# Synopsia - Book Summaries — user reviews

> 34 indexed App Store user reviews of Synopsia by Devpool, rated 4.60/5 from 291 ratings.

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- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/synopsia-book-summaries/id6448647429.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 239 · 4★ 22 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 20

## What do users think of Synopsia?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 👍 Great app idea
- 👍 Nice idea for book summaries
- 👍 Cool app for books
- 👍 App reads books
- 👍 Excellent application
- 👍 Really nice idea
- 👍 Keep it on phone
- 👍 Enjoyable app
- 👍 Basic book outline
- 👍 Review reading or audio
- 👍 Top app
- 👍 Perfect app
- 👍 Sublime app
- 👍 Happy to discover
- 👍 Completely addicted
- 👍 Summaries well done
- 👍 Pertinent and enriching summaries
- 👍 10-20 min format perfect
- 👍 Choice of languages a plus
- 👍 Congratulations to developers
- 👍 Beautiful tool
- 👍 Great app
- 👍 Awesome great App
- 👍 Catch up on books
- 👍 Real conscience software
- 👍 Free and simple
- 👍 No ads
- 👍 It’s awesome
- 👍 Voice is great
- 👍 Free app
- 👍 Great First Impression
- 👍 Reading & listening experience
- 👍 Hear books in different languages
- 👍 Superbe application
- 👍 Well designed and easy to use
- 👍 Listen while doing other things
- 👍 Good alternative for busy people
- 👍 Good alternative for remembering books
- 👍 Géniale!
- 👍 Literary companion
- 👍 Audio summaries perfect
- 👍 Extremely useful app
- 👍 Perfect for those lazy to read
- 👍 Learn from wonderful books

**Cons**

- 👎 Very few books of interest
- 👎 Cannot find books when searching
- 👎 No key points
- 👎 No citations
- 👎 Cannot ask AI questions
- 👎 No space to write
- 👎 Error when clicking download
- 👎 Takes to French Amazon store
- 👎 Less free books
- 👎 More books locked out
- 👎 Cannot remove bookmarked titles
- 👎 Support website not for app users
- 👎 Cannot ask simple questions
- 👎 Only about 70 titles total
- 👎 Most titles are self-help
- 👎 Only two fiction titles
- 👎 Synopsis is fraudulent
- 👎 Charged $10.99 when should be free
- 👎 Total fraud
- 👎 No summaries available to listen
- 👎 No results from suggestions
- 👎 Not thousands of books
- 👎 More like three or four dozen
- 👎 Most are self-help books
- 👎 Paying $69.99 is a mistake
- 👎 Inutile
- 👎 Finds no books
- 👎 Useless app
- 👎 Do not pay for this
- 👎 Attention Scam
- 👎 Content is null
- 👎 French voice changes to Spanish
- 👎 Listening becomes incomprehensible
- 👎 Voice pronounces French words in Spanish
- 👎 Lose track of summary
- 👎 Content not as it should be
- 👎 $1.99 is not free
- 👎 Tiny selection of books
- 👎 Books not of interest
- 👎 Cannot gain access to thousands of books
- 👎 App is a scam
- 👎 Claimed to be free, but no books inside

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Error when clicking download
- When I click buy on Amazon it takes me to the French Amazon store
- Cannot get bookmarked titles off my list
- Support website oriented toward business partners, not app users
- There are not any summaries available in this app to listen to
- Attention Arnaque : contenu nul et voix française qui change en espagnol pendant l’écoute
- Attention au bout de quelques minutes l’écoute devient incompréhensible, la voix prononcé en espagnole les mots français, puis lentement, puis on perd le fil du résumé quand il recommence juste après encore à parler en espagnol avec les mots francais
- This App was supposed to be free for the day (from AppAdvice). This garbage app charged me $10.99 when it should have been free.
- This app is a scam. It claimed to be a free book reader on X and there is no book inside.

**Most requested features**

- Support for Airplay, Carplay, and Chromecast
- Ability to copy and paste summaries and share them
- Requests for books, even in French
- Offline mode feature
- Make Amazon link go to U.S. Amazon store
- Increase number of free books
- Ability to remove bookmarked titles
- Download synopses for offline listening
- Add Shakespeare works like drama
- Add more titles and a greater selection of titles
- Add key points, citations, and AI question feature
- Add space to write notes

## Newest reviews (10 of 34)

### 4/5 — Enjoyable app

*2024-01-12*

A very enjoyable app. The book synopsis allows for a basic outline of a book. It can be reviewed either reading or audio. Five stars if the number of free books increases and less are locked out.

