BookPlayer Reviews

BookPlayer Reviews

Published by on 2025-02-15

🏷️ About: BookPlayer is an app designed for playing M4B/M4A/MP3 based audiobooks. It allows users to import audiobooks from various sources, manage their library, and listen to their books with various playback options. The app also supports remote events from headset but... Show more


       


Overall Customer Experience 😎


😎 Positive experience
59.6%

🤬 Negative experience
25.3%

🫥 Neutral
15.1%

~ from Justuseapp.com NLP analysis of 11,732 combined software reviews.



Summary of Customer Reviews (Takeaways): 💎

- Allows you to play, replay, and skip ads without any issues.

- Remembers where you left off in all audiobooks.

- Easy to transfer audiobooks from CDs to the app.

- Includes a sleep timer.

- Easy to use and navigate.



Read 30 Customer Service Reviews 😠💢

4.8 out of 5
CarPlay interface needs work

Like BookPlayer overall, but the CarPlay interface needs some attention. It crashes fairly regularly and much more frequently has interface bugs: categories at the top are blank, list of playlists is blank but items are selectable, choosing an audiobook does not change the interface or crashes Boo... Show more

Still has a noticeable lag!!

This would be the best media player app available if...

1) The developers would fix the annoying lag that happens every time you tap the middle of the album art to pause. I have the fastest iPhone available with the most memory available, so why does BookPlayer take a full second or more t... Show more

It’s Good

It plays your books just fine. I wish they would make some improvements and add some features. Make it easier to rewind when you have to go say 10 or fifteen minutes. Add the feature to enhance the volume of the player.

My fault it does already support upping the volume. What I mean by fast... Show more

Simple, bugless, no annoying ads or pop ups.

BookPlayer is extremely simple. There are no ads, no glitches, and no pop ups. Pretty much nothing that annoyed me about the other 5 apps I tried. I have audio book files that I pulled off of CDs and uploaded to my google drive. They imported to BookPlayer from there easily. There are a million f... Show more

Great start

I always support public domain developers. This is a great start. I’ve used and/or beta tested almost every audiobook player out there over the last several years starting back when Bookmarks was still around. There are lots of improvements I could suggest by cherry picking features of everythi... Show more

Great app but siri shortcuts limited

Really wish that it would be able to integrate with Siri shortcuts to play a specific book instead of just the last one that was played. Otherwise it’s a fast app and the widget is great with one click playback of an audiobook as compared to the Audible widget which is just terrible. Siri Shortcuts... Show more

Best app for listening to audiobooks imported from Google drive

I had an audiobook MP3 from Google drive that I could not get to play in iTunes or 4 other audiobook apps. This one is the only one that would actually continuously play the files in order. The sound is good and it remembers my place even when I close BookPlayer . My only confusion is that there ... Show more

Superior Usability

I have a number of audiobooks purchased previously in various file formats. BookPlayer makes it easy to upload and import these files. It also keeps track of where you are in the audiobook. Whoever put this together really thought about what they were doing. If you don’t listen to a file for a few... Show more

solid start with plenty of room for improvement

Downloaded today an immediately started using on a long car drive. Can already say this is a great app. Easy integration with my iPhone X and was able to upload a book from my computer via AirDrop before I left. My only wish for the future is Google Drive integration. I tend to store my audiobooks ... Show more

Simple Audiobook Player

In the past I have used a few different audiobook players but they all have had the same problem, in the beginning they are decent but then they start to fall victim to advertising. Also many do not handle playing your own audiobooks, they want you to purchase the audiobooks from them.
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Finally able to listen to audiobooks reliably

For more that decade I’d been looking for an audiobook app that would hold my space even when I turned my phone off, would speed up getting many-chapter books onto my device, and would open many different audiobook formats. this app is the only app I’ve found able to do all these things. A few nig... Show more

I LOVE this app

I listen to a lot of audiobooks, pretty much always have one going on my phone. I use Audible, Chirp, hardly ever the iTunes Store because the Apple player and I are not compatible. This player is WAY better than the other players I use. No more trying to hit a tiny Play/Pause button while driving,... Show more

Well-designed audiobook player without bloat

This player does one thing and does it well. No bloat, no ads, just a well-designed, easy to use player. Very reliable, doesn’t forget your position in the book. Open source. Importing files is easy using iOS file providers, iCloud, Airdrop, or file sharing over USB from a computer. Works best with... Show more

Love it, but...

I have used BookPlayer for a long time. I had a couple of issues at one time, and the developers fixed them

I now have a new issue. On IOS, I get the book on iPhone using file sharing feature. When prompted, I add playlist to this app. No problem. Works great. When finished with book, I d... Show more

Finally an app to import from my iPhone files

Been trying to find an app that can simply import mp3 audio files that were already on my iPhone. I found that the basic audio file player that comes with the Apple iOS didn’t allow me to see the file titles or the speaker / author (been downloading teachings/lessons, etc,). Also a lot of other ap... Show more

This app is changing my life!

I usually don’t write reviews so this is a big deal. I love listening to audiobooks whenever I can, when I’m driving, washing the dishes, cleaning the house, so I go through a lot of books. But audible wasn’t an option for me because it’s too expensive. Finding BookPlayer was like striking gold fo... Show more

Been waiting for exactly this!

