A lot of indie authors struggle with data. For those who aren't used to tracking things like page reads, borrows, sales, and marketing efforts, it can be pretty overwhelming. Especially if you're a “wide” author with books selling on multiple platforms. 

Luckily, you don't have to spend precious time every day jumping around to the various dashboards and trying to keep the numbers straight in your head—or in a spreadsheet. That is why back in the day I recommended to check out ScribeCount. This tool's intention was to aggregate your sales data and present it to you in one handy place. However, they haven't been as reliable and more recently have ran into some troubles with their customers.

The Bottom Line: If you're a wide author, I would no longer recommend ScribeCount as a place to keep track of your sales from multiple platforms. But there's a reason why and we'll be digging into that throughout this updated review.

What is ScribeCount?

ScribeCount was founded in 2018 by Randall Wood and Suresh K Venkatapathi. If you’ve heard of ScribeCount before, you’ve probably heard through Philippa Werner, the public face of the company. Randall Wood is a writer, and he set out to make something that indie authors would love. In short, he wanted to create “the author's best friend.” 

While I used to think this tool was certainly useful, I'll let you decide if it will end up being apart of your daily systems or not. (Even if you like the numbers side of self-publishing, there might be better options available as of current – stick around til the end to read what I've switched over to.)

How ScribeCount Works

To use ScribeCount, you need to sign up for an account (there is a free trial—more on that below). Once you’re signed up, you just need to install the browser extension. Currently, they have extensions for Google Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. At this time, Safari has been in the works since early 2021 – but they haven't made any changes or updates to whether or not that will be available yet.

Once you're signed up, you can select which platforms you want to link with your account. The tool currently supports the following platforms:

• Amazon KDP
• Barnes & Noble
• Google Books
• Kobo
• Apple Books
• IngramSpark
• Smashwords
• BookFunnel
• Draft2Digital
• Findaway Voices
• ACX (as of early 2026)

Once signed into your ScribeCount account, you'll be able to log into the individual platforms and sync them together using the secure browser extension. It can take a few minutes for the tool to pull the data, and you’ll need to retrieve an authentication key if you want to connect your BookFunnel account. 

How Much Does ScribeCount Cost?

Now for the big question of cost. They use a three-tier system. And while they're not the cheapest in terms of pricing, they are fairly competitive. Here's the rundown:

• $9.99 per month for authors earning less than $1,000 a month.
• $19.99 per month for authors earning more than $1,000 a month
• $185 a year when paid yearly instead of monthly for authors earning more than $1,000 a month. This comes out to 15% off the $19.99 monthly price. 

The nice thing is, no matter which tier you're at, you get access to all the features. They don't hold any back for the $9.99-a-month tier 

Is There a Free Trial?

If you're familiar with Book Report, you know that authors making less than $1,000 a month use the tool for free. And while ScribeCount doesn't have this option, they do offer a 14-day free trial. You don't have to put a credit card on file or anything—you just sign up and link whichever accounts you like. 

If you like it better than Book Report (or whatever system you have in place) after 14 days, then you pay to keep using it. 

ScribeCount Feature List

Over the years ScribeCount has promised a ton of new features and integration they planned to release. However, throughout 2025 they didn't have much if not any progress on those. Dealing with a system that wasn't working they held off on most of their releases. Early 2026 they did start releasing a few but still have a long way to go.

All Markets at a Glance

I would say the most useful feature within ScribeCount is the dashboard…when it works properly… When working as it should, it aggregates your data from multiple platforms and presents it in a color-coded “Sunburst Chart.” Here is a list of the different platforms that ScribeCount can display:

When you set up your account, you start by connecting the tool to each platform you're selling books on to see your royalties all in one place. You can also connect or disconnect other platforms later.

So if you're selling through Amazon KDP, the Google Play store, and Apple Books, you'll see the aggregate data at a glance in the dashboard. But there are other useful features on the dashboard, including simple graphs on:

• Amazon and Wide Sales
• Kindle Unlimited vs Sales
• Free vs Paid Units
• Formats Percentage 

It also populates the data in a spreadsheet, which you can easily export. Of course, you can choose certain parameters by which to view the data. You can choose a set date range (the default is the current month), but you can also view by platform, marketplace (US, UK, Canada, etc.), book, and date. You can also view graphs of your sales by top books, units sold, and free units claimed. 

Bookshelf

Next up on the toolbar is the bookshelf. This tool allows you to manage your books from one central location. While you can't do things like change the price of your books from here, you can see all the prices of your various formats at a glance. You can also see which books are enrolled in KDP Select, view the rankings for each one, and look at your reviews. 

This keeps you from having to jump around on Amazon (or whichever platform) to ensure everything is as it should be with each individual book and format. 

Ad Tracker

ScribeCount's ad tracker allows you to sign in to your Amazon Ads and Facebook Ads accounts so you can check out your data from the tool. While I didn't actually use this function at first, I can see how it would be good for some authors. 

