# Freewave: Romance Audiobooks — Listen to Love Stories

> Romance audiobook app with human narration and ad-supported or subscription listening. (iPhone/iPad app by Womanly Corp.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/freewave-romance-audiobooks/id6743933151 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Womanly Corp](https://appshunter.io/developer/1699223676)
- Category: Books
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.80/5 from 549 App Store ratings · 92 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 123 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2025-04-10
- Data updated: 2026-09-02
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/freewave-romance-audiobooks/id6743933151/reviews.md

## What is Freewave?

Romance Audiobooks. 
Freewave is a romance audiobook app that gives you premium, full-length audiobooks, and series. Only bestsellers & real, human-narrated stories supported by brief ad breaks.

Why Freewave?
- Free with ads: Watch ads to earn listening minutes.
- Premium Subscription: Unlock ad-free listening and bonus features. Subscription is optional and available via in-app purchase.
- Endless Romance Genres: Billionaire, dark mafia, paranormal, age gap, enemies-to-lovers, forbidden love, and more.
- Top-Quality Narration: Real voice actors — no AI voices, ever.
- Weekly New Releases: Fresh stories drop every week, so there’s always something new.
- No Locked Chapters: Every book is complete and ends with a HEA.
- Search by Trope or intensity Level: Find the perfect romance that matches your unique tastes.

Listen Anytime, Anywhere without Interruptions
Multitasking? Traveling? Relaxing at home? Freewave turns downtime into escape time with the intense books. You can stack up minutes by watching several ads and listening without interruptions. Or you can subscribe via in-app purchase to enjoy uninterrupted, ad-free listening. Whether you’re hooked on paranormal passion, mafia danger, or intense billionaire chemistry, you’ll find your next obsession here.

Popular Romance Categories
Dark Romance: Dangerous love with alpha males and mafia kings
Paranormal Romance: Shifters, vampires, fantasy love stories
Contemporary Romance: Billionaires, celebrities, workplace, second chances
Romantic Suspense & Age Gap: High-stakes passion with unexpected twists

All the Love. 
Join thousands of romance fans discovering their favorite stories without limits.

Download Freewave and enjoy:
- Audiobook listening
- New content added weekly
- Human-narrated stories
- Curated romance collections
- Smart search by trope and heat level

Download Freewave today and press play on your next great love story.


Visit our website: https://wromance.com/ 
By using Freewave: Romance Audio Books, you agree to our Terms of Use and Community Guidelines available at https://wromance.com/terms_and_conditions and to our Privacy Policy available at https://wromance.com/privacy_policy

## Key features

- Premium full-length audiobooks
- Human-narrated stories
- Endless romance genres
- Weekly new releases
- Search by trope or intensity
- Free listening with ads

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 Week unlimited | $8.99 | per 7 days |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 minutes | $2.99 | one-time |
| 350 minutes | $4.99 | one-time |
| 60 minutes | $0.99 | one-time |


## Chart rankings

- #107 in Top Free · Book (US App Store)
- #95 in Top Grossing · Book (US App Store)

## What do users think of Freewave?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 👍 Great variety of stories
- 👍 Real narrators
- 👍 Free listening via ads
- 👍 Reasonable prices for time
- 👍 Stories are captivating
- 👍 Easy to stack minutes
- 👍 Good for winding down
- 👍 App is working
- 👍 Good concept
- 👍 Real romance novels
- 👍 App is legit
- 👍 Good deal
- 👍 Stack ads for hours
- 👍 No robotic AI voice
- 👍 Can accumulate time
- 👍 Spicy content available
- 👍 Nice and short stories
- 👍 Great read
- 👍 Wonderful app
- 👍 Voices sound fantastic
- 👍 Lets you listen as advertised
- 👍 Free with ads
- 👍 No interruptions
- 👍 Good selection of books
- 👍 Not out to get rich
- 👍 True heart in providing fantasy
- 👍 Magnificient audiobooks
- 👍 Easy to gather points
- 👍 Rapturing stories
- 👍 Works
- 👍 Stack up time with adds
- 👍 Good stories
- 👍 Spiciness catered to preferences
- 👍 Love the app
- 👍 So elated I found this app
- 👍 No points or keys or tickets
- 👍 Amazing job by narrators
- 👍 Riveting stories
- 👍 Options for free listening
- 👍 Done really well
- 👍 Steamy books

