# Audm > Audiobook platform for long-form journalism, read by professional narrators. (iPhone/iPad app by Listen In Audio Inc..) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/audm/id1138892702 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Listen In Audio Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/962508760) - Category: News, Magazines & Newspapers - Price: Free - Rating: 4.79/5 from 5,955 App Store ratings · 50 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 11.2 · 268 MB - Languages: English - Released: 2016-09-02 - Data updated: 2026-06-10 - Monetization: subscription - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/audm/id1138892702/reviews.md ## What is Audm? Audm presents the world’s best long-form journalism, read aloud word for word by celebrated audiobook narrators. Listen to many hours’ worth of new stories every week. Add stories to your playlist to download them, then listen on the go — even with no internet connection. Within a story, jump to any paragraph by tapping on it. Choose the narration speed you like best. If you subscribe to Audm via this app, payment for your subscription will be automatically charged to your Apple ID account upon your confirmation of purchase with Apple. If you have a free trial, you will not be charged during your free trial period; however, after your free trial you will automatically become a paying subscriber unless you cancel during the free trial period. As a paying subscriber, your Apple ID account will be automatically charged for renewal at the applicable rate shown to you at the time of subscription every calendar month (for monthly subscriptions) within 24 hours prior to the start of your next billing period. You will be charged in advance. Subscriptions continue automatically until you cancel. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period. You can manage and cancel subscriptions in your account settings on the App Store. To cancel, please turn off auto-renew at least 24-hours before the end of your current billing period from your iTunes account settings. By selecting a pricing option you agree to the automatic renewal terms stated above, the Audm Terms of Service and the Audm Privacy Policy. Audm Terms of Service: https://www.audm.com/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://www.audm.com/privacy-policy ## Key features - Professionally narrated journalism - New stories weekly - Offline listening - Playlist creation - Adjustable narration speed - Paragraph navigation ## What do users think of Audm? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎧 Excellent narration by professional voice actors - 📚 Access to high-quality long-form journalism - 🔍 Diverse range of publications and topics covered - 🕰️ Ability to listen to articles while multitasking - 💰 Good value for the subscription price **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy app performance with crashes and playback issues - 🔍 Limited content selection and slow updates - 🔀 Difficulty navigating and managing the queue - 🔊 Inconsistent audio quality and pacing between narrators - 🔍 Lack of content filtering and personalization options **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent app crashes and playback interruptions - Syncing issues between devices and lost progress - Unreliable Bluetooth connectivity and integration - Inconsistent performance on older devices **Most requested features** - Bookmark/save feature for favorite articles - Improved search and content discovery tools - Ability to cast/stream audio to external devices - More flexible queue management options - Customizable playback speed and audio enhancements ## Recent user reviews (10 of 50) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/audm/id1138892702/reviews.md ### 5/5 — Review *2023-01-10, version 2.22.1* I love having very important articles read to me that I would never have taken the time to read! In exploring topics that I formerly regarded as “secondary,” i.e.,articles that I didn’t agree with, my eyes have been opened to the severity of dangers to the U.S., it’s legal foundation, and our democracy. Now that I’m aware, I’m talking to my friends about my concerns and fears. Thank you for this superb compilation of readings and thank you for bringing them within my reach by reading them to me. The readers, too, are easy on the ears, and they don’t read too fast which allows me to absorb the material which sometimes requires deep reflection. ### 1/5 — Still buggy after all these updates *2022-10-29, version 2.22.1* AUDM has great content though, as others have pointed out, has sparse offerings from some of the publications that may have attracted you. The app is a stripped down audio player with no bookmarking, cross device play is hit and miss if you use more than one device, forget trying to fast scrub by touch—it isn’t supported. The app stutters, does weird time indexing (buffer mishandling), inserts strange