Comparison

BookJack Player vs Anyview

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

BookJack Player

This app provides a clean and powerful way to listen to your personal audiobook collection. Import your M4B, M4A, MP3, or FLAC files and enjoy features like adjustable playback speed, smart controls, and a sleep timer.

Highlights
  • Import personal audiobook files (M4B, M4A, MP3, FLAC)
  • Custom folders and search functionality
  • Adjustable playback speed (0.5x - 3.0x)
  • Smart rewind and skip controls
  • Sleep timer
  • Chapter navigation and bookmarks
  • Dark and Light Mode
Features
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Ever wish you had more time? While listening to Start With Why by Simon Sinek, I realized our why: audiobooks give you time back. BookJack was built for your library, so you can listen anywhere... on your commute, at the gym, or even as you fall asleep. It’s the clean, no-nonsense player that makes audiobooks feel like a third arm in your life. Import. Play. Repeat. Drop in your M4B, M4A, MP3, or FLAC files and get listening. Developed by Brett & Dane Library • Import your own files or whole folders • Custom folders & search by title/author • Sort by title, author, date, or progress Playback • Adjustable speed (0.5x – 3.0x) • Smart rewind & skip controls • Volume boost + sleep timer • Chapter navigation & bookmarks Experience • Dark & Light Mode • Custom accent colors • Mini player & full-screen player • Clean, modern SwiftUI design Why BookJack? BookJack is designed for audiobook enthusiasts who want a simple, powerful, and beautiful way to manage and enjoy their own digital library. Built with SwiftUI and SwiftData, it delivers fast performance, a modern design, and a truly native iOS experience. Supported formats: M4B, M4A, MP3, FLAC

About

Anyview

Features
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Comics and books in one app. Free, with no ads. No unzipping required. Anyview opens zip, cbz, cbr and rar archives as they are, and folds a folder of loose images into a single volume. Your txt, epub, mobi, fb2, pdf and hwp files sit in the same library. ■ FREE, ALWAYS · Every feature is free. Nothing is locked · No ads, no subscription, no trial period · No in-app purchases of any kind ■ FORMATS · Comics — zip, cbz, cbr, rar · Images — png, jpg, gif, webp, heic and more · E-books — epub, mobi, azw3, fb2 · Text — txt, html · Documents — pdf, hwp, hwpx ■ READING COMICS · Page turn — Page Curl, Slide, Instant, or Continuous Scroll · Left-to-right or right-to-left reading · Two pages, split wide pages, trim edges · Invert colors · Auto-Turn at an interval you choose · Carry on into the next volume when one ends ■ READING TEXT · Three themes (White, Ivory, Night) with Light, Dark or Match Screen Mode · Adjust typeface, text size, line, letter and word spacing, and side margins · Add your own font files · Auto-format paragraphs in text with broken line breaks · Contents, bookmarks, and search within the book (with recent searches) · Jump back with ↶ after moving by contents or search ■ LISTENING · Text is read aloud · Speed from 0.5x to 2x · Sleep timer — 15, 30 or 60 minutes · Keeps reading with the screen off or in another app, with Lock Screen controls ■ ADDING FILES · Wi-Fi Transfer — open the address shown on screen in your computer's browser and drop files in. No cable needed · Files app, share sheet from other apps, or paste · Drag and drop on iPad ■ HIDDEN FOLDER · Hide books and folders you would rather not show, and bring them back with Face ID ■ WHERE YOU LEFT OFF · Every book reopens at the page you stopped on ■ NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER · No sign-up · Your books stay on your device. Nothing is collected · Works without an internet connection (Wi-Fi Transfer stays within your own network)

Screenshots

BookJack Player4 screens
Anyview4 screens

Verdict

The call

BookJack Player and Anyview are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
BookJack Player versus Anyview: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookJack PlayerAnyview
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.517.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrett RidenourJaehyun Shin

In-app purchases

None

BookJack Player

No in-app purchases

None

Anyview

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BookJack Player free?
BookJack Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Anyview free?
Anyview is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BookJack Player or Anyview have ads?
Neither BookJack Player nor Anyview shows ads.

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