# Book of the Month — user reviews > 258 indexed App Store user reviews of Book of the Month by Book of the Month, rated 4.90/5 from 82,522 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/book-of-the-month/id1473873226/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/book-of-the-month/id1473873226.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 77,170 · 4★ 4,287 · 3★ 631 · 2★ 177 · 1★ 257 ## What do users think of Book of the Month? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Fast and easy to use app - 👍 Convenient monthly book selection - 💰 Affordable hardcover books - 🎁 Enjoyable reading experience - 📚 Expanded reading horizons - 💯 Great customer service **Cons** - 🐛 Glitchy and buggy app - 🕰️ Slow customer response times - 🤔 Limited book selection options - 💳 Unexpected/unwanted charges - 🚚 Slow book delivery **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes and freezes frequently - Notification issues and bugs - Inaccurate book tracking and progress - Compatibility problems on tablets **Most requested features** - Wish list feature to save books for future - Ability to rate books not purchased through BOTM - More book selection variety and genres - Improved app performance and stability ## Newest reviews (16 of 258) ### 3/5 — Loses Place *2026-08-04, version 8.72.0* I’ve been using for over a year now, and have been thinking about unsubscribing due to the app constantly losing my place in a audio book. Every time I reopen the app it starts me from the beginning of the book I am reading with every book I read. I have emailed about it and they just told me to update my app, which solved nothing. ### 3/5 — Love this app but.. *2026-07-30, version 8.72.0* This app is great and I love being a member! But I wish it wasn’t so glitchy. Since I started using this app 5 years ago, it’s always been like this. ### 2/5 — No Bug Fixes *2026-07-26* Been 4 months and still am unable to use the app. Keyboard freezes at password login portion of the screen and I’m on an iPhone. And unable to use the app. Reading reviews this is clearly a known and reported issue that continues to go unfixed. I go to the website to choose my books now - but sadly it doesn’t let me rate the books there. Making it so that I cannot earn badges. The app was great, but when you cannot access something and they are not interested in fixing it- the motivation to stay connected and choose monthly books/browse for additional books dwindles. I can only imagine that it is the same for other readers. What used to be a quick easy process through the app now has me going to website every month and extra steps = extra work = less interest in buying. Time is valuable, for everyone. ### 3/5 — Love BOM but app needs work *2026-07-26, version 8.70.0* My husband signed us up for BOM a while back. It’s been wonderful to get shiny new books every month. BUT, the app really sucks and needs work. Here are the problems: 1. It’s very slow and unresponsive. 2. If you are anywhere in the navigation (like All Months) and click on any book, the back button hardly ever works. So you have to basically close/reopen the app and navigate back to what you were looking at. 3. If you are looking at the book details, it doesn’t tell you if you’ve already purchased that book. 4. There is no intuitive way to see all the books you’ve purchased in the past. You have to click on “Challenge” and then “Rate books” to see them. 5. It would be really simple to add a link to the Goodreads profile for each book, so why isn’t it there? I always look up the GR reviews anyway, and it would save time. GR isn’t selling books, so it isn’t a competitor to BOM. 6. Why can’t you filter by the different search criteria across all books? E.g. Mystery + Fast Read 7. Why can’t you sort your TBR list by the different categories and filters? Some of these are nice-to-haves obviously. But BOM really needs to fix the basic performance of the app and get the navigation working. ### 2/5 — Audiobooks are not a priority *2026-07-22* I like BOTM, but as someone who primarily listens to audiobooks, their audiobook UI is god awful. It’s glitchy, in a forgotten corner of the app underneath podcasts (which I don’t even listen to), and it order the books top-down based on when you bought them, not which one you listened to most recently. Meaning if you’re finally listening to a book you bought a year ago, you’re having to scroll through 12+ titles (you can buy more than one a month if you go through their catalog) to get to the book you’re listening to. That’s already clunky, but the audiobooks page is for some reason extremely laggy. Also, more of a nitpick, but the app only shows you how many hours you have left, not how many hours you’ve listened or percentage, which makes translating that to a reading tracker like Storygraph a little clunky. **Developer response:** Thank you for rating the app! We’re sorry to hear of any trouble you’re encountering with your audiobook experience. You can reach out to us at member.services@bookofthemonth.com for additional support so that we can report these issues to our Product Team. ### 4/5 — Diversity *2026-07-02, version 8.60.0* I am enjoying this he book club so far. I would really like to see more authors of color offered in the selection. ### 4/5 — Audiobook Issues *2026-05-30, version 8.54.5* The subscription is really great but I have a lot of issues with the app. Some audiobooks just won’t play and I don’t know why. ### 4/5 — Love the app *2026-05-22, version 