Reviews for LibriVox Audio Books Supporter

since 2018 more and more download and play problems

This is such a fantastic app, it’s well worth paying the few quid to get the ad free version. I have been using this app to help me fall asleep for about 8 years now. There is a fabulous variety of books, and a wealth of different readers. You can even read a book yourself, […]

Great app with tonnes of books to choose from. Well-designed catalogue & easy to use. Three wishes; I’d like to see the favourites & downloads folders transfer between devices, I’d like to choose how to sort my favourites (by author, by title, by hand…), & I’d like to have a list of titles I want […]

Excellent app, does exactly what the description says. Good range of books to listen to, read by many different people. Many thanks to you all for finding the time ( without being paid ) to read these books. Sometimes, I realize it can be hard to identify with a reader but that is to be […]

Mostly good. Some of the readings can be a bit hit and miss. The audio quality and listenability of the Librivox reader can be highly variable. I use this so as to listen to translations of classical Latin works, and some of these recordings are very poor indeed. However, the foregoing issues could be largely […]

LibriVox Audio Books *Supporter* is the only one of the two versions of this app that supports Google Cast correctly for me. Most of functionality is pretty intuitive to use, but the playback options are definitely primitive, and the default screen doesn’t reliability reflect what you last played, perhaps because the app doesn’t request any […]

This type of application is exactly what humanity needs right now. I think with more investment into the library and a few updates, and the application will be in a field of its own. Tip to new listeners: find a narrator you like first, and then every story becomes more interesting than if read by […]

I have to say for the most part I really enjoy the app. My only real problem with this app is more often than not when it reaches the end of the chapter playback will stop and I’ll have to take out my phone or tablet and press play. It gets extremely annoying at work […]

App stops playing randomly, have to keep closing the app and reopening to continue listening to an audio book, but half the time the place is lost and I have to skip ahead to find where I was then 5 minutes later it stops and does it all over again. The ad version never did […]

Everything I wanted. I love having the classics at my figure tips in an easy to digest (and free) audio format. This app works great and I haven’t had any issues with it. (Edit 2022) Even after 5 years, I still love this app and service. It has been my steadfast companion on my trips […]

It’s pretty good. Two things could be improved: 1. App frequently resets to the beginning of the chapter. 2. I wish there was a way to change the speed of the playback. One main reason I purchased the app was hoping it would have speed adjustment feature. Volunteers have great variation in their reading speed […]

The good news is it downloads and plays public domain audiobooks and supports Android Auto. The bad news is the app is not good. You can’t skip forward or backward in AA (just skip chapters), the app occasionally pauses itself between chapters and after notification ducking, and the main page and audiobook browsing is barely […]

I’ve had this app for a long time. Years. The support feature is useless, and books no longer play. They go about 2 minutes and reset the the beginning. This happens while steaming over WiFi or when downloaded. I don’t have anything that would interfere with playback and have even given Librovox full background running […]

Too bad the paid version isn’t an improvement over the free one. The most annoying problem is that it stops at EVERY chapter! So if you’re listening to something with a hundred chapters, that are just a few minutes long, you spend all your time waking up your phone … opening the app … and […]

As a janitor, I need something to listen to while I work at night. One evening while watching a YouTube video by Odd1sout, there was a reference to this app. Considering that there’s a lot of classic literature I want to get exposed to, I decided to purchase the ad-free version. So far, I’ve no […]

The content available is well worth the awkwardness of this app. I wish they could add some features most podcast apps have. You have to manually delete episodes after listening, and they are not marked ‘played’. Having the reviews listed before your downloaded episodes is annoying. Having complained about that, the amount of books and […]

Had nothing but problems since paying for this version rather than just using the ad-supported one. It’s constantly freezing and crashing to the point of having to go into my phones settings and force the app to stop just to get it to play any audio. I love the concept, but the execution is not […]

Honestly a great app and good service. Lots of free and paid audiobook options and good quality recordings. I listen to a lot of audiobooks at work to help me focus or learn languages. Only flaws are the limited search parameters (mostly just keyword search) and that if I’m listening to multiple chapters of the […]

Excellent app. You get so much stuff, there’s radio plays, audio dramas, nonfiction, religion, classics, pulp fiction, just everything for basically every genre. Yes, some readers are not great but 1) it’s free and 2) usually there are more than one recordings of the same book with a different reader, so if you don’t like […]

I paid for this app twice. You can buy it as an in-app purchase on the ad-supported version, but it doesn’t add to your family library. This one on Google Play does. Although annoyed, I think it was worth it to support this free audiobook community. You can find great classic titles that are often […]