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MP3 Audiobook Player App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Not freeNo warning about the 12 hour limit. Stopped when I had no internet to purchase. Now uninstalling..Version: 1.81
✓ Keeps crashing all the timeWhen the book finishes there is no way you can start something else again. Sliding back and forward never works. Very poor..Version: 1.116
✓ Works untilWorked perfectly for 5 days, now it crashes before it even stars and I lost track of my audiobook..Version: 1.19
✓ Doesn’t work for me either.Can’t import files..Version: 1.90
✓ Don’t respond to support queriesThe app is mostly great but the auto pause function doesn’t work which makes it almost impossible to use while e.g. using Google maps. I’ve messaged the makers but they never responded so it’s basically useless even though I paid for it.Version: 1.158
✓ Constant chargesWorks great but they constantly try to recharge you for the lifetime fee. It won’t work until you pay again and again. The notice says that if you paid before you will not be charged again but then comes the notice from Apple that you have been charged again. Not a lot of money but really annoying to be lied to over and over..Version: 1.151
✓ Audiobook playerSomehow I cannot turn the freaking Progam off. Every time I have to stop the player from for whatever reason it goes to the audiobook and I tried to shut it off maybe you’ve got a setting but I can’t see. If I could figure out what that setting is it be a five star program or app but since I can’t thus the two stars I can’t be looking down from the road to make certain I am pushing the right button.Version: 1.144
✓ Not great, but seems to be the best on iOSThis app isn’t great and has some weird quirks. For instance, pausing and resuming from Bluetooth controls or the lock screen might resume your book, but you may lose your place and return to a previous position when you open the app back up. Still better than any of the other audiobook apps on iOS due to a pretty decent UI and ease of access..Version: 1.81
✓ Can’t remove ads!!I bought the app.... still have ads. 3/5.Version: 1.90
✓ Not freeNot advertised but this costs 5.99$ after 12 hours limit reached..Version: 1.130
✓ 12 hour limit not advertised in descriptionThis is an easy to use app which I have enjoyed. Was very surprised to have the app stop working with the message “play back of 12 hour limit for free app reached” and required to pay to continue to use app. This information should be upfront in the description of the app! Luckily I have not left for a trip expecting to use the app with all my own audiobooks loaded into this app..Version: 1.120
✓ Free = Ad Supported Crippled DemoDon’t bother getting the free version if you listen to books that are over 12 hours. The app will lock up and demand money to finish. The so called free version of this application is not really a free version. Up front it should be noted that this is truly a crippled demo of the paid version that is ad supported. The inability to finish books over a specific length is ridiculous, as you will watch ads the whole time. This would be equivalent to watching television with commercials then being told you have to pay to watch the last 15 minutes of the program. To the developer, please update in the description right front this is a purposely crippled ad supported app so that people don’t get frustrated when it just locks up. State up front in the storeyou can only listen to 12 hours per book while being forced to watch ads. The app is great, but the way it’s delivered is disingenuous. Ad supported usually means I watch ads but don’t pay but I get most functionality..Version: 1.135
✓ Pretty nice reader till you get in the carI have been using this app for a while and it worked nicely till last year when there was a bug that wouldn’t let me listen the books in the car for some reason. I think they fixed that bug later on and I have another bug that as son I enter the car and it is connected with the Bluetooth the sound automatically turns to zero and the player stops working again. When I turn off the Bluetooth on my phone I can continue listen to the book through phone speakers, but it is ridiculous to listen the book through the phone speakers when you have car speakers. My family loves listening to audio books, but I can’t use the app in the car when we travel because of this issue..Version: 1.134
✓ Not free, only 12 hours of playbackAfter only 12 hours of play the app will stop and force you to pay 2,79$ or 4$ (don’t know what the difference between the two options, it’s not described anywhere). Nowhere does it mention in app purchases. Nowhere does it mention the app is only good for 12 hours. Very disappointed feels like a scam. Besides being ripped off and having to download another app, the books played well and the progress was always kept in memory..Version: 1.81