8.51.0* Love the app, but I wish the audiobook settings had more features. The speed choices are preset and can’t be changed, and I wish the progress had had an option for % completed instead of only showing time remaining. ### 2/5 — Frequent Crashes *2026-05-08, version 8.41.0* As an audiobook reader, that option needs some serious upgrades. - it loses my place too many times to count. - I have to scroll through my sea of books just to find the one I’m listening to instead of it being in the forefront. - it crashes mid listen and restarts the book. As an IT, I have done all of the things to help mitigate these issues, but I’m afraid it’s the app. BOTM please fix this! As I write this I have to painfully look for my place in a book I was just listening to 5 mins ago. Other Audiobook competitors like Audible, even Libby do not have this happen. I DO love BOTM and the books I read and listen to on here are some of my favorites. I only wish that the developer changes things. I started listening to audiobooks on the app when it first came out and the same issues are still happening! It’s 2026, time for some updates please! EDIT: it has now been 6 times (ON ONE BOOK) that my book has been reset to the beginning. This is ridiculous. ### 2/5 — Options are lacking and audio is fine. *2026-05-04, version 8.39.0* There are barely any good books to choose from and the audio playback only lets you choose .5 increments. Apps well designed. Just not for fantasy readers. ### 2/5 — Credits expire?!? *2026-05-02* I must say, I’m quite disappointed in this service. I was a member for a long time, and the books were sometimes very good! But lately, over the past year or so, I found myself in a reading slump. Nothing on BOTM was really appealing to me. So I stopped my membership because the credits were slowly building up, and I decided I would just save the unused credits, checking back every month in case there was a book that looked interesting. Come to find out, if you cancel your membership and don’t use those credits for a certain amount of time, they expire!!! I’m so upset about that. They only warned me about the expiration maybe a month or 2 in advance, so it’s not even like I could use up all those credits. I had about 5 credits. That’s a lot of money down the drain! I will not be re-subscribing to this service. I am very disappointed that they could just decide to steal my money that way. **Developer response:** Thank you for rating the app. Credits do expire after our 60 day cancellation grace period, but the Member Services team is always happy to extend that expiration date for you if needed. Please reach out to us at member.services@bookofthemonth.com for assistance. ### 3/5 — App Update Not User Friendly *2026-04-19, version 8.29.2* Love BoTM been a member for years. This most recent app update/reorg has been frustrating to navigate. It’s very difficult to navigate to the books outside of the current month without going back into “pick your (current month) book” and clicking through those steps. I’ve stopped trying to see new add ons and just been getting new releases from Target or BN. I’m genuinely surprised there aren’t more recent reviews with how unhappy and vocal on social media BotM users are with the reorg. Definitely not user friendly. Maybe next update the easy navigation features can be brought back or incorporated. ### 3/5 — Please fix audio player *2026-04-19, version 8.29.2* I love the service & book selection but I’ve knocked two full stars off bc the audio player is the worst audio player i’ve ever encountered. it’s hit or miss whether the player will remember where you left off or revert back to the beginning, and it doesnt pause when siri comes on. I cancelled my subscription due to being so frustrated with it. Please fix it!!!!!! ### 2/5 — STOP RESETTING THE AUDIO *2026-04-15, version 8.26.1* Why on earth can’t this app save your spot on an audio book???? It drives me absolutely crazy that I have to screen shot my place. ### 2/5 — Can’t wait to be out of credits *2026-04-08, version 8.21.0* I’ve been a BotM member for a long time and was thrilled when they added audio books. But the player is inconsistent. Loses positions. Starts over. Every audiobook I’ve bought has had a problem; never a seamless experience. I’d have quit sooner but life life’d, and I forgot to turn off renewal. I’ll use until I’ve listened to my our CB aes and then be done. ### 4/5 — Great…Except for Audiobooks *2026-04-08, version 8.21.0* I’ve been a member for 4-ish years now and I absolutely love it. HOWEVER, I finally tried out audiobooks through the app and I’m so disappointed. It’s glitchy, I can only see how much time is left (not how much I’ve already listened to), and it’s lost my place a few times already. Please fix this or make it easier to integrate the book that I purchased to another audiobook app like Audible. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Can’t even unsubscribe in advance *2026-07-26, version 8.70.0* Terrible selection, just got it for the unreliable narrator hat. I tried unsubscribing but it wouldn’t let me, I have to wait 3 months to do so. Great service you have… ### 1/5 — The worst selections in books *2026-06-30, version 8.60.0* Every month the books we can choose from are the absolute worst. I signed up with Blood Born and We Who Will Die thinking that at least every other month a good book would be selected. 