Decent
I like the layout and the simplicity of the app, I wish it could play .m4b and that it would pull the cover art from the files I uploaded
not well thought out
so the add book feature lets you upload a single audio file, but the vast majority of books out there are a folder with hundreds of mp3s in them. so bad
Fails at uploading book
Tried a couple of times to upload a book, failed every time so gave up and deleted the app.
Why?
My go to app for audio books. I have the paid version. So why am I getting ads? Very disappointed.
good
a little cumbersome but works
The best app for iPhones
I like to import my mp3 files and listen to them. SmartBook is by far the easiest app to use. The way of transferring using the website is clever and works very fast. The app can also find png’s in order to have a book photo which is nice. It also knows the order of your book spot on. Overall does everything I need :)
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Good…but I keep losing my place! :(
Wanted to love this app, but unfortunately, when I pause from the Lock Screen, and then switch over to the actual app (or Vice-versa), it does not remember the pause location, and I’m reverted back to the previous position. It’s quite frustrating, especially since there is no option to add a bookmark to get around that issue. It defeats the purpose of having an audiobook app if I have to search for the position I left off at every single time.
I do appreciate that this app is offered for free! Also, I like that the audio settings (speed and volume) carry over from
Book to book—I don’t have to reset it each time. And it’s great that there’s no time limit on how long of a book I’m able to listen to for free.
I do appreciate that this app is offered for free! Also, I like that the audio settings (speed and volume) carry over from
Book to book—I don’t have to reset it each time. And it’s great that there’s no time limit on how long of a book I’m able to listen to for free.
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Hiccups
The app is great with its set of hiccups. It does remember where you left off and fairly easy to download apps. The hiccups consist of the app crashing when deleting audiobooks, sometimes uploading, and sometimes glitches on playback if you're not in the app itself. So far it’s tolerable since its delivering what i want. I’ve listened to more audiobooks everyday than i ever had before and i am truly over the moon happy. Just looking forward to an update to fix the bug issues
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One of favourite apps
This app is absolutely brilliant. Yes it is occasionally buggy, but does everything I need it to do. I wish it had a user manual to understand better what file names syntax required for ordering.
Constant crashing
This is by far some of the buggiest software I have ever spent money on. Sadly there are no good alternatives. But stick with the free version. The developer obviously has no interest in maintaining this product.
Uploaded broken
Uploaded closes if you select upload another file.
Abandoned app
Even with paid version smart rewind doesn’t work correctly. Tech support is not existed.
Playback position bugged
All good except a playback position is saved based on which button you use to pause; If you pause via the main button in app but then press play via the control centre (or vice versa), the playback position won’t be the same. Annoying.
This needs a lot of work
I was pleased to see a audiobook app that can download from my NAS, but this app is not ready for prime time.
Some of the m4b books it downloads aren’t recognised by the app, and an instruction to download in mp3 format comes up.
At other times it does recognise the format but shows only one chapter, even though there are several. Apple’s own player sees them correctly.
It doesn’t display the embedded book cover (Apple’s player does).
I couldn’t see the dark theme option, although frankly that’s unimportant when the app itself is so flawed.
In order to be justified in charging for this app, it needs to have these flaws corrected and some critical features added. These include the ability to set user-specified times for rewind and skip forward, and a graphic equaliser for badly recorded or transcribed books.
A good start but no cigar yet.
Some of the m4b books it downloads aren’t recognised by the app, and an instruction to download in mp3 format comes up.
At other times it does recognise the format but shows only one chapter, even though there are several. Apple’s own player sees them correctly.
It doesn’t display the embedded book cover (Apple’s player does).
I couldn’t see the dark theme option, although frankly that’s unimportant when the app itself is so flawed.
In order to be justified in charging for this app, it needs to have these flaws corrected and some critical features added. These include the ability to set user-specified times for rewind and skip forward, and a graphic equaliser for badly recorded or transcribed books.
A good start but no cigar yet.
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Great
The search bar was easy too find, it doesn’t require money unless you want to get the pro setting, the only thing was that I couldn’t find the series I originally downloaded this app for.
Not worth it
No M4B chapter support, flaky, ridiculously expensive IAP
Amazing! Great investment
Love!
Nice app
Perfect to listen my audio books while busy on the computer
It's a decent app that won't let you down
Hi! Love your app... but:
Firstly, it's not SmartPlayer, but SmartBook -- the ?subject is likely set wrong in the source code for the feedback button.
Anyway, here's the bug I wanted to report: after creating a new book by importing it via WiFi, I can't see it listed even after the app said it was a success. It appears after I maximize and then minimize the currently playing book. It's likely a one-liner, just need to make the list view refresh once the upload is done.
Thank you for the app once again!
P.S.
This review was originally an email, but it failed to reach your mailbox.
Firstly, it's not SmartPlayer, but SmartBook -- the ?subject is likely set wrong in the source code for the feedback button.
Anyway, here's the bug I wanted to report: after creating a new book by importing it via WiFi, I can't see it listed even after the app said it was a success. It appears after I maximize and then minimize the currently playing book. It's likely a one-liner, just need to make the list view refresh once the upload is done.
Thank you for the app once again!
P.S.
This review was originally an email, but it failed to reach your mailbox.
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Buggy...playback skips back 15-30 mins sometimes..
I tried the free version of this app with the two book limit. This was one of the only audiobook players that went up to 3x speed and still sounded good. After a couple of books I bit the bullet and decided spend the $9 to upgrade to the “pro” version so that I could add more books. (It still shows “upgrade to pro” even after you have upgraded it) After using the app for a couple of weeks I started to notice the bugs. For one, there would be times where I would pause the book and when I came back to it sometimes it’s would jump back to 15, 20 even 30 mins or more from where I left off. So then I had skip, skip, skip forward to find where I left off. It got to the point that I was taking screenshots of my place so that if it jumped back I would at least know where I had left off. On other problem with the app is that you have to load books either through WiFi via your computer browser or from a cloud service like your google drive. And, you had to zip up your books if you want to upload more than one book at a time. Additionally, you don’t get any book cover (minor annoyance, but still), you can’t arrange your books and there is only one view so you end up with big no picture book icons in the order that you upload them. For $9 this should have all the features of the other players that are either free or priced less. The only reason I resorted to this player is that it played a decent sounding 3x playback. If you don’t listen to anything above 2.5x, I would not recommend getting this App. There are better free or lower cost apps that do a much better job.
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