Everand: Ebooks and audiobooks App Reviews

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14.3.2
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4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
25,254
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Free

Everand: Ebooks and audiobooks App Description & Overview

What is everand: ebooks and audiobooks app? Meet Everand, your new digital library for ebooks, audiobooks, magazine articles, podcasts, newspapers, and sheet music.

Everand’s digital library includes bestselling and trending audiobooks and ebooks in every genre, including:
• True Crime
• Fiction
• Personal Growth
• Science Fiction
• Biography
• Health and Wellness
• Personal Growth
• Children
• Cookbooks
• Entertainment
• Travel
• Celebrity Narrated Memoirs
• Religion and Spirituality
• YA
• Self-Help
• Romance
• Business
• Politics
• Current Events

An Everand subscription also includes access to:
• Sheet music selections that cover every musical genre, instrument, and difficulty level. Play the classics or explore current hits from popular artists.
• Articles from hundreds of magazines including People, Time, The Atlantic, Entrepreneur, and more.
• Access to millions of documents and professional content on Scribd and SlideShare.


All content read or listened to on Everand can be synced across multiple devices, and there are special features that are included in your subscription at no additional cost, including:

FEATURES FOR THE AUDIOBOOK LISTENER
• Customize your narration speed
• Set a sleep timer
• Download audiobooks to listen offline

FEATURES FOR THE EBOOK READER
• Download ebooks to read offline
• Make notes and annotations, and add bookmarks
• Customize your font size, type, and background color
• Choose horizontal or vertical page scrolling

Our monthly subscription starts at $11.99 and automatically renews unless the subscription is canceled at least 24 hours prior to the next billing date.
• Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase.
• Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.
• A subscription includes access to Everand, Scribd, and SlideShare through one monthly payment of $11.99.

Download the free Everand app and start listening and reading today!

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App Name Everand: Ebooks and audiobooks
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Updated 12 February 2024, Monday
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Everand: Ebooks and audiobooks Comments & Reviews 2024

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Have not been able to get a hold of anybody.. I would love to give Scribd a five star review because I’ve been very happy with it myself. So much, that I purchased five subscriptions for my friends. I have been trying to purchase two more for Christmas presents and it keeps saying I need to try another credit card. There’s nothing wrong with my card! I also tried calling the headquarters and they don’t except phone calls that just reroute you back to their website which does not answer this question. I see that there are people responding back to negative reviews so I decided to leave one also hoping that I can change this from a one star to a five star once I hear back from you. Update: it is now January 3 and I still have not heard back from you. I can see their other subscribers that I’ve had the same issue. I ended up buying three more subscriptions from Audible with no problems at all except for I had to pay $90 per subscription. It seems like you are losing quite a bit of money and it would just make a big difference if you would respond to our inquiries. I can’t imagine you staying in business this way. Really disappointed!

Great but…. I’ve been using Scribd for 6ish months now and have loved it. There’s a great variety and as a stay at home mom I just don’t have a much time to sit down with a book as I used to. However, over the last couple weeks the app has been so glitchy. It’s been restarting books from the middle and I have to try to get back to where I was or it’ll randomly say that it can’t play a book. It’s not a service issue. It’s happening to books I’ve already downloaded. I actually started making sure I downloaded every book before I listened because of this issue. Also, had a problem with re listening to books. I could not play them back again until I had downloaded the book. All of these issues have only recently started for me so perhaps it came with the last update. Up until a couple weeks ago this would’ve been a five star app for me but, I’m getting a little irritated spending so much time just trying to get a book to play or trying to figure out where I was at after it starts a whole book over for no apparent reason.

Fabulous service - even with limitations. Scribd truly blows Kindle Unlimited (and even Audible to some extent) out of the water, especially if you read a lot of serious non-fiction. They also have an amazing selection of British mystery audio books btw. I have to admit I have not run into the 'limit' problems some others have reported. I have no idea why, but this may well be because I don't tend to check out bestsellers or really popular titles. However, if you are interested in Art, History, Culture, Language etc., I can pretty much assure you that you have discovered Valhalla with Scribd. To me, it's like a massive digital treasure house set up for easy browsing. I often find obscure monographs here I can access nowhere else online for any price. Also rather than waiting weeks to checkout a title via our local library via Overdrive, I usually have instant access through Scribd. That said, I do still have occasional problems with the search function finding a particular title even though it turns up being included after all. Our excellent local library system makes a valiant effort to have many e-books available, but only has a tiny fraction of what I can access via Scribd. Anyway, 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️'s - a great value and I am a very satisfied subscriber.

Not unlimited.... I feel like the person that posted before me. I would be willing to pay way more for a service that actually let me read what I search for. The first few months were great! I loved this service so much, until a few months back when I began getting limited on available books. Nearly every book I searched for was suddenly not available until the renewal date and many times not even then. Now if I do an author search right before my eyes they ALL change to the next month's renewal! What's this about? The only ones it may let me listen to from the author is the Abridged versions which I do not want. It was just audiobooks but as of this morning it's books as well. I do listen a lot but there's just no excuse for saying UNLIMITED and READ WITHOUT LIMITS in the advertising and it being untrue. I have written in several times and each time it's just a lot of nonsense thrown at you with no real help. And I would LOVE to just SPEAK TO A REAL PERSON but they have no telephones. Kinda strange... LOVE the idea of this service and LOVED this service in the beginning, still love it when it works out but it is getting increasingly harder to deal with. Bring it back to the way it was, please guys!

Just get a public library card. If you read sparingly (1-3/4) books/magazine a month this service will be fine. I joined during the middle of winter to provide some entertainment and escapism during the dark days and to get through some stressful family moments. In these periods I read frequently - too much apparently for scribd. Any magazines or book that I borrowed briefly to preview seemed to count against my item or pages (not sure which way the company limits users as they don’t disclose your limits) which then led to me being unable to finish books I was actually reading. As I read, more and more items from my wishlist would disappear to the ‘available soon’ (can’t remember the actual title) and I would be unable to access these - which eventually consisted of my entire library - until the next payment cycle began. Seriously, just go to your local library and sign up for a card and use their ebook services. You probably get a greater selection and you will never read “too much” in a month! I hadn’t had a library card since childhood, but this experience left such a horrible impression on me that I finally made my way back to the public library. Don’t waste your time or money on this service if you read regularly.

Good and Bad. So there’s both good and frustrating sides to this app. Good: 1. Its cheaper than audible or other services I’ve found- and most books I don’t really care to add to my library anyway because I’ll most likely only read or listen to once, so I don’t need the audible purchase option. Bad: 1. It says “unlimited” but in reality it’s only “unlimited for the first 2 weeks. After 2 weeks most of the books I have bookmarked (that were showing as available) will all of a sudden say “this title will be available on (whatever my renewal date is).” I sent a query about this and was told that it’s because titles are constantly rotating, but I looked on a friends app and the titles I wanted showed as available to her. It’s really just a ploy to get you to renew your subscription each month. Super frustrating!!! (Note: There’s still books available to me at that point, just none that I specifically want). 3. The player works well about 65% of the time. Lately it’s been stopping at the end of every chapter or jumping back two chapters and I have to re-find my place manually— also annoying. For how many books I listen to, it’s still the best deal though.

Beyond glitchy app. This app is so glitchy it’s ridiculous. Shuts down for no reason all the time, will buffer randomly for very long periods of time that no amount of restarting will solve (5-10 mins frequently on my iPhone 11 and is not related to my wifi, data plan, etc, I’ve checked all that). Also, there is no discernible rhyme or reason on how to choose books to listen to without losing access to other books for weeks at a time. I understand that to keep the cost low they need to limit popular titles but I’ll listen to 20 mins of a book and then be shut out from choosing 150+ other books in my cue. Again I agree limits to help keep costs low is fine, but there should be a tier system or something like that so you can choose what you want to have access to rather than this disorganized approach. I originally would have given it three stars because it is more cost effective than audible and other apps but the app interface and usability has recently really gone down hill to the point that I am seriously considering canceling, especially since audible recently introduced unlimited listening for a significant amount of titles.

