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Feb 7, 2021 Absolutely amazing and valuable! I recommend this to anyone who wants to grow in wisdom and knowledge! Though free, the contents are priceless. -
Mostly great.
Dec 27, 2018 After trying several different LibriVox apps, I keep coming back to this one, which does a good job. My only real gripe is that it doesn’t start each new chapter right at the beginning, but a sentence or so in. The only other small thing is the pop-up red and blue chapter download progress bars are, well, kind of ugly. I’d like to see them integrated as shaded backgrounds into the chapter entries or something. But that’s just the designer in me talking. Other than that, a great app that covers all the bases well! (Definitely worth the $1.99 to get rid of the audio ads between chapters)more -
Dec 13, 2020 Most search results turn up books priced like Audible with free versions hard to find. Librivox puts their recordings in the public domain and offers them for free. It seems like the app developers are choosing to charge extra to listen to books even though I paid for the pro version of the app.more -
4.5 stars.....
Jan 11, 2020 Love this app! BUT.....maybe it’s my small iPhone SE, but the elapsed time is not completely displayed, nor is the chapter currently playing. But the most annoying thing is that when I go back to the app after being away (even if I didn’t close it, but just switch over momentarily to another), the book chapter I was listening to doesn’t come up onscreen, and I have to hunt for it. It’s in the “recent” section, but not at the top or bottom (in case of sorting). Other than that, love the concept, love the app (much better than trying to listen from website). THANK YOU LibriVox and LibriVox volunteers! Blessings!more -
Feb 16, 2021 Love the experience, some readers are novices but we get through the books together
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Hardly works on iPhone, & compromised on iPad
Nov 11, 2018 On iPhone: something happened so half the image of the book shows; unable to access timer on iPhone. On iPad I can set the timer, but it doesn’t work and then disappears but keeps playing. This is important as I had been setting it to play as I go to bed and it really helps me eventually go to sleep! In the past I went back to the last I heard and start there again. But now, if it keeps playing all night it wakes me up again!more -
So disappointed because I love LibriVox!
Nov 10, 2018 Just got the pro version for my iPhone 7+. As soon as I click on a book, I see a piece of the book cover, and have no controls. When I turn the phone sideways, I can adjust where in the chapter it is, but to change chapters, I have to exit the app and restart. No other settings are available. I tried deleting the app and downloading it again. All that did was lose all of my favorited books.more -
Aug 5, 2019 Too bad the paid version isn't an improvement over the free one. The most annoying problem is that it stops at EVERY chapter! So if you're listening to something with a hundred chapters, that are just a few minutes long, you spend all your time waking up your phone ... opening the app ... and hitting the play button ... which is insane. The book I'm trying to listen to is 17 hours long! Fix it please!more
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Feb 7, 2021 Absolutely amazing and valuable! I recommend this to anyone who wants to grow in wisdom and knowledge! Though free, the contents are priceless. -
Mostly great.
Dec 27, 2018 After trying several different LibriVox apps, I keep coming back to this one, which does a good job. My only real gripe is that it doesn’t start each new chapter right at the beginning, but a sentence or so in. The only other small thing is the pop-up red and blue chapter download progress bars are, well, kind of ugly. I’d like to see them integrated as shaded backgrounds into the chapter entries or something. But that’s just the designer in me talking. Other than that, a great app that covers all the bases well! (Definitely worth the $1.99 to get rid of the audio ads between chapters)more -
Feb 16, 2021 Love the experience, some readers are novices but we get through the books together -
Great app
Jul 6, 2019 This is a great app that reads to us as we drive around town or to bring entertainment to mindless tasks like laundry, dishes, and cleaning bathrooms. Spend the $2 to save yourself from the annoying commercials or to keep your kids from accessing the web without parental controls by clicking on the ads 😬. Improvements: that there are two rating systems for books. First, for the content of the book and secondly for the quality of the reader(s). Also that it can somehow date stamp when I finish a book.more -
Jan 4, 2021 Easy to get librivox content, works well.
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4.5 stars.....
Jan 11, 2020 Love this app! BUT.....maybe it’s my small iPhone SE, but the elapsed time is not completely displayed, nor is the chapter currently playing. But the most annoying thing is that when I go back to the app after being away (even if I didn’t close it, but just switch over momentarily to another), the book chapter I was listening to doesn’t come up onscreen, and I have to hunt for it. It’s in the “recent” section, but not at the top or bottom (in case of sorting). Other than that, love the concept, love the app (much better than trying to listen from website). THANK YOU LibriVox and LibriVox volunteers! Blessings!more -
Priceless resource!