**Cons**

- 🐛 Ads are 5 minutes long
- 🐛 Ads play every hour
- 🐛 Impossible to close ads
- 🐛 Stuck in an ad loop
- 🐛 Ripoff
- 🐛 Mediocre stories
- 🐛 Ads don't always transfer
- 🐛 Games don't always transfer
- 🐛 Glitchy
- 🐛 Doesn't give minutes for tasks
- 🐛 Cuts out parts of stories
- 🐛 Frustrating
- 🐛 App hangs on previously listened
- 🐛 Glitch in the app
- 🐛 Finished stories reappear
- 🐛 Cost is steep
- 🐛 Ads are time-consuming
- 🐛 Ads are unreasonable
- 🐛 App not working (white screen)
- 🐛 Not free
- 🐛 Disappointed with selection
- 🐛 No African American Authors
- 🐛 No options worth time
- 🐛 Smut content is disappointing
- 🐛 No pure Yuri/yoai
- 🐛 Child abuse/sexual abuse content
- 🐛 Bland and uninteresting stories
- 🐛 Only straight or one woman/multiple men
- 🐛 Each ad only adds 5 points
- 🐛 Extremely long ads for little time
- 🐛 App doesn't allow screen sleep
- 🐛 Pauses book when multitasking
- 🐛 Not enough LGBTQ/BL
- 🐛 Scant time per commercial
- 🐛 Need to spend inordinate time on ads
- 🐛 Other apps more advantageous
- 🐛 Other apps have more selections
- 🐛 Charged more than advertised
- 🐛 Missing minutes after server issue
- 🐛 Ads didn't mention need to watch
- 🐛 Only gave spicy books
- 🐛 Barely anything asked for
- 🐛 Wi-Fi issues (spinning wheel)
- 🐛 Ads not showing
- 🐛 Owed minutes not given
- 🐛 Technical difficulties
- 🐛 Book will not play
- 🐛 Minutes lost if fall asleep
- 🐛 Cannot recover played content
- 🐛 App rarely lets reconnect to story
- 🐛 Free adds work first couple times
- 🐛 Stuck on add/game
- 🐛 Does not give credit for ads
- 🐛 Deceptive
- 🐛 Broken process
- 🐛 Lies about being free
- 🐛 Price is steep
- 🐛 Not simple
- 🐛 Not unlimited
- 🐛 Financial situation
- 🐛 Truth hurts
- 🐛 Need to fix a problem
- 🐛 Not giving free time
- 🐛 Problem with ads loading
- 🐛 Glitches
- 🐛 Not playing in background
- 🐛 Can't listen while falling asleep

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Impossible to close the ad when it's do
- Stuck in a loop
- App hangs on previously listened to books
- Finished stories keep going back to continued listening section
- Free adds work the first couple times, then get stuck
- Does not give credit for ads
- Consistently doesn’t give minutes for tasks
- Repeatedly cuts out parts of stories
- App is nothing but a white screen
- Wi-Fi is bad, keeps spinning
- Problem where it will not show ads for 5 minutes
- Owe minutes not being given
- Technical difficulties, book will not play
- Minutes lost if fall asleep
- Cannot recover what already played
- App rarely lets reconnect to story
- Server was down, logged out, minutes reset
- Screen can’t sleep, app doesn’t allow passive listening

**Most requested features**

- Bring back Ashley McLeo from the series coven of shadows and secrets
- Add more books to the accidental love series by Saxon James
- More MM books
- More dark Romance books
- More clean, no spice options
- Premium version for $10-15 a month
- Add more series that are finished

## Recent user reviews (10 of 92)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/freewave-romance-audiobooks/id6743933151/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Loml

*2026-08-10*

Awesome.! All i have to say

### 3/5 — Not what it promises

*2026-07-20*

This is “free” if you listen to ads. However, most of the ads are 5 minutes long and play every hour. It’s almost impossible to close the ad when it’s do so you are stuck in a loop. 
You can skip the ads, how? By paying for tokens. This is a ripoff and the stories are mediocre.

