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LibriVox Audio Books App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
LibriVox Audio Books app received 39 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using LibriVox Audio Books? Can you share your negative thoughts about librivox audio books?
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✓ Doesn’t work !Downloaded books cannot be heard despite the download being successful and a message saying you can now listen to this without the need for the internet !.Version: 8.2.1
✓ Crashing every minuteI loved LibriVox before, but now it’s crashing after every few sentences..Version: 8.4.2
✓ No luck finding books, very messy appI downloaded this app hoping to listen to some books that have been on my list for a while. I searched about 10 books and none of them came up. Shocking. These weren’t obscure books either eg My Sister’s Keeper, Stephen Hawking, Ikigai. Quite disappointed really. Thought to browse to find any book but couldn’t sort through ‘Most Popular Books’ or well acclaimed. You just need to search for one and hope for the best. There’s also a ‘List’ category which I realised was just random user’s own lists of books. I suggest download the app to find a book you’re interested in but don’t hold your breath..Version: 8.1.1
✓ Why is the app keep crashing on my ios15.4.1 xs max?App usually crashes after couple mins in, please help.Version: 8.4.0
✓ Whoops!The latest version doesn't work on mobile data, but only works on wifi. Hopefully they'll fix this soon. Weirdly, if I do turn off mobile data for this app in iphone settings the app complains on start-up, but then when I turn it on, but don't have wifi, any attempt to play a chapter which has not already been downloaded results in an error message, "cannot play chapter. Are you connected to the internet?" (Well, yes I am, and all other apps work fine!) A shame, because previously this app has been excellent, but you get no stars for previous versions..Version: 8.0
✓ It is fineThat is all good and all that but it has a downside there is not a lot of kiddish books it’s a pretty good app but it could be better sometimes it’s fun to go down memory lane and read a lot of books you read as a kid so I give it a three I hope there’s another update where there’s more kid books Like dragon rider wings of fire etc..Version: 8.3.0
✓ Broken update: Addendum to my earlier reviewI can’t find a way to edit my earlier review. In addition to the problems I described there, having everything that is supposed to be at the top of the screen overlapping means that I cannot set the sleep timer. The progression bar, speed adjustment, sleep timer, and title for chapter are all superimposed and none of the controls work. This is incredibly inconvenient. I absolutely adore this app and I’m grateful to all of the volunteer readers, but this latest update has broken it!.Version: 8.3.0
✓ Love the app... when it worksI have been listening to LibriVox every night for 9 months on my Samsung. It has beautiful recordings and amazing stories. However, on my iPhone 6 , I can't listen to any of them because it won't open any of them! It opens the app fine, but won't allow me to click on any of the books. Please fix this, I was so close to finishing my obsession with the OTR collection!.Version: 6.1
✓ Is this app faulty?I'd love to give this app a higher rating, as it used to be brilliant, however after the last update this app seems to have some glitches. Almost every time (9 out of 10 times), the story stops after playing for approximately a minute, then you have to restart the story, and then it stops again.... I've tried skipping over the point where the story stopped, but it doesn't help, the story stops again after a minute. It seems to happen with all stories now, rendering the app useless. Frustrating..Version: 2.0
✓ Pls fix timerDoes not finish at end of chapter or after time set. Iphone. 13.3.1 Thank you..Version: 8.0
✓ App crashes constantlyApp constantly crashing after a few minutes. Deleted and reinstalled but still crashes. Please fix it..Version: 8.4.2
✓ Good stories but poor appThere's a great range of stories here, but the app is not very user friendly. I only listen to a couple of chapters at a time and when I close the app it forgets which book it was reading and which chapter it was up to, so I have to go and find the place I was up to each time I want to start listening again. This could be so easily fixed. Also the sleep timer only works within chapters. So if you set the timer to listen to more than one chapter, as soon as the first chapter ends the timer switches itself off..Version: 5.1
✓ After decades, still no accent filtersLibriVox was a great idea but after decades of people begging them to add a location or accent filter for the narrator, they still haven’t been bothered, even though they’re now charging for the app and generating income from adverts. For a significant portion of people, the accent of the reader matters massively. Please can you make this small addition that people have been asking you to do for decades. Thanks..Version: 8.0
✓ Problèmes de lectureDepuis le dernier mis à jour, la lecture arrête, rien à faire. Besoin d’aide svp..Version: 8.4.0
