# Bookmobile Audiobook Player — user reviews > 273 indexed App Store user reviews of Bookmobile Audiobook Player by Freshmowed Software, rated 3.70/5 from 263 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bookmobile-audiobook-player/id416457527/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bookmobile-audiobook-player/id416457527.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 137 · 4★ 30 · 3★ 18 · 2★ 32 · 1★ 46 ## What do users think of Bookmobile Audiobook Player? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great audiobook player - 👍 Easy to use interface - 💡 Multiple ways to add audiobooks - 🚀 Flawless playback - 👍 Excellent bookmarking and resume features - 👍 Customizable playback speed **Cons** - 🐛 Randomly loses place in audiobook - 🐛 Buggy after recent updates - 🐛 Inconsistent behavior when pausing/resuming - 👎 Dated and cluttered user interface - 🐛 Unreliable Bluetooth integration **Commonly reported bugs** - Audiobook files not playing in correct order - App randomly resumes playback from beginning - Frequent crashes and freezes - Issues with web-based file uploads **Most requested features** - Dark mode option - Improved chapter navigation - Better integration with cloud storage services - Apple Watch support - CarPlay compatibility ## Newest reviews (15 of 273) ### 2/5 — was good once *2026-06-18, version 8.2.1* App appears to be unsupported. No longer plays audiobooks in my itunes library. Also refuses to search Librivox content anymore. ### 3/5 — Needs update *2024-12-23, version 8.2.1* Looks like developer abondaned this app. Ios Books has upgraded to be efficient. ### 3/5 — was good once *2024-06-28, version 8.2.1* Seems this app is no longer supported, which is a great pity. It no longer connects to Librivox or podcasts and menus are corrupted in newer devices. I’ve been using the app for many years, but looks like it’s time to find a new one. ### 2/5 — Best audiobook player *2023-12-06, version 8.2.1* Unfortunately looks abandoned as it doesn’t accurately store last position anymore on latest versions of iOS. ### 2/5 — Nice but has bugs *2023-10-27, version 8.2.1* When stopping and starting, often the book will loose its place and start playing from the start. You have to go to the bookmarks and go to the previous bookmark. A bit of a pain. ### 2/5 — Great Design but very buggy *2023-06-14, version 8.2.1* This app has a great interface and wonderful design but unfortunately, that can't make up for trhe bugginess of the software. The app quite often skips to a random place in the book when it is stopped. ### 2/5 — janky *2023-02-22, version 8.2.1* never correctly remembered where you left off, often throws you back to a random chapter. ### 1/5 — Used to love it, now I hate it *2023-02-06, version 8.2.1* The “resume play bug” is killing me. I pause play, then when I resume it might be at the beginning of the chapter, or it might be several chapters back. How long has this been going on? Quite a while and no fix in sight. ### 1/5 — Creator's joke *2023-01-13, version 8.2.1* The app is a failure. When I tried alerting the creator they lashed out. They're a joke and their app is a joke. ### 1/5 — Used to be an awesome app *2023-01-02, version 8.2.1* I have been using this app for years, and would have rated it 5 stars at that time. It is no longer being supported or updated and is now almost unusable. Fast forward and rewind rarely work and it constantly resumes play in the wrong place. 😢 ### 1/5 — Loses last position often *2022-09-21, version 8.2.1* Often loses last position, or just restarts from the beginning of the audiobook. One is reduced to manually keeping track of the current position in the book. ### 2/5 — Doesn’t work properly with lock screen controls *2022-09-09, version 8.2.1* I used to really like this audiobook app. I still like most of its features and find it intuitive. However, the app does not properly start at bookmarked locations when I toggle off/on from the lock screen or using my earbuds. The same problem occurs when rewinding (e.g. 30 seconds); if i rewind from the lock screen it rewinds random amounts of time, clearly not recognizing where i am in the noom. Needing to unlock the phone to control it from within the app, rather than using my earbuds or the lock screen controls, makes it very frustrating to use. ### 3/5 — Great *2022-08-06, version 8.2.1* It used to be great, but is now somewhat broken due to lack of updates. Controls don’t respond like they used to. Doesn’t talk to the OS very well anymore. A shame. If they fix it, it can be great again, but in its current state I’m going to have to start looking elsewhere for my mp3 audiobooks. ### 4/5 — Horrible. Just disappeared. *2022-07-04, version 8.2.1* Too bad there is zero customer support ### 1/5 — It was good until it wasn’t *2022-05-31, version 8.2.1* The biggest problem with this application, if I pause it, put it down, and then come back to it and unpause it, on too many occasions. It has lost progress or reset to the very beginning. I have to handle the application with care, unlocking my phone each time and pausing and closing the app when I am done. This just ruins the functionally of the app. Worse it doesn’t happen every time, just when I am in a hurry and need it to just pause. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Don’t give this guy money *2025-11-14, version 8.2.1* Average app with a broken bookmark system that restarts your books and loses your place constantly. No response from the dev, even as a paid customer. Use bound instead. It actually works. Can’t believe I wasted so long on this trash. ### 1/5 — Outdated trash *2025-11-01, version 8.2.1* Stay away, no widgets an you have to upload your files to get them to your device. Even if the file is already on your phone. ### 1/5 — Unable to purchase *2025-09-18, version 8.2.1* Great app but the worst support. I have sent many emails notifying that I’m not to purchase the paid version. Not a single response. ### 1/5 — Constantly loses place in book *2024-12-26, version 8.2.1* This mostly does what it says it does: play audio books. But it constantly loses my place in the book. Rewinding the audio by 30 seconds should not result in the book starting over from the beginning. Multiple reviews