✓ Great app but missing featuresLove the app but the file management leaves a lot to be desired. There is no way to work with files in batch’s once they’re in the app. I reached out to the developer and the response was just to use the app as is. One star off for missing features and another for refusing to work with a customer..Version: 1.158
✓ Terrible appThis app did not download the file properly, but continued to deplete phones storage over and over. Could not even remove the half downloaded file and when contacting the app for support did not hear back! Very unhappy!.Version: 1.37.1
✓ Was a 5 before the updateSince the update there have been many bugs: not being able to press play from the lock screen (nothing happens and I have to open my phone to continue my book) and equally as annoying, I listen to my books at x2 speed and it keeps jumping back to x1 speed on its own all the time. Fix these bugs and it goes back to five for sure..Version: 1.07
✓ Great until I updated it this afternoon..and now it just crashes on startup..Version: 1.128
✓ StoppedIn the last couple of days it no longer works , but when it did it was great.Version: 1.44
✓ This is Trialware. Basic function, ok. Overall, not great.The good: Playback and playback controls on the phone work well. Wi-Fi import of audiobooks from your home network works well. Listening to short audio files works well. The bad: this is trialware and cuts off your access to longer length audiobooks. Controls from Bluetooth headsets don’t work well. Controls from Apple Watch barely work at all. Import from cloud source doesn’t work. Resume playback where you left off works most of the time but not all of the time. When you re-launch the app, playback resumes whether you wanted it to or not. Regardless of the settings. What they don’t tell you is that playback is limited to 12 hours. They don’t tell you this before you download and install the app. In some jurisdictions, this is illegal according to contract law. In any jurisdiction, this is just dishonest. The controls and the playback work reasonably well. It resumes where you left off most of the time but not all the time. There is an Apple Watch companion app, but it’s almost useless. Occasionally, it lets you pause or resume playback. But most of the time it just doesn’t. Most disappointing is it’s support for Bluetooth headphones. If your headphones have play pause volume up volume down controls, these don’t work very well. Pausing playback works most of the time. Volume up & down works some of the time. Resuming playback doesn’t work. Importing audiobooks from the cloud location just doesn’t work. It downloads and downloads and downloads and downloads and never ever gets the files. However, the Wi-Fi import works very well. What this app does well is done as well or better by VLC. What is it not well done in VLC is done as bad or worse in this app..Version: 1.108
✓ Auto rewind does not workAuto rewind does not work, no matter how I configure it. Please fix.Version: 1.90
✓ Updates are a jokes~ update: I lost all the book covers I downloaded and uploaded to the app. I can’t get in with the latest update and if I delete the app and redownload I lose all my mp4, image and setting *cry* how could they?!?!.Version: 1.128
✓ Transfer of books from computer STOPPED WORKING!I have the paid "pro" version of this app. It worked fine for a while, but with one of the ios 16 releases the ability to transfer books from my computer stopped working. I contacted the developer but nothing he suggested worked. If you Google this issue, you'll see others are experiencing the same thing..Version: 1.163
✓ Not working properlyPaid for unlimited listening, now it jumps around my book and starts ober.Version: 1.147
✓ Been reaching out to support without a responseI have the paid version and still doesn’t work!! Having massive issues with the app: not uploading properly, crashing, partial uploads, playing from 0% instead of where I left off... to a pint where the app is simply unusable. Tried to reach out to support without a response!.Version: 1.117
✓ Useless on iPadI have dozens of audiobooks and presentations in many different formats. Many are multi chapter files. First, I can’t load anything from the ipad itself. I don’t have a Mac. Second, it doesn’t recognize that one recording can be multiple files. Utterly useless..Version: 1.146
✓ Good but has some catchesThere’s a 12 hr limit, meaning you can only listen for 12 hrs before paying to remove that limit. It’s pretty good and helpful. Would not recommend though, as now I’m dying of curiosity and can’t quench it cuz of the paywall..Version: 1.90
