BookOrbit Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience74.4% of reviews
Neutral18.6% of reviews
Negative experience7.0% of reviews

~ Based on 43 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is BookOrbit Safe?

BookOrbit: The Official App appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for BookOrbit is 82/100.

This assessment is based on 38 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

81.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
13.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 38 App Store ratings for BookOrbit.

Is BookOrbit Legit?

BookOrbit: The Official App has limited verification signals. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for BookOrbit is 58/100.

Based on 58 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

开发者大神太顶了

反馈了意见让汉化,马上就改了 太顶了感谢 好用极了(🙏ˊᗜˋ*)

Response from developer

感谢反馈! 中文语言包(汉语/中文)最近已经正式上线了。请将 BookOrbit 更新到最新版本,软件会根据您的系统语言自动切换为中文,您也可以直接在应用设置中手动选择中文。 如果更新后还有任何问题,随时跟我说!

Game changer

Crazy good all-purpose tool. Instant win

配合ipadmini读书绝赞

有个小问题,能更新个功能,点击屏幕右侧向右翻页,左侧左翻页,中间设置这个功能吗?每次都需要手左右滑动…书籍还好说,漫画太频繁了

Отличное приложение

Удобное приложение для подключения к домашней библиотеке и чтения книг. Огромная просьба добавить русский язык.

闪退

更新1.8.0之后,继续阅读要闪退

Response from developer

感谢反馈! 中文语言包(汉语/中文)最近已经正式上线了。请将 BookOrbit 更新到最新版本,软件会根据您的系统语言自动切换为中文,您也可以直接在应用设置中手动选择中文。 如果更新后还有任何问题,随时跟我说!

Best app, most features, fastest dev

A great app and an even better server behind it. Completely replaced my Kindle, all of my other eBook services, and the pace of development and features are amazing.

Fantastic

I love that there’s a beautiful official native iOS app for this amazing project. I will be buying the perpetual family share license. Thank you.

Absolute game changer

This app deserves more recognition and I’m happy to share this quick review. It’s the missing piece in an ideal library and reading experience I’ve always envisioned. Bookorbit was actually the service that I’ve happily pulled the trigger and gotten a raspberry pi for. After setting it up on a steam deck as a server for a few weeks, quickly realized it deserves an always on server to run a personal library on and sync to all of the devices I read and listen to books on. Highly recommend if you’re considering it.
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Please keep this project going!

Love love this app. So amazed with the quality and
all the different features. Books and audiobooks and making my life easier 😭❤️

Genius

I love this app

we need chinese!

我们需要简体中文!

Good on both iPhone and iPad

This is a nice companion app if you have access to a BookOrbit server. Kinda rough at first, but quickly improving. I’d love to see magic link support for logging in, in the future.

Magnifique !!

Application parfaite ! J’en ai testé beaucoup pendant de longues années ! Et voici enfin lappli parfaite ! Fluide ! Rapide et précise ! Un grand merci !!!! 🙏

Apogee is Better

Though currently in Beta still and requiring apple test flight it is a much better app.

Love it

Absolutely love this. It’s everything I ever wanted. Sync is getting better and better! Just need meta data auto grabber to continue being improved. Big thing care about is metadata Organization, and I hope it continues to improve.

Loving it so far, but please change the app background

Hello! Love the app and the docker install. Tried grimmory but it had some issues that I don’t seem to have here and plan on migrating from abs and kavita to book orbit!

Love the app and all the functionality but please, change the background in the app. The thin circle looks like a piece of hair and it’s driving me crazy 😩 I keep trying to brush it off my screen lol otherwise I plan to become a supporter after migrating my library. Cheers!
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Super!

Super application quand on gère ces livres sur BookOrbit dans un serveur personnel.
Ça permet le suivi de lecture entre liseuse, iPhone et iPad facilement
Avec des traductions ça serai encore mieux mais l’app est récente, ça évolue déjà bien
Continuez comme ça!

Response from developer

Merci beaucoup ! Les traductions arrivent dans une future mise à jour, restez à l'affût, et encore merci pour votre soutien !

Updated review: great updates at a quick pace!

UPDATED REVIEW:
In just 1 week of this review every issue I listed in the old review has been resolved or changed entirely, absolutely fantastic. Incredibly happy with the “Comic Next up” and pinch zoom working properly. Super happy to be using Bookorbit now and can’t wait to see future updates.

OLD REVIEW: Been using BookOrbit for a few months now and I seriously enjoy the path it has gone down, this app (in its current state) feels like it’s also in need of that “give it a couple months” timeline.

Examples: I use BookOrbit mostly for comics/manga and found the zoom in on comics to work awkwardly (seemingly always zooming towards the dead center middle), comics don’t lead into the next book (meaning you’ll have to go find the next issue when you finish one), and the current layout when looking at your series of books feels somewhat confusing with the actual list of your collection being a small text box under “Details”. Though a scrollable visual of your collection is towards the bottom, yet it doesn’t show the entire series/collection?

I’ll probably still hold off on sharing my instance/this app with friends & family as the quirks right now are still someone apparent, I will happily give 5 stars if/when BookOrbit can iron a lot of this out.
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Thanks

Recent updates got the iPad version of the app working. Now I can read on my phone and now the iPad so nice. Much appreciated.

Response from developer

Thanks for taking the time to share this! Please update to Version 1.2.0, I just released full, native iPad support that eliminates the phone-scaled view and takes advantage of the entire screen with two-pane layouts, adaptive readers, and trackpad/keyboard controls. I’d love for you to check it out!

Potential for greatness

Good to see it’s now fully supported on iPad. Now can we have a Mac version too?

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback! Please update to Version 1.2.0, I’ve just added first-class iPad support with dedicated two-pane layouts, adaptive controls, and full keyboard and trackpad support across the entire app and readers. I’d love for you to give it another try!