Book Mower Audiobook Player vs VideoBookcasePlus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Book Mower Audiobook Player
This app provides a delightful experience for managing and playing audiobooks. It offers precise playback controls, automatic bookmarking, and a driving mode for safer listening. You can also organize your audio library with custom artwork and chapter management.
- Customizable skip buttons
- Driving mode for safe listening
- Automatic bookmarking on events
- Adjustable playback speed
- Reorder, rename, and add artwork to audiobooks
- Integrated audiobook store and free audiobook library
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Thousands of details have been considered in pursuit of a single goal: make getting, playing, and managing audiobooks a delightful experience. Precise Control: Sliders are difficult with long audio. If you mis-slide, you can't get back to where you were, making it very easy to lose your place. For this reason, Book Mower has no position scrubber. Instead, the app provides customizable skip buttons: jump by specific amounts in either direction. A Driving Mode makes listening to audiobooks in the car safer. The screen becomes tap-to-play/pause and swipe-to-skip. Book Mower continues playing in the background after leaving the app, and automatically transitions between parts of books. Automatic Bookmarks: Book Mower will keep track of your progress with automatically created bookmarks. Events, such as chapter transitions, interruptions (like phone calls), and app suspensions, get bookmarked. Just tapping Pause will create a bookmark also, so you don't have to do anything special to create one. Then, if you customize any bookmarks -- change their name, color, position or notes, -- they become permanent, and you can export them as HTML/CSV/Text. The Sleep Timer has features like shake-to-add-time, auto screen dimming, and it bookmarks when the timer started and ended, so you can easily pick up where you dozed off. Playback Speed Controls offer fine-grained adjustment, with non-linear increments: from slightly faster to double speed. Book Mower works great with remote controls, like Bluetooth or Apple headphones. With any audio, you can play/pause remotely. If you listen to DRM-free audiobooks, you can also skip +/- 30 seconds, and create bookmarks even while the app is backgrounded. Complete control over audio files: - Reorder parts/chapters. - Rename audiobooks and parts/chapters. - Cover artwork can be added or replaced -- just a simple copy-and-paste of any image from web or photo library. Use hi-res images for Retina display devices. - Download/delete/re-download audio files whenever you want. Redirect audio output with AirPlay support. Get, play and manage audio content from a wide variety of sources -- iTunes, Audible.com, Librivox.org, CDs, public library downloads, ... . Free Audiobooks included: Search or Browse through thousands of titles available from Librivox.org directly in the app. Browse and add to your Bookshelf, then download when you are ready to listen. iTunes Audiobook Store is built right in: browse the most popular titles and search the entire catalog. Audio File Types Supported: - DRM-enabled content (from Audible.com or iTunes Store) - non-DRM content (from web downloads, CDs, etc.) - M4B audiobooks, including chapters, artwork - MP3 audio files, including artwork, ID3 tags - import individual audio files or Zip archives (including artwork image files) Audio Import Options (for mp3, m4b, or zip files): - add from on-device iTunes Library (required for DRM-enabled audio, like from Audible) - use iTunes File Sharing (no syncing required) - Open in... Book Mower from Dropbox, and most other cloud storage systems - use a web browser on your computer to transfer files. Try it for free! Try it as a FREE TRIAL with 5 audiobooks for up to 60 days, then only $3.99 for unlimited audiobooks.
VideoBookcasePlus
Organize and access your personal video library from your NAS offline. This app is ideal for content creators, educators, and professionals to manage their own video content.
- Personal video library organizer
- Offline access to NAS content
- Bookshelf-style visual library
- Import and organize owned videos
- Ideal for educators and creators
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VideoBookcasePlus is a personal video library organizer designed for content creators, educators, and professionals who need offline access to their own NAS video content. BUILT FOR YOUR OWN CONTENT: - Import and organize videos you've created or have rights to - Perfect for educators managing lecture recordings - Ideal for content creators backing up their own uploads - Great for professionals archiving training materials ORGANIZE YOUR NAS LIBRARY: - Beautiful bookshelf-style visual library - Quick access to your saved videos - Play videos offline anytime This app is intended for personal use with content you own from your personal NAS. Users are responsible for ensuring they have appropriate rights to any content they save.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: VideoBookcasePlus at 5.0 against Book Mower Audiobook Player's 4.2. VideoBookcasePlus also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). Book Mower Audiobook Player's advantage is ratings volume (55 vs 2) and iOS requirement (10.1 vs 15.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Book Mower Audiobook Player sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and VideoBookcasePlus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
VideoBookcasePlus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Book Mower Audiobook Player has 55 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Book Mower Audiobook Player ships an update fortnightly, VideoBookcasePlus every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Book Mower Audiobook Player | VideoBookcasePlus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (55 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Freshmowed Software | Bryan Moore |
In-app purchases
Book Mower Audiobook Player
- Add Unlimited Audiobooks$3.99
VideoBookcasePlus
- Unlimited Downloads$9.99
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