**Developer response:** Hi! We're sorry to hear about your experience. 💜 On Freewave, you can watch ads in advance to stack up listening time and then listen without interruptions. Purchasing extra listening time or a subscription is entirely optional. If you're having trouble with ads, please contact our support team via welcome@wromance.com) or the Contact Us form in the app, and we'll be happy to help.

### 5/5 — So so good!

*2026-07-18, version 1.40*

Options to get free listening time, reasonable prices if you want to buy time, the stories I’ve listened to already were done really well!

### 5/5 — Romance - palooza

*2026-07-14, version 1.39*

Finally, steamy books I can get behind and in front of. Love this app.

### 5/5 — Best audio app

*2026-07-11*

I’m addicted! The fact that I can pay or watch ads for actual minutes of play time is amazing! No points or keys or tickets. You watch ads for a full 5 minutes of audio or you can pay a VERY reasonable amount for blocks of time. I’m so elated I found this app. Not to mention the stories are riveting with REAL narrators that do an AMAZING JOB. You won’t regret getting this app it’s the best!!

### 5/5 — To seduce a witch’s heart

*2026-07-09, version 1.39*

I’m sad that I found it when it’s going to go but I’m over joyed I did in time it’s a beautiful, wonderful and enticing audiobook Freewave has and will be my favorite audiobook to listen to many story’s! 💗

### 5/5 — Awesome

*2026-07-03*

I use pocketFM as well but this may win over it! I love that I can use ads to get time instead of using games, on the other app the games don’t always transfer so I can’t rack up time to listen. Love this app!

**Developer response:** Hi, thanks a lot for the amazing review! We're glad you're having a great experience! 🥰

### 5/5 — Easy top up, no $$

*2026-07-02, version 1.39*

I’m four books in and haven’t spent a cent.
Earn daily bonuses for consecutive days. 
Top up your points by running short adds. Stack them for long listening.

### 5/5 — Love it!!

*2026-07-01, version 1.39*

Great app with a great variety of books. Really good listens.

