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

Description

Listen to your favorite DRM-free audiobooks with Bound.

Bound allows you to import audio files from various cloud services and play them back in a beautiful modern interface. Bound will automatically save your listening position so that you never lose your place.

Supported Audio File Types (DRM-free only): .mp3, .m4a, .m4b, .aac

Download

- Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive.
- Apple Files.
- Web Uploader for importing from your computer via WiFi.

Manage

- Move audio files between books.
- Change cover art.
- Sort based on author, title, recently added, and recently played.
- Rename title and author.
- Choose between a number of fun themes.
- Dark mode support.

Play

- Automatically saves playback location as you progress through the book.
- Independently configure seek forward and seek backward times.
- Chapter support for audio files with embedded chapters (.m4a / .m4b / OverDrive .mp3).
- Change playback speed from 0.5X to 3.0X.
- Smart Rewind when returning to your book after a while.
- Sleep Timer with configurable time or at the end of a chapter.
- Manually bookmark locations that you want to return to.
- CarPlay support.

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User Rating

4.33 out of 5

197 ratings in United Kingdom

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No PC sync using cable

Please add syncing with PC using the Apple windows app. Same way we can download music or videos using windows.

Basically Flawless

One of the few apps i can say just does what its supposed to without any caveats.

Good on phone, bad on CarPlay

Works great on phone. CarPlay is very buggy. No way to skip chapters on CarPlay either. Shame this hasn’t been updated for 2 years.

Excellent

Great app makes the need for itunes for audiobooks completely redundant.

Limited import options

My complaint with Bound has always been the same: import options are too limited: 1. The webserver only works if you have an internet connection and local Wi-Fi, despite only needing local Wi-Fi. 2. There's no WebDAV support, so you're limited to a choice of three cloud drives, or a convoluted method involving extra apps and the Files app. 3. There's no iTunes File Sharing support, so you cannot simply plug in a cable and transfer files from your laptop. I'm sure there was a reason I bought Bound, but whatever it was I've forgotten. I use the other audiobook app now.

There are better options

The app lacks support for the Files API and for iTunes file transfers. The Wi-Fi network detection is poorly implemented. All this makes it inconvenient to get audiobooks into the app. Aside from the difficulty of getting audiobooks into the app, it's very good - just not good enough to make up for its shortcomings in file management.

iPhone updates

Since the latest update this won’t run in the background, if you minimise the app whilst playing an audiobook it stop , basically you cart multi task while using it

Had lost my library 3 times now

Not sure why but every now and then the app cleans out my entire library. I think it may be because the apple stores the books in a cache instead of a library. I only assume this. Because in the storage bit in the iPhone settings it just shows the total amount of storage used not the individual books I think the iPhone sees the books as cache and then cleans them out. Maybe to save space I am only guessing all this. What ever causes the issues, it is very annoying.

Love it

Simple to use, does everything I want and looks good too. Like the pretty, descriptive icons it makes for each audiobook.

Force quit needed to use

Had to force quit the app for it to play the next chapter

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Category Rankings

Chart	Category	Rank
Top Paid	Czechia Books	1
Top Paid	India Books	1
Top Paid	Australia Books	1
Top Paid	Spain Books	1
Top Paid	Austria Books	2

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