✓ Good App let down by readersThe App is very good but you need to choose readers carefully. Some are very good but a significant number read line by line so read straight through full stops and then pause mid-sentence. Others are monotone with no expression. There are some brilliant readers, the app is good but always play and listen to the books before downloading. For me, there are too many, not only with an American accent but a strong Southern Yankee drawl. Sorry but Sherlock Holmes (a true Brit) just does not sound right (nor Monsoire Poirot).Version: 6.2.1
✓ Political ads??I loved this app, but I’m super disappointed in the political ad I heard on it yesterday dealing with abortion that blatantly LIES saying it’s harder than ever to get an abortion and asking for donations to fund abortions. ??? Whatever organization that is is just playing off the recent news and I assume LibriVox is just raking in the cash from that organization to play their ad. Hopefully ppl will actually educate themselves on what’s really going on politically and not buy into ads that lie like that to get donations to fund abortions, of all things. If you want to donate to a politically relevant real cause that actually HELPS ppl, donate to Ukraine’s relief causes. Hmm, why haven’t I heard any ads about that on LibriVox??.Version: 8.4.0
✓ Not free money withdrawn from my credit cardUpon downloading this app money was taken out of my credit card. No where in the description does it state that a charge will be made, I checked my c.card after down loading and yep from iTunes Store a withdraw was made. :(.Version: 6.1
✓ Needs workIt would be good for the narrators to NOT say this is LibriVox recording blah blah blah, it’s annoying, it’s boring and it’s not relevant, we just want to listen to the recording!! Narrator need to be told how to record well, there are some who produce poor quality audio quality or have poor diction.Version: 8.0
✓ Almost PerfectNeat little app that makes accessing LibriVox's catalogue very easy. Great search, download & favourites functionality. Lacking in playback though: doesn't remember which book you were listening to, nor which chapter or where you were up to. The lock screen UI could be improved with a lot of functionality and info too. I hope it's on its way. Great start..Version: 5.0
✓ Too much extra talkingEvery chapter starts with the same opening title, part, chapter etc. Disrupts the flow of the story and takes you out of it completely. All they need to say is the chapter number. I can understand why they do it initially but it should be edited out when it is posted..Version: 7.3.1
✓ LibrivoxI wish I could give Librivox a better rating and two stars seems to show a lack of gratitude towards the volunteers who read the books However in my experience two many factors detract from what should be a blessing for listeners. I had a long list of complaints and suggestions for movement which I emailed to them but I did not receive a reply The pilgrims progress by Chaucer should be read in Middle English and here is too much provided about his life..Version: 5.0
✓ Cant find any thingI cant find any thing I search it’s very old books pleas have newer books.Version: 8.1.1
✓ Keeps CrashingStarted crashing after a few minutes of listening whilst I was away on holiday. Downloading made no difference. Got home and it seemed ok, back to normal. Now started crashing again after a few minutes of listening. Shame, because this was such a great app..Version: 8.4.2
✓ Don’t bother paying to remove ads...These public domain books are read by readers with vastly varying skills. Most of what I’ve heard is pretty amateurish, but there are some very good contributions. The jewel in crown, of course, is that the service makes so many great books available to audio readers. You just have to do a bit of searching to find a combination of good book/good reader. The app is moderately intuitive and a bit glitchy. Most disconcerting of all, though, is that payment to remove ads does...nothing. The ads are annoying, at best, and there seems no way to really communicate effectively with the apps designer. Ultimately, though, I’m an avid listener of books, and this gives me another tool in my audio book tool box..Version: 7.4.2
✓ The only audiobook app with adsIf you want a decent app with more books and no ads use Overdrive instead. The ads on this app get in the way of trying to navigate the app so I deleted it. I have listened to over 400 books on overdrive with no issues.Version: 7.2.0
✓ Great, but one huge problemI really love the Librivox app. But there just recently came a pretty big issue to me that I want corrected as soon as the app is next updated: every time I listen to any given book on the app, somewhere in any given chapter of that book the sound will just stop. And I have to fast forward a few seconds to try to correct the problem. Then when I do, a few minutes later, it happens again! Powering off my phone does not work! Please fix this ASAP! Next update please! Thank you!.Version: 8.1.1
✓ Glitchy appIt's wonderful that this exists and there is a free database of audiobooks, the concept of this deserves 5 stars, however the app itself is lacking. Whenever I try to resume a chapter after closing the app it doesn't load. And the app also looks rather cluttered. These bugs could be easily fixed to make it more user friendly..Version: 5.0
