Pageticker is a digital reading record app that helps families inspire children to love reading by scanning book barcodes, logging reading sessions, and discovering personalized book recommendations. The app includes goal-setting, reading reminders, and badge rewards, and it can connect with schools to automatically share reading progress with teachers. It is completely free, ad-free, and GDPR-compliant.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Parents and teachers struggle to consistently track children's reading habits and nurture a daily reading routine. Without an easy way to log sessions, set goals, and discover age-appropriate books, children may lose motivation and miss out on the long-term learning benefits of regular reading.
Solution
Pageticker provides a digital reading record that makes it simple for families to scan any book's barcode, log reading sessions, and receive personalized book recommendations based on a child's preferences and past reads. The app supports goal-setting, scheduled reading reminders, and badge rewards to keep children engaged and motivated. When a child's school uses Pageticker, parents can enter a linking code to automatically share reading logs with teachers, keeping home and school connected. The platform is designed to be intuitive for both children and adults, with a focus on building a sustainable daily reading habit.
Target Audience
Primary users are parents and guardians of primary-school-aged children who want to encourage reading at home, as well as schools and teachers seeking a simple tool to track and share students' reading progress.
Features
- Barcode scanning to instantly add books to a personal or child's bookshelf and access book details
- Reading log that tracks every session and automatically syncs with connected schools via a linking code
- Personalized book discovery engine that suggests titles based on a child's interests (e.g., "Because Charlie liked Dog Man" or "Because Charlie is interested in football")
- Goal-setting tools with customizable reading targets and progress tracking
- Scheduled reading reminders to help families build a consistent daily routine
- Badge system that rewards children for reaching reading milestones
- Fully GDPR-compliant with no ads, no in-app purchases, and built-in safeguarding features