# Spine - Audiobook Player — user reviews

> 8 indexed App Store user reviews of Spine by Accelyze Inc., rated 4.80/5 from 25 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spine-audiobook-player/id6764636615/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spine-audiobook-player/id6764636615.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 22 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0

## Most critical reviews (8 lowest-rated)

### 3/5 — Made up fake metadata

*2026-07-11*

Update: thanks for the info about the Metadata setting, but it doesn’t really do anything useful. I shouldn’t have to go through and edit made-up metadata. It would be better if you included a setting to prevent the app from trying to guess what my files are. Outside of the app, all of my files either already have real metadata or are organized in to folders. The app’s unwanted attempts to automatically find something I’m not looking for l make it useless.

Original:
This app looked to be exactly what I wanted: and audiobook player that supported syncing with a local folder. However, when I add the folder, it made up fake, useless metadata for a great number of the files in the folder. I’ve deleted the app for now.

**Developer response:** Thanks for trying and I appreciate your feedback! The behavior you experienced can happen if some of the audiobooks were a collection of m4a, m4b files. There is a 'Manage Metadata' option in Settings to handle this. Or you may manually merge multiple files into a single book under 'Update Metadata'.

### 3/5 — Made up fake metadata

*2026-06-22*

This app looked to be exactly what I wanted: and audiobook player that supported syncing with a local folder. However, when I add the folder, it made up fake, useless metadata for a great number of the files in the folder. I’ve deleted the app for now.

### 5/5 — Works exactly like it should

*2026-08-29*

Finally found an audiobook player with cloud API support to my private library.

### 5/5 — It just does

*2026-08-14*

Works elegnatly. Solid and clean UI. I love it.

### 5/5 — Amazing

*2026-07-20*

A great app for audiobooks, easy to find and add books and connects to multiple sources. Keep up the great work!

### 5/5 — Thank you for the App

*2026-07-09*

It works like a charm.

### 5/5 — Great app

*2026-06-19*

Easy to use and setup.

### 5/5 — Top tier audiobook app.

*2026-06-10*

This is by far the best audiobook app. Allowing the user to use a self-hosted server…..and other methods.

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*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 2026-09-04.*