Audiobooks App Reviews

I have listened to Librivox books with this app for years. Enough so that paying the small fee to access plus titles was easy. However, for reasons unknown, the app now irregularly purges completed downloads. I dod not want to leave a review regarding this, but it happened again this morning: 15-20 books went from “all files downloaded” to “0 files downloaded.” I’ve written and received responses several times on this single issue though no resolution has surfaced. The customer svc response time is fine; it’s just that this malfunction persists. The explanation they offered was that the app might purge previously complete downloads if/when a device’s available storage is exhausted or close to it. I have averaged 8-12gb of free space throughout my correspondence with developer, and have never run out of space. Unfortunately, I am to the point where I will trial the many competing apps. Resigned, EJ

Below this you will see my original 5 star review. However, in the last couple months it continuously deletes my downloads. Instead of indicating a 100% download, everything is now 0%, awaiting download. I live in a rural area with very poor internet connection, so it is essential that I have books on my phone. Also, I rely on this app when I travel, but I can’t anymore if it keeps deleting my downloads. Please fix this. I had it on my iPhone 2, my iPhone 4 and now my iPhone 6s. If it were the only app on my phone, the cost of my phone would be worth it. So many books and so many genres to choose from! Some readers are better than others, but, hey, they are volunteers. I have about 50 books downloaded to my library which has slowed things down a little so I make sure now to delete the file and just keep the title. I love being able to store books to have on hand when I travel. I love being able to listen to all the science fiction selections and the history and biographies. I love being able to fall asleep to a book after a stressful day. Just download it and enjoy!

What a passionate and meaningful book. Written intelligently and motivationally. A must read for those desiring a better society now and in the future. Don't miss the epilogue!

Terrible, so glitchy, it keeps freezing and then the app shuts out...

I had a hard time to sleep... But I wanted a good book. I couldn’t find a good book I have. I looked for a app but there was none that I could understand. I saw this and I am listening to Alice in wonderland and I love it! Please can you make great apps like this?

They can’t get books that are extremely popular... you have to give them a credit card to find out if they have what you want to read.... only to find out they don’t have it but now they have my credit card number... There is no place in settings that says cancel my subscription so I sent them an email with the subject Cancel my subscription now I wait to see if I get a bill It would be better to find what you want to read before you commit to the app

It says it has many books but i searched up 5 of my books and not one of them showed up, i started looking through them and none of the books they have are books that i have.

Looking for something different? I like that I can listen at my pace. This App has helped me broaden my reading experience. It’s like having my very own library. Mary Jane

I loved this app but after the latest update it stops playing after 30 seconds then it glitches and freezes and the app can’t be used. I constantly had to close and try to relaunch the app but even that is hit and miss.

I’ve enjoyed and appreciated the consistent quality of narration provided by Sam Stinson. Thank you, Scott Nitzel, MD

When I sent Audiobooks a notice that 16 out of 50 chapters in Dragonfly in Amber had not downloaded, I got NO response! I love this book and want to reread it but want the full book! 😢😢😢

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I have assigned reading but none of the books are on there. They have a few choices of books but not enough if you ask me.

Nice effort. Great idea. Unfortunately most readers of poor quality due i suppose to being volunteer; but irritating nonetheless. And a ridiculous amount of self promotion. My god, charge a small fee or something but every part starts with the same boring statement. Makes it all distracting and horribly distracting.

I have listened to the greatest books of all time all for free and I have enjoyed hundreds of book. I have listened to the classic ones, as well as have discovered many authors will marvelous writings. Ali...

Very good readers. I listen every day.

Ever since I got this app it was good to have. Until this happen. I had a library of books that has been downloaded with all the files, when I open the app, every downloading files are gone and start yet again download them once more. This happen to me twice and I'm sick and tired of having all the files downloaded for only the app self delete the books files. I'm done with this app. I used to love it and I enjoy it listening good books from there; just hate the idea of auto self destruct app and start over. I have zero time to waste for all the books files to be downloaded.

The books are good but what happens to the unavailable books are they ever available or did they stay on available? By the way I can’t believe that you have one of my favorite narrator Terezze plumber

Installed this app and the first book I picked they wanted $25.99. Excuse me, that doesn’t seem like free...

Says it’s free and it’s truly free. Yes the books are older titles but there are tons of classics. This app makes reading books possible for me and I love it.

I was reading all of the reviews and they all looked great BUT all the FREE books are like old history books and then like the new sports books or big Nate books cost so and I'm 11 and dont want to read about abe Lincoln

Walk daily listening, so glad I found this wonderful app.