mention this going back YEARS, how is this still an issue for people‽ ### 1/5 — Aged poorly *2024-11-20, version 8.2.1* I used this app exclusively for several years, I have issues every single time losing my place and it’s gotten worse over time. Maybe it’s abandoned? Digging in to find last played bookmark is frustrating. Who knows, just going to pick another app. ### 1/5 — Frustrating *2024-08-12, version 8.2.1* Keeps jumping about in the book. I keep needing to figure out where I stopped listening. Aaaarghhhhhh….. ### 1/5 — Unable to organise audiobooks *2024-01-01, version 8.2.1* Used to be able to organise audiobooks via web transfer, this facility does not work anymore so have moved to a different app. ### 1/5 — Was good now buggy in new iOS *2023-11-16, version 8.2.1* Was my favorite player but has become buggy in most recent iOS. Biggest bug is that it loses your place and starts over from beginning of certain notifications come in while playing. ### 1/5 — Stay away- use an app like Bound instead *2023-03-01, version 8.2.1* The app has long been abandoned , not sure why it’s in the App Store anymore, it should be removed. I used this in the past because I couldn’t find any other adequate app to import DRM free audiobooks with the crucial bookmark feature. The app will lose your place if you go away from the app. I’m not talking about quitting it, but minimizing it. This is absolutely unacceptable. Additionally, it doesn’t handle multi part books well at all. The app will decide its own sort order no matter what you do. Worst of all- The developer would REFUSE to provide support if the customer left a review that’s less than 5 stars. Who does that? Lastly, the FAQ leads to a 404 page. Apple needs to remove this. ### 1/5 — Loses its place *2023-02-22, version 8.2.1* Frustrating app that constantly loses its place in you book and restarts from the beginning. It does keep bookmarks that allow you to manually find your last spot, but constantly having to use them is a royal pain. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing amazing app!! *2025-12-15, version 8.2.1* Please support this and update this. Finding it incredibly useful ### 5/5 — Great Audiobook Player *2025-02-02, version 8.2.1* I’ve been using this app for several years now to listen to audiobooks and I highly recommend it. Over the years I have built a large library of audiobooks that I have stored in my personal cloud storage. This player allows me to load those books (most in MP3 format) to my phone and play them offline. I’ve never had an issue with this app and the ability to listen to audiobooks without interruption is excellent (i.e., no cell, no WiFi, is no problem!). There are plenty of other ways this app allows you to load books so this should meet many people’s needs. Forget Libby or any other audiobook app…this is the one you’ll want! Again, I highly recommend this app! ### 5/5 — Best audio book app *2024-08-31, version 8.2.1* I have been using this app for a minimum of 7 or 8 year maybe ? When they used to charge 2.99 for the full feature 😄 And I go back and forth between it and some other app, that doesn’t have the same features I need: bookmarking, sleep timer, and timed rewind and fast forward. That being said, there seems to be a secret inbox folder that pops up in my iTunes library where there are books that I can not access from the app, but they just take space on my phone. Other wise perfect app. ### 5/5 — Best app for audio-bibliophiles *2023-08-27, version 8.2.1* I have been using this app since it first came out. It is featured packed and the developer is very responsive to emails. A featured review says it is clumsy but really it is not, the app has so much to offer and that has been well explained in the app intro. The price is a steal given the app has so much to offer. ### 5/5 — Simple and easy *2023-03-16, version 8.2.1* And then it started to misbehave. If I receive a call while it’s playing it will sometimes glitch and have moments of silence every few seconds. The only way to fix it is to re-install the app. Which also means noting your place in the book and re-loading it. And fast forwarding to get back there. Adjustable FF and RW controls, remembers my place even if the app is closed out, works with the bluetooth in my car. I'll be paying the $ for the unlimited version. Nicely done. Update: it even remembered my place after an iOS software update. Nice. ### 5/5 — Highly recommend *2021-09-26, version 8.2.1* Fantastic App. Highly customisable and open/global playback of audio from a multitude of sources. iOS 15 - working as per previous versions. Occasional bug here and there but nothing that detracts from overall use. One request- it’s been some time since the last app update. Could the devs please roll out sometime soon. ### 5/5 — Would like a dark mode *2021-07-31, version 8.2.1* Works great for adding audiobooks from my music folder which is exactly what I was looking for Would be nice to have a dark mode at night ### 5/5 — Still the best audiobook reader *2021-07-11, version 8.2.1* This is the best of the remaining apps that can play audiobooks from the iPod (ITunes) library. Please keep developing this app. I would be happy to pay for an updated version to support your work. ### 5/5 — How audio book apps should be! *2021-01-07, version 8.2.1* I’ve been through loads of these apps recently and this is by far the best. It has straight forward interface for use whilst driving or other activities. But it has all the options to add audio files set out in a straight forward manner without all the flashy pointless screens. 60 days free... and a very generous £3.99 one off payment for a lifetime unlimited. And just to add it does remember where you stop and start... ### 5/5 — The best audiobook player I’ve encountered *2020-12-20, version 8.2.1* Excellent wayback function, user friendly sleep timer, customizable skip controls, numerous ways to upload books (the web option is fantastic), supports multiple formats - mp3s become bookmarkable without needing to be converted to m4b...podcasts... As a well anointed player, Bookmobile is SO much better than what say, audible or apple offer. In short, a great app. --- *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 2026-08-09.*