# Chirp Audiobooks — user reviews > 439 indexed App Store user reviews of Chirp Audiobooks by Pubmark Inc., rated 4.80/5 from 87,476 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chirp-audiobooks/id1438652819/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chirp-audiobooks/id1438652819.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 73,243 · 4★ 10,612 · 3★ 2,265 · 2★ 629 · 1★ 727 ## What do users think of Chirp Audiobooks? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 💰 Affordable audiobooks - 📚 Good selection of books - 🔍 Easy to browse and find books - 🎧 Convenient for listening while doing other tasks - 🤝 Helpful customer service **Cons** - 🐛 App stability issues (crashes, losing place in books) - 🔍 Difficult to manage/organize large library - 🚫 Lack of features (no CarPlay support, no bookmarks) - 🇨🇦 Limited availability in certain regions **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes or freezes during use - Playback issues (skipping, losing place) - Downloading/syncing problems **Most requested features** - Add bookmarking/resume playback functionality - Improve organization and management of library - Integrate with CarPlay and other platforms - Expand availability to more regions ## Newest reviews (15 of 439) ### 2/5 — Great prices *2026-08-17, version 6.8.2* Awful app, large and slow downlosds ### 4/5 — Was better - but still good! *2026-08-10, version 6.8.2* I absolutely love Chirp! Inexpensive books, FREE books! This latest update is frustrating tho. The app lags for 30 seconds or so and freezes up. There is also no way to sort books by “in progress”, which I use a LOT. Please bring back this feature. I also dislike not having bookmarks available from the playing page. It’s counterintuitive to go back to the main page in order to access the bookmarks. ### 3/5 — Meh. *2026-07-29, version 6.8.1* I would do more with your app if it actually behaved correctly, and provided user controls that actually worked, with Bluetooth connections. ### 2/5 — Kills my phone battery fast! *2026-07-29, version 6.8.1* I love the books that I get from chirp and their great prices. Listening to books is another thing. My phone battery goes down fast! It doesn’t ever do that without chirp running, but with the app playing a book my phone gets hot, and it runs out the battery. ### 4/5 — No subscription! *2026-07-28, version 6.8.1* I love that I don’t need a subscription for audiobooks. There are lots of choices and wonderful sales. This is not for people who only read current best sellers (use Libby or Hoopla for those) but great for series, classics and thousands of other books. My only issue is that often times the app seizes or crashes. ### 4/5 — Stop changing things! *2026-07-27, version 6.8.1* For the all love of all that is holy quit changing things!!! now I can’t filter out read versus unread. I can’t archive anymore. You still have that stupid banner of how many weeks I’ve been listening to books, I really don’t care! Quit filling up the page with senseless information. And make the tools that you have actually work. ### 5/5 — This is my favorite audio book platform! *2026-07-26, version 6.8.1* I am obsessed with this app! I do not like subscription this, and subscription that. I appreciate that I can just buy the books I want and there’s always good deals! ### 5/5 — Forget Audible! *2026-07-24, version 6.8.1* I absolutely love that you can purchase individual books through Chirp without a costly and often wasted monthly subscription! Just what I needed! ### 2/5 — Great prices *2026-07-24, version 6.8.1* Awful app ### 5/5 — Great service *2026-07-23, version 6.8.1* I’ve never been disappointed using this app or service. Would recommend over audible. ### 5/5 — Love me some Chirp *2026-07-20, version 6.8.1* I’ve had this app for about six months. I absolutely love it. They have great deals and some phenomenal books. ### 5/5 — I love chirp *2026-07-19, version 6.8.1* Listening while I work is the best. I love the app. Watch for sales and collections. ### 5/5 — Chirp: My New Obsession *2026-07-18, version 6.8.1* Finally! The new releases and best sellers at a fraction of the cost! No fees! The narration app is just as good as Audible! ### 5/5 — Fun and better prices *2026-07-17, version 6.8.1* I never liked the idea of having to pay a monthly fee whether you get a book or not, and these books are very good. Also, free Fridays are very nice. ### 4/5 — Great App *2026-07-16, version 6.8.1* Love this for getting audiobooks on sale, but have two things that make me give one less than five stars: 1/ I wish that Genre was part of the library listing AND that it could be part of the search function. I read virtually all types of genres, but cannot tell in my large library what is what (for when I want to read a certain type). 2/ Since I have a large library, the app is rather slow at loading. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Bad user interface *2026-08-17, version 6.8.2* Why have you screwed up the user interface so badly? It’s now all marketing, and examining my libraries is torture. I can’t choose what to download when I want to, and the app works very badly on my phone. Please fix this. ### 1/5 — So expensive *2026-08-12, version 6.8.2* Dont know why anyone would use this app the books are wat to expensive ### 1/5 — Makes my phone very hot *2026-08-05, version 6.8.1* In the last two weeks, something has happened to the Chirp app when I run it. My phone gets very hot and my battery dies quickly. Please address this problem. ### 1/5 — App and website have become unusable! *2026-08-02, version 6.8.1* Ever done the last major iOS update CHIRP has become unusable due to high energy consumption. This applies to the app and the website. ### 1/5 — Overheating and Battery Drain *2026-07-25, version 6.8.1* I’ve purchased many books through Chirp and love their deals, but lately whenever I use the app it causes my phone to overheat and quickly drains my battery. I’ve restarted my phone, closed all other apps, and changed setting to reduce other background refreshes, so know this app is the issue. This is a serious issue that needs to be fixed. 