awkward pauses. “Did the article end?” “No it’s just pausing for irritating effect.” It is very difficult to recommend the service as implemented despite the great content. Today I could not get the app to play for several minutes without quitting the app repeatedly. Older devices crash the app. These are issues still present from prior versions! No bug fixes for 6 months. Today it lost my profile. I had to delete and reinstall. I discovered that even automated support is nonexistent. ### 3/5 — Great listening, app has missing features *2022-10-02, version 2.22.1* The content on Audm is fabulous. Great narrative stories with excellent readers. The app, however, is frost rating. Like other reviewers said, I come here for long form journalism, compelling stories, and profiles. The feed is taken up by 5 min news clips. The Trending section needs to get refreshed for recency. A story about Hunter Biden’s laptop has been the top story for weeks. Who cares. I’d like to filter by story types- longform, profile, narrative journalism, crime etc. I would also like to follow publications. And the queue functionality needs improvement. Currently there is only the option to “play next”. I would like to play next, play later, play last like the Apple Podcasts app. ### 5/5 — Fabulous fabulous *2022-09-13, version 2.22.1* Easy to use. Excellent content. Engaging voices. Good pacing. Incredible value. If you are a person who often looks longingly after articles shared on Twitter that exist behind paywalls that you either can’t afford to pass or know you won’t have time to make it worth it if you did choose to subscribe, then this is absolutely for you. I’ll be honest, if you don’t actively want to read more excellent articles, I am not sure it will create this desire for you, but if you have any inclination towards excellent journalism- I recommend this so much. ### 5/5 — Too busy to read?? You can listen to great journalism *2022-08-06, version 2.22.1* I love AUDM! Grocery shopping, loading and unloading the dishwasher and doing the laundry - along with endless other boring stuff I have to do - is now an opportunity to be catching up on terrific articles that I don’t have time to sit and read. if you are in the same fix and don’t have enough time to sit and enjoy reading great articles, AUDM is godsend for frustrated readers, providing audio versions of great long form journalism from terrific publications and you get access to dozens of articles from an extensive list of magazines including The Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, New Yorker and many more. The monthly cost is best described as a screaming deal - I don’t know they do it, but I am just glad they do! ### 2/5 — Generally disappointing *2022-07-30, version 2.22.1* Audio is very glitchy. There’s noticeable chirps between paragraphs and some sentences. Seeking is also painful, probably because of the quirky and questionable UI choice the developer team made to have the text of an article scroll in sync with the spoken words. Kinda a useless embellishment in my opinion, and it makes seeking forward in an article truly painful. Queue sorting is also buggy. Often sorting changes are lost, and more often the app will outright crash when trying to sort a playlist. On the subject of content, i feel a bit cheated by their claims of “professionally narrated content” (or something to that effect, in their marketing). Many articles, particularly those by NYT are narrated by the authors themselves, who are not necessarily professional narrators, a pretty obvious cost-cutting measure. The curation of content is also lacking, or perhaps just slow—i check back often but don’t see a meaningful amount of new articles posted on a frequent basis. By and large this app disappoints, but I’ve already paid for a year in advance so my only recourse is to publicly shame all the very rough edges. Their devs put some effort into refinement. There’s tons of potential here. ### 3/5 — Needs some additional features. *2022-06-09, version 2.22.1* I love Audm for many reasons - especially the long form journalism from the New Yorker, Atlantic, NYT, Mother Jones, etc. However it would really benefit from some improvements. 1. It can be buggy and sometimes clears my history/queue unprompted. At other times it gets stuck on the same article (it keeps suggesting that I’m about to listen to an article that I listened to and cleared from my queue a couple of months ago). 2. Most frustrating is that there is no way to save certain articles that I’ve listened to and may wish to revisit later. It’d be helpful if there was a playlist feature that would allow me to sort and save different articles. 