Technical issues make it impossible to read— no customer support. Do not waste your money! They will close your account for no reason. First, if you have a question are issue their goal is 2 WEEKS to get back to you. Yes, 14 days. And they don’t always meet their goal. Second, if you have a gift card you will basically have to create a new account or go for a few weeks without access while you wait on the app to stop trying your original payment method. Third, I keep getting a log in error saying “account does not exist”!!! I have pre paid for another 3+ months and no way to access books… but don’t worry, the customer support team might email me back in about 14 days. Maybe. Update: Customer Service is horrible! They deleted my account because they claimed it was a fraud. I was using a prepaid gift card- how is that fraud? They are ignoring my questions about how I can redeem the remainder of the gift card. They will not give me information on why/how it was determined to delete my account. And said I cannot create a new account. Do not waste your money! Update: they will not response about the money they stole.

Getting frustrated. I love scribd, I really do, but for those that have time to listen to multiple books this service is starting to go downhill very fast for me. I usually listen to between 3-6 books per month, easy to stream while at work. 5 months ago I could get into a series and listen to it fully. 3 months ago I could get 2 books into a series then the rest would not be available until the following month. Now I can listen to the first book in a series and can’t listen to any in that series til the next month. I start a separate series and the same thing and the library gets smaller, and smaller, and smaller til now I’m at stuff that I guess is public domain so anyone can record and put it on here and the quality and speech is horrible. I still love this service for its ease and the cost is wonderful but I’m getting frustrated with how much it seems to be penalizing for listening. I contacted customer service, who were great, about this and they said it was due to the way they set up licensing with publishers. It’s getting to the point where my frustration is wearing me out more than it’s worth. I would gladly pay more for a fuller experience.

Was awesome until I found out it’s not truly “unlimited”. I absolutely LOVED this app at first (despite some glitches during audio playback), and I recommended it to basically anyone who’d listen! However, after having listened to five or so audiobooks while driving to and from work over the past month, I have discovered that most audiobooks I would want to listen to are now unavailable to me until August 13. I imagine this was buried somewhere in the terms & conditions (and I am a lawyer, so I should have known better and actually read through them in their entirety!); however, I feel like it is pretty deceptive for the app to advertise “unlimited” access and then limit users’ access. I feel like I need to warn the people to whom I recommended the app. Guess it’s back to podcasts for me! Probably going to cancel my subscription knowing that I can only listen to a handful of the audiobooks I would like to listen to in a given month. I realize this is still a pretty great deal compared to other apps, but I feel cheated due to the promise of “unlimited” books. The whole thing leaves a sour taste in my mouth!

Love, but some bugs. Scribd is my favorite app. I got the trial several months ago to look at some pdfs, with the intention of canceling it after, but then I realized that it has audiobooks and I’ve used it every day since. There are, however, a couple of bugs that need to be worked out. For one, if you ever pause the book you’re listening to, the app almost immediately closes in the background. So, if I pause it to talk to somebody, and then go right back, I can’t just hit “play” to resume; I have to actually reopen the app and wait for it to load, and then start listening again. The second one is that audiobooks have a common tendency to skip back when you are away for a while—sometimes skipping back more than an hour. I’ll be listening one night and be, say, 5 hours in, and then I’ll come back the next day to find that it has reverted back to 3:45. This is very frustrating because I listen frequently for short stints, so if I am listening 4 different times a day, and, every time, I come back to find I have to skip forward 30 seconds at a time to find my place again, it takes a good 8 minutes every time to find it. Giving one star until the problem is resolved, then I’ll update to 5 stars.

Not Unlimited & Copyright Infringment. It is not unlimited you get to read/listen to a couple & then you are cutoff until the following month because 'there is a rotating list of licensed books that changes month to month to ensure authors are paid fairly". Conveniently the licensing issues get worked out the day you make your next payment. Best part is they have been sued numerous times for copyright infringement & consistently put up other people's work without paying them a dime. I also checked out there cookie settings the 'Do not Sell My Personal Information' toggle is listed at the bottom of all the other selection choices. You have to deselect all the other ones & toggle that on. Clearly done to trick people who are not paying attention. Speaking of not paying attention: I just cancelled my subscription. They make it seem like you get it done in one click really you need to scan the entire page to find a second cancel button then go through numerous pages with misleading wording to finally cancel the subscription. Bet I will be continually 'accidently' billed like a lot of other reviewers too.

Scam! Do NOT use.. I signed up for the 30 day trail to listen to an audio book. I put in my credit card information. Standard stuff. Well, I forgot to cancel within 30 days and got charged a monthly fee. That’s my fault. Here’s where the issues arise. I log on to the website to cancel my membership and neither email that I have was recognized when I tried to log on. No sweat, I clicked forgot pasword to retrieve my password. NEVER received a recovery email. So, I submit a request to see if someone from customer support can assist. After submitting the request, I get a response 8 hours later from TESH, stating that he is unable to locate the account with the email provided. How am I being charged each month if I don’t have an account. He then asks for the last for of my credit card that I used to set up the account to assist him in locating the account. Never hear back from him. That was 2 months ago. I am still being charged monthly and I have no way of canceling the membership because I don’t have an “account”. I’ve submitted multiple help tickets since and I have never received a response back.

Underhanded Limits on Titles. I did a free trial and was initially impressed. I read 20+ books per month and this seemed like an inexpensive way to access more books. However, as you use the app they throttle your content without warning and make most titles unavailable until after your next billing date. It’s underhanded and annoying - I would rather have known up front about these limits before I made a “to read” list of 100 books, none of which I am able to read before my free trial expires. I’m going to keep this and pay for one more month to finish a series but then cancel my subscription. Additionally, there are copious amounts of illegal ebooks on the site. I would search for a work or offer and find it offered as an epub uploaded by a random user, not an author or publishing house. Book piracy is bad and detrimental to authors and it doesn’t seem like scribd cracks down on it very much from my point of view. There is no way to flag or report a pirated book within the app. (If you read this, please do not search for pirated books. Get a library card and request titles, maybe borrow a friend’s library login to see more ebooks, take advantage of free books on kindle and other platforms, etc. Pirating books disrupts the entire ecosystem of the book world, hurts authors, and can prevent your favorite authors from publishing more books due to a lack of demand.)

Have to agree with the other reviews about audio books. 3/7/19- though I am disappointed in the limit on audio books, if they had just explained up front, what the * means in regard to them instead of having us figure it out, it would not be so upsetting. So, if you do listen to a lot of audiobooks and not take advantage of the e-books, magazines and other materials, be aware that you may be limited. Third month in and I guess I listen to too many audiobooks because all that appears now are old classic books with black covers no matter what category I choose. For instance The Boxcar Children appears under Contemporary Fiction, Scribd recommends, Mystery, Bestsellers, Mystery, Romance and every category there is. The daily recommendations has disappeared and the top lists have remained the same for over a month. I also get variations of the same canned response when I submit a ticket. This is sad for such poor customer service. I am going back to the public library for my audiobooks. Enjoy the free month and maybe the first paid, they are worth it but beware after that.

Beware!!. First off this app has way more book overviews than actual full length books. There is not unlimited reading and listening and the worse part is that even after canceling the subscription on my iPhone I have been billed for a solid six months. Good luck trying to contact customer service. They have an automated Bot that answers questions based on what you ask but always ends up never letting you call or email until you dig deep. FYI- if you get stuck and charged like I was their “policy” is only being refunded for your last charge. I sent proof of the exact date I canceled but that’s didn’t matter. Next step is to dispute it with my credit card company. Do I was contacted by customer support regarding the unauthorized charges that were billed to my credit card. They said they are looking into it further so I will come back once this is resolved to update my review. If it’s handled correctly I will be a happy customer. FYI - I sent screenshots of the exact date my subscription was canceled so there is no question as to my request. It’s very clear on you iPhone what subscriptions you have and when they were canceled.

Good app.. horrible customer service. This app is the best I’ve seen if it’s kind. You have so many options and they have brand new books very quickly. However, I’ve had an issue with the audiobooks for almost a month. The sound quality was awful and kept skipping. I contacted customer service right away and never received a response. I got tired of waiting for help and cancelled my membership because of it. I can’t justify paying for a service where I only get half of the benefits because the company won’t help me with a huge issue. Update- Scribd contacted me saying they’re backlogged on support tickets. They asked me to update This review with my ticket number so they could escalate my issue to the top of the queue. However, I’m not sure customer service is as backlogged as they stated. I opened a ticket after never receiving a reply on my original one and the next day it said ‘ticket closed’. No reply. Nothing. Just closed as if the issue had been resolved or at the very least addressed. So, I opened another ticket hoping it was just a fluke. Same thing happened. It was closed. Someone in customer service closed the tickets. So, maybe not so backlogged if they could close out my tickets so quickly. The app worked great for me for the year I used it. But I needed help with an issue on the app. I tried every outlet I could to get help before canceling.