✓ Bad audio sound when speed listening!For some time now, this app has had a terrible, unlistenable sound quality when you use any speed higher than 1x. I have had to move to competing apps instead. If developer fixes it is replies here I'll change my review. This is ridiculous. Update like a year later: The developer has done NOTHING. This terrible deal-breaker bug exists! This has forced me to move a massive library of unfinished audiobooks into another app which is a ridiculous undertaking. And now all I get is ads while I try to do this laborious process. I've now moved to BookPlayer and I suggest you use an alternative! This app used to be great. Now it's gone to S#!t..Version: 1.120
✓ Good when working wellFirstly I would like to say that the app when working properly is awesome and I have no complaints on that front. FYI I am running this on an IPhone 6, and I have paid for the app. It is very buggy. Sometimes when playing a book it does not display on the lock screen or react to headphone inputs. Sometimes the app itself does not react to pause/play inputs right away. I have to his pause, play, then pause again and it teleports me back a few minutes in the recording. Right now the playback speed changer is not working at all for me. Also the sleep timer seems to reset randomly. Overall great app, but it needs to fix some bugs..Version: 1.99
✓ Says can make a playback groupBut doesnt work.Version: 1.147
✓ No longer working efficientlyMy books are no longer arranged in alphabetical order. Second, when I uploaded books, they appear in the app on my computer but they don't appear on my iPhone. Third, after typing my message to ask for help, the message can't be sent when I used the contact link on the app..Version: 1.72
✓ Dosent workI can not open any audiobook, the page is frozen on “loading audiobooks” Could not import new audiobooks, just wouldn't do anything when I tried to open/import files🤷♂️.Version: 1.89
✓ Some bugs, but still goodI don’t get any controls from the locked screen, and I cannot start/stop the audio with headphone controls. Need to enter the app to do any kind of control. Audio gets tiny when you speed it up. Might just be bugs on my end? if not, please fix it? I paid to remove adds and support you, so please make it work. Used this as an alternative to the Official apple app..Version: 1.119
✓ Just be aware of the duration limitNot very oblivious.Version: 1.53
✓ Loyal user but starting to lose faith!Have had this app for about 3 years, paid for it so I could listen to books longer than 12 hours and have been quite happy, BUT... the app freezes during playback, especially on long single files! This is not an mp3 problem as the file can be played by other players... ones that I haven’t had to buy!!! Please sort this out, I am sick of skipping chapters, or even full books because it freezes!! Uninstalling/reinstalling app, deleting and reloading files DOES NOT WORK!! Free reader apps have no problem playing the files but I don’t like their interfaces and I have paid for this app... can you make it do its job please?.Version: 1.119
✓ Can’t export bookmarksDoes anyone know how to export bookmarks and then import them on a new iPhone?.Version: 1.158
✓ Asinine paywallThere's a paywall that stops you from playing the book after 12 hours. I can understand paywalling some features but the functionality of the app is to play audiobooks and that paywall is the biggest asinine money grab tactic. 3$ is nothing but it's such a disrespectful moneygrab that I'm deleting this app..Version: 1.104
✓ Not free & very clunky.Two in app purchase prices cost around £2.50. Interface cluttered & seek speed does not work..Version: 1.41
✓ AdsThere's ads.Version: 1.135
✓ Doesn’t recognize booksI have 10 books on ny iphone, yet this player doesn’t see them! In order for the player to recognize them, i have to import the books AGAIN through iTunes, directly to this app. That’s stupid!.Version: 1.69
✓ Could only 'see' and play one fileThe functionality seemed fine. However I attempted to import three files over iCloud. The app said the imports were successful but only showed the first file in the library. It described the length and file size as the combined lengths and sizes of the three files. However the player itself could only recognize and play the first file. Maybe I'm missing something as it seems to work for others. But it's failed for me..Version: 1.62