**Developer response:** Thank you so much, will add more free books!

### 4/5 — Needs more titles and a greater selection of titles

*2024-01-08*

There are only about 70 titles in total.  Most of the titles offered are self help. There are only two fiction titles. I have bookmarked a number of titles and subsequently listened to them, but I can’t get them off my list of bookmarked titles. When I tried to access Support, the website was oriented, toward business partners, not app users. I couldn’t find any way to ask a simple question.

**Developer response:** Hello,

Thanks for the review.
Yes, lot of books are coming really soon, we are just been around for only a few months.

To unbookmark the books, you just have to click again on the bookmark icon (Working on our 5 tests devices).
You can write us at synopsia@devpool.fr if there is anymore issues,

Thanks again

### 4/5 — Offline mode, please!!

*2023-12-22*

I would use this app way more if I could download synopses for offline listening in the same way you can download podcasts.

**Developer response:** Thanks,

Will add this!

### 3/5 — Bon début

*2023-12-17*

A améliorer. 🙏🏼

**Developer response:** Merci pour votre message.
Nous venons de sortir deux nouvelles fonctionnalités sur la dernière mise à jour + 4 nouveaux livres.

N'hésitez pas à nous écrire sur synopsia@devpool.fr si vous avez des idées d'améliorations

### 5/5 — merci

*2023-12-16*

TRÈS BONNNE APPLI

**Developer response:** Merci pour votre message!

### 4/5 — Got a hold for

*2023-12-16*

I’m sorry but it

### 5/5 — Awesome great App

*2023-12-16, version 2.0.2*

Always wanted to listen or read to books but always never had enough time. It’s awesome that I can catch up .

### 5/5 — This is a real conscience.

*2023-12-15, version 2.0.2*

This software is really good, it has lifetime support, it’s free, and it’s overall simple and atmospheric, with no ads,It’s far more than that. If I want to talk about the benefits, I could talk about them all day long.

### 5/5 — It’s awesome

*2023-12-15*

I use it to listen book, it is voice is great. The point is that it has Free, thanks for the creator!

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review!

### 5/5 — Great First Impression!

*2023-12-15*

This seems to be a new app so I understand the limited catalogue right now, but I really like the reading & listening experience so far for the titles that do exist. The availability to hear the books in different languages is my favorite feature as someone trying to learn Spanish! I’m excited to see the catalogue grow :)

**Developer response:** Thanks so much for your review, you will love our new app that coming in the next few weeks to learn languages!

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Got screwed

*2024-01-06*

This App was supposed to be free for the day (from AppAdvice). This garbage app charged me $10.99 when it should have been free. I’d give it zero stars if could. Total fraud!!!

**Developer response:** Hello,

It was free only for a day, maybe you were late. Please write us at synopsia@devpool.fr.

Refund the subscription at reportaproblem.apple.com and we will offer you lifetime access for you and friends and family

Thanks,

### 1/5 — Synopsia

*2024-01-05*

There are not any summaries available in this app to listen to, nor did l get results from any of the suggestions l made.

**Developer response:** Weird, there are more than 70 books in the app
Please refund if you’re not satisfied at reportaproblem.apple.com

### 1/5 — Thousands of books?

*2024-01-05*

Not really. More like three or four dozen, most of which are self-help books. Anyone who pays $69.99 for this app is making a mistake.

**Developer response:** We are at 70 books.
More are coming soon, it’s been only 6 months since our app is released! Stay tuned, and please refund if you are not satisfied

### 1/5 — Inutile

*2023-12-18*

Ne trouve aucun livre. App inutile. Ne payez surtout pas pour ça.

