Goodreads

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R39] 1/5 · US WACK: Imagine, ads while you’re trying to look at your Read / Want to Read list. I read to get away from being sold to 24/7. Jeez I’m good.
2. [R42] 1/5 · US It has ads now!: Don’t update the app, the new version has ads - big ones, videos, that are distracting and completely unrelated to books. Really frustrating
3. [R207] 1/5 · US Ad-pocalypse: The ads on this app are out of control. It’s not even fun to browse people’s reviews anymore because of the sheer number of ads being shoved down your throat. Typical Amazon wanting to scrape every penny they can from us all.
4. [R253] 1/5 · GB Has ads in the UK: Poorly designed and dated app. The ads were the icing on the cake.
5. [R167] 3/5 · US Too expensive: For the price of an actual book you only get 1 credit…..the other books are very expensive. Looking to switch over to some of the other platforms that are advertised at lower price points.
6. [R1] 5/5 · US For book lovers…: If you look very to read, if you love books, you must try Goodreads. Granted, pre Amazon purchase it was better but I’m not surprised that Bezos wanted in on this site. It’s perfect to categorize all that you’ve read and hope to read and hopefully you’ll not only read thousands of great reviews here, hopefully you’ll be inspired to write some too.
7. [R16] 5/5 · US Perfect app!!!: I love this app so much it makes keeping track of my books I want to read, have read, or that I am reading or books I didn’t like and didn’t finish. I also love that you can see my friends books too!! Only thing I want to criticize is that we should be able to rate books like 4.5 stars instead of a full star rating but we can’t but it’s ok!!
8. [R35] 5/5 · US Love: Love to keep track of all of my books here!
9. [R53] 5/5 · US Best app I own: Love tracking my reading journey and setting goals and being able to see what my friends are reading and thinking about it
10. [R9] 5/5 · US Fundamentally Important!: I love buying books on ThriftBooks, but when I need reviews, I often go to Amazon. However, even Amazon uses Goodreads as a resource. I’m using Goodreads. Why not use the best and start at the beginning?!
11. [R13] 5/5 · US Absolutely LOVE Goodreads: Not only have I found tons of new books, authors, genres to read… I’ve also met a lot of really cool people in the book community. Definitely recommend to all book lovers.
12. [R15] 5/5 · US Find a book read about it first..: The app has filled my library with potentials that I can peek at when looking for a book at the store.. it’s fun to have people to follow to see what the next best read may be too
13. [R27] 5/5 · US MrsPinky03: Goodreads give me a guide to try to figure out of a story is worth my time. You just never really know until you pick a book up. But, so far it has been spot on.
14. [R7] 5/5 · US Love it: I love the app being able to show the books to the public that you’ve read. It’s like a big book club. You get to write reviews(can write a summary like thing and also rate the book out of five, all are optional), track and show your progress in books, write your thoughts while reading(a mini review while tracking progress) You can also follow your friends and share books like that, you
15. [R11] 5/5 · US Perfection: My favorite social media app.
16. [R26] 5/5 · US Keeps us connected.: I love this app because in our world and driven by social media, the internet and everything else through our phones, there are still many of us who love to read. It’s like a secret society. Once you start reading books, you realize how many of the people around you also like to read. Seeing all the books that my friends and family are reading, remind me that some of us still
17. [R19] 5/5 · US Great platform: Love using to track my never ending TBR. lots of great adjustments always being added or made. The quarterly challenged always make me try something new and end up loving it
18. [R22] 5/5 · US Inspired to Read: Using this app has inspired me to read more and more! Seeing my progress, seeing other people’s recommendations… has all added up to me reading more in the past three months than I’ve read my whole life!
19. [R316] 3/5 · GB Could do with some improvements: It’s a good app for tracking all the books you have read and you’re able to set goals for the upcoming year however, despite already finishing a couple books this year and adding them to my read list my annual target still wasn’t budging, so with a little help reading the help centre bit I found you have to edit and add the date you started the book and the date yo
20. [R12] 5/5 · US Time Saver: I love this app so far and was able to import my cumbersome spreadsheet of 165 books. Simple to use and love the updating of the page I’m on, I drop my book way too often and it keeps my place. Love it!
21. [R18] 5/5 · US I love this app it is so helpful: I love it is is totally free and good to keep track of books and see HONEST REVIEWS about the books and is very easy to navigate
22. [R55] 5/5 · US Amazing tracker: Absolutely easy to use
23. [R6] 4/5 · US Enjoying Goodreads: Really enjoy Goodreads but definitely wish I could do .25/.5/.75 stars
24. [R14] 4/5 · US Give us half-stars already!: Easy to use. Give me the ability to do a half star rating and I’ll up this to 5-stars.
25. [R23] 2/5 · US More Stars: I don’t like that you can only give a full star rating. You should be able to have more options.
26. [R48] 4/5 · US We need 1/2 star options!!!: Please, I am begging you guys to let us give reviews with optional 1/2 star ratings!! My appreciation-level of books is not that simple!!! I do not love all 5 star books the same. It would be such a small thing that would make so many people happy!! PLEASE!!!!!!!
27. [R31] 3/5 · US Great concept, horrible usability: I love and use this app all the time and love what it was built for, but it is soooo basic and glitchy and could be so much better.
28. [R62] 2/5 · US The UI is so bad: Just copy letterboxd PLEASE. It’s so old and looks like it hasn’t been updated in decades. The home feed has so much spam that nobody cares about. There is so much untapped potential that would be solved just by copying letterboxd’s formatting.
29. [R83] 2/5 · US Archaic: Don’t get me wrong, Goodreads is a great app for reviewing, but it seems like the app has never changed. There’s no dark mode or half stars. It’s just… kind of old. For as popular as it is, I feel like there should be some upgrades.
30. [R181] 1/5 · US Needs Update: This app needs a major over haul, it’s council and slow to load. The user face is outdated and cluttered. It’s not a fun user experience. Missing lots of features. Seems like Amazon just doesn’t care about its users. Take our data but come on let us enjoy it while we are being screwed. lol
31. [R5] 1/5 · US App deleted all of my ratings and books: I recently logged onto the app to find all of my history is gone. Everything I’ve logged as read, ratings and reviews I’ve left, books I wanted to read - all of it is gone like I’ve never been on the app. Wouldn’t recommend this app to anyone! Better off making a note in your phone.
32. [R21] 1/5 · US Won’t log in: I have tried over and over to enter my information, and it just won’t work! Couldn’t even use the app. If you’ve got a solution I can use, that would be great. I hate to be negative, and I’d like to make this review better.
33. [R71] 3/5 · US Meh: Pretty glitchy app. I like that i can track my books and the challenges are great but it glitches when adding dates read and when trying to change a version that i read.
34. [R24] 2/5 · US It’s so useful but a pain to actually use: Please make it easier to add friends. The UI is still trapped in 2013 and feels clunky.
35. [R33] 3/5 · US I have lots of ideas: I’d like to be able to see my private notes about a book on the app (not just the desktop). I also think it should be easier to get to your friend’s lists. Right now it feels like you have to jump through a lot of hoops to get to your friends lists or to search people.
36. [R92] 3/5 · US Needs 1/2 stars: Goodreads is good for what it is but I never can see all my friends. Finding friends is beyond hard and there needs to be half star ratings (because a 3 and 3.5 are a big difference)
37. [R217] 3/5 · US Search function is garbage: I love Goodreads for tracking my books. HOWEVER the search for friends function is complete garbage. I can never find people. Please fix this!!