For teachers and librarians 🍎
Chapterpillar is a free reading tracker for kids and families. Every finished book makes Pip the caterpillar grow a new segment, so the more a child reads, the longer their worm gets. Here's everything you need to share it with your families.
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- 🐛 Kids never have accounts. A grown-up signs up, and each reader is just a nickname and an emoji. No kid emails, birthdays, or photos.
- 🚫 No ads and no third-party trackers. Anywhere in the app, ever.
- 🔒 No shopping in front of kids. Book suggestions with Amazon links live behind a grown-up PIN. If a grown-up buys a book there, Amazon pays us a small commission. That's the whole business model.
- 🌱 Gentle by design. No leaderboards, no comparing kids, no guilt. Reading is celebrated, never turned into pressure.
- 📦 Families stay in control. Export everything or delete everything with one button. Data is hosted in the EU and the app is built around COPPA and GDPR-K. Details in our privacy policy.
Free printables
Print as many as you like for your class, library, or program. No permission needed and nothing to sign up for.
Ready-made blurbs
Drop one into a class newsletter, a parent email, or your library's resource page.
Short
Chapterpillar (chapterpillar.com) is a free reading tracker where every finished book makes Pip the caterpillar grow a new segment. No ads, and kids never need an account.
Newsletter
Looking for a gentle way to celebrate reading at home? Chapterpillar is a free reading tracker for kids and families. Every finished book adds a segment to Pip the caterpillar, so your child's worm grows longer the more they read. There are no ads, no leaderboards, and kids never need an account or an email address. Prefer paper? Free printable reading logs are at chapterpillar.com/reading-log. Get started at chapterpillar.com.
A flyer for your notice board
One page for classroom doors, library boards, or take-home folders.
- Finish a book. Picture books, chapter books, bedtime stories: they all count.
- Log it. Scan the barcode or type the title.
- Watch Pip grow. A new segment for every single book.
Is there a classroom version?
Not yet. Right now each family keeps their own worm at home, which is where most reading happens. A class version (one shared class worm, never a leaderboard) is something we're thinking about. If you'd use it, tell us at hello@chapterpillar.com. A human reads every message.
Linking to us
If Chapterpillar or the printables help your families, a link from your resources page helps other families find them too. Thank you for getting books into little hands! 💛
Try it yourself first 🐛
Make a grown-up account, add a reader (you can have a worm too), and log a book or two. It takes about a minute.
Start reading ✦