# Audiobooks - Librivox library — user reviews > 374 indexed App Store user reviews of Audiobooks by Le Thanh Quang, rated 4.30/5 from 2,155 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/audiobooks-librivox-library/id737369671/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/audiobooks-librivox-library/id737369671.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,282 · 4★ 495 · 3★ 238 · 2★ 60 · 1★ 80 ## What do users think of Audiobooks? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Surprisingly good reading - 📚 Impressive collection of public domain literature - 👍 Great, free audio books - 👍 Huge selection of great books - 👍 Offline audios work great - 👍 Easy to use - 👍 Wonderful app, great for long road trips - 👍 Fantastic selection of classics - 👍 Excellent app, great for audiobooks **Cons** - 🐛 Doesn't let you selectively download in bits and pieces - 🐛 Cannot exit the app during reading - 🐛 Search engine is outdated - 🐛 Cannot login without Facebook or Google - 🐛 Ads are not closable on iPhone 12 - 🐛 Forgets your place in the book - 🐛 Cannot access personal audiobook library - 🐛 Some books are missing - 🐛 Buggy, with occasional crashes **Commonly reported bugs** - Cannot open or play any books - Keeps forcing user to write a review before allowing further use **Most requested features** - Add stop button and bookmark button - Add ability to speed up narration - Add more modern and popular book titles - Add more children's books suitable for 9-year-olds - Add sleep timer - Add ability to save progress and resume from where you left off ## Newest reviews (11 of 374) ### 4/5 — new to this! *2026-01-04, version 9.5.8* so far so good! ### 4/5 — Review *2024-08-20, version 9.5.8* How about a stop button and a bookmark button. ### 2/5 — Sadly out of date - shows only old recordings *2023-06-21, version 9.5.6* As someone who has read more than 30 books for Librivox in the last 30 months, I was interested to check out this app. Sadly, it’s database is well out of date. Not one of my readings of the complete works of Joseph Conrad shows up, for example. ### 3/5 — Remove ads *2023-01-16, version 1.5.2* Remove ads option is not working - plz fix it ### 4/5 — Exiting a book during a read??? *2022-03-25, version 1.5.2* So I love the public domain rights including all LibriVox rec. and archives online that being said I am having a hard time finding a suitable reader in which I can download to my iPhone, windows based laptop & desktop or even if I had to run a separate os in Linux &c. So far so good but I need to try it on windows still and on the phone when I am listening and I want to stop it will not allow me to exit the screen?? I tried swiping tapping &c. All I found to work is closing the program and restarting...? I would appreciate any insight or remedy to this Thank you ### 4/5 — Me an Books *2021-11-04, version 1.5.2* I hate this app and love this app it has good books but not the ones for me 😢 ### 2/5 — Cant get past advertisements *2021-03-28, version 9.5* I used to like this app and use it frequently. I just got an iPhone 12 However and the advertisement that comes up before you can listen is not closable. The “X” to close the ad is way up in the left-hand corner near the time display which cannot be hit on an iPhone 12. Therefore I cannot get past the advertisement which is full screen. Thus making the app completely useless unless I pay for the non-advertisement version. Please fix this! ### 4/5 — I would give it a 5 star ratting but... *2020-08-09, version 9.4* Most of the kid books are not fory nine year old kid. Because when we go on a trip she uses my phone to lisen music but she is so bord and just, just. Most of the books are like Alice and wonderland, Cinderella and well just Disney books. I would like my nine year only kid listen to Alex rider and books like that but there not they are Disney books which is disappointing but all and all is is a good and free audio app so yea (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞ ### 4/5 — Great, with one suggestion! *2020-04-30, version 9.4* Wonderful app. I had the old Librivix app, which I loved, but have just discovered this updated version. More books s available on this one. However the old app has one feature this one doesn’t... the option of speeding up the narrators when they speak so annoyingly slow! It was a feature that I used all the time. Any chance that could be added to this version? If so, this app would DEFINITELY get a 5-star from me! ### 1/5 — Why are my books missing!!! I paid for them!!! *2020-02-06, version 9.4* I want them back ### 1/5 — cant selectively download *2019-09-05, version 9.3* doesnt let you selectively download in bits and pieces. i want to download selected chapters coz whole book is too long. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Useless *2026-05-01, version 9.5.8* Cannot even find a book because of adds that take forever and then the screen is blocked. Totally useless and dysfunctional. ### 1/5 — TOTAL WASTE OF TIME SND MONEY *2026-01-30, version 9.5.8* 1) ads that you can’t skip after several seconds! 2) no preview!! Experienced LibriVox listeners know that the reader makes all the difference in whether or not you will enjoy the book, 3) Ads… did I mention the BOMBARDMENT of ads! You can’t switch to a new page without a new ad being shoved in your face!! Oh… and speaking of ads… 4) when I tried to pay the additional $1.99 to turn off the stupid ads… the bloody link wouldn’t work. Do not waste your $5 bucks!! ### 1/5 — Error: resource unavailable *2024-10-13, version 9.5.8* Always says error resource unavailable to all books i chose. Then too many ads. Haven’t listen to one books successfully yet so far. ### 1/5 — Remove ads button not working. Insane amount of ads. App unusable *2024-08-01, version 9.5.8* Remove ads button not working. Insane amount of ads. App unusable ### 1/5 — READ THIS BeFORE YOuU GET IT *2024-02-09, version 9.5.6* I don’t like it very much there are hundreds of books they don’t have and those books might be the ones you like the most you might like the app for other reviews but if you are I kid most books you like won’t be there so just know this before you download it ### 1/5 — Ok app but…. *2022-08-09, version 1.5.2* So I downloaded the app and it won’t download the book’s chapters. I waited a couple of days and it doesn’t work. Please fix it. ### 1/5 — Search Engine *2022-01-25, version 1.5.2* The search engine must have been developed around 1983. It is obvious it can’t find itself. ### 1/5 — Cannot login to this app *2021-11-21, version 1.5.2* I’m only offered to login with Facebook and google I believe. I have not used either of those to open my account online. Therefore I cannot login and use this app at all. How sad. ### 1/5 — Audiobook app that forgets where you are??? *2021-02-12, version 9.5* This “audiobook” app has books but none of the features you’d actually want to listen to those books. It forgets your place. It only plays at 1x speed. Worthless. ### 1/5 — Can't access my audiobooks *2020-04-18, version 9.4* I have a large library of audiobooks in iTunes already, but this app won't let me listen to them. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good app *2026-07-18, version 9.5.8* I like this app because it is free and it has a lot of classic books. ### 5/5 — My Favorite *2026-05-13, version 9.5.8* So many great books for free! Can’t find a better app ### 5/5 — Surprisingly Good Reading *2024-12-21, version 9.5.8* I like this app because the books they narrate are OG. ### 5/5 — QN *2023-04-28, version 1.5.2* Brilliant works! Cheers! Thank u very much! ### 5/5 — Best ap in here! *2022-05-10, version 1.5.2* Awesome collection tons of books ALL free! I saw a review saying it’s not a searchable collection which is not accurate, the search feature works fine. Also another review said they were excited Dorian gray was on here which is funny that is actually specifically why I came looking for the free audio book ap, it’s my favorite and i wanted to listen to it but my i books audiobook I purchased wouldn’t download.. the free version in here has no issues. I previously had the other free audiobook ap that has livrobox in the title and this one is much much better, easier to use and books are all one file. The other ap sometimes you have to download 2-5 different files for one book and it’s confusing because they are sometimes out of order. Anyway this is awesome, all kinds of books! Definitely an ap everyone needs! ### 5/5 — Works good *2021-06-17, version 9.5* Won’t let me remove adds, but it works okay with them. ### 5/5 — Love this app *2020-06-24, version 9.4* This fits my busy life. It lets my Dad and I have book club even though we are across the country with ease and with limited tome to read. ### 5/5 — Good app *2020-06-03, version 4.2* Impressive collection of public domain literature. ### 5/5 — Really good *2019-12-17, version 9.3* This is really good app , there isn’t modern books and not a lot of choice but is soooo good just to help you fall asleep and it’s for free ! I love this app and I love the fact you can set how long you want it on for 💭 ### 5/5 — Great collection *2019-07-11, version 9.1* Perfect for long road trips and free to download audio books. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-03.*