This app is too good to be true and only downside is that I took this long to discover it! Thanks for making so many audiobooks available for free!

Add Shane Dawson books

I like fun stories Riley Stoltzfus

Did not have very many titles that interested me but I do know some people that really liked this app it really depends on your preference on books

It’s a fine app, easy to use, and, yes, the audiobooks actually are free. The problem is, there are is almost no young adult literature available. Nor are there any modern titles.

For me, it’s wonderful to listen to a book while drawing, knitting, or even cooking. What a great way to multi-task! When I become too distracted, the 30 second repeat gets me right back into the story, and I just discovered the timer which will hold my place and turn the app off automatically, after I fall asleep while listening in bed. Since I often leave my earbuds in and wake up next morning, many hours later, with the audio still running, this is really important to me. The selection of books is tremendous, and I am enjoying so many well known authors who’s works I hadn’t read before, as well as authors I was previously unfamiliar with. Sometimes I have difficulty understanding an orators dialect, but when I stick with it, am becoming able to comprehend the words readily, which is an unexpected bonus for me. When deciding on what to select, the book description is broad enough to give a good idea of what it’s about, without giving away the story. I recommend this app to anyone who enjoys books!

I love the audio books. This site has enriched my life immeasurably. I have recommended it many times and helped people set it up on their phones. Thank you! Thank you!

Numerous versions and languages. Great inspirational works by Authors Spurgion,Murray, and others as well. Asv is well read by Sam Stinson.

What an awesome book

I love this app but I do miss the “surprise me” function as I found lots of hidden gems that way!

Use this app all the time

I absolutely love this app. I listen everywhere I go.

Something is wrong with the downloading process. Often I have to close the app and reopen it in order to retrigger the app to resume downloading after one file has completed. It usually gets stuck once it finishes one file and doesn’t move on to the next. Sometimes it continues with the next file but almost always it doesn’t, meaning I have to close and reopen many many times for books with many files, like the ones I have that are about 60 files big. It’s very annoying and inconvenient. I tried messing around with the settings but couldn’t get the download process to work right. Please fix this!

I always read before sleeping but when I am wired or too tired I use audiobooks. I love the voices and the free books! A grateful user.

Easy to use. Enjoy it very much!

Now buggy, unresponsive during down loads, crashes frequently on 1 year old ipad 12.1.4 Speed control does not work reliably throughout.

If it didn’t crash constantly, speed up a book on it own, freeze in the middle of navigating in the app, it would get 3 starts for being functional but with a UI that is old and inefficient.

Karen Savage was the narrator on these and several other titles. She is fantastic. This app has been so enjoyable. I am somewhat selective with the narrators . But for a free app it has been wonderful. Thanks for offering so many great titles. Although... I’m having issues with this app running background and draining my iPhone 7 Plus battery. I’ve had this app for 5 years and LOVE IT. But turning off the background refresh didn’t work. 😢 please fix it.

I've had to drive/fly many miles, and the way I have the audiobooks, on my favorite History, non-fiction books. Now on my car they play by Bluetooth thru the car radio.

I decided to try this but I try to play a audio book and it freezes and won’t play. I wish it would work so could you try to fix it?

Was great, now crashes every time.

Since this is an all volunteer effort, all levels of experience were evident in the readers, and their volunteerism is greatly appreciated.

The app’s interface is clean and easy with a good feature set: back up, jump ahead, sleep timer, etc. Enjoyable and helpful. Thanks also to LibriVox!

I really enjoy this app and use it frequently. My literary interests have almost always dwelt in long ago and lesser known titles, and this app gives me access to tomes nearly impossible to find anywhere else. I give it only four stars because the search function can be rather problematic. For example; I’ll search for titles written by a certain author and only be given a few choices, but if I look up that author under the actual Authors section, there are dozens more. Or I’ll search for a title and the results give about twenty other titles along with it that seem to have no connection to that title at all. Sometimes this is because my title was mentioned in the description of the other books, but other times not. There have been other difficulties with the search function, but for the sake of conciseness, I won’t mention them here. I have also noticed that many of the titles available on the Librivox website are not available here; I’m not sure if the reason for this, but it would be great to have access to them as well. Also, it can be very time consuming to find a title that captures my interest and holds onto it as well, so I wanted to suggest the addition of a “recommended for you” section that brings up available titles based on your previous listening selections. I believe this would seriously streamline the process and increase the enjoyment of your app. Thanks! Tami

It has all the really interesting public domain stories and sounds very professional! They did a very great job in my opinion!!!☺️

I spent hours downloading books and as soon as I closed the app all the downloads disappeared. I am a long haul. Truck driver and thought this would be perfect for me to listen to literary classics and the Holy Bible.

