Basmo. Buchprotokoll & Tracker

Was looking for an app to track my reading, my book lists, my reading time per page and to get an estimate how long it will take to get through a book. Totally overwhelming experience, lots of stuff to distract you from actually starting to read, the app totally pushes itself in the foreground and I didn’t feel like I am treated like an adult. Pushy towards signing up for a plan, too.

Love this app! It helps me keep track of books I own so I don’t accidentally purchase it again which I’ve done multiple times in the past. It would be great if I click on a book and it shows me the collections I already have it in. Otherwise, I have to check all of my many collections to see if I already own it. Or maybe if there was a default list of “Owned” since it asks you if you own the book. Maybe this already exists and I’m just having trouble finding it 🙂

The app is great at keeping track of what I read…for the most part. Two issues I have is that many times the covers to books will “white out” or they won’t load. I’m not sure why that occurs and I can get past that but it be nice if that didn’t happen. The bigger issue (or at least I don’t know how) is the book log will not let you document or track the same book more than once. When I try to add it to the “finished” list it does nothing if I’ve read it before. I would like to know how many times I’ve read a specific book or track how many times I have and on what days.

I like this apps user interface and simplicity. I also like that you can save notes, customize book covers and track reading time. It encourages me to read more. I just wish that we could start a second read of a book without deleting the records of the first read. I almost subscribed when I learned that there is no way to start a second read. When you edit a session there is a section that’s titled first read so you would assume we can also start a second read but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Anyway, awesome app but it’s just missing one key feature for me. Hopefully it is added soon and I will subscribe when it’s added.

I really wanted to love this app, but my Kindle highlights will NOT transfer over. I’ve linked and unlinked my account but still nothing. It would be nice if my progress reading in Kindle transferred too. The main reason I got the app was to keep track of highlights and refer back to them easily. The fact that this feature doesn’t work is a huge issue. And no updates for a year? Is anyone working on this anymore?

I really love how organized Basmo is. I think it’s simple, and not too busy like a lot of other reading tracking apps I’ve tried out. I would love if Basmo added a questionnaire where us readers can answer questions to get more book recommendations. The app StoryGraph has that option, and I think Basmo would benefit from adding something similar to it. I don’t use StoryGraph because I find it stressful to use. Basmo is just right for me <3

I’ve used this app for a few months now and have been obsessed with it. Easy it track my reading and gives me some encouragement to pick up a book! I was planning on inviting my friend so that we could read together but couldn’t seem to get the link through. When she pressed it, it sent her to the App Store and didn’t get to add me. I would love to track our reading together but can’t with this bug!! Plz fix it as soon as you can 🙏🏼🤍

This year I started listening to Audio books this month and the timer doesn’t do more than 10 hours. Some of my audio books are up to 24hrs, I want to be able to accurately track. If it’s updated to add as many hours as needed this rating will change to a 5 star.

I love this app and it’s helped me to track where I can see how long I’m taking to read a book or how much I should read to finish a book on a certain date. I do wish there was a way I can use my Apple Watch to start the timer and put how many pages I’ve read. I really like using this app especially with the ai that I sometimes use when reading philosophy books and I’m confused what I just read. Bookly was an app I’ve considered over this one due to the Apple Watch feature but I just can’t part with the ai and simpleness of using.

I’ve been using Basmo for two years. There have been additions and updates that are excellent. I wanted to have a way to pause a session and now have that ability. There are a few more reactions, and if none of them fit how I feel, I write a note. The AI feature is great. It never gives spoilers but does answer specific questions. I don’t use it for every book; I use it when something I’m thinking is important to understand the storyline. I ask a specific question: when reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, I asked who was the main character. The explanation that there was no one main character gave nothing away but helped me understand the narrative flow. I loved that book and had tried reading it as least five times in the past. Initially, I had some problems, but after posting a disappointed review, the owner contacted me. There was some confusion on both sides, and he helped me get it straightened out. The one recommendation I made - having the ability to pause a session - is something they are working on. I’m enjoying it and glad I signed up. There could be more emoji feelings such as confused, disturbed, satisfied, excited - because awesome, happy, and sad are rather limiting.