BorrowBox User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience76.9% of reviews
Neutral10.2% of reviews
Negative experience12.9% of reviews

~ Based on 1,486 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is BorrowBox Safe?

BorrowBox appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for BorrowBox is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 846 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

92.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 846 App Store ratings for BorrowBox.

Is BorrowBox Legit?

BorrowBox appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for BorrowBox is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

The Best App on my iPhone

Thank you Borrow Box. This has always been my favourite app. Highly recommended.

Many thanks πŸŒžπŸ‘πŸ“•πŸ“šπŸ“™πŸ“–πŸ‘“

Was working great

Great app !! But all of a sudden I can’t renew a book and now can’t sign in despite email address being recognised and attempting to renew password I’m now locked out of my account and library card

Excellent resource but a few tweaks needed

I love the app and having access to digital and audiobooks. Improving the ability to search only for available audiobooks would be handy. There is a feature to allow this but it does not allow searching by genre and can be tedious. Also not entirely sure why the wait for some books are so very long? Either way, I am most grateful for this lovely resource and easy access to library books, especially audiobooks.
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The fall

I was reading a fall in 19 minutes until the end started speeding up

Hee Hee Masters 7

Very easy interface, no rubbish

Love it

It’s stop me watching the TV. And it’s all down to the library in Totnes. To listen to a story with different accents is just amazing

Fantasic

Im so thrilled i was recommended borrow box. It’s fantastic! i use it for audiobooks primarily and I’ve found there to be a good selection. Very happy and best of all its free!!

Availability

Unable to get daily telegraph UK or even the weekend magazine for Saturday daily mail UK

Doesn’t support multiple libraries

I love the app and the different reader customisation settings. However, I am a member of 2 libraries but there’s no option for me to add a second library like Libby (both of the libraries split their catalogue over Libby and BorrowBox so I can’t just use that). I hope this functionality will be added in the future 🀞
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Free and fun

Always try Borrow Box. Before Audible. Both great but one is free.

Basically good

There are issues with CarPlay integration that make this mostly well thought out app weaker than audible. The skip back cannot be customised to 30 seconds but goes to the start of chapters often. This is vey annoying. Other than that it is great.

Great app, one huge annoyance

Whilst I do love this app, I think it’s a great way to access library material, I really hate that I can’t scroll to read. The format of having to click to turn a page I find very frustrating. A lot of the time I get to read is when lying next to my baby which usually means one arm is trapped and so scrolling to read one continuous feed is far easier. you should be able to choose your preference of layout. I would use the app much more if this was an option, instead I often get frustrated with borrow box and go back to iBooks which has that feature.
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😜

Love it so much

STILL NO AirPlay!!!

The app itself works fine, but I’ve come to the AppStore just to leave this review in the desperate hope it will help convince the powers that be that airplay functionality for this app is thoroughly overdue. Every other reading and audiobook app has one β€” Libby, Cloudlibrary, Audible, you name it. As an avid listener to books when I drive, the lack of an airplay button for BorrowBox means I actively avoid using the app where I can. Please, please, finally sort this out.
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Brilliant

Such a wonderful resource. Very easy to use

Brilliant

Amazing resource allowing us to listen to soooo many audio books! These are car journey heroes for us and this app is just brilliant!

Awesome

Why oh why would more people not use this fabulous app and service, love it!

Borrowing

This app is brilliant and so convenient. My wife uses a kindle and is always getting confused. I try to convince her that Borrow book is so much easier to use and supports our local libraries. Well doneπŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘.

Mr McKay

Brilliant for my book reading but would like to have sea angler added to the range I have asked before but no result could you please add it to the range

Decent

Very good app but not as good as Libby. Always have to re-open the app if you pause and look at another app and need the speed option not to go direct from 1.0-1.25, need something on between those speeds