Clips and bookmarks is one of the most important features for the user to retain information after listening to a book. But it's one of the most ignored features as well. You can't read your notes beyond the first few words. Earlier you could tap to expand and be able to read your fell note for each of the bookmarks. Also, that screen doesn't retain your position in the list after you go out of that screen. Once you go back to the bookmarks page you have to scroll all the way again. Terrible!
Tara M
My main issue with this app is how incredibly difficult it is to refine my search within the audible plus catalog. Which is frustrating considering I'm paying. I've gone back and forth with memberships for years. I own MANY books. I never get recommendations in the plus catalog based on my library and it's always the same free books. Since discovering I can get MANY books for free via my local library's apps. I've been even more less inclined to pay for audible.
Vanilluh Bare
Price is pretty steep for only 1 book credit per month and the moderate functionality of the app. Combine that with controlling how long you need to listen to something before you can leave a review on it and the lack of consistency of available titles from a series and there's not much left for positive feedback. Doesn't take hours of listening to determine that a certain narrator is doing a poor job and want to inform other listeners before they waste their 1 credit/money on a title.
Ariean “Capi” Wallace
I like audible. The issue is the app for me it malfunctions when I wanted to work the most. Play back button works when it wants to and then when you download it doesn't necessarily save it to your phone so if you don't have internet access you don't get access to the book. I don't know if it's just a me problem or other people have the same issue.
Jeff Harris
The app should be an audiobook player, but is seems to exist primarily to try to get you to buy more audiobooks. The app loads into a "Home" screen in name only: it's actually a storefront with suggestions for what to buy/use credits on. Every book ends with a preview for a suggested listen, completing ruining the sense of finality you get at the end of the book you listened to.
Aly Tabaldo
First, I absolutely adore the vast selection of books to choose from, and have had MANY suggestions they've given me that were "included in your membership" that have grown to be favorites. Second, the app is buggy as hell with the tech help not very helpful. I've had the same issues through 4 different phones. The app will randomly crash and I have to close it down and restart it to get it playing again. Tech assumes it's just one book and doesn't listen when I say it's ANY book.
Shane Lee
When one of my favorite authors dropped a new title, I came back to Audible after 6 months using another app. Imagine my disappointment when the app crashes anytime another app sends a notification. Maps and Messenger sometimes crash it, but the camera "click" when taking pictures is pretty much guaranteed. For someone making package deliveries all day, this is unacceptable.
Erik Bergesen
Not enough books to choose from, and shorter books are the same cost as longer books. If the book is eight hours or less, it shouldn't be a full credit. Or maybe you should have a plan for manga listening so you can listen to three volumes for one credit--I'd pay for an add-on so I could use my credits for normal books or manga if you did this!--but right now, it's far from satisfactory. Also, why are most of the "free" narrators rubbish? Quality control would be lovely.
Ulrike G
App keeps getting worse and worse! There are now ads at the end of every book! You pay for the service, and you buy the books, and there are still advertisements. You can queue a title to play next or use collections to play books in order but both are glitchy. They also removed the option to bookmark your library to that from your home screen. I never shop in the app, so waiting for the store to load is a waste of time. I've had a subscription since 2006, and EVERY update makes the app worse!
Christina Lynn
I'm having the same issue many others have mentioned - no matter what my settings are, when my phone connects to Bluetooth in my car, Audible automatically starts up. Not only that - it starts playing a book I've already marked finished and archived. It's EXTREMELY aggravating not only that the issue exists in the first place (there's no way there's no fix for this, Amazon!), but also people have been complaining about this issue for literally YEARS and nothing has been done.
