Reviews for LibriVox Audio Books

I have been using this app off and on for many years (ad supported version) I love it, and will continue to use it. I do have a strange issue surrounding how the app reacts on some downloaded chapters. Seemingly isolated issue. So it doesn’t “pick up” where I left off precisely every time. Which […]

It’s great that the audios are no charge – appreciate there is such a service. I’m currently listening to a book from the 1800s and no other service seemed to have it. The audio quality is as good as you’d hear anywhere. The one small issue is that I can’t figure out how to advance […]

I had this before but it quit working so I had to reinstall and I did lose my purchased books. But I’d had them awhile and had listened several times so I count it as though I’d passed them on. I still rate this 5 stars. It’s free, there’s a good selection, and even the […]

While I appreciate all the content, I do wish the “sorting and showing” algorithm could be tweaked so that I could exclude or better sort all the “radio drama” episodes and/or poetry anthologies when I’m searching for a book to listen too. Also, I don’t really care for the advertisers you’ve allowed to purchase ads […]

This app provides access to thousands of public domain books read by volunteers. I greatly appreciate all the time and effort invested by the staff and volunteers. Quality varies, but I have enjoyed what I listened to just as much as more professional recordings. And in one title actually found the chirping birds in the […]

Although the books are old, there’s a very large selection and several categories. I like sci fi and ghost/horror stories. I listen to it every night to help me sleep, and while driving. May be worth downloading your favorite books. I listened to books on s long distance trip and was surprised by how much […]

I love this app. keep in mind you’re getting older books, but the selection is amazing! Remember all those classics you said you were going to read someday? the hardest part is picking only one. The search options work pretty well, — by author, genre, subject, title, etc. I am frequently without wifi, so having […]

I used to love this app until it stopped supporting the dozen or more audio books I purchased through the app. I downloaded the audio books like the app instructed me to & I can’t find the books anywhere. That’s probably $100 or more in audio books I’ve lost & apparently LibriVox doesn’t answer emails […]

Great app. I’ve found some fun books over the past few years I otherwise wouldn’t have read. I’ve had success getting a good reader by reading book reviews and searching for alternate versions of the same book. I didn’t mind the ads much, but I recently paid $3 for the ad-free version of the app […]

Librivox the website is 5+ stars. But there’s just no need for this app. It’s not very good, not very smooth, not very glitch free, and the loud annoying ads are infuriating (especially since the material you’re listening to is in the public domain!!). Don’t use this app. Just download the mp3s from the Librivox […]

It’s probably one of the best free audiobook readers if you don’t have a library card. It has a large selection of books with a bunch of different readers. There’s only banner ads or the occasional 1 ad between chapters; but, it never gives more than the 1 ad between chapters. All the books are […]

Very nice audio-only book reader. Ads are a little annoying, but the $2.99 price for the no-ads version is a great value. Only offers books already in the public domain, and the reader and recording quality varies between books (and sometimes between sections of a book). Librivox has a decent selection of non-English-language book readings, […]

I love this app when it works. Unfortunately, I continue to experience glitches over and over again. For awhile it was working perfectly. Now it’s back to having issues with the player – certain chapters are supposed to be 20 minutes long, but are then suddenly 56 minutes long. At other times, I suddenly can’t […]

This is a nice interface in some ways, and the adverts are not intrusive. However, the ability to navigate forward or backward within any text is severely limited and sometimes maddening. The time elapsedb on the time bar is often wildly out of sinc with the actual recording. The app sometimes jumps chapters for reasons […]

If you enjoy classic literature, librivox is great. I have recently become invested in regency era novels (Jane Austen era) and I use librivox to listen to them. I paid to remove the ads. it was a small one time fee and totally worth it for how many great audiobooks are on the app. no […]

I’ve used librivox for years and enjoyed it and would have given it a 4.5 rating. Lately several of the functions have quit working. Additionally, and most importantly, there are now adds that are absolutely NOT family friendly. 5/6/25 This is an updated rating. Almost all of the family unfriendly adds are gone so I […]

Ads play over the audio and you cannot stop them. You can pause the audio, force close the app, and clear all librivox notifications, but nothing stops the ad from playing. Why are ads still able to play when the app isn’t even open? Edit to add: the ads continue to play even over other […]

An update. better over time. I do really appreciate this app. go to sleep listening to. ll the Scribl titles have long dead spots and the time stamps are wrong. I can fast forward, and end up hearing parts from earlier. Also, some weird things like starting at the same spot when it should have […]

edit: I’m very disappointed in how the audio ads have changed. they have increased in frequency and they are SO loud compared to the book audio. I had an ad between each chapter. it really affects immersion, and is uncomfortably loud. I have to change my rating because it that. Lots of old classics! I […]

I’ve been listening to Librivox since the 00’s, love it. The app is ok. The search is not the best. I find that trying a lot of keywords is the best. So, instead of searching for history, using a country name like Poland or Serbia yields better results than Eastern European history. But it’s a […]