4 months and they are not good at all. I cannot wait to cancel my subscription and stop paying for these 3 star reads. ### 1/5 — Fraudulent at best *2026-06-29, version 8.60.0* Book of the month charged me for credits I didn’t receive. My account has been inactive for sometime so I thought it was a mistake. However upon reinstalling the app and trying to figure out how to cancel my account for good, I realize they make it nearly impossible for this to happen. They hide the cancelation links. The help center is a joke, I emailed and never heard back. I would be very cautious about creating an account with them. One of the biggest scams I’ve delt with! ### 1/5 — No audiobooks anymore? *2026-06-04, version 8.54.5* There is no audiobook option on my app when trying to pick my BOTM. What gives? ### 1/5 — Shipping *2026-06-03, version 8.54.5* I placed my June selection on June 1st and today I received a notification that I’ll receive my June BOTM June 19-22nd. Why is the shipping going to take practically until July for me to get my book? One book is going to take nearly a month to arrive? ### 1/5 — Can’t even login *2026-05-24, version 8.51.0* I can’t even log into the app. It freezes everytime I get to the password part of the login. I’ve deleted and reinstalled the app several times. It is very frustrating as I can only get audiobooks from the app. ### 1/5 — TRASH! *2026-04-30, version 8.37.0* New “Build my box” update is TRASH! The layout sucks now. Navigating through the app sucks now. Pick a book before you can view add-ons… why?? Also, no “new to add-ons” section. Omg I’m so annoyed I’m about to cancel. This app is horrible to navigate now. IT WAS FINE! CHANGE IT BACK!!! ### 1/5 — Audio Books Don’t Save Place *2026-04-07, version 8.21.0* I like almost everything about BOTM but their audiobook feature sucks. For the last several updates, what was an occasional problem has become a constant problem. It does not save your place so anytime you hit play, it restarts the whole book. It is beyond frustrating. I’ve even had it happen just while I was paused momentarily to text AND THE APP WAS OPEN. They really need a standalone audiobook app similar to Kindle/Audible. There are other bad features of the app including that the 15-second rewind function won’t back up beyond the beginning of the chapter so if you want to hear how a chapter ended again, you have to go to the prior chapter and navigate to the end. Frustrating. Finally, there is no CarPlay functionality, which is honestly a must for an audiobook app. I won’t be doing audiobooks again until the app gets a LOT better. ### 1/5 — Waste of time and money *2026-03-06, version 8.6.0* You are limited to 6 books and audiobooks to chose from each month for the use of your 1 credit. You then have to pay more for anything else on top of the one credit. You can’t get anything without using your 1 credit per month on one of their selections of the month first. -10/10. Do not recommend. AUDIBLE IS SOOO MUCH BETTER. What a massive waste. ### 1/5 — I did not receive my February book!!! *2026-03-02, version 8.6.0* Cannot review what I have not received! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — A Bookworms Dream! *2026-08-06, version 8.72.0* I absolutely adore book of the month! It’s affordable and a great way to help you build your book collection. I highly, HIGHLY, recommend you join if you are an avid reader/bookworm like myself. It’s never going to disappoint ❤️📚 ### 5/5 — Love!! *2026-06-06, version 8.56.3* I saw this as an add and truthfully I was skeptical. But I LOVE this club and the book choices are surprisingly great! ### 5/5 — 😍 *2026-06-03, version 8.54.5* I am in love with BOM. It has really great recommendations, perfectly curated, and the books are beautiful. It makes me feel giddy every time I get my box. Thank you! ### 5/5 — Wish I signed up sooner! *2026-06-02, version 8.54.5* Honestly, I’m so happy I signed up for Book of the Month. I wish I signed up sooner! The app is super user friendly and the book selection is top tier. It’s so exciting getting the new books in the mail, plus the amazing price for really nice hard cover books. Also so far the books have all been the same height! Which has always been something that I tend to organize my book shelves by, so it’s been very convenient and aesthetically pleasing! ### 5/5 — Love these *2026-05-11, version 8.41.0* Joining BOTM has been a game changer for my sister and I. We joined to push different genres into our normal reading list. We have had a blast!! ### 5/5 — Mad Mabel *2026-05-03, version 8.39.0* I loved this book. Started slow but as I got into it, it got harder to put down. Highly recommend! ### 5/5 — Easy to use *2026-04-05, version 8.20.0* This is a well organized and easy app to use. It makes doing the monthly selection very easy. I love just looking through the books here as well. ### 5/5 — Book choices *2026-03-14, version 8.13.0* I love the book choices that are provided. They’ve been amazing so far ### 5/5 — Loving this. *2026-03-01, version 8.6.0* It is so much fun to pick and choose a book each month. ### 5/5 — Love It *2026-02-28, version 8.6.0* I love the fact that I have different choices and that I can read something that I would have never thought of trying. I have loved every book that I have received so far since joining BOTM. I even included add ons in one of my orders and those were great as well. I love hardback books and I can’t get prices this good in stores for a hardback copy. --- *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 2026-08-27.*