You can check by source (Amazon or Facebook), dates, accounts, books, and campaigns. While you may not be able to see all your ad data through ScribeCount, when functioning properly and not dealing with down-time, you can see quite a lot of it. Certainly enough to see whether you need to make any tweaks in the ad platforms themselves. 

ScribeCount has also more recently been working on expanding the marketing data from other sources, such as:

• BookBub
• Pinterest
• TikTok
• Chirp
• YouTube
• Hello Books

You can see from early March of 2026 that most of these were finally added to their systems. How well they work I can't quite speak on that. However, it is hopefully more reliable now that it was prior.

Email

Scribecount allows you to collect all the data related to open rates and newsletter traffic, consolidating them into a dashboard and then linking them to pertinent sales data. However, they currently only integrate with the following providers: AuthorEmail, MailChimp, MailerLie and Klaviyo

So even though it offers the ability to track more than one account, you are yet limited with which accounts those are.

Scheduler

Next up is the scheduler. This is just a calendar where you can schedule all your book-related tasks. You have several options for viewing the calendar, but the main factor here is, again, having it in the same place as everything else. 

There's a lot to do as an indie author, and any time you save can be used for writing the next book, working on the next book launch, managing your mailing list, or any of a dozen other things we indies do on a regular basis. 

Other Income

While ScribeCount works to auto-populate your income from whichever sources you choose to connect, you can use the Other Income tool to record royalties from other sources. You can add the data manually or import it in spreadsheet form. 

Payments

Finally, in the Payments section, you can see previous and pending payments from the various retailers you have connected. This allows you to see at a glance what you've earned without signing into those various retailers or going to your bank account to dig up the information. 

ScribeCount Pros

All-in-all, from up front there is a lot to like about ScribeCount. The program was huge back in the day and completely a game changer. Things have definitely changed over the years but here are some of the things I like best yet.  

Clean Interface

Although this plug-in software program presents you with a TON of data, it has the ability to do it in such a way that's not totally overwhelming (although if you are a first time author, there will definitely be features you find unhelpful and clutter your dashboard). Still, they do have the ability to customize it how you'd like it best.

Ability to Track From Most Major Platforms

If you are a wide author, I'd definitely say there are several options available to you. ScribeCount has been a top pick in the past but now there's more choices out there that are more reliable. Even still, ScribeCount has the ability to track and integrate with most of the major platforms so there's definitely not a lack of data to provide.

Sort Your Data Your Way

ScribeCount seems to have thought of almost everything when it comes to sorting your data. You can check things by platform, geographical area, marketplace, books, series, date, custom tags, and many more. 

This allows you to really drill down and look at your data any way you want. This is essential for seeing if your marketing efforts, social media activity, and even your mailing list campaigns are working as well as you want them to. 

Daily Summary Email

ScribeCount sends you a daily summary email of the previous day’s sales. This is a nice feature, allowing some of your data to come to you. They also include the enrollment status of any books you have in Kindle Unlimited, along with how many days are remaining in the 90-day KDP Select window. 

If any of your books have had a price change in the last 24 hours, they tell you in the email. Additionally, they show how many pre-orders have been placed for the previous day (if any). You have the option to turn these emails off if you don’t want them. 

ScribeCount Cons

As I've mentioned before in this review, I used to be a huge fan here. I've since move on to another book sales tracking program so I can't say this is still my go-to. With that, even when I used them often I had a few cons to point out.

No Free Version

Although you can try this tool free for 14 days, there is no free version. So even if you're making only a couple of hundred dollars a month in royalties, you'll have to pay $9.99 per month after the free trial. I would like to see them do something like Book Report, where they allow you to use it for free under a certain threshold. 

So Many Features

While it's nice to have so many features, it can also be a hazard if you're not careful. Playing around in ScribeCount could become a time suck, almost like social media or watching YouTube videos. It may seem like you're working in the tool, when in reality you're just killing time. 

If you like data, then this certainly is a risk. Then again, discipline is part of having a successful author career! 

Unreliable Data

Although abundant that data reported isn't always reliable. Many times I myself have tried to open the program to see my data and got nothing. For someone tracking on multiple platforms, having this down-time is not ideal and can be a game changer.

As of early 2026 there seem to be some improvements to this – but it's still too soon to tell if they are officially over the hump.

ScribeCount Review: Conclusion

There's no shortage of tasks that require an indie author's attention. Whether it be mastering the writing craft, picking a new Amazon category for your novel or nonfiction book, or creating new ad images for your next Facebook campaign, there's always something important to do. 

And among the most important things is analyzing your data to ensure you're on the right track. Unfortunately, for many authors, this requires jumping around to different platforms to access the data. With ScribeCount, you have the ability to access it all in one place when it's reliable on tracking.

I currently can't support the program with the status it's at today. However, maybe down the road things will change and they will be back on the rise.