3. The content can be inconsistent. Sometimes I want to listen to all of the articles and sometimes there isn’t much added on a given day and nothing really appeals. Other times it gives you a part of a series but not all of the accompanying articles. Why only upload the introductory essay to a series on private equity firms from Mother Jones? ### 5/5 — EXACTLY what I've been seeking *2022-05-18, version 2.22.1* Not an audiobook, not a podcast, it's the articles I would read if I had the time. Excellent selections read by true professionals, it's truly a pleasure to listen to. And the best feature of all is that the text scrolls in time with the audio! So when they're reading names, for example, you don't need to guess at the spelling to google for more information. I can't believe no one has done this before. Apps like audible truly missed the boat on this one. Without a doubt the best value subscription service I use. Highest recommendation! ### 3/5 — Stop using NYT reporters as readers *2022-04-16, version 2.22.1* I like Audm generally but a few things keep me from using it as often as I had hoped. My complaints-1) I’d like more longform pieces. When the feed is overrun by 5-10 minute short pieces and op-eds it’s disappointing. It’s the longer news stories, profiles, features, and investigative pieces that I really want from this app. Also, there are times when a long print piece from a participating publication will get a lot of attention on social media during the work week, and I will think “great, I will catch that on Audm this weekend” and it never appears. Or it takes several weeks. Not sure what’s happening there. 2) The car interface is annoying because you have to line up all of your preferred articles in a queue in advance. You can’t just play straight through the current news feed. 3) This is probably the most important item— please stop having NYTimes reporters read their own work. Stick to the professionals voice folks. It genuinely impacts the quality of my listening experience with this app, to the point that I will often just switch to another article, podcast, audiobook, or NPR because I just… cannot. It is a lot like listening to your classmate being made to read a passage out loud to the class— awkward, and sometimes even cringey, for listener and reader both. ### 4/5 — Great Idea - Needs More Content *2022-04-08, version 2.22.1* Love the idea and what they do have available is high quality, but as someone who expected to be able to listen to 15+ pieces of quality journalism and writing monthly, it fell rather short. In my opinion, they need to add more sources ( e.g., Washington Post, LA Times, etc ) and I expect content updated bi- weekly for the price of the subscription. If you’re looking for a service that will allow you to listen to 10 or fewer, quality, long form pieces of journalism monthly for $8.99, this is money well spent. Anything more, and you’ll quickly run out of content. Unlike other reviewers, I had no App issues with my iPad Pro. Narration and sound quality outstanding. ## Frequently asked questions about Audm ### What is Audm? Audm is an application that provides access to the world's best long-form journalism, read aloud word for word by professional audiobook narrators. It offers a curated selection of articles and essays for an audio listening experience. ### How does Audm work? You can listen to new stories added weekly, add stories to your playlist for offline listening, and even jump to specific paragraphs within an article. The narration speed can also be adjusted to your preference. ### How much does Audm cost? Audm operates on a subscription model. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account upon confirmation of purchase. A free trial is often available, after which you will be automatically charged unless you cancel during the trial period. ### Can I listen to Audm offline? Yes, you can add stories to your playlist and download them to listen on the go, even without an internet connection. This allows for uninterrupted listening wherever you are. ### What kind of content can I find on Audm? Audm features long-form journalism from various sources. This includes in-depth articles, essays, and other journalistic pieces that are professionally narrated for an audio format. ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 2.24.2 — 2023-06-15 Bug fixes ### 2.24.1 — 2023-05-25 Bug fixes ### 2.24.0 — 2023-05-25 Bug fixes ### 2.23.0 — 2023-02-09 Bug fixes ## Apps similar to Audm | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Barron’s - Investing Insights](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/barrons-investing-insights/id409882593) | 4.6 (12) | Free | News | | [Axios: Smart Brevity news](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/axios-smart-brevity-news/id1464917429) | 4.9 (13,987) | Free | News | | [The New Yorker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-new-yorker/id1081530898) | 3.9 (7,928) | Free | News | | [Medium: Read & Write Stories](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/medium-read-and-write-stories/id828256236) | 4.8 (155,920) | Free | News | | [The Wall Street Journal. 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