✓ File Name vs Metadata Track NameIt's a good app and does exactly what it says it'll do. I was glad to pay the upgrade price to unlock all features. What mostly surprised me is that after syncing a handful of Audiobooks I own in mp3 format, when playing the files the app shows the file name, and not the track name. For those unfamiliar with metadata tagging, this means that if I've taken the effort to tag all of my files so that TRACK name would appear correctly when playing the book in iTunes or another app (eg. Chapter 14: Felix Felicis), this app will instead show the FILE name (eg. Harry Potter 6 - 15). Admittedly, MOST of my files are music related, so I have carefully tagged the metadata in ALL of them so that the track name will appear correctly in any app or software that plays media files. This is the first time I've ever used a audio file app that recognizes mp3 files but only by the file name. I've checked and rechecked the settings and don't see a way for the app to recognize the files differently. Yes, I can go back through all of my files are rename them so that the file name and the track name are identical, but that's a lot of time and energy, and I'm not sure it's worth it. So yes, this is a good, almost great app. But those who are like me, and choosy about how you've organized the metadata on your audio files may want to know going in that this app only shows the file name..Version: 1.90
✓ Pretty sluggishThis app is pretty slow on my iPhone 11 Pro and Apple Watch series 5..Version: 1.111
✓ It was Excellent, but now it’s ruinedI loved this app, but they added an EQ which even when turned off ruins the sound quality of the books, since changing and the last several updates, it has remained horrible. Ever audiobook now sounds like it was cheaply recorded, the narrator voices now sound hollow, thin, tinny and just down right horrible, I was in the middle of a number of books, which I can’t finish since tragically updating my app🙁 I sure hope they revert to the older version, until then back to the horrible iPhone audiobook app. Old review. iPhone book app continues to get worse and worse, so I am so glad to find this alternative. The app comes up fast and have multiple playing speed options, it remembers my spot and I find it easy to add audiobooks. The only problems I’ve had is a black out freeze, I’ll think my battery completely died, eventually the phone comes back on line though, it is an odd short of app crash, very Rare but it happens occasionally. The other thing is even after leaving a book, and turning on music, if I want to switch a song without fully entering my phone, sometimes iPhone shows the book instead of currently playing song. Restarting the phone is needed to correct this..Version: 1.07
✓ More bugs every time we have an updateThe sound quality at faster speeds has not been as good since the previous update, and now with the most recent update a few days ago there are more problems. Every time my book goes to the next track it actually skips a track. And, when listening at double speed it will go back to normal speed. Really hard to listen to a book this way since I have to restart the speed each time and try to get to the right track. Plus the sound quality at more than normal speed...really needs to be fixed..Version: 1.07
✓ The app use to be greatAfter the last few updates the app started a life of it own:( the app is activated and a book begins playing without being stared and before you know it’s halfway through the book and you have the find the spot where you stoped last time. Sometimes it starts making leaps and jumps anything between 10-15 sec to 4-5 minutes.Version: 1.111
✓ Echoing playbackOnce again there is an issue with echoing audio when playback speed is greater than x1. This started up again after the last update. Please fix it quicker than the last time this same issue developed..Version: 1.150
✓ Good but slightly buggyI really like this app and have used it a lot over the past week but there are a few frustrating bugs with it. 1. When you hit play to resume where you left off, sometimes the app forgets where you were. Usually it plays from quite a bit before where you actually left off. 2. Sometimes the play/pause controls on earphones or lock screen don’t work with the app. This is usually fixed by restarting..Version: 1.124
✓ Great app but...I have only experienced 1 issue with app but it is annoying enough for me look for other apps. The book will restart from the beginning about every other time of listening. I do like the bookmark option but I often stop listening because of interruptions. Phone, people etc. And if I forget to go back and bookmark. I lose my spot when book restarts. What makes this more frustrating is there is no easy way to skip around. If you use bar at bottom it is not for fine tuning and moves in large chunks especially on longer books. I even paid for this app to see if remembering last spot was a premium function. It is not. I tried help section but it is small and only is for importing books. Good app except for this quirk which is a big one for me. It would be 5 stars from me if I could use it without cussing every time it restarts my book ha.Version: 1.119