Great app

I like it but it dosent have warriors by Eren hunter or the heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan so I like it I’m gonna keep listining to it because it has books by jack London but still I think it’s okay

We like to listen to good books together! This is great for us at home or in the car!

Very interesting show, especially the bullying sitcom.

The most frustrating thing about this app is how many books are cut up by being narrated by persons with thick accents or very annoying cadences! Some narrators accents are so thick that you cannot understand them at all, or their reading style is so weird and annoying to listen to. Then there are a couple narrators who are a pleasure....like Andy minter. I choose the book by the narrators for this reason

I wish that the readers were vetted to w*** out the less than adequate ones.

This app sucked. It didn't have any of the books I searched. On a scale from 1-10 ten being the best I give it a negative 500. Honestly just read the book, it's better than this app.

Seems to use less battery? That could be my imagination. New layout is nice. I wish there was a way of knowing if you are about to download a book you've already listened to. I have 100+ titles and slowly going down the list gets old fast. Otherwise I love this app.

Great new books added with new update, looking forward to future updates!

The app itself seems to work great, but the books I want to hear are not available :(

Thank you so much. This app has become a close friend, allergic to paper and struggling with fading eyesight. To all the volunteers, you have my deep heartfelt gratitude. To the creators of this app, you are doing a great job and again, my deep gratitude. The app works very well.

I found this years ago and have listened to great works like Anne of Green Gables, Great Expectations, some French Poetry and other great stories. You can also pay a one time yearly fee and get an even larger selection of Audio books other than the thousands available free. I stream most audio books when home to save space on my iPad. If there is a book I really like that I want to be able to listen too, not only when home but when driving I will download it so there is no interruption from loss of cell signal. I so enjoy a good audio book and this application allows me to enjoy with ease.

I was pleasantly surprised to see this app was updated today! I've gotten to know the great classics like Anna Karenina as well as some surprising favorites like Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. The download feature is great for traveling or times when you can't access wifi. I like to listen every night before bed.

This app opens a door to an amazing library of literary works that are free to download. This app has helped me from stressing over the commute every day and has opened my mind to many wonderful works of literature. You will not be disappointed!

What other rating could I give it?

I think this app is very good plus it is free. From the App Store I can go around anywhere I want to just listen to 90 bucks I love this app I only have one complaint that is some of the chapters don't play but besides that I think it's all good and some of the voices you can't understand but that's not their fault.👍💜💙🐾💝💝💝💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

I've learned so much listening to some of these audiobooks while commuting and working out!

I really really like this app and I use it all the time! The only problem is sometimes when I'm listening in the chapter switches the app seems to pause or glitch and it won't play anything for a day or two. Sometimes when I go to open the app and play a book it won't even start it just sits there on play the timer doesn't run, just silence. I've tried deleting all my books and re-downloading the app but that only fixes it for a day or two until the same thing happens again. I've tried using other audiobook apps but I always come back to this one because it has such a great variety of classic books. Please fix the bug!!

Loved this app. Our son is learning impaired and because of this app he is able to listen to history, the Bile, and classic literature. He says it's amazing and he seems to be able to sit and listen for long period of times. Very calming for him. He finds the readers have calming voices. Love this app.

What an enjoyable listen. The only thing that would have made it better is if it had been read by an Englishman. Dickens was a master.

This is the only audio book app I will ever use. I am so happy with that

THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE LORD OF THE FLIES!

I've had this app since my 1st iPhone and with it I've experienced Sherlock, Frankenstine, Dracula, Tarzan, John Carter, treasure island, 30000 leagues, deathworld, Dr. Moreau and many many others for free! I can't say enough how happy I am with this app!

I've been using this app for years and have listened to dozens and dozens of amazing books on it. As some other reviewers have mentioned, there is a glitch that causes the app to hang sometimes, usually when switching chapters, and especially if reception is spotty. However this glitch has obviously not been enough to turn me away from it completely.

Being an avid reader and book collector myself, I found so much to be in sympathy with the author. Delightful, poignant, and funny. Definitely a favorite

The new update is pretty good, and of course having access to all these classics is great. My one complaint is that we can not edit the order our books are in in the library. If I try to sort them, they go right back to where they were to begin with. Please address this in the next update.