### 5/5 — FREEWAVE: ROMANCE AUDIOBOOKS IS A WONDERFUL APP ,ESPECIALLY LETTING THE BOOKS READ TO YOU .

*2026-06-29, version 1.39*

FREEWAVE: ROMANCE AUDIOBOOKS ARE SO MAGNIFICENT AND THE VOICES SOUND FANTASTIC. SINCE I HAVE BEEN TOLD I HAVE CATARACTS I AM GLAD THIS APP READS TO THE PERSON. I HOPEFULLY WILL FIND MORE BOOKS LIKE THE ONE TITLED DOWN AND DIRTY. I LOVE THIS APP WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT BOOKS.
JUST WISH THAT THE WI-FI WAS BETTER BECAUSE ALL IT DOES IS SPIN ROUND AND AROUND AND I DON’T GET TO HEAR THE BOOKS TALKING. FREEWAVE,YOU HAVE A PROBLEM THAT NEEDS TO BE FIXED BECAUSE I HAVE WATCHED THE WHEEL ALL DAY LONG. FREEWAVE: ROMANCE AUDIOBOOKS,PLEASE BOOST YOUR WI-FI SIGNAL I HAVE DONE THE BEST I CAN ON MY END AND AM INDULGING IN BOOK AFTER BOOK. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LISTENING WITH AN OPEN MIND. TRY TO BOOST THE WI-FI AS MUCH AS YOU CAN BECAUSE ITS JUST SPINNING AROUND AND AROUND. THE BOOK I AM TRYING TO LISTEN TO IS AMAZING. FREEWAVE,  YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WHERE IT WILL NOT SHOW ADS FOR 5 MINUTES. IT IS AFTER MIDNIGHT SO YOU OWE ME TWENTY MINUTES OF FREE TIME. ITS AFTER MIDNIGHT SO YOU OWE ME TWENTY MINUTES. I WOULD LOVE TO GO UNLIMITED ,BUT MY MONEY PAYS FOR ME TO STAY IN THE REHAB FACILITY CALLED THE COLONNADES AT REFLECTION BAY. THE WI-FI HAS BEEN REPLACED AND I WONDER IF THAT IS WHY I AM NOT GETTING ADS FOR 5 MINUTES. YOU OWE ME 40 MINUTES FROM YESTERDAY AND TODAY. I TOLD YOU I DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY SO EITHER GIVE ME EXTRA MINUTES,OR I GO TO ANOTHER APP. YOU have a problem you need to fix. YOU HAVE NOT GIVEN ME MY 20 MINUTES AGAIN. HAPPY NEW YEAR.SINCE YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE 20 MINUTES YOU SHOULD DOUBLE THE 20 MINUTES TO 40 MINUTES FOR ANEW YEARS GIFT. AGAIN HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL. YOU OWE ME 20 MINUTES. I AM IN A REHAB FACILITY AND MY MONEY PAYS FOR ME TO STAY HERE,. TOLD YOU MY FINANCIAL SITUATION.THE TRUTH HURTS SO BAD. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IF I HAD THE MONEY I WOULD GO UNLIMITED. YOU ARE HAVING SOME TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES SINCE THE BOOK WILL NOT PLAY. I WILL GO AD FREE IF YOU ASSURE I DON’T HAVE TO PAY. WHAT ARE THE UPDATES ON THIS APP.

## Frequently asked questions about Freewave

### What is Freewave: Romance Audiobooks?

Freewave is an application that provides access to a large collection of premium, full-length romance audiobooks. It features stories narrated by real voice actors across various popular romance subgenres. Users can listen to these stories anytime, anywhere, with options for both free, ad-supported listening and a premium subscription for an ad-free experience.

### How can I listen to audiobooks for free?

You can listen to audiobooks for free by watching brief ad breaks within the app. These ads allow you to earn listening minutes, enabling you to enjoy the premium content without a subscription. This model ensures that you can access a wide variety of romance stories without any upfront cost.

### What types of romance genres are available?

The app offers a diverse range of romance genres to suit every taste. Popular categories include billionaire, dark mafia, paranormal, age gap, enemies-to-lovers, and forbidden love. You can also search for books based on specific tropes or intensity levels to find your perfect match.

### Is there a subscription option?

Yes, a premium subscription is available as an optional in-app purchase. This subscription unlocks ad-free listening and bonus features, providing a more seamless and uninterrupted experience. The subscription is not mandatory, and users can continue to enjoy the app through ad-supported listening.

### Are the audiobooks narrated by AI?

No, all stories on Freewave are supported by real, human-narrated performances. The app emphasizes top-quality narration, ensuring an authentic and engaging listening experience without the use of AI voices.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.42.0 — 2026-08-23

Reader Status and longer streaks are here.
Earn new status badges as you finish books, build streaks beyond 7 days, and unlock bonus ad-free listening along the way.
Plus: Home refreshes automatically, playback fixes, and fewer sign-outs on Android.

### 1.41.0 — 2026-07-27

Fixes and improvements.

### 1.40.1 — 2026-07-21

Bug fixes and stability improvements for subscriptions.

### 1.40 — 2026-07-10

• Finding your next favorite story is now even easier with smarter recommendations.
• We polished book, series, author, and narrator pages to help you discover more stories you'll love.
• A smoother listening experience with faster paths from discovering a story to pressing play.

### 1.39 — 2026-06-22

Fixes and improvements

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