# Bound - Audiobook Player — user reviews > 512 indexed App Store user reviews of Bound by Deadpan, LLC, rated 4.60/5 from 1,992 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bound-audiobook-player/id1041727137/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bound-audiobook-player/id1041727137.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,661 · 4★ 139 · 3★ 49 · 2★ 33 · 1★ 110 ## What do users think of Bound? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Great app! - 👍 Excellent audiobook player - 💡 Seamless cloud storage integration - 🚀 Efficient and reliable - 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface - 🚀 Smooth playback experience - 💡 Useful features like sleep timer, speed adjustment - 👍 Worth the price **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes or bugs - 🐛 Issues with cloud storage connectivity - 🐛 Inconsistent playback behavior - 🐛 Trouble with large audiobook files - 🐛 Missing features like folders/playlists **Commonly reported bugs** - Audiobooks disappearing from library after device restart - Inability to delete audiobooks from library - Inconsistent behavior when switching between apps - Playback issues with multi-part audiobooks - Problems with web uploader functionality **Most requested features** - Add support for Apple Watch - Implement search and filtering options - Allow bookmarks with notes/labels - Add Chromecast support - Introduce dark mode - Improve cloud storage management ## Newest reviews (12 of 512) ### 4/5 — Good *2026-07-27, version 2025.2* It’s useful but I can’t find a way to delete bookmarks. ### 2/5 — App bricks itself and has to be reinstalled *2026-06-28, version 2025.2* I’ve been using this app for about 15 months. Every few months the app crashes into an unrecoverable state where I can open it but when any of the audiobooks are selected the app instantly crashes and closes. The only way to fix this is to uninstall it entirely, reinstall it, and then re-download the books. ### 3/5 — Great but missing some basics *2026-06-19, version 2025.2* This is a great app with the Web Uploader feature being a real stand out feature to load books. It is only let down by a lack of Shortcuts and Siri integration. It will be more apparent with iOS27 if the connectors haven’t been enabled to allow hands free play and commands. This is available in the free competitors so is a disappointing exclusion as I’m used to be able to say “Siri play my audiobook”. Hopefully this app gets an update for the new iOS and will enable these features given it is listed as “Siri enabled” and yet all you can do is get it to open the app, nothing else. Other than that is a great app with a couple of UI rough edges but overall good. ### 4/5 — Nearly perfect *2026-06-01, version 2025.2* Great app, my only issue is you can’t make folders for long series and no grid view. If these features were added it’d be an easy 5 stars ### 3/5 — Meh *2026-05-19, version 2025.2* Seems like a good app except it is difficult to do what I figured would be easy and is vital for my usage. When I added dozens of audiobook files (some files are chapters, some whole books) it auto separated into different books. I wanted them all as one playlist or “audiobook”. I figured out how to move a file from one to another but doing that individually for each file is time consuming. A multi-select/select-all feature would be great for that and/or the ability to specify adding all imported files to a specific book and not use the auto organizing feature. More flexibility and efficiency in manual organization and custom collections/playlists is needed. ### 2/5 — Which book? *2026-05-16, version 2025.2* Why does this app always forget what book I was listening to? ### 4/5 — - *2026-05-01, version 2025.2* when trying the web uploader, for some reason it doesn’t list the IP address connected to the computer ### 2/5 — Buttons difficult to press *2026-03-27, version 2025.2* The buttons are EXTREMELY difficult to press. The developer has the buttons coded so you have to touch the very small icon perfectly for the button to work. Typically, a developer would code the buttons so there is a square area around the icon that is “press-able.” It takes 5+ attempts of pressing the buttons for them to actually work. I emailed the developer about this months ago and never heard back. ### 2/5 — Needs a search function on library screen *2026-03-25, version 2025.2* The app is good, but the current bottleneck is vertical scrolling through hundreds of audio books to find one? ### 5/5 — Still Fantastic! *2026-03-06, version 2025.2* I often download free BBC programs and use this app to manage and play them back. Would recommend! Update: It’s been years and I still love this app. Please allow export of audio from the app. ### 5/5 — Great for language learning *2026-03-01, version 2025.2* Using it for listening to language instruction audio files. Could do with a widget to make skipping forward and backwards easier without having to open the phone or app. Great overall though ### 5/5 — Simple. It just works. *2026-02-25, version 2025.2* Absolutely perfect. This is literally the only review I’ve left on the app store in a decade. Love Bound! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No Apple Device Files upload support *2026-07-22, version 2025.2* I am coming from BookPlayer that allows me to upload my mp3 audio books from my PC. A deal breaker for me is not being able to use a USB-C cable to upload mp3 Audiobooks. If I can upload with wire then I will definitely change my review to a 4 or 5. ### 1/5 — No folders *2026-07-12, version 2025.2* I haven’t been able to find a good ios player so I thought I’d try this one. I paid, imported my books, went to sort them,then to my surprise, no way to group certain books into forlder or playlists or whatever!! It feels like I got scammed. There’s also no widget for some reason?? ### 1/5 — Bound decided to delete every book in my files *2026-06-16, version 2025.2* And its not in my recently deleted. Nowhere to be seen. Unbelievable. I want a refund. If you care about your data, do not trust these devs ### 1/5 — Books Gone *2026-05-04, version 2025.2* I added about 10 books to test the space and interface of the app. It worked really well and uploading was easy. The reason for the 1 star is exited out of the app and reopened it…books were gone. It was a complete waste of $4.99. ### 1/5 — Loses everything if your battery dies *2026-04-30, version 2025.2* Whilst it lacks bells & whistles (eg, you can’t group by book series), I liked Bound for the ease of upload (I did via my laptop & wifi). Unfortunately if the battery on my iPhone dies while I’m listening to an audiobook, Bound loses EVERYTHING. When I charge my iPhone and open Bound, everything is gone and irrecoverable. This has happened 3 times over the past week. I reported it to the developer but for now I need to find a new alternative. If I get a response that it has been fixed I may return, provided the alternative hasn’t won me over. ### 1/5 — Does not sync with Google Drive *2026-04-29, version 2025.2* Top review says it doesn’t link with Google Drive, but it doesn’t anymore. They try to do a workaround, but the workaround still didn’t work and I ended up doing the same process for working on the free version of a similar app. So I paid the five dollars to find out I didn’t do what I wanted or needed it to do. They also do not take refunds so save your money and just go for the free competitors. Because this is a waste of money. ### 1/5 — Chapters *2026-04-11, version 2025.2* If you import your own books into this, pray that this app will recognize the chapters directly encoded in its metadata. Most of the time it will not. ### 1/5 — Does not play m4b *2026-04-02, version 2025.2* I paid for this app because it said it could play .m4b files. I tried a number of different m4b files that I compiled myself in 3 different apps, and non of them would play. It was a waste of money. ### 1/5 — No volume boost *2026-02-20, version 2025.2* One of the most common features in audiobook players. But not in this app. Disappointed, and Apple rejected refund. ### 1/5 — No folders *2025-10-21, version 2025.2* I haven’t been able to find a good ios player so I thought I’d try this one. I paid, imported my books, went to sort them,then to my surprise, no way to group certain books into forlder or playlists or whatever!! It feels like I got scammed ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Brilliantly Crafted AudioBook Player *2026-07-14, version 2025.2* Brilliantly Crafted AudioBook Player ### 5/5 — Smooth. Aesthetic. Book in foreground *2026-06-28, version 2025.2* Nice experience to listen to audiobooks. Adding from Dropbox etc is a smooth process. Interface is simple enough and still unique in style, luckily avoiding cubism trends. I find that no mental clutter is arising when opening the audiobook app to get to the book I want to come back to ### 5/5 — The only way to listen to audio books. *2026-06-08, version 2025.2* By far the absolute best app I’ve ever purchased. I’ve never once regretted the small cost of the app for how convenient it’s been to listen to my collection of audiobooks on CarPlay! ### 5/5 — My fav audiobook app *2026-05-31, version 2025.2* Love using the app although I wish there was some quality of life improvements. 1. A watch app to control the app. 2. Force focus of the audio over other apps, it’s annoying that Reddit will pause other apps even if you have sound muted in Reddit, Audible is able to keep playing while scrolling Reddit. 3. I wish Bound was remembered more when I hit play awhile after playing, I realize if I open another app and play a video or something the phone doesn’t know to play Bound again but if it’s just a matter of time idle it should start back up. 4. I wish there was a widget or something I could access and control the app on my home screen. ### 5/5 — So sollten Apps heute sein *2026-05-30, version 2025.2* Bound ist eine der wenigen Apps, die man einmal kauft und dann einfach nutzen kann. Kein Abo, keine In-App-Käufe, keine versteckten Kosten. Besonders gefällt mir, dass die App für eigene Hörbücher gedacht ist. Sie unterstützt viele Audioformate, merkt sich zuverlässig die Hörposition und funktioniert hervorragend mit Cloud-Diensten. Das schlichte Interface ist übersichtlich und konzentriert sich auf das Wesentliche. Mein einziger Wunsch wäre eine bessere Möglichkeit, die Hörbuchbibliothek zu sortieren. Ansonsten eine klare Empfehlung für alle, die ihre eigenen Hörbuchdateien auf dem iPhone hören möchten. ### 5/5 — Highly Recommended *2026-04-30, version 2025.2* Best no bloat Audiobook Player on the store. ### 5/5 — I got my chapters back!!! *2026-04-30, version 2025.2* I thought my chapters were gone forever with the native books app but with Bound I got them back!!! ### 5/5 — Nice and simple *2026-04-11, version 2025.2* I put MP3’s on my phone, Bound plays them ! ### 5/5 — Please add search! *2026-04-09, version 2025.2* This is literally the perfect audiobook app, simple and just does what it’s supposed to. But it’s missing one feature: search! Seems pretty basic, but it’s missing! Please add it. I have like 50 books loaded up and it’s nigh impossible to find what I’m looking for without search. ### 5/5 — My favorite audiobook app *2026-04-06, version 2025.2* Best way to transfer audiobooks from your pc to iPhone without using iTunes. Needs an Apple Watch 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 2026-09-07.*