I very rarely write reviews, but I felt compelled to for BookPlayer because it is so exactly what I’ve been waiting for! I have a number of audiobooks in mp3 that I previously could only listen to as “songs” - very annoying, as song players don’t keep your place or allow speed adjustment, etc etc.... Show more

10/10 the best app available for audiobooks

This is the best app i have ever used for listening to audio books hands down. The clean interface, ability to organize books and (the biggest feature to me) being able to import over airdrop and from files is something I’ve never been able to find from any other app. Plus i just really love the i... Show more

The best audiobook app out there, but worried about future

This is my first comment for any app that I have ever downloaded. Seriously, it’s that good. I have tried many audiobook apps over the past couple years, and they all had something that annoyed me. Time limits for your audiobooks, hard to use and navigate, or difficult to import files. Not only doe... Show more

Love it so far!

I am on the road all the time and live on audio books in the car. I use the library and would copy CD audio books into the audiobooks section in iTunes. Now that Apple Music has broken out the Books app the synchronization of audio book files is hit or miss at best and was making CD audio books a... Show more

What? What’s that I hear?

Nothing. That’s exactly what I hear. While I was initially thrilled to see my audiobooks seamlessly slide right into this trim app I was equally as disappointed when I tapped play and heard...well...nothing. Oh it is playing...I can see the little bar moving right along and the time ticking and all... Show more

Simple and Useful, doesn’t remember playback speed

I downloaded BookPlayer after receiving a copy of an audiobook I needed to listen to for work. Overall it was pretty simple to get started, I uploaded the audio files to my OneDrive account and pointed BookPlayer at that folder. From there it combined the files into one book and even picked up th... Show more

Good and simple, but can be improved

BookPlayer is simple to use and can play mp3 books. It has a good variety of playing speed to choose from.

A few things to improve upon:
- The playlists should be sorted by track numbers and not by names. It is seriously annoying when you have a 20 chapter book and chapters 10,11,... are... Show more

Great alternative to iBooks

BookPlayer is simple and perfect. There are no ads and it is incredibly easy to use. The only cons are minimal: audiobooks need to be uploaded to iCloud Drive in order to be added to my library instead of being saved only to my devices, and there is no dark mode. 🤷‍♀️ Great app, my chapters are a... Show more

Super Intuitive

This is the first review I’ve given on anything but this little app has changed the way I listen to books. It saves your place, allows you to set timers (which I use every night as I fall asleep) and is so intuitive. Creating playlists is super easy (finally!) and the controls are exactly what you ... Show more

it’s basically perfect.

it does everything i wanted (configurable playback speed, skip forward/back, always remembers where i left off, sleep timers) and more (like the option to automatically rewind by 30 seconds when the player has been paused for awhile - i didn’t know i needed that until i had it!) and with no ads or ... Show more

I loove it.

Can you guys make the snooze timer constant, sometimes I am listening to a book, sometimes I'm listening to a book while am about to sleep and the timer ends but I just want to keep list a little bit more, and I dooze off and wake up to the end and climax of my book, that spoiled several books for ... Show more

Practically perfect

Really great app. Been looking for a free media player that would allow you to adjust speed, something even classic iPods were capable of, for ages but couldn’t find one until this.

Good interface and features. Although it would be nice to be able to skip forwards and backwards at more than... Show more

Charles F Strutt
2021-10-12

I can't get BookPlayer to play chapters in order. Each Chapter begins with a number (00, 01, 02, and so on), each file is named starting with the chapter number (01 - Chapter Title), the properties details have a title of Chapter 1: Chapter Title, and the properties details show the proper #1.

Beata Chmiel
2021-08-21

How to restore the library, the app inform me to reload files when I’m trying to open any book.



Is BookPlayer Safe? 🙏

Yes. BookPlayer is very safe to use. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 11,732 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.8/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for BookPlayer Is 70.2/100.

Safety Analysis

89.9% of users say app is Safe 👍
89.9%

8.3% of users have Some Concerns ⚠️
8.3%

1.8% of users say app is Risky 🚨
1.8%


Is BookPlayer Legit? 💯

Yes. BookPlayer is a totally legit app. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 11,732 BookPlayer User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for BookPlayer Is 88/100..

🔏 Privacy & Data Safety

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Payments 💸

**Pricing data is based on average subscription prices reported by Justuseapp.com users..

Pricing Plans Amount (USD)
Pro Monthly (1 Month) $4.99
Support Monthly (1 Month) $3.99
Kind tip $2.99
Excellent Tip $4.99
Pro Yearly (1 Year) $49.99
Excellent Tip $4.99
Support Monthly (1 Month) $6.99
Incredible Tip $9.99
Incredible Tip $9.99
Kind Tip $2.99


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Features

- Import audiobooks from various sources, including AirDrop, Files, other apps, and iTunes File Sharing

- Manage audiobooks by maintaining progress, marking as finished, sorting with drag and drop, creating playlists, and playing items in turn

- Listen to audiobooks with playback control from the lock screen, control center, or Apple Watch companion app

- Navigate books with chapters and jump to the start of the current book

- Change playback speed, use smart rewind, and enable volume boost

- Support for remote events from headset buttons and the lock screen

- Set a sleep timer with adjustable duration

- CarPlay support

- VoiceOver support

- Dark mode for night owls

- Supports M4B/M4A/MP3 audiobooks

- Licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 with source code available on GitHub

- Support and ways to contribute to the project available in the app's Settings screen or on the BookPlayer website

- Users are encouraged to write a review if they enjoy using BookPlayer.

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