bambü vs Novelwave

Welcome to bambü, the ultimate app for book lovers! bambü helps you discover, track, and manage your reading list effortlessly. With a sleek and intuitive design, bambü makes it easy to: Discover: Search for books and view detailed information, including ratings from Amazon and Goodreads. Track: Add books to your reading list and keep track of your progress. Rank: Use our unique algorithm to rank books based on ratings and estimated reading time. Manage: Organize your library with ease and never lose track of a book again. Whether you're an avid reader or just getting started, bambü is the perfect companion for your reading journey. Download now and start exploring the world of books like never before!

Novelwave plays the audiobooks you already own. Bring in your DRM-free files, organize them on shelves, and pick up exactly where you left off, on your iPhone, on your Apple Watch or in the car. IMPORT FROM FILES OR ICLOUD DRIVE • M4B, M4A, MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, Ogg Opus and MP4 • Add many files at once, then keep them separate or merge the parts into one book, titled from its tags • Open audiobooks straight from Files or other apps, or share several at once • Books in iCloud Drive stay there until you press play, so they don’t fill up your iPhone EVERYTHING A LISTENER NEEDS • Any speed from 0.5× to 6×, in 0.05× steps • A sleep timer from 5 to 90 minutes, or at the end of a chapter or file, counting down on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Skip back and forward from 5 to 45 seconds, each set separately • Rewind a few seconds when you pause, so you never lose the thread • Jump to any chapter in books that have them • Bookmarks with names and notes, saved in one tap • Picks up again after calls, Siri and alarms • Control playback from the Lock Screen, Control Center, AirPlay devices and your headphones APPLE WATCH • Control what’s playing on your iPhone from your wrist • Send audiobooks to your Apple Watch and leave your phone at home • Change the speed, set a sleep timer, jump between chapters and dictate bookmark notes • Turn the volume with the Digital Crown • Carry on listening on whichever device you pick up • A Now Playing complication and Smart Stack widget SEE HOW YOU LISTEN • Your listening time by week, month, year or all time • The books you finished, the days you listened and the speeds you listened at • Share your stats as a story image, or save it to Photos • Year in Listening sums up your year when a new one begins • Leave a book out of your stats, or change when you finished it CARPLAY, SIRI AND SHORTCUTS • In CarPlay, continue where you left off or browse your shelves, then change chapters and speed from Now Playing • Ask Siri to resume, skip, change chapters, set the speed, add a bookmark or start a sleep timer • Shortcuts actions for playback, chapters, speed, bookmarks and the sleep timer • Find your audiobooks in Spotlight SHELVES INSIDE SHELVES • Group books by author, series or mood, as deep as you like • Sort by title, date added or date updated • Filter by in progress, not started, finished or downloaded • Search across titles, authors and shelves EDIT EVERY DETAIL • Change the title, author, description, genre, composer, year and finish date • Add covers from Photos, Files or the clipboard, even for books still in iCloud PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Progress, shelves, bookmarks and listening stats sync through your own iCloud account • Novelwave can only see its own folder in iCloud Drive, nothing else • No account to create AND MUCH MORE • Now Playing widgets for your Home Screen, each showing what’s playing or a book you choose, plus Play/Pause and Sleep Timer controls for Control Center • Export your whole library to any folder in Files, bookmarks and notes included, or share one book’s bookmarks • Light, dark or system appearance, and a Minimal style without illustrations • Two alternate app icons, including the original Novelwave icon • VoiceOver support Your next chapter starts here.