BookPlayer vs Volume.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Volume.
This app is a privacy-focused audiobook player for self-hosted libraries. It offers chapter-first playback, multi-server support, and customizable design, all without ads or tracking.
- Multi-server and multi-account support
- Chapter-first playback
- Undo last skip functionality
- CarPlay and AirPlay integration
- iCloud sync across devices
- Offline listening
- Advanced playback controls
- Bookmarks and notes with export
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Your audiobooks. Your server. Played beautifully. Volume is an expressive, privacy-first audiobook player built for people who host their own libraries. Whether your books live on Audiobookshelf, Jellyfin or Plex, Volume brings them together into one fluid, customisable listening experience, built natively for iOS in SwiftUI. WHY VOLUME Audiobooks are not long albums. They have chapters, you lose your place in them, and you return to them over weeks. Most players treat them like music. Volume doesn't. I built it for my own library first, as an indie project, and it connects straight to your server with nothing in between. MULTI-SERVER AND MULTI-ACCOUNT Connect to Audiobookshelf, Jellyfin or Plex. Switch between libraries and servers without losing your place. CHAPTER-FIRST PLAYBACK Per-chapter progress and time remaining, so you always know how far you are from a sensible place to stop. Full M4B chapter support, including parsing chapters Jellyfin doesn't expose through its API. UNDO LAST SKIP Clipped the next-chapter button in your pocket? Volume remembers your previous position and puts you back with one tap. CARPLAY AND AIRPLAY Browse your library, control playback and move between chapters safely from the car. Send audio to a HomePod, Apple TV or any AirPlay speaker straight from the player's route picker. ICLOUD SYNC Your library stays in step across every Apple device you own. OFFLINE LISTENING Download books to your device for flights, commutes and anywhere off-grid, with full download and progress management. ADVANCED PLAYBACK Variable speed to 3x, customisable skip durations, and a smart sleep timer with duration, end-of-chapter and fade-out modes. BOOKMARKS AND NOTES Save the moments that matter with timestamped bookmarks, attach notes to exact playback positions, and export everything to CSV, Markdown or YAML. A playback timeline keeps a record of how you actually listen. EXPRESSIVE, CUSTOMISABLE DESIGN Dynamic theming repaints the app around the cover art of whatever you're reading. Reorder your home screen sections, configure player button layouts, filter by genre, and enjoy a serif-led typographic design built for iOS. METADATA ENRICHMENT Integrates with Open Library for cover artwork, author information and descriptions, falling back to embedded file metadata. PRIVACY AND FREEDOM Volume is strictly client-side. Your server credentials, library data and playback statistics stay yours. No accounts, no ads, no third-party analytics, no tracking. Listen to your audiobooks, expressively. Questions or bugs: feedback.hyperfixation.dev
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Volume. at 100% against BookPlayer's 59%. Volume. also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6). BookPlayer's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (241 vs 2). On price, 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
Both are free to download. BookPlayer sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Volume. asks for nothing beyond the download.
BookPlayer holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BookPlayer has 241 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of BookPlayer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Volume.'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
BookPlayer ships an update weekly, Volume. every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BookPlayer | Volume. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (241 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 241 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alevtina Liubimova | Morgan Archer |
Customer experience
BookPlayer
Volume.
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
Volume.
No in-app purchases