Nov 21, 2018 It is unbelievable to me that I can listen to many first person journals and accounts, also classical works on LibriVox- for free! I can’t say enough good things about LibriVox. The only drawback is that the volunteer readers can be uneven in quality. Some are amazing, like the person that reads John Muir’s early journals. Others perform readings providing only a perfunctory performance or speed through without any nuance at all. So many wonderful readers outweigh the poor ones. All in all a fabulous resource! Thank you so much!more -
Love this app but for one thing
Aug 30, 2020 And that is that it does not fully sync with other iOS devices. There is an online account. But it does not retrain your book or place where you ended in all but the last device you listened to. So you have to relisten or try and find your place. But if you only use it on one device it is great A bit overpriced at $4 I think.more -
Dec 26, 2018 It's pretty good. Two things could be improved: 1. App frequently resets to the beginning of the chapter. 2. I wish there was a way to change the speed of the playback. One main reason I purchased the app was hoping it would have speed adjustment feature. Volunteers have great variation in their reading speed & some are excruciatingly slow! Also Everytime I get a text message, when it resumes the playback pauses every few seconds until I press play on the app again. So annoying!more -
Valuable Resource!
Aug 23, 2018 Great app. Before this was available I would have to manually download the files for each audio book from the Librivox website and transfer them via iTunes to play them from my phone. This is a really good resource!
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Dec 13, 2020 Most search results turn up books priced like Audible with free versions hard to find. Librivox puts their recordings in the public domain and offers them for free. It seems like the app developers are choosing to charge extra to listen to books even though I paid for the pro version of the app.more -
Aug 28, 2020 The only problem I encountered is the playlist cant automatically play to the next recording. As the other people mentioned in comments, this can be annoying especially if I have to ride my car 2 hours more. I'm trying to be productive here, so please help us.more
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Hardly works on iPhone, & compromised on iPad
Nov 11, 2018 On iPhone: something happened so half the image of the book shows; unable to access timer on iPhone. On iPad I can set the timer, but it doesn’t work and then disappears but keeps playing. This is important as I had been setting it to play as I go to bed and it really helps me eventually go to sleep! In the past I went back to the last I heard and start there again. But now, if it keeps playing all night it wakes me up again!more -
Aug 5, 2019 Too bad the paid version isn't an improvement over the free one. The most annoying problem is that it stops at EVERY chapter! So if you're listening to something with a hundred chapters, that are just a few minutes long, you spend all your time waking up your phone ... opening the app ... and hitting the play button ... which is insane. The book I'm trying to listen to is 17 hours long! Fix it please!more
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So disappointed because I love LibriVox!
Nov 10, 2018 Just got the pro version for my iPhone 7+. As soon as I click on a book, I see a piece of the book cover, and have no controls. When I turn the phone sideways, I can adjust where in the chapter it is, but to change chapters, I have to exit the app and restart. No other settings are available. I tried deleting the app and downloading it again. All that did was lose all of my favorited books.more
What’s Groovy
There’s a bug with elements getting moved over from the right by about 1cm, and sometimes the icons are incorrect when showing which chapters are downloading, but there are no ads, it works both online and off (if you download the audiobooks), the controls are simple and the big buttons make it easy (meaning a lot more safe) to use if I’m driving. I hope the bugs get fixed. They have seemed to linger. I also hope they make it so artwork gets saved for offline use when downloading an audiobook. Right now, it shows a generic cover when listening offline. Please don’t take my constructive criticism as a condemnation. This is a great app! I use it all the time, which is testimony to that. I’m very happy with it. I’d like to see some fixes done, but I’m also very grateful and happy with it as it is. Thank you to the developers for creating it and also for making sure to note “no ads” when issuing an update. I have had other developers put in ads without warning me and it’s really upset me. None of that here! Just honest updates. Thank you!
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What’s Subpar
Cannot be moved to External Storage (microSD), big flaw The progress slider does not reflect the actual position of playing time. The chapter ends at about 60% of slider and if hit Forward button actually goes back to the place where the slider is. Does not go to next chapter, have to do it manually.
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