✓ Works but audio balance is messed up on AirPods ProFor some reason the audio sounds like it’s coming from the side or bottom when using AirPods Pro. I changed the audio engine from automatic to universal and that helped but when I pause and play again the audio is again messed up and I need to go back and toggle the audio engine back and forth to fix it. I took off a second star because the free version has a limit of 12h per book which they should more clearly say. Overall it’s a decent app but I’m going back to bookplayer which is completely free due to the above 2 issues..Version: 1.161
✓ No user set up playlistUsed for several months. Will have to go back to using the “bookmobile” app. Not being able to have a playlist which automatically starts playing the next listed book is a deal breaker. Hard to start another book when I’m power walking m. Doing chores and worse yet, in the sauna with my phone out of the sauna. No playlist makes it difficult to go from one book to the next..Version: 1.164
✓ Was the best but update had ruined itThis was without a doubt the best audiobook player out there and worthy of 5 stars. However, since the update a few months ago it is now useless as the audio quality is terrible if you are listening at anything other than 1x speed. I emailed the developer after the update 3 months ago and they said they were aware of the problem and would work on fixing it. 3 months later and it still has the same problem. Such a shame as this was an app. I used daily but now cannot use at all..Version: 1.111
✓ Pay for this and it does not workDo not buy.Version: 1.156
✓ Great, but...Latest update seems to have broken it. App fails to load chapters now. Will change review back to 5 when it’s fixed..Version: 1.118
✓ Frustrating at bestDO NOT BUY THIS APP!!! I have had this app for a month or two now and am disappointed this is the one I chose to spend money on. I listen to audio books 5 days a week for 5-6 hours a day. AT LEAST 3-4 times a day when I pause the book with the Apple microphone the App rewinds the book to a random spot Now I have to stop what I am doing and attempt to fast forward to the spot where I think it should be. VERY frustrating and annoying for an app that I paid for. I am using this App on an iPhone 6.Version: 1.72
✓ Latest update crashed audio booksI can’t read audio book files after latest update. Tries to play and app crashes..Version: 1.117
✓ SosoIts a nice app till you get 12 hours in to your book and its stops working untill you pay to upgrade if not for that would of had a much better star ratting now its look for a new app.Version: 1.23
✓ Ugly, can’t even distinguish folders…Slow as hell, but wants us to pay for it. Nah.Version: 1.154
✓ Some MP3 cannot be playedWasted an hour with an app that would be great if it worked..Version: 1.38
✓ IOs 11 ruined this appUsed to be a five star app but since Apple’s latest attempt at wanging my brain it has become next to useless. I can’t load any new audiobooks onto my iPhone since Apple removed the Apps organiser from iTunes in their latest updates. I guess it’s not the app creator’s fault entirely, but I do hope they get with the program sharpish, as I’ve got two months of sedentary work, where if I don’t have my audiobooks l’mma go crazy!.Version: 1.67
✓ Jumps aroundThis app use to work great, now when i pause something it restarts in different places. Not worth it..Version: 1.147
✓ Books not playingAfter most recent update books will not play in the background when the phone screen is off. Here are the detailed steps. I launch the app for the first time, play a book and it works fine in the background. Then I turn on the phone and pause the book. Turn of the phone. Turn it on again, start the app (which is open in the apps background), start playing the book and it plays ok until the phone screen is off. Whenever I turn the screen on the book continues to play but then freezes when the screen is off. Please fix.Version: 1.108
✓ Can not upload anything to my iphoneI am giving up…..Version: 1.158
✓ Annoying bugDownloaded this app a while ago and paid to upgrade- then upgraded my phone when I de installed the app I had to pay again for the upgrade same with my iPad n So not so happy with that but the app itself once it’s installed is great. Maybe a log in system would be an idea so you don’t have to pay when updating technology ?? Over all I like the app though.Version: 1.71
✓ Buggy and frustrating messThis used to be an incredible and feature packed app but in the past few months it has descended into a buggy, crashing, unreliable piece of abandonware. Books will jump back to the start if you pause them or go from app to app and even if you drag the playback to where it should be, it will loop back to the beginning. I have paid for the pro version and loved it for years, but now my emails for help are being ignored and I am looking for an alternative app. Don’t waste your time until the developer can advise us formally what the state of things is..Version: 1.23
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