User beware, “unlimited memberships” are not actually unlimited!. My unlimited account is consistently shut down each month after week 2 or 3 because I “read too much”. They don’t notify you when you’re approaching your “limit” nor will they explain how many books you can technically access on an UNLIMITED membership before they shut you down until your next billing cycle. As a student who uses Scribd for school assignments as well as for pleasure reading, it is extremely frustrating to sign in to Scribd and not be able to open the books I’ve been reading and using for school assignments. They are known as the “Netflix of books” but thankfully Netflix doesn’t charge me full price and then shut down my account each month because I watch too many movies. “Unlimited” memberships are very much LIMITED, so don’t read too much or else you’re paying for nothing! They try to get around the fact that their cheating their customers by saying “while all of our titles may not be available, there will always be something available to read” but what they leave out is that by “something to read” they mean books that are 100 years old and are also available for free on every other platform because they’re free public access books like Gulliver's Travels and such. Nothing I would ever want to read nor PAY to read when I can access it for free everywhere else. Scribd is amazing for about a week or two, then it’s just a scam that takes your money without providing what you paid for.

Has really gone downhill. I used to love this app. Now, books will start strong, but then repeat passages and/or do not have the final chapter. The table of contents only has chapter numbers, not names, and if you try to add a bookmark, chances are good that it will add it then immediately remove it. I put up with that for the last 8 months because it’s still cheaper than Kindle. The kicker for what made me cancel my subscription this week after 2 years, though, is that I can be in the middle of a book, close the app, and come back to the app saying “Available soon on the 6th of next month!” Last week, that happened to ALL of the books that were not downloaded to my device. If you complain, they tell you, “Oh, you encountered our rotating library which is stated in the terms of use is a possibility.” 80+ titles on my list just MAGICALLY became unavailable because all of them were on the rotating library?! Yeah, no. 🙄 Plus, I noticed that some books on my list (still unavailable to be read b/c it’s not Feb 6th yet) were titles that I absolutely did not add. I’m switching to the library apps called Hoopla and Libby. I encourage others to do the same - both are free with a library card.

Wanting more clearity about what content is available after saving tittles. It seems like a good app, but it’s important to know the limits on how many books you can have. I wish the app developers would build in a stratified system in which you can read or listen to a certain number of books before the second “unlimited” level becomes the only one available. I acknowledge it is probably difficult dealing with publishers, or even perhaps having publishers as a second “costumer.” Im assuming these relationships simply require too much complexity for the average user to understand. On the other hand, I’m wondering if there is a secondary gain to being less than up front about the service. To be fair, the first month is free, and they started pulling titles three weeks before the end of my trail month. I bet statistically fewer users back out once they have signed up though. Foot in the door technique is an old advertising game. I think most literary users can smell it and feel an animosity towards scribd even if that isn’t the developers intent. Who wants to feel anxiety about making the right choice on a book before the various content cut offs engage. Please read other review to learn more about the positives. Besides this complaint, I’ve been enjoying the app.

Accessibility features. First off I wanna say that I love this app. I recommend it to people all the time so that I can get the free months..haha I haven’t paid in months. My only issue with Scribd at the moment is that I am visually impaired and I currently rely on ebooks to read all my content. I like audiobooks it’s great, but I also like to sit down and read. My issue with Scribd app is that the font only gets so big and that’s why I can’t fully commit to just using Scribd alone. In the visually impaired community we do consume a lot of audiobooks so scribers great for that. But then there are other people who still like to read and increase the font but on this platform the phone only gets so big so it’s kind of annoying. It forces me to go back to Kindle and iBooks to read my books there because I can increase the font a lot larger than a Scribd has to offer. So that’s my reason for not given it five stars other than that everything is great I hope they can make that update I don’t see why it’s a big deal just increase the font in a new update

why would u update a perfect app.. i used to rly like scribd. i thought it was pretty, it had a great selection, i could listen to stuff all the time in the background, etc. however, everand is TRASH—both the app and the new account set up. The app freezes all the time and its UGLY!!!!!!!!! Also, now theres a limit on the books i can read? And they just take away specific books? How does this even work? When did I okay this? How did they introduce it without Telling Me???? why is there only a two sentence explanation on what is happening with this. It reminds me of Netflix deciding arbitrary and costly things without consideration of consumer experience. whatever, ill unconsume and mourn OG scribd. Ultimately, i justified keeping this subscription because it had a couple of books I was reading for school, and now the one I really needed is inaccessable for a week? when I really need it? what the heck is that about!!! anyways im prob gonna unsubscribe and continue to tell everyone ive ever met to never download this app. maybe ill try my hand with audible, who knows. update: the explanation on the new likitation of the books is "we love how much you read, however we have monthly limits" . what are the limits ? could you be more vague???????????? i do not understand

NOT UNLIMITED!!!. I have been a Scribd subscriber for at least 6 years it used to offer “unlimited” books to read and gave you 3 audiobooks each month. Then, they changed their marketing to say that everything was “unlimited”. THIS IS NOT TRUE! After you have listened or even sampled about 3 audiobooks, they make their audiobooks “unavailable”—they don’t say that though. You just go in to search for another book and all titles disappear and the only thing available are Librovox titles (free to public on other sites) and a few meditation books. Even your saved books will not work. I like the app but I wish they were honest about what they are doing!! It would be better to go back to the old way where you knew exactly how many audiobooks you had left for the month. Now, there is no warning and you don’t know when the titles will disappear. This is very frustrating!! Oh, and if you just sample a book—it counts as one of the audiobooks you get. I’ve been reading reviews on other websites and they have a lot of unhappy customers and people closing their accounts. Customer service just gives a scripted answer denying that this is what they do. Read the other reviews.

Service is great but. The app itself is a technical nightmare. My two most common issues are that the audio will just stop playing entirely and I have to restart the app in order to get the audio working again. Sometimes I have to close it multiple times and after 3 or 4 times will usually just give up and keep the app closed for a while because the audio just won’t come back. This is a problem whether the book is being streamed or is downloaded, and it’s not a problem with being connected to Bluetooth, as disconnecting doesn’t fix it. The audio is still there. You can rewind and listen to other parts or skip ahead and listen ahead but randomly there will just be a chunk missing that will only come back after restarting the app. The second biggest issue I’ve run into is that I will pause my book, the app will freeze when I go to start it again, and sometimes it will just start my audiobook from the beginning and have no bookmark or anything of where I was. Overall, I really like the service itself and have been a customer for over a year, but the app is always a point of frustration and I wish they would just figure these bugs out for good.

Great Concept, Just Slightly Less Than Stellar Execution. Scribd has to be hands down one of my top 10 favorite apps. The subscription model to me seems too good to be true, especially when compared to alternatives. It's true that some titles are not available or are unavailable for a month or so at a time. However, I would say that I've been able to access about 90% of the titles that I'm interested in (mostly nonfiction). As for the unlimited feature, I've not had the same issue as other users in running into some kind of limit (I averaged a book a week last year). I've been a user since 2019 and since I've not really had crazy substantial issues. Most of the problems that I've ran into have been minor to moderate technical glitches (audiobooks restarting randomly, app not properly synching across devices, having to refresh the app occasionally) but nothing that would make me consider deleting the app. All in all, if you're on the fence I would highly recommend at least trying it the a few months and contrasting the experience (and the cost) to other alternatives. I hope this review is helpful!

Shouldn’t Be Called Unlimited*. I love listening to audiobooks. It’s a great way for me to pass time at work and while commuting. I don’t have the time to sit down and read a book due to my hectic schedule. That’s where Scribd came in. The advertised ‘unlimited’ was great and understood that some title might come and go from availability. However, this month, I’ve only listened to one audiobook and already have restricted titles. I truly wish Scribd would take customers into account with this sort of thing and try to create a solution instead of their auto-generated responses. I’d be willing to pay an extra charge for “truly unlimited” or even if they offer “5 audiobook listens per month.” The fact that they say unlimited* with the asterisk puts everything up in the air. I wish I knew exactly what I would be getting each month. Perhaps creating a tiered program and being more transparent would avoid the upset customers because we would truly know what we are getting into for the price. Let me be clear, I truly enjoy using Scribd. My only app issue is that I wish it told me exactly how long I have left of a book instead of “7 hour” which could mean anywhere from 7 hours to 7 hours and 59 minutes. I think Scribd is an inexpensive way for busy bibliophiles to get their fix but I think there are issues that Scribd needs to hammer out if they want to keep their customers truly satisfied.

