiple readers, and monitor your journey toward the 1,000-book goal.

If you read just one book a night, you’ll reach the milestone in about three years. The app keeps things simple and rewarding with fast scans, flexible tracking for several readers, and a clear path to kindergarten readiness.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Education

By:

1000 Books Foundation

Rating:

4.30

(1,611) 9 new ratings

Version:

3.8.12 Last updated: 2026-06-02

Version code:

886407041

Creation date:

2014-04-11

Compatible devices:

Size:

27.04MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-07

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 48,629 ▲ 74

Other platforms

1000 Books Before Kindergarten (v3.8.12)

46,367 2.96

(246)

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Developed by:

1000 Books Foundation

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1000-books-before-kindergarten/id779280401

Website:

http://www.1000booksbeforekindergarten.org

User Reviews

Users like the idea of a single place to track their children’s reading and appreciate the visual layout that makes progress easy to see. However, repeated issues undermine the experience: the app is prone to crashes and slowdowns, books and readers can disappear or fail to save, and adding readers or new titles is often error-prone or requires manual entry. Scanning and library integration are inconsistent, with many titles missing from the catalog. Logins and data syncing problems further frustrate users. Overall, the concept is strong, but stability and reliability need significant improvement.

Pros

Great concept for tracking a child’s reading in one place.
Easy to monitor progress thanks to a visually clear interface.
Useful for families with multiple children to log different readers.
Centralized logging helps replace paper tracking and keeps history.

Cons

Frequent crashes, glitches, and slow performance that interrupt logging.
Data loss: readers disappear and progress can be erased; frequent logouts/log-in issues.
Difficulty adding readers/profiles; issues creating new profiles and duplicate pictures.
Incomplete library and unreliable scanning; many books not in library; manual entry is tedious.
Camera integration and book-cover photo flow issues; having to use an external camera app.

Recent reviews

It won’t let me contact support. Picture of reader always stretches out. It would be nice if I could select more than one book to add to log. I sometimes read like 10 books to her within a few hours and when I log them when she’s napping it would be easier to select instead of typing each in.

by Fb*****, 2026-04-07

This app is so glitchy!!! If I’m adding books, sometimes it doesn’t add them and I have to keep doing it over and over until it finally decides to log it. The app has crashed a plethora of times while I was logging books and the worst glitch was it deleting all my info and logging me out on my phone. I couldn’t access the app at all on my phone and had to download it on my iPad to even access my account again. Deleted the app and I’m going to try to redownload it to see if it works again but sheesh. Wish I found another app before I got to 200 books logged.

by je*****, 2026-03-04

I’ve always liked this app. Occasionally would glitch and not add books to the readers. But this new update makes it harder to add books. You used to be able to scan the book and add it, now you have to add out of the library. Would love if this could be fixed