✓ You get what you pay forThis app crashes often, and some books don’t play at all. The selection is about what you’d expect for free- some public domain stuff written 80+ years ago and a lot of generic, self published first novels. The narrators are mostly volunteers, but most do a pretty good job. Overall, it’s not great, but I do feel weird complaining too much about free audiobooks, so I have to give it at least a couple stars..Version: 8.7.0
✓ Resume missingMy last two selections would not resume where they left off after I shut down to go to bed or go for a meal. Previously I could simply tap “resume”. Not any more. Libre Vox is now USELESS!.Version: 8.1.1
✓ Crashing IssueThis is a great app. Free, downloadable audiobooks generally read by good readers. Unfortunately, after this update supporting the iPhone X, the LibriVox app has been crashing on my iPod 5 whenever I try to play an audiobook. Please fix this issue so I can return to listening to LibriVox again..Version: 6.2
✓ No apps at all have The Wind Singer, my favourite bookMy favourite book is The Wind Singer, and we are reading it in English class. Our English teacher tells us to download an audio book app that has it on it, and I have tried various ones but none seem to be available. Please insert this novel..Version: 6.1
✓ Was lovelyI have been using for a couple of years as I travel outside of WiFi regions . I love being read to as a relaxing end to the day and have drifted off on many occasions. Why have I recently been woken by adverts for singing contests and strange adverts between chapters? Seems nothing nowadays is without tampering. Still worth listening to as so much talent is given free especially on good classic reads . Well done all you volunteers , many thanks indeed and keep up the good work ..Version: 6.2.1
✓ Good in theoryLibriVox is a good idea in theory, but in practice most of the readers are poor stylistically, so that most works cannot be heard enjoyably, and one must make do with what one can find that is read at least tolerably, rather than what one was looking for..Version: 7.4.2
✓ Great service, awful appLibriVox is phenomenal, and the readers do well. This review is specifically for the app. After entering a story, the app glitches and moves all content far to one side, so you cannot go back and look at chapter names, lengths, etc. without closing and re-opening. As of recently, the app stops playing when screen is off or app is moved to background. The vocal ads are deeply grating. The app just does not function well, to the point where it seriously disrupts the books themselves..Version: 8.4.5
✓ Great App horrible advertisingThe app is pretty good. There are issues with playback occasionally. Sometimes it just won’t resume. That’s not my biggest issue. My biggest issue is that they have chosen highly political and controversial advertising. For example, while my children and I were listening to book about a saint, it was interrupted to explain how the abortion giants Planned Parenthood are expanding their ability to murder the unborn. They are alienating a huge portion of their users in that regard. It’s unfortunate. I will resume using and promoting the app when they stop promoting the murder of the unborn..Version: 8.2.1
✓ The BoostThe life we all have today, on paper should lend itself to a sedentary life style… but in fact the opposite has become true. The devisive cruelty of covid has shown us we need to spend more time doing and less time saying we’re going to spend more time doing what we should already have been doing… What you ask is the fulfilment of that long arduous sentence… Before covid we all at various times promised ourselves to be good little boys and girls, spend more time with the good little boys & girls in our family, but so often we fell short of the mark… Equally, we fell into the abyss of not taking care of ourselves… To this point, Libervox, for me, the panacea, slowing me down, making me ask questions.., even leading me to read as well as listen. The conjoined pleasure of listening & following the words! The envisaged mental depictions of the authors… I’m renewed; erased and redrawn… just when l’d think myself ready for the canvas…a libervox extract would show me the error of my literary ways… Make me race with myself to reach the pause button, hungry to rehear and experience the lines; renew my understanding, or perhaps, just a different prospective!.Version: 8.3.0
✓ Wouldn’t recommendNothing actually downloads even when I’m in full wifi at my house.Version: 7.0.1
✓ Please help!Firstly, I LOVE this app! Thank you for making it possible for me to revisit old classic books and find new ones through your app. Lately, though, it’s been such a chore to open the app and continue with a book. If I don’t happen to finish a chapter before closing the app, it will take me back to the beginning of the chapter when I’m ready to start listening again. It’s very difficult sometimes to fast forward and find my place! This is a relatively new problem (over the last month, I’d say). Is there anyway to fix this? Is there a setting I inadvertently turned on? Thank you for a timely answer! I WILL change my rating to 5 stars when this is fixed!!.Version: 7.1.0
✓ Unhappy and dissatisfiedI used to love this app, I would use it all the time to listen to my audiobooks. Unfortunately, a few seconds after I turn off my phone, the app crashes and the audiobook no longer plays. I’m very disappointed..Version: 8.4.2
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