Bookmobile Audiobook Player - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

Simply Better. Easier-to-use, clean design, full control, and audio from more sources. Bookmobile provides a better experience for listening to audiobooks than any other app.

Try it for free! Download the app as a FREE TRIAL of up to 5 audiobooks for 60 days. If you like it, an In-App purchase will allow an unlimited number of audiobooks for $3.99 USD.

So, what do you get?

An interface optimized for listening to spoken word content, especially while driving. No sliders, dragging or other controls that are nearly impossible to get right while you are driving. Easy access to the controls that matter most while listening.

Get, play and manage audio content from a wide variety of sources: iTunes, Audible.com, Librivox.org, CDs, public library downloads, RSS feeds, Dropbox, and more.

Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place.

Customizable, exportable bookmarks (name, color, and notes) to keep track of special audio passages.

Complete control over audio files:
- Reorder parts/episodes.
- Change title of audiobooks, podcasts, parts, episodes.
- Cover artwork can be added or replaced -- just a simple copy-and-paste of any image from web or photo library.
- Download/delete/re-download audio files whenever you want.

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, folders of audio files, or Zip archives (including artwork image files)

Audio Import Options:
- add from on-device iTunes Library
- use your computer's web browser
- use iTunes File Sharing (no syncing required)
- Open in... Bookmobile from other apps, including Dropbox, Mail or Safari
- download from websites or local computer

Download straight into the app from iTunes Store, Librivox.org, and ListenUp Audiobooks.

Sleep Timer
- Easy access from main screen,
- Shake to add time before or after expiration,
- Auto-screen dimming,
- Stop at the current chapter end, or any number of minutes.

Podcasts
- easily search and browse through thousands of podcasts,
- import from RSS feed,
- import in mass from OPML file,
- check for new episodes in all your podcasts or each individually,
- customize artwork and titles,
- bookmarks fully supported with name, notes, and color,
- specify play order priorities (oldest, newest, next newest, etc) for each podcast,
- specify auto-download settings (limits, wifi-requried, replacement policy) for each podcast,
- specify skip amounts (opening, closing, driving mode) for each podcast.

Playback Speed can be adjusted from slightly faster (10%) to double speed, with lots of options in-between.

Bluetooth/Remote controls
- Pause/Play
- 30-sec skip (or your custom value)

AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.

Mix audiobooks and podcast episodes in playlist.

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In-Apps

Play Unlimited Audiobooks and Podcasts

$4.99

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User Rating

3.57 out of 5

58 ratings in Canada

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Reviews

Nice but has bugs

When stopping and starting, often the book will loose its place and start playing from the start. You have to go to the bookmarks and go to the previous bookmark. A bit of a pain.

Great

It used to be great, but is now somewhat broken due to lack of updates. Controls don’t respond like they used to. Doesn’t talk to the OS very well anymore. A shame. If they fix it, it can be great again, but in its current state I’m going to have to start looking elsewhere for my mp3 audiobooks.

Now iphone default books is the winner!

No regular updates. Seems like the app has been ignored.

Can’t remember my place

I’m fed up with this app. I don’t care what limitations it has with apple, it’s pretty much unusable because every time you pause it or turn off your car or switch to headphones or basically breath too heavily it randomly selects a different place to start playing your book. It’s ridiculous. That is basically the main feature you need in an audiobook player. Remember where I left off! This garbage app can’t do that at all!

Relieved bugginess isnt just me

App highly listed in top audiobook reader lists so I gave it a try. I think the UI is unique and kinda cool. And i did find the app willing to open some audiobooks that Apple's Books app refused to work with. But seriously unusable. About 100% of time i start the app it would lose track of my progress and start playing from beginning. You have to jump into bookmarks tab to find some old auto bookmark that sometimes will get u back on track. This is seriously concerning isnt this the whole point of an audiobook reader over a plain mp3 player app? Second issue is the fast forward button that is offered at lock screen doesnt advance by 5 sec nor 30 sec as labeled but actuallt advanced by 30 minutes. Whole point of lock screen buttons is so you can rewind to something you missed a moment ago. But i have taught myself to try and remember never to press these buttons ehrn bookmobile is involved. Again this seems like a core competence. I am using iphone 12 pro. Whenever i can i try to avoid this app. I only use it if Books app cant open an audioobook and even then with great hesitation.. People just dont read so i dont expect anyone to find this review but maybe one or two users will find it helpful.

Abandonware

If you pause it with the button on your Airpods/EarPods, you’ll lose your place. Very annoying, but they aren’t updating this app anymore.

Loses position on pause

If I pause the app, it loses track position upon clicking play. I’ve used this app for several years, paid the in app purchase, figured this would be a temporary glitch. It seemed to be fixed for a brief period but alas. Hopefully the next paid app will work without hassle.

This was once a very good app

I used this for a few years but unfortunately it doesn’t really resume properly at all anymore and the problem just seems to be getting worse with each update. I imagine it has to do with iPhone updates but that really doesn’t make any difference in the end. It has become unusable.

The best audiobook player I’ve encountered

Excellent wayback function, user friendly sleep timer, customizable skip controls, numerous ways to upload books (the web option is fantastic), supports multiple formats - mp3s become bookmarkable without needing to be converted to m4b...podcasts... As a well anointed player, Bookmobile is SO much better than what say, audible or apple offer. In short, a great app.

Great app, even better support

Some small-scale authors sell their audiobooks as a digital download zip folder, which you can’t normally open/access on an iPhone. This app actually lets you open the downloaded zip so you can listen to the book in-app without having to extract the files on the computer first. Pretty amazing! App functionality is great too. Also, I had trouble opening a book once, and contacted the developer, who got back to me right away and helped resolve the problem. Thank you!

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Category Rankings

Chart	Category	Rank
Top Free	Greece Books	147
Top Free	Romania Books	210
Top Free	Norway Books	211
Top Free	Czechia Books	337
Top Free	Hungary Books	360

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