Precise Audiobook Player vs BookPlayer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Precise Audiobook Player
This app provides advanced playback controls for audiobooks and other long audio files, offering features like auto-bookmarks, chapter navigation, and custom playback lists. It includes a driving mode with large, swipeable controls for safe operation on the go.
- Auto-bookmarks
- Chapter navigation for m4b files
- Customizable playback lists
- Driving mode with large controls
- Precision time control
- Support for various audio formats
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Fully updated for iOS 15.5 If you listen to audiobooks or other lengthy audio items, you need this app. Precise Audiobook gives you complete control when you want it but still has simple, easy-to-use controls while driving or jogging. While Apple's built-in audio player will play these files, it was never designed for items longer than a couple of minutes and often loses your place in the book. Features include: • Auto-Bookmarks: Automatically creates and maintains bookmarks for each book or podcast you listen to. • Custom Bookmarks: Create and edit special bookmarks at any time. • Chapters: Fully implements the new m4b standard to display and select chapters within such audiobooks. One can now easily review the table of contents, jump to any chapter, move forward or back a chapter easily at any time. • Custom Lists: Starting from albums, playlists, and podcasts on your device; you can create, edit, and revise your own Lists for automatic sequential playback. This allows you to put together your own sequence of parts of books, episodes of podcasts, and any other audio items. You can sort, shuffle, reorder, delete or add to any such list at any time. • Driving Mode: Large controls and displays combined with swipeable controls make it easy to keep your eyes on the road while easily handling most issues that frequently come up on those long drives. Isn't that why you got audiobooks? • Swipe Controls: Simple broad swipes implement frequently used controls. For example: stroke horizontally across the top of the display to jump to the next item or across the lower part of the display to jump 30 seconds. • Precision Time Control: One can pan quickly over the entire book or use a fine panning control. One can jump forward or backward in increments of 10 minutes, 1 minute, or 10 seconds. The current position and time remaining are displayed in hours, minutes, and seconds. • Controls-Lock: No more accidental control taps or wasted power for displays that you aren't looking at for long periods of time. Turn your device face down and put it in your pocket while jogging. The controls and display return as soon as you turn it face-up. • User Preferences: Change the screen brightness, speed of playback, and many other preferences. • Help: Quick and easy how-to-get-started instructions as well as detailed notes and suggestions for later are available at a tap. • Formats: Plays any and all audio files stored in your iTunes library on your device. (mp3, m4a, m4b, aac, podcast, Audible, aiff, wav, and Apple Lossless) • Remote Controls: Fully implements all car stereo and headphone controls. • External Playback: Fully utilizes Bluetooth and airPlay options. Although a must-have app for audiobooks and podcasts, it works outstandingly for playing all your music as well.
BookPlayer
This app is a dedicated audio player for your personal audiobook collection. It supports various audio file formats and offers convenient playback features like automatic bookmarking and sleep timers. Enjoy your audiobooks offline without any advertisements.
- Plays MP3, MP4, M4B, M4A formats
- Automatic bookmarking
- Quick chapter jumping
- Headset controls
- Control Center/lock screen integration
- Sleep timer
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BookPlayer is the perfect way to enjoy audiobooks in MP3, MP4, M4B, M4A formats on your iPhone or iPod Touch! *** Please note: the app does not include audiobooks. It is designed to play your audio files. *** This app is designed with a single purpose - to provide maximum convenience and simplicity when listening to audiobooks of various formats! There are many online resources where you can find audiobooks on a wide variety of topics, voiced by both professional actors and audio enthusiasts. Most of these audiobooks are available in folders containing many files, predominantly in MP3 format and others similar. I, the creator of this app, am also a devotee of audiobooks and have tried to incorporate everything necessary into BookPlayer to make listening as easy and enjoyable as possible. • Supports MP3, MP4, M4B, M4A formats (except files with DRM protection). • Automatically remembers where you left off in audiobooks. • The ability to quickly jump to any part of the audio file. • Control playback through the headset. • Control the player through the Control Center and lock screen. • Sleep timer with a choice of different time intervals or until the end of the chapter. If you liked BookPlayer, don't forget to share your impressions with others and leave a review. Terms & Conditions: https://bookplayer.tilda.ws/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy: https://bookplayer.tilda.ws/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: BookPlayer at Free against Precise Audiobook Player's $2.99. BookPlayer also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.5) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). Precise Audiobook Player's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
BookPlayer is free to download; Precise Audiobook Player costs $2.99 up front. BookPlayer sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Precise Audiobook Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
BookPlayer holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BookPlayer has 244 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Precise Audiobook Player's written reviews are positive against 59% of BookPlayer's.
Precise Audiobook Player ships an update every 4 months, BookPlayer weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Precise Audiobook Player | BookPlayer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (4 ratings) | 4.5 (244 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 58.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 244 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Steve Kliewer | Alevtina Liubimova |
Customer experience
Precise Audiobook Player
BookPlayer
Bugs and requests
Precise Audiobook Player
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
BookPlayer
Reported bugs
21 issues- Over 100 copies of audiobook created when downloading from iCloud
- Free version doesn't refresh daily
- App forgets Pro purchase, enforcing 30 min limit
- Playback doesn't stop when tapping earphones
- Exporting still one piece after chapter split
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- Cannot mark and delete multiple copies
- Rating request pop-ups appear daily even when switched off
- Cannot import files in free mode
- Next day would not play, demanded more money
- Free version is useless due to 30 min limit
- Cannot export audiobooks without paying
- App forgets Pro purchase
- Free version doesn't refresh daily
- Playback issues with earphones
- Cannot mark and delete multiple copies
- Speed limited to 2.0x
- Exporting still one piece after chapter split
- No bookmark functionality
- No playback progress saved when switching chapters
- Import Folder option missing for Pro version
- No connection between OS and mobile accounts
Requested features
21 requests- Add widget support
- Add sorting options
- Add folders to the GUI
- Add bookmark functionality
- Add ability to skip intro/outro
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- Add Chinese language support
- Add ability to record playback time for each track
- Add iCloud Sync for audiobooks
- Add folders for audiobooks
- Add feature to separate completed books from current ones
- Add option to advance/rewind 30s via headset/watch buttons
- Add watch functionality for chapter progress
- Add ability to mark and delete multiple items
- Increase voice speed limit beyond 2.0x
- Add ability to export by chapter
- Add ability to sync across multiple devices
- Add a specific 'Book Player' folder that syncs with the app
- Show total remaining time for a book
- Add Pro Lifetime option
- Add ability to change order of books in the book list
- Add Import Folder option (if not present for Pro users)
In-app purchases
Precise Audiobook Player
No in-app purchases
BookPlayer
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Pro$2.991 Month
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- Annual$12.991 Year
- Yeraly7 Days trial$12.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$8.99
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