Storytel: Audiobooks & Ebooks Reviews

Ok so, I chooseed Storytel because I like to have variety of books to listen in my library, and it’s more easy to me since you can read the books you want without points limitations.
I like the book selection and the price is pretty nice. The thing is that I live in the US and I literally can’t read almost any of the books I want to read(?? All the english books say “the tittle is not available in your current location” What I am supposed to read? I know how to speak Spanish and I am currently reading some of then, bt there are many books in english that I want to read...
I wrote to the help email to talk about the location issue and it has been weeks and nobody answered. If this is the case, I feel that Storytel lost a lot of potential. I will finish the books in Spanish that I am reading for a while and then cancel my subscription because I am literally paying for a minimum selection of books.

Storytel is great for it contents, especially for the regional languages. I subscribe to Storytel for my mother, so she can listen to books in Malayalam.
I do have some issues with the UX.
If I select a preferred language as Malayalam ,I only want to see my recommendations in Malayalam and not in any other language. I tried to explain this to their support center in India, but I don’t think they understood what I meant.
The UI is not very user friendly, and especially not for older person. I think it would be a good idea to revisit the UI and not lose out on an entire market segment.

You really need to think to support the offline listening on Apple Watch, while doing workouts doing other stuff i can’t bring my iPhone that’s the perfect time to continue listening to an audio book.
Best Regards.

When reading e-books, it’s great that the page numbers and clock show all the time, but some features are definitely missing. There is no text search feature, which is one of the best things about e-books. It’s also not possible to zoom in on the cover art or any other pictures in the book. Another nice feature that’s missing is the ability to highlight text for later reference. Finally, I can’t for the life of me figure out why tapping the screen to get the menu bar turns some lines orange…!

I love Storytel and i’ve been using it for a bit more than a year now. Throughout this time i got to develop my habit of listening to books when going to the store, walking the dog and doing the chores. Yet, the only thing that is missing fo 5stars is having books in more languages. I am aware of the reason this is now an available option at the moment, yet, I am looking forward to having the chance to listen to books in languages different than my native one and English.

I love this app, I use it everyday. I can overlook the questionable UI design, but I definitely CANNOT overlook the fact that it doesn’t support CarPlay! CarPlay has been out for ages and still this app doesn’t support it! Every time I need to listen to a book while driving I have to take out my phone and use it. There is no excuse not to support CarPlay, Apple books & Audible support it so why not this app? 3/5 stars is more than enough for an audio book app that doesn’t support carplay.

Read mode:

1. when I’m reading in the middle(for example)of the book, in case when I open and close my phone it goes to the starting page, which is very much inconvenient to scroll down to the page where I was reading.

2. When I click on the chapters it doesn’t go to that corresponding chapter.

Using it on iPhone SE, iOS 13.3.
Good selection of audiobooks (I don’t read ebooks on my phone). I use the bookmark feature a whole bunch. Works seamlessly, quality of audio output is excellent. The ability to search, navigate between sections and features, and pricing plans are decent.

Very nice app I like it very much. The only thing I am missing is, buttons 10 seconds back and forward. When I want to hear something again I have to pull or push back and forward and go beyond where I was.

One of my favorite and most used apps. Loving the variety and quality of the this app library. It’s perfect for listening in the car and unwinding before bed. Also, the price can’t be beat! 5*

Storytel has good resources, it would be great if it would be an option to stream it on TV or AirPlay. Also if there would be an option to create different folders for saved titles would be a lot easier to keep things organized.
Thanks!

Mostly happy with Storytel. I use it every day. Selection of books are acceptable but could be more extensive.
I would love have chapter selections for easier navigation. The scrubbing is a little temperamental. Sometimes it will hang.

Wonderful app! Can’t stop listening to all stories. “Ponniyin selvan and friends” do excellent job in narrating stories. Background music is mesmerizing too. I literally felt like I lived there while listening to sivagamiyin sabatham, parthiban kanavu and kadal pura. Please keep reading more stories :)

Amazing collection of books both English as well as Marathi. Great to read multiple books at any time.
The only drawback is not being able to access the chapters and go to whichever I want.

Storytel is good but it could use a few changes, like letting you listen to more books and all that. But Storytel has never ever crashed once while I have been using Storytel, so that is definitely a pro. A con is that they won’t let you listen to the books you want to listen the most.

I don’t know what’s the problem or it’s one pf Storytel features but i see it as a problem that the story stops every 3 hours especially im a kind of person who sleeps on audiobooks and if i wake up hearing nothing I would have to play it again and sometimes it causes me trouble sleeping 😞

Storytel doesn’t support Carplay!!!!!
I subscribed to Storytel so I can listen to my favorite books while driving. Every time you have to catch the phone to go back or skip 15 sec because the buttons in Storytel very small and doesn’t offer the car display like audible.

I wish if we could put bookmarks while offline too. Other than that, everything is perfect 🤍🤍

Refreshed app is great: iPhone X screen support, Kids Mode - very useful.
Discovery needs work, but this journey never ends. I love all-you-can-listen model, the fact is this app is the last sound I hear before I fall asleep. 👏

Love Storytel but the last update made it impossible to listen. I get a “internet access required” error every time I open Storytel . Have restarted Storytel & my phone, deleted and reinstalled Storytel with no change. No book will load.

I happened to have vpn turned on when I installed Storytel , and it turned out German. I was able to change Storytel language, but now half of the program is in English and the rest is in German. When I use a browser to go to the homepage to contact support, everything goes back to German. I even managed to arrive at a “choose your country” page, and whatever I choose the site is always in German. Could you please sort it out ?

I really like the service and its content but Storytel is super bad! It does not list itself as spoken word so audio is paused when a notification comes in. It does not even start without network connection - what’s the point of downloading books offline then?! The iPad app does not work in landscape!
It has a lot of potential but with this poor execution I am not going to sign up regularly

Book selections are not too bad. Volumes of the books seem to be set low, you have to set volume up way high especially when in car with road noise which is annoying as when turned to other service or radio need to keep flipping down.

It should have some book options in French or German, and of course, the library is acceptable, but The more, the merrier! I’d love also if there was a way to switch chapters and not get lost ... and more cooking and baking ebooks!

Almost all books in English that I would like to listen to are not available in my country (USA). Books in Russian are fine, but it is not a big deal to get them for free on the Internet. I wish more content would be available for me.

Love the ability to listen to many different books stored in my bookshelf but at times a long delay in getting Storytel to open. Super frustrating

When you have found the book it is really good.
Could be better in finding the books you want to listen to.

Just love Storytel ! Using every day, and still there is so much to listen!

I liked very much Storytel
But I want it in French plz
It gives me only two options for the languages English and Arabic only

It is exactly what I had been looking for. In traffic, in the gym, when I am cooking...
non-stop learning. Perfect.

Works! Easy payments, good selection of books, easy to use app