**Developer response:** Bonjour,

Vous ne trouvez pas de livres ? Veuillez nous écrire sur synopsia@devpool.fr pour vous aidez à configurer l'application pour voir tous les livres

### 1/5 — attention Arnaque : contenu nul et voix française qui change en espagnol pendant l’écoute

*2023-12-16*

attention au bout de quelques minutes l’écoute devient incompréhensible, la voix prononcé en espagnole les mots français, puis lentement, puis on perd le fil du résumé quand il recommence juste après encore à parler en espagnol avec les mots francais, je pense que le contenu n’est pas du tout ce qu’il devrait être. Les précédents avis doivent être

**Developer response:** Veuillez réessayer avec la dernière mise à jour. Les livres français ont été entièrement refaits par une tierce personne, car nous avons constaté que la qualité n'était pas au rendez-vous.

Merci pour votre feedback

### 1/5 — Synopsia

*2023-12-16*

1.99 is not free for this application

**Developer response:** Hello,

It was only free for a day, please write me to synopsia@devpool.fr so I'll give you a free lifetime offer

### 1/5 — Scam

*2023-12-15*

This app is a scam. It claimed to be a free book reader on X and there is no book inside.

**Developer response:** Hello,

It was only free for a day, please write me to synopsia@devpool.fr so I'll give you a free lifetime offer

### 2/5 — Sorry, but useless

*2023-12-15*

Tiny selection of books that I am not interested. Thousands of books that one app could not possibly gain access too.

**Developer response:** More books are coming very soon!

### 3/5 — J’aimerais pouvoir copier coller les résumés et les partager.

*2025-03-09*

Très peu de livres m’intéressent. Je ne les trouve pas quand je fais la recherche. Peut-on faire des demandes de livres même en français ?

Pas de points clés , pas de citations je ne peux pas poser de questions à l’intelligence artificielle, il n’y a pas pas d’espace où écrire.

### 3/5 — Offline mode feature

*2024-03-12*

When I click download It says error

**Developer response:** Will fix in the next update! Sorry about that

EDIT: it’s fixed!

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Great app needs more ways to listen

*2025-03-19*

This app should have support for Airplay, Carplay, and Chromecast.

### 5/5 — Great app here!

*2024-10-21*

Really nice idea to know about books without spending days on it, I’ll definitely keep it in my phone!

### 5/5 — Cool App For Books

*2024-07-09*

This is a cool app for books and I really like that the app reads the books.

### 5/5 — Excellent

*2024-01-23*

Excellente application! Je recherchais depuis longtemps une appli comme celle ci. Me voilà comblé

**Developer response:** Merci pour votre avis !

### 5/5 — It's getting better, more books being added every week.

*2024-01-15*

When I click buy on Amazon it takes me to the French Amazon store. Is there anyway to make it go to the U.S. Amazon store?

**Developer response:** Thank you for your review!

We will add this in the next update!

### 5/5 — Top

*2024-01-12*

Perfect!!!!!!!!!

**Developer response:** Merci Bob!

### 5/5 — Sublime

*2024-01-09*

Je suis vraiment heureuse d'avoir decouvert cette application gratuitement grâce à l'application Indi App Santa.
Et je suis complètement accro !
Les résumés sont très bien fait, pertinents et enrichissants. Le fait que le format soit de 10 à 20m est vraiment parfait notamment quand je conduis.
J'aime énormément cette application.
Le choix en plusieurs langues est vraiment un plus.
Félicitations aux développeurs pour leur travail et d'avoir conçu un aussi bel outil.
Aussi, pouvez-vous m'indiquer s'il vous plaît à quelle fréquence sont intégrés de nouveaux livres : chaque jour ? Chaque semaine ? Chaque mois ?

Dans l'attente de votre retour je vous souhaite le meilleur et merci pour votre travail c'est genial! Je vous adresse tout mon soutien.

**Developer response:** Merci beaucoup ! C'est génial que vous appréciez l'application !

Il y aura environ 10-20 nouveaux livres par mois.

Merci encore pour votre message,

### 5/5 — Thanks

*2023-12-21*

Great app, please add shakespeare works like drama

**Developer response:** Will do!

Thanks for the review

### 5/5 — Bonne application

*2023-12-17*

bonne application à conseiller, elle fait de bon résumés et c’est agréable

**Developer response:** Merci AlexSoph pour votre message !

### 5/5 — Top App

*2023-12-16*

I use it every day, I love it .

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for the review, don't forget to talk about it to your family and friends!

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