Reading Challenge Software

Our state library is offering grants to implement fully/or partially for SRP. It looks like we have the ability to choose from Beanstack, READsquare, The Great Reading Adventure, Reader Zone, Book Points, Wandoo Reader, although not necessarily limited to those choices. We are a small rural public library in southeast MO, with many of our patrons with no access to internet. However, after researching the programs, Beanstack does have a mobile app...many patrons do have cell phones. I personally successfully have used Biblionasium in the school setting, which is free, but doesn't have the features that Beanstack and READsquare seem to have (those are my top 2 choices). Does anyone have experience with any of these programs? Tell me pros/cons of each.

Beanstack is the one chosen for my library (Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library) and we have been using it successfully for several years now. Very flexible and has a staff/administrative side so we can manage other readers as well as ourselves. If you use it in tandem with Kindle, it will automatically count reading time.
I have no experience with READsquare however.
Hope this helps.

We decided not to use any software, and muddle along with paper and social media. Should be an interesting summer. The grant wouldn't be announced until late May, so we had to make a decision quickly. Scrambling to change all the plans I've been making since December into something else. We're going with a scavenger hunt format; craft programs will be "take and make" already bagged up; the kickoff party will not happen at all; storytime will be done virtually. We are hoping that the library can at least be open for book check out. School has been out since the first of March and will not reopen this school year. The school library and these small rural libraries are their only source of reading materials. One of our counties is considered the poorest in the state; we definitely have reading deserts here.

Capturing reading progress has been a long wishlist item for LT, of course. I hadn't thought of the library use case, despite participating (with my kids) in our local system's challenges for many years. Perhaps the best chance of getting this functionality into LT is building the challenge software into Tiny Cat, and then "borrowing" the code for LT.