Reviews for Chirp Audiobooks

I'm rather disappointed. I was excited to actually be able to buy audiobooks and keep them. However, since they only play on chirp's app, I feel like I do not really own them. I want to put the them on my favorite book player, which has all the features I use and enjoy. Among other issues, Chirp's sleep timer is horrible, and that's a feature I use all the time. Instead of having the sound gradually fade out to silence like a good sleep timer does, it just cuts off suddenly, which wakes me.

I am trying to get away from Audible, but man this app kind of sucks. Multiple reasons... I have a pixel 7a, and the app is up to date, but yet it too often does not play after I press play. I am in this constant cycle of restarting the app, finding my spot again +because it also doesn't keep your spot if it 'crashes' and refuses to play. Second, I don't like that there isn't a way to see how many total hours/minutes you have read. Not just what you have left.

When the app works, it works great. However, whenever I pause it for more than a few minutes, it freezes and goes back to the beginning of the chapter, rather than staying where I paused it. I have to close the app, reopen it (sometimes several times before it'll start working again ), then try to find where the spot where I left off. It's very frustrating.

Overall, the experience is pretty good. They provide access to heavily discounted audiobooks that sound great. As an app, though, it's not the best. The Android Audio experience is lackluster at best, having no official support and running through AnyAudio does not allow pause, skip, or rewind functionality, meaning you have to manually do those from the phone directly. It also plays in the background improperly, such as continuing to play while on a call or after disconnecting Bluetooth.

Great Prices! I was able to listen to a book with out too many problems, I did find some stuttering & stopping, & when I closed the book and came back later to pick up where I left off, I had to re-select the chapter I had last heard to get the audio book to start up again. Otherwise it would sit and spin the little circle (literally forever) without ever starting the book again. I do not consider this too big of a problem that it would make me not use Chirp again....Just a nuisance.

For the most part, I actually really enjoy it. The prices are outstanding and the catalogue includes some great studios not included by Audible, such as Graphic Audio. However, the audio quality is not as good, they fail to edit some of the compact disc and cassette markers, the app is not as polished, and worst is all files are stored in internal memory with no option for sd card storage meaning it is only usable with higher end devices with adequate spare space. I can't recommend.

For the first couple of years of use this app was almost bug-free. Unfortunately, the bugs are now infesting it, at least on my Samsung s25 Ultra phone. 1. It has trouble downloading a book: it spins indefinitely 2. The books often stop in mid-reading for no apparent reason 3. Often, after a book has stopped, it will not start again even upon closing & reopening - I have had to reinstall the app to get it working 4. The app runs in the background - after it's been closed - and drains my battery

frequently stalls, especially if I pause a book and come back to it later, even just 5-10 minutes for example, when answering a phone call or taking a video picture. Also when changing from Bluetooth devices i.e. car to headphones. I have to close the app then reopen. Audible books is much much more user friendly. Will continue to use though as Chirp does have better sales at times than Audible.

I've used Chirp for 5 years now, & give 5 stars for their audiobook selection, useful filters, prices that often beat audible, and best of all, frequent sales of very good titles for under $5. But app itself is 3 stars at best. Frequently freezes after pausing to use another app & return. Then you lose your place because it goes back to beginning of section when you re-open. Using downloaded books offline (no data/wifi) it sometimes stops working, so you can't access books until back in range

it says it has free audiobooks so I got it! I opened the app, made an account and I went to try to look for a book! immediately it took me to a webpage and I got excited, I was thinking "omg I'm about to have so many free audiobooks to listen to", but there wasn't a single one that was free. I don't think it would have been a bad app but I'm just saying.. that's false advertising.