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Skips tracksWas gifted a audio book by my son to use while we are traveling. Today attempted to listen to it through CarPlay and the app would skip 5 to 6 tracks instead of going to the next track. My wife would constantly have to go back into the app on the phone to back it up to the correct track. This was following every single track! It was extremely annoying because each track is only 10 minutes long, so every 10 minutes we had to correct it by going back to the iPhone and finding the right track..Version: 6.9.7

Documents folder is protectedYou cannot add your own MP3 books to this app--which makes it little more than a sales tool, rather than a useful MP3 player for many of us..Version: 4.1

Absolute rubbish!!Shows pictures of books then can't find them - awful to navigate! Got in UK App Store and prices are in $! Deleting this and sticking with audible!!.Version: 4.3

TERRIBLEI downloaded this app hoping I could download asoue books on there so I searched it up and it only has random books from that series they didn’t even have the first one also I tapped on another one and it says you have to pay dollar and I downloaded it on a British App Store. I despise this app. ( 0/0).Version: 5.2

Pretty bad appSo I'm listening to a book and there are SO many issues with the playback... first of all it's not that great of a design, not super intuitive but that's not my complaint. My complaint is that while listening to the book it has so many issues playing. Very often it will pause randomly for no reason. Half the time it does not automatically go onto the next track and I have to do it manually. It even SKIPS AROUND and I have to go back so I don't miss parts of the book and I've resorted to watching the bar as I listen to it which defeats the point of having an app for it. The controls are also very delayed and don't work well with iOS because half the time it doesn't respond to control center buttons or is super delayed. At one point it even started playing the book at 3 different points at once! I had to pause it in the app, pause it in control center and one voice was still going so I had to restart the whole app... unbelievably difficult! I suggest using scribd because they are cheaper and have a better app. (Not that this app is setting that high of a bar anyway).Version: 5.0.9

It's fine, with problemsI'm on the Club Pricing plan, and overall this app works. + I like that it's mostly DRM free, so I could put the files into Music or another app, but I prefer to use this one. + Had multiple speedup options for playback (1.25x, 1.5x, etc.). Saves a lot of time. - Ugly, unresponsive web app. Come on, build a native app already. - Still needs an internet connection to play already downloaded books. Makes it useless on an airplane. - Sometimes tracks break at set intervals, not at logical places in the book like chapters or headings. Many times I'll want to go back a couple of minutes and find I can't because we started a new track. You can't back up 30 seconds into the previous track. You have to manually select it from the track list and find your place again..Version: 5.2.3

Buggy, doesn’t add purchases to IOS booksThe listening app is buggy and stops. Even though book was purchased, it isn’t possible to play it through iBooks or the IOS music app because it doesn’t show up there. So we have a book we purchased but we cannot play it except to use the “Audiobooks Now” app, which only works sometimes. Another issue is that the app will allow a purchase as a guest without setting up an account but then you cannot play your purchase unless you set up the account. This is misleading, why allow one to buy a book as a guest if you cannot use the app to play it? And if we have to use the Audiobooks Now app to play it, could the app not at least work reliably? Granted I am new to audio books, but I do expect to play a purchased book when I please. I expect a player to work. I expect honesty when buying a book. And I expect to be able to use another player if the Audiobooks Now doesn’t work properly..Version: 6.9.6

Used to workI downloaded and used audiobooks now without a problem maybe two years ago. I since upgraded from nook to iPad and I wish this app actually worked. I get two sentences out if it before it stops and have to hit the arrow to make it start again. I’ve tried both download option as well as streaming- neither operates correctly. Too bad I purchased the books as I am unable to listen to them..Version: 6.0

Who did you pay to make thisI haven’t seen such an ugly UI in years. No option to download the Audiobooks. If you are trying to capture market share from audible you are failing hard..Version: 5.2.6

Not much choiceSearch seems to produce nothing Very limited choice ..unless I'm doing it wrong ?.Version: 5.0.6

Truly crapAbysmal ... keeps stopping at end of a track and have to press play again whereby it rewinds about 3 minutes. Cheap and nasty. Stick with audible. Only use as website only one that sells version/narrater i like..Version: 5.2.5

Overrides Lock Screen to just keep talkingI like the app, but it has three shortcomings I’d love the developer to fix: 1) When I pause playback and lock the phone, the app shows up on the Lock Screen. This often causes it to start up again by mistake. I’d like to block it from showing up on the Lock Screen at all. 2) The app does not automatically pause when it’s in the background (sometimes? every time?). It continues to play even though I’m in another app—even on the phone!!! 3) The “Book Details” pop-up window shows just a part of the audio book info, without a way to see the rest. The only button is “Close”. Thank you!.Version: 6.9.6