Great selection - at first. So first of all, I’m very grateful for this app. I use it during work - basically just mowing all day - to listen to audiobooks, and they help make the time fly. I haven’t had any playback errors where I lose my place, but if I do go to something else and come back after a while, the app is likely to have restarted itself. This means I’ll have to go, open up the audiobook again, then it won’t load, so I’ll have to go to the table of contents, restart the chapter, and fast forward to where I was. It’s a tedious process. A wall that I’ve run in to lately is that most of the books that I want to listen to, best sellers (Red Rising, Sea of Rust, etc.), aren’t available until next month? Some of them I’m fairly sure I’ve looked at before and they’ve been available a day earlier. Now, maybe it’s a subscription thing, where you only get x amount of “premium audiobooks” to listen to each cycle. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve listened to a fair number of works already, and I’ver been very happy with them as I would have had to pay much more normally. However, I find it unfair for the app to boast about its “reading without limits” without making it clear, somewhere, that there are in fact limits.

Terrible functionality and outright scam. I was a proud scribd user, I tried to convince all my friends to use it. But now I'm canceling my subscription and feeling passionate enough to write a review to warn others to stay away from scribd too. This app worked so well for me the first few months, but it has gotten so much worse lately. I mostly used scribd offline, and the functionality was awful. I couldn’t use bookmarks, highlights or notes, and as soon as I connected to internet my place in my book would be lost. If I swiped away from the app or closed my phone it would boot me from the app and I’d have to get back on it again, a task that took anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes (whether I was using internet or not). Imagine waiting 5 minutes for an app to load in 2023. Then there’s the bit everyone will warn you about, the fact that they advertise their service as unlimited but will randomly take all the books off your shelves and leave you only porn and uploaded documents for a week. Every single month. They don’t disclose how many books it takes to reach this point, either. One month I read over 10, this month—my breaking point—I think I was allowed two. I am not paying over 10$ a month for access to two books. Save yourself the frustration and find your digital books and audiobooks somewhere else.

Dishonest & Glitchy. I had subscribe to the service for about five months or so then decided to cancel recently just to find out the date it cut me off a day early. I just needed to save some money recently so I decided to cancel for a short period of time but I’m not sure I’m coming back after my experience. During the time I subscribed, I kept having issues that the audiobooks I wanted to listen to were unavailable until the next renewal date. I would still have 10 days left on my subscription and find out that I couldn’t listen to the next audiobook I wanted to listen to in the series because it wasn’t available until my next subscription renewal date. This happened three times and it was very annoying. While this service may be cheaper than Audible, the aggravation may not be worth it. The app is also glitchy. I had times when I would answer the phone and the audiobook would still play in the background while I was trying to hear phone calls. I would set up to play the audiobook sometimes, and it would just cut off by itself while I was driving. Which is annoying because I live in a hands-free state and can’t go back and reboot the app. The glitches seemed to happen more often after I decided to cancel for a little while. The audio player with clothes for no reason in recent weeks and I kept having to stop what I was doing to reopen it just to get it to play again. Probably won’t renew now after the recent experience. You should shop around.

If you asked me two days ago…. I would have given this five stars. However, as of yesterday all of the audiobooks I had access to are suddenly available the day AFTER my free trial ends. I was planning on continuing a subscription because the variety available is unparalleled to to that of Kindle Unlimited and doesn’t even begin to compare to what you can read or listen to in one month through an Audible subscription, but I was expecting to be able to access the entire library during the full duration of the free trial as promised. I emailed them about this and received a response saying that they are receiving a higher than normal volume of tickets and they will do their best to respond between 1-2 WEEKS!!! My free trial will be OVER by then!! So then I decided to put a ticket in through the app which looks like a chat feature. That was basically useless. Their support is completely unsupportive and totally lacking. I’m seriously disappointed and will likely be canceling my free trial and probably won’t be paying for a subscription now. Way to lose a potential paying customer, Scribd. Well done.

Scribd service is good, the App is terrible. I’ve started listening to audiobooks to help me fall asleep at night. With every “update” of the app, a new glitch seems to occur. The last time, all of the books on my Saved list would shut the app down each time I attempted to open them on my IPhone. Customer service was exactly ZERO help in resolving the issue. It took them nearly a week to even respond, and even then, it was with an article “related to my issue”, which was not related to my issue, nor was the advice helpful. I finally resolved that issue by deleting the Scribd app from my phone and then reinstalling it. A fix they never mentioned. Last night, all of the books on my Saved list that I have not finished now sound like they are spoken on the other side of a large fan, quiet, loud, quiet, loud, quiet, loud...with some words being cut off...like a strobe light for sound. They are unlistenable! Only books I’ve completed do not have the issue. Deleting the app and reinstalling had no effect, nor did doing a hard reboot of my IPhone. So variety and price of Scribd is fine, although I wish they’d add new titles more frequently. But the customer service and iOS App are terrible and I’m reaching the limits of my patience with them.

Overall it’s very great!. I’ve been using this app for about a week or two now. This app is a great bang for your buck and has good quality audiobooks! I’ve been using audible for a couple years but it’s too expensive ($16 a month and only some of the books are covered by the subscription). I listen to books too fast so I needed something more financially sustainable. I heard about this app from a friend and I love it! It’s so cheep, especially as someone coming from audible. All most of the books I’ve looked for are in audiobook which I love! I do run into the limit some months, but I can’t complain too much because I have always gotten my money’s worth before I hit the “this title is not available until X date” issue. There are occasional app functionality issues that are annoying like randomly restarting my audiobook from the beginning out of nowhere so I have to hunt for my spot again. But I still like the app enough to keep it 5 stars c:

Surprisingly excellent. I had tried Scribd before and found it difficult to use, with bugs that prevented me from enjoying it as much as Audible, Kindle, and my library's app. However, it has completely wok me over, and though I still use everything else as well, I find Scribd commonly has the books I was considering purchasing elsewhere or would've had to wait for at the library. Though there are still a few bugs here and there, I've gotten the hang of it and understand much better how it works. Whilst I still wish I could read books on another device (my phone and iPad being backlit really are not preferred reading devices), I'm extremely happy with Scribd and am cancelling my Audible membership subsequently. Never thought the day would come! Two feature requests: being able to have the book sleep at the end of a chapter, and having an adjustable speed (like Libby), though I much prefer the speed options on Scribd to those available on Audible.

Almost nothing available in the audio book library now!. Agreed with everything said below, Scribd had less and less books available each month in their library now! They started to pretty much make majority of the audio books unavailable now, does not matter whether you saved it or even already downloaded it, does not matter the date that they told you that book will be available. If you browse their audio book library now, there are only some very old books or short stories available while everything else said are unavailable now until next month ( which most likely won’t be available next month, or the next either!) They don’t care whether you downloaded the book and were listening to it now, they will just take the books away and make them unavailable whenever they want. I started to wondering maybe they were run out of money paying license fees for these books and therefore could not make them available and have to take them away. Well, too bad for us who already prepaid the annual subscription fee since I don’t think they will refund you even when they failed to provide any books you interested. No way I am going to renew my membership when it expired!

NOT UNLIMITED-Used to be a great ap-now it’s CRAP. I’ve been a scribd subscriber since it first came out and it used to be amazing-even with a limited library the selections were enough to keep me entertained. Last few months they’ve started throttling my audible books every month to a seemingly obscene extent. When I brought it up to customer service last month they insisted I wasn’t being throttled but it had to do with licensing agreements and release dates for “certain titles” which is BS ... thing is there’s no way to “sample” an audible book without them dinging your usage-so if it’s a crappy book and I quit listening 5min, magically all the titles that WERE available prior to my preview are no longer available until the following month. You can’t convince me that’s not throttling-so “unlimited” audiobooks only applies under Scribd’s jacked up definition of the term. Ridiculously insulted at their scripted response from customer service trying to justify their methods and understand completely why you can’t CALL a customer service line🙄 you can only email and wait days for an unsatisfactory response. The product was way better at its conception. Gonna cancel my Scribd membership and double up on audible-at least they are transparent about exactly what you get for your money, you can preview a book before it counting against you, and if you have a concern-you can talk to a live person that actually values their subscribers and will do the right thing!

