Love the content, hate the app
This app is so glitchy it’s almost unusable for what I need. I bought the audiobook to follow along with my physical book and this app makes it so difficult. First, the playback speed is so buggy, if you pause the audio it reverts back to normal speed even tho it says it’s still playing at .75x or whatever. I need to be able to pause to look up words and think about what I’m reading. Also I hate that the rewind button is 30 seconds and you can’t customize it. I don’t usually want to rewind 30 whole seconds, just 10-15 seconds so I can rehear a sentence. So frustrating!! This app is useless
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super app als Begleitung der Bücher
Finde es richtig gut sich das Hörbuch neben den Büchern anzuhören. Finde das Layout auch nicht schlimm, weiß nicht was die anderen für ein Problem haben
It jus crashing
I love the book but the app is crashing too much in a point that I can’t read anymore.
App keeps crashing when you try to open a book
It seems the in app support link doesn’t work either, as I have had no reply from anyone.
Really bad app
I really don’t understand how a simple app like this can be build in such a bad way. Please, just use any default media player interface for iOS.
3 stars
I love this book series and having the audio is fantastic. However, the app’s functionality is in desperate need of some revision. Hopefully there’s an update on the way and I can edit this review!
Review
This app would be better if you were allowed to listen to the audiobook while looking at the ebook. Don’t get me wrong I have a physical copy of the book but I thought that it would be more convenient to also have an ebook version of my book so I can read and listen on the go. Sadly that wasn’t possible so I wasted $10 on getting the ebook for nothing. So it’s either I listen to the audiobook and carry my physical copy around or read the ebook on its own.
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The content is great but the technology lacks.
I love the books and audio - the material itself - but the app doesn’t seem to be well made. I often play the audio and lock my phone, but if I pause the audio and then start playing it again, the audio will restart at the time stamp that it was at when I initially locked my phone. Recently the app has also started crashing CONSTANTLY. Any time I try to open the app, it immediately crashes. What’s also strange about this is that it only happens in fits: I can listen for 10 or 15 minutes just fine, but then it starts crashing and won’t stop until I just stop trying. Then I’ll pick it back up a couple hours later, start listening and then it starts crashing again. It makes the app completely unusable, so, in a sense, it doesn’t even matter how good the material is because I can’t even access it.
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Learning without trying
The concept is really simple and done well. I am a beginner Spanish learner and can follow along the stories and just read for fun. I then read again to pick up knew vocab and grammar. The summaries are great and just enough comprehension questions so it doesn’t feel like work.
Awesome
Fantastisk app på min mobile! I’m using the Danish short stories and it’s perfect for it. The slow down and speed up functions are great because they maintain the clarity of the speaker.
Short stories
Purchased but unable to access and says unable to restore . Wrote e- mail requesting support .... still waiting
Great!
I love the Short Stories in German. I read from the book and listen on the app. You could also listen through safari browser and log into your account that way. You can also see the whole selection of books by Teach Yourself, should you be a polyglot.
Can’t Access my audiobook
I already had a copy of Olly Richards’ Spanish short stories and I wanted the audiobook. In the short stories book, there’s a coupon to get the audiobook through the website and this app. I bought audiobook with researching the reviews...and at first i could see the mp3 recordings. I downloaded the app and it said i didn’t have any books in my library... so i went back to the website and it was there. However, when I click on the audio book, the pdf of the book downloads and it has the summaries of the stories as well as the questions. There’s no audio. So i feel scammed...i have emailed once and sent a message through the app around 2:30-3 this afternoon. I have received no response as of yet. I’m disappointed and I will just stick to Kindle and Audible. Lesson learned!
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Response from developer
Hello, I am sorry the app is not behaving as expected. Please contact us at support@papertrell.com and let us know the details of the issue so that we can investigate further
No longer works
Just upgraded to iOS 13.1x and this app no longer works. How could that be?? I paid extra to the book seller to get the audio version that works with this app and it seems like this app developer is not up to snuff keeping up.
Response from developer
Hello, I am sorry the app is not behaving as expected. Please contact us at support@papertrell.com and let us know the details of the issue so that we can investigate further.
Need to purchase the book then buy and download the audio
The graded reader is perfect for me—an advanced beginner to low intermediate. I read the chapter twice then read along with the audio. Although the audio is not fast paced, it’s nevertheless too fast for me to understand the reading material if I hadn’t read it first. The combination of the two media increases reading comprehension and listening skills.
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Could be better.
The reading material is fine and the audio is understandable BUT it would be nice to listen to the audio as you read. I bought both French audio and story but I can only access one at the time.
It’s hard enough to know how French is spoken compared to how it’s written but to switch from the ebook to the audio isn’t helping at all.
Overall the product is fine and well put. The narrator is clear and understandable while the choice of vocabulary is perfect for my level.
It’s hard enough to know how French is spoken compared to how it’s written but to switch from the ebook to the audio isn’t helping at all.
Overall the product is fine and well put. The narrator is clear and understandable while the choice of vocabulary is perfect for my level.
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Audio doesn’t play through lock screen
The content is good, but if you buy the audio you then can’t listen to it without having the app open. So you have tap your phone continuously to stop it going to sleep (or disable the lock function entirely solely for the purpose of using the app). It makes listening to the stories impossible while trying to do anything else simultaneously. It’s unfortunate and I would just recommend buying the audio trough some other source, try to use it on this app is just irritating.
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