Pretty goodThere are a couple very basic things this app doesn’t do: When typing to search for a title, etc. there is no cursor/bar to show you where you’re typing. And when you open the app, it defaults to book titles, instead of “my library,” which seems to be the logical screen to default to. Also it pauses when you go to do things like Google, when there is no reason to pause. And when you search for a book that isn’t available, you just get a plain white screen, as opposed to a message. The membership is less, but I prefer Audible..Version: 5.0.4

Not that special sorry to sayI want to say I was impressed with the Public Domain books available for free. I knew this was not the cheapest app available but thought it might be a decent app maybe even Special, but not that special. I am disabled, having nerve damage in both hands and issues with my vision as well and reading became something I was missing and thought it would be a wonderful thing to have books back in my life. I use this app on an iPhone and have difficulty with the sleep function and as I have read from others at any time it just skips forward in the book while listening. The tracking bar doesn’t always sync up with the actual book and it too skips to catch up. I have had it reading from multiple points in the story for this issue I typically just restart my phone. Unfortunately I purchased a fair number of books before learning of these issues. If they could fix this it might be special as I had hoped..Version: 5.2

Good company, but...The deals are pretty great: $6 a month gets you an audiobook for half price. The app itself is...less than amazing. The player frequently stops working at random when a track concludes, and you have to press play to resume. Files take a long time to download, and will spontaneously cease downloading, forcing you to relaunch the app. A little tinkering with the bugs in the player would probably fix these issues..Version: 5.3

App is too basic for subscription to be usefulI recently joined for a trial, and I won't be continuing because your app is just too basic. 1. It needs to give options for audio speed. If overdrive, borrowbox, oneclickdigital, audible and even the default book player on an iphone can give different audiospeeds then you should too. I am used to listening at x1.25 and so find the lack of this feature a deal breaker 2. You need to have bookmarks. I know your software "remembers", but it only "remembers" the most forward place you have EVER been to, not the LAST place you were. This means that , like me, if you fall asleep... suddenly it keeps taking me to track 100 (for example) when I'm actually up to number 30. So now I have to take a screen shot every time I pause so that I know where I'm up to as each time I re-open the app it goes back to 100..Version: 3.4

Frustrated newbieUnable to download or stream with volume. Have tried their trouble shooting tips.... but nothing 😡😫 Please help me ?.Version: 5.2

Overpriced, discriminates against in-app purchcases, and poor customer serviceI downloaded a book from audiobooksnow thinking I would get the new member discount advertised when I signed up with this outfit. Instead, they charged me full price. When I complained, they explained that, had I purchased the book on the web and then downloaded it to my phone it would have received the 50% discount, but because I purchased it through the app I paid full price. The reason? Apple charges them for in-app purchases. I cancelled my membership and now the book that I PURCHASED is gone. Stick with the reputable companies selling audio books!.Version: 4.4.2

App is really buggyBooks are fine, and it works a lot of the time, but good grief! The player sometimes randomly stops, you can’t reengage it from the lock screen, and when you open the app to start it again, it’s not at the same spot it stopped. Then other times on the lock screen the pause button won’t work, same thing happens when you open the app to get it to pause, when you start it again it’s not in the same spot. From the reviews, it sounds like this has been happening for quite a while since some of the reviews are two years old so it would probably be good to get this stuff fixed..Version: 6.0

Bit buggy at timesI like this app for car trips especially. The books are a bit expensive but I just order one at a time as I finish a series now. I love being able to speed it up a bit, nice feature. I never realized until reading some other reviews that I can stop the subscription and still have my downloaded books, that was never revealed when I started. The app needs some work please. It doesn’t always start off where I left off and some times it runs two voices together, one about 3 seconds behind the other. I have to keep pressing the stop and start to get it to just one voice. When it works, I’m loving having my books on the go!! I give this app a “C”.Version: 6.9.7

Website great, App worthlessMost irritating app I have ever downloaded! Resume listening and can’t figure out what’s going only to find that it (the app) has skipped a track once again. Sometimes it just goes to some random track in the future or the past. Sometimes plays two tracks at the same time. AND IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BE IRRITATED, just try using with CarPlay! I have found it easier to just download onto my computer and use Dropbox.Version: 6.9.14

Playback is horrendousThe streaming playback routinely loses its spot and then will skip to the next chapter. After I finish the one book I bought through this company, I’m switching to audible. More expensive, but I got this for my drive and I can’t constantly keep looking at my phone trying to figure out how to get back to the spot before it skipped ahead. Maybe playing through the website is more reliable, but there is no forward or rewind feature that I saw..Version: 5.2.3


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