System Issues & Terrible Support Staff. I have been having a back-and-forth conversation with support for a system error on their side when I was in the middle of (8 chapters in) an audiobook and then access was pulled. They say that some books based off author, publication date, popularity, etc. may become unavailable if you’ve reached a certain number in your monthly cycle, which is fine, I get it, but to cut access mid-read/listen and chalk it up to “a preview period” then stating a preview period is 1-2 chapters… I was 8 chapters in. It doesn’t follow anything they’ve said, and they continuously are brushing it off. To make things worse, I have a new person on the support staff responding each time, and it’s evident that they are not reading the previous messages, so I’m constantly repeating myself. I’ve had this app for over a year, and if you never encounter a problem it’s great. But if you do, their support staff just makes the ruined experience even worse. 2 stars for the usefulness of the app, 0 stars for the tech errors and crappy support team.

Scribd will throttle your usage. Scribd is great sometimes, some months there will be so many great books that it’s hard to pick what to read or listen to first. However, you should know that some months it’s also going to be almost useless. You know how with cell phone plans they will tell you that you have unlimited data, but then they massively slow down the speeds after you get to a certain amount of gigs used? Scribd is like this with its catalog. This month the main options I have available to me are old books with expired copyright, random unknowns, and Scribd originals. I have the ability to see that some books I want to listen to are on Scribd, but they are not available to me until the first of next month. I just paid this month’s bill cycle but now I’m going to get pretty much no usage out of it because I don’t have the option to read any of the more popular selections. Sometimes it’s worth the $10 per month and more so it’s not really enough to get me to cancel my subscription but it sure is frustrating, especially since I just paid for this month and I know that I won’t be able to get much use out of it despite having paid. If Scribd were more transparent about this then it might be less frustrating.

Questionable Service. I listened to two audiobooks through this service in the first week of my free trial - it was amazing the collection they had and I thought I had found my nee favorite service! I was eager to add about ten audiobooks to my library as reminders for what I wanted to try and read next. However, after I finished my second book all but maybe 2-3 books were marked as unavailable until my next billing cycle. I was shocked because earlier in the day they had been available and I had no problems with their availability during that first week. The excuse the app provides is that it‘s due to the publisher, but the books had a wide variety of publishers and why would they suddenly be available the day after I renew my subscription? How does my billing date have anything to do with their publishers? The app clearly puts a cap on what kinds of titles they will allow you to read and their advertising is just blatantly problematic to suggest this is not the case. Also, I noticed as I was looking through ebooks which were about the only things I could find available a lot of them are uploaded by random people in odd formatting, so I feel like something much more questionable is going on with this service! Overall, I would not recommend any avid reader or listener use this service, clearly some type of scam!

Not Unlimited. Like other reviews, I’m an unhappy customer due to the lie of the service being unlimited. I had a free three month trial and was able to listen truly unlimited every month so I signed up. My first 6ish months it would cut me off after two books or audiobooks. It was frustrating but it’s still worth the price for two books a month. Now I get one book per month and I’m unable to listen to anything but lesser known titles. As others have said, I would gladly pay more for truly unlimited or pay more to know I’m guaranteed X amount of books per month. The developer response to the reviews saying that they can’t guarantee immediate availability is ridiculous. No one is asking for that, we’re asking you to either deliver on your advertising or to at least give your customers SOMETHING of value. The app itself is clunky. Every time a new chapter starts the countdown to the next chapter freezes so in order to see your progress you have to re-start the app. It’s also very unreliable in telling you how much of the book is left. For example it has 6 hours left but that could mean 6 hours and 1 minute or 6 hours and 59 minutes. Not user friendly at all.

Very disappointing - an update. After wading through multiple emails of tech support supposedly trying to help- by suggesting I uninstall and reinstall I continue to have the same problems. And have to continue to pay for 8 more months because “ Per leadership, we are unable to offer a refund on this purchase as premium content was accessed after this membership was redeemed in your account”. Is that double speak or what? So because I used the app and was unhappy with it almost immediately I have to continue to pay a monthly fee. Really the worst customer service. I got a subscription as a gift and it has been pretty bad. I am locked into a year because it was purchased for a whole year (???) not sure why they won’t refund but they won’t. Terrible selection compared to Audible and Libro, the players stop for no reason on both my new iPhone and new iPad, syncing is complicated, the interface for ebooks is clunky, the selection seems to mostly be magazine articles, most of the books I have looked for are unavailable, (new or older) the search is also frustrating-you search for an author and get random other people’s work that has nothing to do with who you are looking for.

Customer Service Doesn’t Exist!. This would be a fantastic app if it wasn’t for the few issues I’ve had. It started when one of the books I was listening just mysteriously disappeared from the Papp with no warning at all (even though they’re supposed to tell you if it does, which will be an important point for the second issue). So I sent them an inquiry about it a few weeks ago and have yet to hear a reply. The BIGGEST issue came when I was listening to the The Wicked King. Now for this one, they were they actually sent me a notification saying the audiobook would leave Scribd on 2/16. An email I still haemve my copy of, by the way. Anyway, I tried playing The Wicked King one day and low and behold it stops working and I keep getting this message saying it’s not available. Well, this goes on for days and I send in another request for Customer Support. I hear nothing for weeks and so I email them about both tickets, and they email becomes a ticket number! I’ve never seen Customer Service take this long! I don’t think they even exist! Also, if you try to search for The Wicked King before 2/16, like I did just now, it doesn’t show up at all! Why say it’ll be there on until 2/16 when that’s clearly not true! Why don’t you send any emails out about these issues and update your customers? Customer Service just doesn’t seem to exist.

Sheet Music Too Small and Blurry When Zoomed In. There is an excellent selection of piano sheet music on Scribd that includes many styles and genres as well as method books. As someone who love playing new music each day I was excited about their large collection of music and being able to easily access music through the subscription. Unfortunately, the music is small and difficult to read. When I zoom in, the music become larger but blurry which makes it difficult to read the notes on the staff. I have tried reading the music from a 27” screen directly in front of the keyboard and also on an iPad placed on the music stand. It is difficult to read the music from both screens without straining. There needs to be a way to enlarge the music. Scroll view is slightly better than horizontal but more difficult to turn pages as you play. I hope the developers will add better reading features for sheet music. With better viewing options, this subscription would absolutely be worth 5 stars with their wide selection of piano music. For now, I will hold off on subscribing to Scribd for sheet music until there are better viewing options.

Scam. It’s not unlimited. I can never read past 3 books without everything I have saved (over 270+) books becoming unavailable until the next pay period. As you listen to books, they start trickling away to be unavailable until If you are lucky enough to listen to a third book, they are all unavailable. They always say their catalog “rotates as you listen” but that is not true. I paid for two months and didn’t listen to one book to see what would happen and guess what? Nothing happened. No books became unavailable and not one over my 270+ saved books became unavailable until the next pay period. But guess what? I listened to one book this month and 70% of my saved books became unavailable right before the book was done. Then midway through my second, all of them became unavailable. Sometimes I’ve even had the second book I am listening to shut off halfway and become available next pay period. If you are someone who listens to a book a month maybe two if you are lucky, then sure, this app would work. But for someone who downloaded it and wanted the “unlimited” books, it’s a scam. And look at their real reviews and twitter complaints. People will cancel and still get charged. I mean hundreds of comments complaining of this. I think most of these high ratings are people who haven’t ran into this problem yet or only listen to a book a month.

Be prepared for a lot of frustration. The selection is quite good, and I want to love this service, but it has a fatal flaw. When listening to audiobooks, the app advances to the next chapter maybe 50% of the time (if that). At the other times, it freezes, skips backward in chapters, or just locks up with a message of “loading” (whether or not the audiobook is downloaded to the device). I am running an updated app on a brand-new iPhone XR with tons of free space. The app has been like this for a couple years, through many updates. It was like this on my last two iPhones as well. It does this with every audiobook (I have listened to dozens). If these inexcusable and usability-impairing issues could one day be fixed, this could easily be a must-have. For now, just be prepared to deal with these issues. To manage, I close the app and restart it every 5-10 minutes, often sorting through my whole list of audiobooks to find the one I was just listening go and trying to select the right chapter out of the table of contents. I keep the service because I listen to more audiobooks than my audible credits will ever allow, but it is extremely frustrating and just nonsensical why these software issues have persisted for so, so long.

