Summary Z-ChatBook & Summaries

GOD BLESS THE CREATORS OF THIS APP AND BASMOS. If you want context read the below script but if not just know that these developers have saved all my data after a near heart break. Go download Basmos: reading tracker or whatever. Made my entire day! rant:The previous version of this app, I believe called Basmos was amazing. I took notes on the books I was reading, took pictures of important quotes. It saved my reading log and I could go back to any book and look at previous digital annotations. Until tragedy struck and they somehow updated this god forsaken all into a useless waste of data. It deleted all of my books and notes that I worked tirelessly on. And don’t get me wrong I know there is another app through this company now named basmo but it is far to late for redemption. I went through the 5 stages of grief when all my notes were deleted and it genuinely put me into a reading slump. So please summary Z if you can find it in your heart to restore my data I would consider taking down this scathing review and kissing whoever is in charge. -A girl who really like her online annotations.

Update Nov 11, 2021: lol so much for “our current plan is to continue to offer everything free” imagine my surprise when I updated this app, went to check the “improvements” and suddenly had to pay $15/month to scan pages. I mean awesome that I have bold and italic in my notes now I guess, when they also took away the ability to keyword search within highlights. April 18, 2021: (two stars) When I first downloaded this app a year ago it was everything I could ever want. It was accurate in its scanning and let me keep all my underlined and highlighted book passages in one place. Support was responsive when I emailed to ask if bold and italic text was on the horizon. However, in the past few months it’s gotten buggy to the point of being almost unusable. It’s so bad I’ve been scouring the internet for a suitable replacement. I’m wondering if the developers have abandoned this app for their newer, paid app, which I tried (that one has bold and italic text options) but immediately canceled and deleted because I have no interest in any of its features besides storing book passages, which is why, in theory, I have this app. Regardless, it’s still the best I’ve found at what it does and I’ve managed to find some workarounds for the most frustrating issues, so it does get a couple stars. This is absolutely an app I’d be willing to pay for — probably not a subscription but certainly a one-time fee — if it was as functional as it could be.

This app is super annoying because it goes to the next page even if you’re not ready. I have students of all different reading levels and they all read at different speeds. Some of them take notes to help them retain what they read. There should not be an auto flip feature at all!! It’s very rude and annoying.

I pressed on the allow access to camera and all photos but all that shows up is a black screen. When I press the button to take a picture it takes the picture but I can’t see what I’m taking a picture of. Is this a tech issue? I heard really good things about this app and am confused!

Amazing OCR accuracy. Ability to read others’ summary is great

It’s great for kids and adults. I love it.

Extremely useful for taking book notes of my favorite stuff.

Launch app. Scroll. What do I see? Mike Robinson Obozo. NO THANKS!!

I like this app so much. برنامج مفيد ورائع يمكنك من تسجيل مقتطفات قراءاتك وملاحظاتك..بحيث تستطيع الوصول لها بسهولة..بدل النسيان و تكون مثلي اقعد افكر انا قرات هالكتاب او لا ! هالفقرة الجميلة كانها مارة علي!.. I hope the programmers added converter to pdf for the highlights, ideas and quotes. That will be amazing.Thanks.

What is the quote extends across two pages, front and back? Duh! And why not, instead of cropping your picture to choose the text, which you always have to edit, allow the user to finger swipe the area I want to OCR. Come on!