7/25/26 Update: the app has been updated and the issues above are still happening. Also, the search your library feature often doesn’t work. ### 1/5 — Every update seems to make the app WORSE: less efficient, more confusing, and buggy. *2026-07-13, version 6.7.2* Now my newest purchases won’t even download. They’ve been saying “Download Pending” for days. It won’t let me cancel a (supposed) pending download either. It’s not my WiFi and I’ve restarted my phone, which, yes, is regularly and recently updated. I’m sure any comment I get back from customer service will be to delete and reinstall the app (losing all my downloaded audiobooks if I do.) Ugh! With the new update, the app not only didn’t add more functionality, it added unnecessary layers to achieve what used to be done in one place. In addition, the first screen I see when I enter the app is useless to me. I don’t care about my progress or achievements, I just want to listen to my books. Take me to my library. Period. I can’t buy books from the app, so focus on what it’s for: LISTENING TO AUDIOBOOKS. Also, I’ve been asking for a while to be able to reverse/fast forward more than 15 seconds at a time, but still it’s the only option. I’m sure I’m not the only person to have this wish… I don’t need bells and whistles, I just need straightforward access to my library, and the ability to move through a book efficiently (whether by minutes or chapters.) I shouldn’t have to leave two screens to change chapters. I often think the programmers make things less efficient and less effective so they are paid to “fix” the problem. ### 1/5 — Overheating and Battery Drain *2026-06-25, version 6.7.2* I’ve purchased many books through Chirp and love their deals, but lately whenever I use the app it causes my phone to overheat and quickly drains my battery. I’ve restarted my phone, closed all other apps, and changed setting to reduce other background refreshes, so know this app is the issue. This is a serious issue that needs to be fixed. ### 1/5 — Only works on ipad *2026-06-24, version 6.7.2* The app overheats an iphone. I contacted Chirp support & all they said was delete app, restart iphone & reload app. This was done numerous times & still overheated phone & used battery quickly. I contacted Apple. They checked phone, they said they can’t fix the app. They said I was noy the only one with this problem. My ipad has no connection to the internet and it does not overheat when using app. I suspect Chirp is checking your location for DRM purposes when using app on phone & doing this a lot. & I did not enable this on my phone. ### 1/5 — Used to be a great app *2026-06-06, version 6.7.1* I used this app for a while now and I buy and listen to a lot of books. Recently they introduced pop up boxes advertising sales within the app, which are extremely annoying. Some time app glitches and shows up as “you don’t have any books available” and has to be reinstalled and every single book needs to be manually downloaded again. I am not sure if I will continue buying books on this app anymore. ### 1/5 — No *2026-06-02, version 6.7.0* I’m very dissatisfied. It is not accepting my email and I will not change my email for this and plus you shouldn’t even be asking people for their emails in the first place isn’t that private? I’m ready to delete the app for the sake of your privacy, please do not download it. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best reading app *2026-08-23, version 6.8.2* Greatly deals on audio books. Don’t miss those special flash sales where must have books are 70 to 80 percent off. So glad I found this app. ### 5/5 — Can’t recommend highly enough *2026-08-22, version 6.8.2* This is a great and inexpensive competitor to Audible. Chirp’s app works reliably. The audio quality is top notch. And the library available is, though not ALL encompassing, quite extensive. I just wish there was a “do not suggest” label for some of those authors I abhor. ### 5/5 — Audio book deals *2026-08-17, version 6.8.2* I can always find a good book at a reasonable price with Chirp ### 5/5 — Wish I found this sooner… *2026-08-10, version 6.8.2* It’s a great way to find good audiobooks for a great price. You can wishlist a book and just be patient or you can check out all the sales they have and find something you didn’t know you liked. ### 5/5 — Reasonable Prices and Great Sales! *2026-08-07, version 6.8.2* I really like the .99c deals. Great options and I look forward to my daily walks for the next chapters! Recommend! ### 5/5 — Great App *2026-08-05, version 6.8.1* I love using this app. I can’t read books because I have back issues. So I can listen on my phone. I love that I can listen where ever I am. ### 5/5 — Amazing!!! 💞💞 *2026-08-02, version 6.8.1* Absolutely love this app. Great prices for great books. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2026-07-29, version 6.8.1* Great app for affordable audiobooks. Seems there’s always a great sale. I seem to be able to find many of the books I can’t seem to find through my library. ### 5/5 — Lost in translation *2026-07-28, version 6.8.1* I love to have access to the audio of classic literature and book collections I can listen to for hours and hours on end. ### 5/5 — cost less $ than a “Credit” and the book is yours to keep! *2026-07-28, version 6.8.1* Chirp is the only way that I get my audiobooks. I’ve tried subscriptions/ credit type sources like audible, listened to books on my library apps (sometimes I still do, just to make sure I really want to buy it beforehand) but I realized quickly that the cost of a MONTHLY credit can easily buy you two books and oftentimes more on Chirp. plus your books are yours to keep so there’s no need for reminders to return them or to purchase them at a higher retail cost in order to have the books forever. Great prices, amazing selection and aesthetically pleasing and easily accessible 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 2026-09-03.*