Highly Restrictive Caps on Content - Throttling. Scribd throws a a lot of misleading terms at you (looking at you “rotating content”) designed to confuse, but the more you read or listen to any current books they put caps or throttle your content. You won’t know when it will happen but suddenly you won’t be able to read or listen to the next thing until a future date (next month). Scribd says well you can find something else then. Like you didn’t sign up to actually listen or read what you want instead of some cruddy piece of content they’ll actually let you access. Essentially they are cheap and instead of better contracts with publishers which would improve access for all they take your money and then throttle you. If you use Libby, Overdrive in conjunction you may be able to avoid also having an Audible account; but be selective so you can try to get your priority content when you want it. Careful with fallback titles while you wait tho, it can push back dates for the stuff you want without any notice whatsoever. Scribd, if you really want to please your subscribers, improve your publisher agreements, make your throttling caps transparent and stop using your shady language to hide what everyone already knows. Grow up and treat your subscribers better please.

By far the best!. This is my absolute favorite book app, they may not have all the books all the time but it’s worth the subscription price because you get unlimited books! Like I said the best app for audio books and ebooks unless they don’t have the book your looking for but still have a wonderful variety of books :) there isn’t a lot of popular books all the time but why not give lesser known authors a chance, I for one have listened to quite a few audiobooks on the app that turned out to be absolutely wonderful and even some of them I’ve listened to multiple times because I liked them so much, I have yet to have a problem with this app besides a few glitches here and there and I’ve had this app for about 2ish years maybe 3. Most of the time I can fix the glitches by restarting the app, developer: thank you for this app, I do wish there were certain other books in here but I still love this app so much, it helped me get through boring slow days at work and hard times with my ex, thank you <3

Not “Unlimited”. Scribd sells their subscription as “unlimited,” which is true...if what you’re after is an unlimited catalog of books you’ve likely never heard of and have no interest in reading/listening to. You can listen to between 1 and 3 popular or recent books, and then you’re prevented from reading other recent literary and/or popular titles until the following billing cycle. This is fine if you know it going in (a big if, as they’re not upfront about the details of their model for obvious reasons), but disappointing if you learn about it the hard way. I read and listen to upwards of 12 books a month, mostly recent releases. I was hoping to find a better model for my audiobook consumption (I listen 3-5 per month), but Scribd is not the one for me. It may work for you if you read significantly less or have an interest in backlist titles you’ve probably never heard of. I’m sure there are hidden gems in the part of the catalogue that’s always available, but my purpose in trying Scribd was to work through my massive TBR, not to waste hours of potential reading/listening time sifting through a virtual stack of books, the vast majority of which have little to no appeal to me. I’m left wishing that Scribd were honest about the service they offer—a couple of audiobooks per month for less than the price of one from the most popular audiobook distributor. That’s not a bad service to offer! But the mendacity of claiming the service is “unlimited” chafes me, so I’m out.

Unlimited, mostly.. It is unlimited, but it seems that certain books have limits imposed by the publisher, so if you don’t DOWNLOAD the book you want, you just save it (so basically it is on your reading list, but not downloaded), it can be sort of out-of-stock before you get to it. I waited a few weeks until 9/4 for some books I wanted, then a few days after 9/4, some of them already said not available until 10/4, then the date changed to 10/5. I started to worry it was a scam, but on 10/5, I was able to download about a dozen books I’d been waiting for. It is a good value, as long as you are willing to be flexible and wait sometimes. It’s a bit like waiting for books to come back in to the library. But considering the cost of audiobooks retail, it’s a good deal. ** That said, the latest update seems to have a glitch, and keeps crashing about 20 seconds after I start my book. I can listen from my computer, but that is certainly not as convenient. I’ve enjoyed this app for months without a problem, so I really hope they fix this ASAP!

I used to love it.... I loved this app and raved about it to anyone who would listen and was using audible about how great the unlimited books were. Unfortunately, in the past 2 months, a “bug”, or more likely rate limiting, ruined it. After listening to 3 books in a 1 month period, everything in my saved was labeled unavailable until the next pay cycle. Thats disappointing. Things in the public domain are still available, of course, but i could (and do) use librevox for those. I have a scribd subscription for contemporary things. Its really disappointing that one of my favorite apps is suddenly disappointing. I get that its expensive to have all of these titles available, and I’d happily pay double what I do now if it meant you would get *actually* unlimited audiobooks, but as it is now, I dont know. Its still a better deal than their competitors, I just wish they wouldn’t call their service unlimited because it’s not. Maybe this is actually a bug, like their FAQ says, but its been doing this for the past 3 months so I don't think it is. Maybe its time to look for a new audiobook provider.

Not unlimited. I watched available titles dwindle daily as everything listed my next billing date as the available date. I sampled several books, but only read a couple of audiobooks in a months time. Meanwhile, I can’t even search for books because unavailable titles are excluded from search results and literally everything I was searching for was unavailable. I’m talking about entire topics, not just authors. The language they use is vague and misleading at best. They reference materials being unavailable, but it’s basically everything I was looking for. Books already begun would switch to unavailable also. They make it seem as if the availability is arbitrary instead of clarifying exactly how availability works. I asked for clarification and was told to read the vague articles instead of getting an answer with details. Clearly they intend for the process to be mysterious, vague, and arbitrary instead of telling you that the number of items you open is limited. There’s no option to return bad books and actually read something else either. They should have named it enigma. They keep specific mechanics a mystery so they can sucker you into paying for a month or two before you realize what’s going on. We might be able to make the most of it if we knew how to avoid turning every title to unavailable, but that’s top secret.

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Not unlimited as all the books are ‘unavailable’. Unlimited? Seems too good to be true. Because it is. After all the the books you want start disappearing and are ‘not available’. I’m not the only person noticing this.

Good Value, Strange Restrictions. Subscription pricing is really good compared with audible. However like a lot of reviews have stated they have this strange feature where they restrict you from listening to too many of the same genre audiobook. No idea why, it also completely breaks their search engine aswell. I’ve read the developer replies to this and their support links don’t help. To current users experiencing this here’s a good tip to help you find what you’re looking for if they try to block you: Find a previous book you read by the same author> go to that book title details > click the author name hyperlink > manually search through their audiobooks until you find the next one in the series. (Book said was unavailable in my county in search while I was literally listening to it) This has allowed me to read 7 more books in a series after the scribd algorithm blocked me. Again to the developers remove this blocking feature, you said you were working to fix this a year ago?

Be careful when cancelling your subscription. I cancelled my subscription when I realised that you don’t actually get unlimited access to books/audiobooks, etc. After a week of use most of the titles I had saved disappeared and I was only able to access a limited number of items until after the next subscription payment. I followed what I thought was the cancellation process and cancelled via my apple account well before the next payment was due and received confirmation that my subscription had been cancelled. A couple of weeks later another payment was taken through my paypal account. I let Scribd know about the situation immediately but received no response and no refund of my additional payment. I loved the library but scribd are deceptive in their claim to be unlimited and in the barriers they put up for unsubscribing from their service and refusal to fix the problem. Look at other review sites online and you will find that this has happened to a lot of other users.

Disappointing. I drive interstate and listen to a lot audiobooks, while the library here is very good the fact that you can only listen to two, sometimes three, books of a series before they become “unavailable” is very frustrating, also the need for a internet connection even when you have downloaded the book to listen to it is maddening, driving a truck hundreds of km’s out of civilisation day in and day out and not being able to listen to the book in between towns when there is no phone service defeats the purpose of being able to download it in the first place. Many better apps out there for audiobooks, even free ones, save your money and look elsewhere.

I thought I cancelled the membership but charged again and again. And I found they made their webpage in a dodgy way. Pretending like all the steps to cancel the membership is over, but actually there is a small button you have to click to confirm the cancellation. BUT you cannot see it until scroll down the page to the bottom!! I couldn’t find this and was charged twice more. I absolutely hate companies using this sort of scam to charge more from users. So cheap, unreliable and disrespectful.

Titles disappear without warning. Love this app but it’s really disappointing how so many of the popular titles disappear without warning, and you’re left with only really obscure titles to choose from. I understand that Scribd has a rotating library and that there are limits in place for how many titles you can read per month, but I find it really frustrating that they can’t at least give you some warning about which titles you’re going to lose so that you can plan accordingly. With just that small fix this would be one of my favourite, most used and most recommended apps

limits reading after 2 books. Scribed claims to be unlimited but took away my access to 90% of my saved books after I listened to 1 audiobook and read one short story this month. This is ridiculous. It's happened in the last three months of my subscription and I'm sick of it. I understand that you might have to limit a few books in order to pay for them, however, restricting most of my saved books makes it not worth having the app at all.