I can only download 1 chapter at a time. Very disappointed. Like the old version better.

All books downloaded play in double speed with no explanation on how to fix it.

I downloaded to my iPhone 6S but it says wifi only downloads. How do I change this? Why wasn't there a log-in/set-up page? I almost always use cellular only on my phone because wifi too slow (in NH).

I love this app so much I absolutely cannot sleep without it! So much better than any audiobook app I've ever used!!

It's good but it's also better I recommend you if you want to get this do you and adult

I love it.it is my favorite stories of all time of stories

No books show up and you don't know where they are being downloaded.

Not for a person who wants newer books (like hunger games,divergent etc.) but for classics (secret garden,Anne of green gables etc.) it's perfect the dramatics readings help me sleep

Not working can’t listen to books I choose

I really like this app, I’ve been cruising through all the classics. My only complaints is they like to use women with thick accents sometimes, you can hardly understand them. It seriously makes me want to slap the silly out of the person who thought this was a good idea. I’m listening to the count of monte Crista it’s been an important chapter and I couldn’t understand a freakin thing she said!! She must’ve been hot to let her keep reading, these women have ruined this book for me!!

I’m a mom trying to multitask and I wanted it to read to my baby and it doesn’t even work after I read my first half.!!!!!

Excellent work! Hours of great entertainment.

I’ve listened to a greater variety of wonderful books than I would have expected. There are many undiscovered treasures in the public domain and read by talented narrators in this app. Ten stars! Sometimes I wish I could slow the reading down a bit. It seems too fast.

My rating of two stars should only reflect on the recent update. I have been using this app for many years, but since the update, the app freezes so frequently that it has become essentially unusable for me for some reason. I’m sad. Hoping for a resolution soon!

Best app yet lets your mind go off

I first downloaded this book around 10 years ago and have been listening over and over as one of my absolute favorite books, and the reading by Robert kiper is one of the most soothing voices as a narrator. Thank you

I am loving this ap. There are quite a few very good readers and so many classics that I would honestly have trouble reading on my own. This is a fantastic way to tackle these works. Thank you, volunteer readers!!!

Every time I open the app, it allows me to operate it for a few seconds and then it begins to lag, then it freezes and finally the app crashes. Idk what the problem is, but I hope the developers can fix it.

Wonderful escape from this STUFF, very well done, far fetched but good...And FREE...Give it a listen.

I absolutely love Audiobooks! I remember a time when I was read to as a child, and this evokes those lovely memories!! This is my favorite way to pamper myself with my favorite classics being read to me— whether in the car, at home, or morning walks. Love it!!

I am amazed that I didn't download this as years ago. A great app and easy to listen to. I as absolutely love it

The reader did a wonderful job at capturing the characters!!

To say I listen to this app all the time would be really trite. I get a lot of enjoyment out of the app and it has expanded my listening spectrum to books I would never have chosen from other apps. It relies heavily on Librivox recordings to which one must accommodate.

Loved The storyline, writing style, and overall enjoyment of the book. Thank you audiobooks, for letting me read it.

The books they have are great I just wish there was more of a selection

I love that I can listen to books that I may not have picked up in a store with this App. Going through some of the classics right now. Only negative is that some books have multiple narrators. The last one has the sane guy for 15 out of 16 chapters and then for the last chapter a woman. Kind of changed the ending for me... there are a lot of talented readers and some not so much bu I am grateful the volunteered.

This app is amazing! Especially for school when you need to write a book report! I would’ve rated 50 Stars if I could!

To many classics and stuff like that I want new stuff that I haven’t read yet People I’ve read Anne of green gables adventures of Tom sawer and stuff like that I want new stuff DONT BUY APP IF YOU DONT LIKE CLASSICS

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The lady from Waco, Tx (sorry don’t remember her name)was excellent!

I generally enjoy listening to audio books while lying in bed before I fall asleep. However, most of the Audio books I listen to come from the local library. The book that are on my phone are not that relatable to me. I am an African American and I find no romance,drama, comedy in these audio books. I find no African American narrators and basically no non fiction or fiction books in this library that I can relate to.

Truly a good app for the budget worthy, add the Odyssey and it would get 5 stars. Semper Fidelis

Great love to listen to classics

I’ve been a huge fan of Anne of green gables since I was a little girl. I feel like the reader really captures the glory of this book. I just wish she read book 2 as well.