Novelwave User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience90.6% of reviews
Neutral0.0% of reviews
Negative experience9.4% of reviews

~ Based on 53 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Novelwave Safe?

Novelwave: An Audiobook Player appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Novelwave is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 55 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

92.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.8% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 55 App Store ratings for Novelwave.

Is Novelwave Legit?

Novelwave: An Audiobook Player appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Novelwave is 65/100.

Based on 65 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Awesome Player

I liked the player and I emailed to see if something was available and the change got pushed through. Absolutely fantastic! My go-to audiobook player.

Almost perfect.

Good app, though the AirPods forward and rewind commands don’t work for some reason.

A brilliant audiobook player particularly for a blind thed partially cited

I have found this app to be a brilliant audiobook Player. The developer seems very friendly and helpful and has implemented a couple of suggestions that I have made. I would recommend it to blind and partially excited users as the implementation of the VoiceOver is excellent. The amazing thing is that it is free.
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Forces you to pick artwork

I don’t want to pick a random picture from my photos to use as the audiobook artwork. Just let it be a question mark.

Almost Perfect

It’s the best audiobook app for listening to your own file collection.

I wish it had full CarPlay implementation. You can listen and control playback using CarPlay’s now playing interface after starting a book from the phone. You cannot open novelwave or choose a book directly from the CarPlay screen.
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Love it

I’ve used a couple of similar apps and this works really well for audiobooks.

And it’s free, too?!!!

So, the fact that there were so few reviews made me doubt the high rating, and the fact that it was free had me doubting it was any good at all. But, after reading the other reviews, AND seeing the praise for and responses from the developer, I decided to give it a chance.

In a word…? SUPURB!!!

Interface and controls and pretty intuitive, and I love the prompting for combining files into one book and the details box. Only thing I can see missing is being able to grab that details info from the file meta data. Maybe that a future update?
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Response from developer

Hey, thanks for the kind words! If you're referring to audiobook details populating from existing file metadata, that should already be there. I'll double-check just to make sure. Feel free to drop me an email with your suggestion and I'll be sure to take a look.

Love it

Didn’t think an app like this would exist. Searched for it nonetheless. Found this. Love it! Simply perfect!

Top Audiobook Player

The player is really great. It has everything you could want in an audiobook player. There’s just one thing I’d like to see added: the ability to rename the title and author if you made a typo.

Response from developer

Hi Andy - glad you're enjoying the app! You can swipe left to edit audiobook details, which allows you to change the title, author, audiobook cover artwork, as well as add missing metadata if needed. Drop me an email if you encounter any issues with this.

Simple Yet Superb

This is a great example of an app that is well designed and coded to accomplish the single purpose it was created for.

I use it to listen to audiobooks that I bought without DRM on my iPad Pro. Just enough customization and features to make the player disappear into the background while enjoying the audiobook.

I honestly wish there was a “tip” in-app purchase available. This app is WORTH a contribution in my opinion.

The only “wish list” feature I can suggest would be to allow access to audiobook files outside of the app versus importing them. I have many already stored locally on my iPad in the Files app but they have to be copied into Novelwave to be used which uses more storage of course.
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Amazing

It’s crazy that is app is free and without ads

Books taking up 30gb

Will cloud functionality be available soon?

Love it

I’ve used a couple of similar apps and this works really well for audiobooks.

Rare find

It is so rare these days to find a simple app that does what you want. I rarely rate apps, but Novelwave was such a breeze that I had to rate it and send a thanks to the devs!

Simple and great audiobook player

Plays all my audiobooks without a problem. Simple, no nonsense app. The dev keeps adding new features. Love it!

Cant be beat!

The best dev around, fixes every issue I encounter and still the app is fluid and smooth and just so GOOD. Carplay CHECK Organization CHECK Sleep timer CHECK

Response from developer

Hey there! Version 2.0 should fix all playback tracking issues, and CarPlay is indeed planned as a feature. Stay tuned :)

Just awesome

Indie dev, zero data collection and telemetry, responsive to feedback. Really happy with this app and grateful for developers like this.

Works great nice app

Really nice minimalist app works great simple easy to use. Thanks so much for making it available for everyone, very kind of you.

Exceptional

Literally everything I wanted in an audiobook player. Entirely free, no ads, no servers nonsense, just purely local files being played with a great, minimalistic UI.

Excellent app

Smooth app. Easy to use and import files. Great organization tools. I’ve been using it for several weeks and it just works. I tried several other apps and this one is by far the most responsive and reliable. I definitely recommend.