Skipping/no audio. I absolutely love this app and have used it daily for over a year now BUT have started encountering issues where it will be playing but with no audio for 30 or so seconds and I have to skip forwards to get audio again and when I go back I will still have no audio at certain points. AND it has now just started cutting parts of chapters out mid sentence and going to another part of the chapter, and again, when I go back it will just still have that part cut out. Restarting the app has done nothing, and my software and the app are all up to date

Could be better. App keeps crashing & have to restart app, & then wait a while before the audiobook will allow me to play it. Plus, If you show an interest in too many mainstream titles by searching or saving them it happen to listen to more than 2 of these books in a month, then certain books suddenly become unavailable until your next monthly billing cycle. Unlimited does not actually mean unlimited in their case. Could be MUCH better.

Unauthorised Payment. This is the second time I got charged by Scribd. I canceled my membership before and they charged me for another month. I let that one go and just continued to use the app, since it’s not a bad app. I like the range and all but I just don’t have time for it recently. And then, they offered me another free trial and I happily took that. I canceled the trial two days before its expiry and surprise surprise, I still got charged for the next month. This has been very frustrating. Please sort this issue out cause I’m not sure if it’s a bug that is causing this in your system.

UX suggestion. Great app, as a designer however I wish there was a way to change the font. The default is quite unpleasant to read to my eye and discourages my using the app esp if I am tired. To give a couple more options with some tried-and-true typefaces like a reliable easy on the eye serif such as Garamond, or a sans serif which is cleaner like helvetica or avenir would really improve the user experience of the app

Search function not working properly. For the last 4 weeks or so I haven’t been able to search properly. I’ll type in a search word and I’ll only be able to see the top 2 or 3 results for each category. If I then click on Books, Documents, or Audiobooks etc, no results load at all, the little search wheel just keeps spinning. Please fix!! I’m using iOS on phone and iPad - both devices are affected...

Not as unlimited as they affirm. If you have read or listened to one or two books from the same author, the rest of that authors catalogue is then cut off until your next payment goes through. This is pretty ridiculous and there should definitely be a premium subscription option where this does not happen, so extremely frustrating when you are getting into a series and then have to wait a month before you can continue it.

Not unlimited. Scribd used to be great, but then in August, all my audiobooks that I had saved bar three became unavailable until the day my next bill was due. So I waited until September 7th and all my audiobooks became available again, great right? They became available for two days I repeat TWO Days before they were removed another month. So I check back in this morning only to find out that books that were once available to me are now not and that Scribd has pushed back the availability of my audiobooks by a day, not much sure, but I bet if I check tomorrow they’ll be pushed back another day. Poor form for a company that wants to be the Netflix of books, actually Netflix is cheaper than the Au$12 I pay for this a month

No night mode. Would be better if it supported night mode. At the moment the app’s splash screen has a bright white background. The home screen is bright white. Once you open an ebook there’s an option to use night mode for reading, but it’s not consistent (see above). Magazine articles don’t support night mode either. So please work in this, it’s nice to keep things dark for reading at night.

Customer Service. I love this app. It’s such a good price for all of the books included. My biggest factor in rating an app or company is customer service. I have been having problems with my app for a while and I’ve emailed as well as direct messaged and have received no response for several days. I was told it’s be an approximate of 3 business days. I have not been acknowledged and the problem still persists.

Absolutely love this app. I’m in love with this app! So many different genres and books I have access too. I’ve had this app now for about 18 months and i’ve listened to so many audiobooks, i’ve lost count. As well as ebooks as well! This app is amazing!

So much value for those who thrive on learning. I listen to a lot of audiobooks and trying to find an alternative to audible (as I prefer the ‘streaming option’), scribd is perfect! Although the library isn’t as vast as some others you’re often surprised that the book/audiobook/file is on there! Regardless, great value for money and highly recommend.

Great content, horrible app. “Just a moment” - the message you get whenever you try and play/resume a audiobook, try closing & reopening the app, doesn’t work. It’s infuriating. Also, why is there no “now playing screen” like every other podcast/audiobook/music app. It’s hard to find what you are playing Why release a update every 2 weeks but not fix the core functionality - stop wasting our time and downloads

Worst. One of the worst apps and website I came across. Firstly it always asks for my credit card, whenever I try to open something. Secondly when I sign in it still asks for it, or either to upload files and when I do upload them, the numbers just keep increasing. I’ve just uploaded 5 documents, which got “accepted” and then when I tried to download 1 document it wouldn’t allow me! Before you only needed to upload 1 document to get one in exchange. Now they went too far! I really don’t recommend this “hard to use” site!

Great app for reading/listening to countless Ebooks/audiobooks off line. I love this app so much :) . For a really low price I get so much content . I have so many books waiting to be read and for the low price I'm basically making money for the amount of books I have stored 😂. I love the app!

This company is like tapeworms feasting on your credit card. I joined a trial on 31 Dec 2018 and closed it the same day. I received confirmation of closure by email. 2 years later I find they did not close it and have kept making deductions without sending any receipts. It looked closed on App Store, and isn’t in my subscription list. They refuse to disclose how many deductions they have taken and they will not make a refund. I can’t seem to stop them bleeding my account, even now. Scarily, the only way I found out is because my credit card is expiring. It’s a common story, look on Trustpilot. I still have no confirmation that they have stopped bleeding my account. I still have no receipts to know the amount they have been taking. Apple has refunded $108 but I think it’s only for one year, and Scribd said I may have multiple subscriptions. I can’t make it stop. I can’t cancel these subscriptions.

Technical Issues. I love this app. Decent price and a good selection of content. However there are so many technical flaws that I’ve never had with, say, audible. Sometimes when I’m listening to an audiobook it will just randomly quit out of the app, even if I’ve put on the sleep timer. Recently, audiobooks will only play if I’m in the app and if I exit (even if it’s still running in the background) they literally just stop and don’t play until the app is physically open on my screen.

Disappointing. I’d have to say that although initially Scribd looks like a book lover’s dream come true, it’s quite misleading. When I saw unlimited books per month, I tried to find the fine copy but couldn’t. I’d dislocated my knee & was laid up with more time on my hands than usual. However, after a few books I’d obviously reached my monthly limit & the books I’d saved as reading options were all marked as not being available until after a few weeks time. I’ve since seen that Scribd gives some pat answer to this issue in other reviews. However, what I really object to with Scribd is being treated like a complete idiot with their search option. Authors & titles suddenly disappear & the most random things appear, you feel like previous searches that revealed them must have taken place in a parallel universe. This really ticks me off, just be honest with your customers. If Scribd said you can read such & such number of books per month, we could make a decision as to whether we thought a subscription was worth it or not. There’s no quality control either with suggestions, someone who wants to read a Jane Austen or a Georgette Heyer will suddenly be inundated with an array of trashy romance novels. I initially had issues paying for my subscription, the fact it took months & multiple emails for me to get anyone’s attention in customer service should have been a warning flag for me. I only hope I don’t have the same difficulties ending my subscription.

Fantastic!!!. Like a whole library in the palm if your hand, this is a great app for book lovers or anyone looking for a ready-at-hand source of reading material. Titles are in step with what you’d want to read and not of the cheap, paperback pulp kind. Highly recommend!! So thankful for this app!

Cancellation problem. I am really angry about the subscription. First, it should not be this difficult to cancel my subscription. I just cannot find the subscription cancellation in the app, I have to go to the web page. I hope that this is just poor app design, not any conspiracy. Second, I clearly managed to cancel my subscription, but I still get charged for the second month, why is that?

Enjoy the app, but hate that it defaults the speed back. I love the app and the access to books it gives me but I hate that whenever the audiobooks are paused, it defaults back to 1x speed instead of the speed I set it to. Easy to set back to the speed I had but still annoying. Overall I enjoy Scribd

Love the access. The app works fantastically and I really enjoy the access it gives to books. I would like to see it have a black background for night reading like the iBooks app does but generally it works well. Some notable titles missing from books - some are audiobooks only etc. But overall a fantastic idea and I use this app a lot!

Please add more features. Features that need to be added: 1. Personalised recommendation: kindly give the user options to add or remove book, magazine, podcast, etc recommendation. I’m glad that I could find books that related to my current reading, but there are books that I’m not really interested to read. So please add this feature 2. Add parental control: please add parental filter or anything similar to make the app safe for children. Other than that, I have no issue. Thank you for creating this app. I hope next time I can give the app 5 stars.

