Top 10 reading-tracker apps and sites for kids, and the account each needs
The ten, in order
- Peabody's Reading Challenge · ours. No account at all: a child picks an animal face and the log stays on the device; logs Peabody's stories, list books, series books and outside books; prints the chart and log. Free through the end of 2026.
- Libby (OverDrive). Free with a library card: borrow ebooks and audiobooks in the app or a browser; the Timeline can be exported as a table. The help pages say nothing about children's accounts.
- Page Turner: Kids Reading Log. Free on iPhone, for parents of K–6 readers: the parent logs each book by title or barcode, with minutes, pages and whether it was finished, sets challenges and picks the rewards. The listing collects a name and email. Read 31 Oct 2026.
- Reader Zone. A parent can make an account and add each child as a reader, logging minutes, pages or books; no family price is listed. Teachers pay $60 a year for up to 40 readers, with a free trial edition for 10. Read 31 Oct 2026.
- Bookroo reading app. A parent signs up free and each child gets a profile; tracks books by scan or title, minutes and pages; goals include a 40 Book Challenge and Book Bingo. Reader Plus is $99 a year.
- Biblionasium. A reading community for K–8 with logs, shelves, ratings and reviews, and teacher challenges; free to join, but saving a book needs a sign-in.
- Pizza Hut BOOK IT! app and dashboard. A homeschool parent sets a child's goal in the app; teachers track a class's daily minutes; October to March, with a pizza certificate for each month's goal (five a month at most for homeschool families).
- YOMU: Family Reading Habits. A free app with a profile for each family member: reading time, streaks and gems. The family rewards a parent sets are in a subscription, $9.99 a month or $95.99 a year; parent features need consent. Read 31 Oct 2026.
- Goodreads. Shelves and a reading challenge, but its terms set 13 as the minimum age, with a parent's consent under 18.
- Beanstack. Logs minutes, books or days, with challenges, badges and leaderboards; sold to schools and libraries ('Request a Quote'); families reach it free through a library that uses it.
How this list is made
Ranked by what a child needs to start: no account first, then free with a library card or a parent's sign-up, then a subscription, then a minimum age of 13, then sold only to schools and libraries. Each row but ours was read on its own page on 30 Oct 2026, or on 31 Oct 2026 where it says so, and is linked. Gone, so not listed: Scholastic's Home Base, with its reading tracker (its own notice: closed as of 4 November 2025); Bookopolis and Wandoo Reader (their sites answered 503 on 31 Oct 2026); and Reading Rewards, whose address now opens ThriftBooks' points scheme for shoppers, not a log.