Brought back my love of ‘reading’. Thank you for bringing this app to Australia. I’ve been loving listening to audiobooks too and from work. Also amazing being able to listen on a range of devices! Well done and keep updating the books 😊

Good when it works. This app used to good. But lately it just doesn’t work well. Playback of Audiobooks freezes but the time continues on. Download of audiobooks is hit and miss as well, I’ve had chapters missing etc. the fix is to restart the app or your phone but that gets a bit frustrating when you have to do it multiple times throughout one book. Hopefully they actually have a real fix for these issues otherwise it’s back to Audible for me.

SOO much better than biggest competitor!. I used to subscribe to Audible but I’m so grateful I tried Scribd as it’s so much better for many reasons. Obviously the cost is less per month for UNLIMITED audio books. But in addition you also get access to digital books, podcasts, magazines, articles and snapshots. I hadn’t realised how valuable that is. So now if I listen to a non fiction book and want to see the info I can download the digital book and photo the pages I want to keep. I love it. I am able to find 99% of the books/info I’ve been looking for for a fraction of the cost. Thank you developers!

Deceptive AF. Is it unlimited? Yes. With a giant asterisk. Only use this if you don’t care what book you read next. If you want a genre, or heaven forbid, a series, skip this app. They’ll let you rad the first book in a series. Maybe a second. Then it’ll disappear the rest. Next month I started two seperate series at once. Read one book, then the other, they disappeared the entire GENRE after the second book. They’ll say those books rotate on availability. Yeah, they rotate until your next payment. Deleted just for the dishonesty

It was really good at first.... At first scribd was really good and I could access all the books I wanted to but then we cancelled it for a month or two because the series I wanted was not on there. Then I finished the series and I had a look through scribd for free and I saw that all the books I wanted were on there so we payed for it again, but then after we had already paid for it it said that the titles I wanted would be available soon but usually soon means months. So I think that the app should say whether they’re available now or not before we pay for it.

Good app. I really love scribd and it got me through life in a city, I’d always have audiobooks ready and my pick of things to listen to. I’m not very good with my concentration, so I don’t listen to particularly intellectually deep audiobooks - I prefer to read those. Though the few non fictions I have listened to on it have been great. I’ve found scribd great for some amazing finds and fun listens. My only qualm, and I believe they’ve responded to this in other reviews - but it’s the rotating library. I’ll finish something and start looking for another book, only to find they have gotten rid of all the books I’d actually listen to. All that is left is obscure books from the Christie era, written by people no one has heard of. I’ve tried one or two and hated them. I’m not sure why they have a rotating library, but I’m sure it’s for a valid reason. Aside from that I’m a big fan!

Great content but too glitchy to work properly.. I love my scribd subscription. The selection of ebooks and audiobooks are amazing but I unfortunately will be cancelling my subscription because they’re is no point keeping it if the app is so glitchy that I can’t listen to any books without it skipping chapters or the app crashing and not letting me get past a certain part of the book. Clean up the app and I will happily re purchase my subscription and keep it forever.

Love the books Hate the app.. According the their publicity this app is updated regularly with bug fixes etc. What a crock. The app fails to load the current book about 2 out of three times its used. Has to be shut down and then the book reloaded. Very often the app defaults to small fonts that are too small for me so I have to tap, re-size then continue. I have lost count of the times this happens. THE MOST ANNOYING BUG IS THE REGULAR FAIL TO LOAD CURRENT BOOK. How about fixing these two bugs.

Great App. I have had this app for a couple of years now and enjoy it immensely. Especially being able to access the audio book along with the book. My only request would be if that there could be some sort of scrolling mechanism when reading? I have it on another book app and I find it very useful. Like other reviews, I also find the page turning a little clunky. I would also like to have different save folders. Books I would like to read and books I have read. Also folders to store different topics. That way they all dont end up in my saved list in a jumble. If you already have this, can you let me know? Other than that. LOVE your app!

Cancelling Subscription because of constant broken audio!. I am so over this app! About 80% of the audio books I listen to on here go silent for about 20 seconds every 30 or so minutes. Iv tried deleting the app and then down loading it again. Iv downloaded the audio to streaming over wifi to streaming only data. Nothing has fixed the issue. So I will be cancelling the subscription.

NOT Unlimited at all. Every month you WILL be limited. EVERY SINGLE MONTH. I was in the middle of a book when I received a message that the title was no longer included in my subscription. That was the last straw. It is false to say all over your advertising that this service is unlimited when it is not. Please stop insulting everyone with your replies to this type of feedback with a ‘sorry we can’t control...’ because you absolutely can control this. You advertise an unlimited service but have built in limitations which are lifted only once the monthly subscription is charged!!!

Serious billing Issues. The app worked fine the first month. However when the time came for subscription renewal it billed me twice through the Apple subscription service. When I raised this query with Apple, they refunded the extra billing, however now the scribd app is not recognising my subscription??! Tech support from scribd has been average and they can’t or won’t solve the issue.

My favourite app ever. This is the first time I have ever written a review for anything but I just want to go out of my way to let people know that this is the best app for learning anything you want. For like 8 dollars a month there is no limit on how much you c an read. It’s actually so impressive.

Please fix orientation issue on iPad Pro 12. Although I love scribd itself, the app has recently begun to have issues with orientation adjustment which has rendered the app useless. Please fix it Also suggestion for further improvement: - phased downloading ( start downloading and showing the book from the first few pages and download more pages as the reader progresses rather than the whole book) - in app annotation

Good variety but app crashes a lot. Really great variety of books for a great price however the app often just stops playing the audiobook for no reason which is really annoying especially if you’re listening when driving, would help if they fixed this

Great service, bad app. The library of titles and subscription model make it worthwhile, even if the rotating availability and opaque limits on “unlimited” books are sometimes frustrating. The problem is that the app is so glitchy as to be unusable. It crashes randomly while listening or reading, search often freezes completely (when it does work, it’s very slow), when you try to visit your Saved titles, it regularly shows nothing (even though you have a few dozen saved titles. Also, there are a lot of issues that arise from a lack of transparency about titles not available in certain countries (e.g. I keep getting notifications every week for a magazine I saved when it was available in my country - now it’s not so I can’t access the title or turn off the notifications).

BEST READING APP/AUDIO ETC. Love this application! Use it throughout the day ALL DAY EVERY WEEK. For such a small fee I have access to sooo many different books or audio books or even documents. The fact they can even be downloaded to use offline is amazing too. The only constructive criticism id give is highlighting certain points should be a lot easier to use. I’d LOVE to be able to add little “footprint notes” connected into highlighting points too! Even a notes sector for each book. That would be awesome. I read a lot and would also like the whole function of turning the page to be more smoother and less glitchy feeling. If it could be run more like a reel when scrolling downwards that would be amazing! Regardless I love this app. I’m giving it 4 stars though as there is always room for improvement. Thank you!!!!!!

No option for a real trial. There are no samples to try before putting your card on their system for a trial. U can’t see any of books or listen for a second to check.. Read many comments here and they all say; free trial is a fake they have been all charged even they cancelled. Well it took me 3 minutes to delete and say bye!

It would be great if not for all the glitches. I loved it for years and was a solid fan but in the last year it’s had so many problems that I’ve started switching back to audible. The app glitches constantly, either by the audio you’re listening to going silent all of a sudden and once this starts it will happen every 5 mins or so and then gradually increase in timing, or the audio glitches by just skipping a second every 45 seconds or so. The other thing is that your audio options aren’t actually unlimited, despite what they advertise. If you listen to too much of the same type of thing or the same author you will find yourself restricted so you can’t get to that stuff again until the next billing period.

Please return in-book table of contents/chapters.. I love the library of music that is available. As a music teacher, I find this quite useful in my small group/individual lessons. However, after one of the more recent updates, all subscription music books had their table of contents removed. I can view ‘Chapters’ from the Info page for the music publications, but I cannot view those chapters whilst actually ‘reading’ the book, which doesn’t help me if I decide I want to move to a different song at the other end of the book. Also, it would be nice if one could customise their bookmarks, so as to provide more information than just a page number.

Switching back to Audible. The audio playback issues are driving me mental. I’ve followed all the problem solving steps and the playback still keeps failing on iOS. I can see from the reviews that these problems have been reported for months with no resolution. I’ll be switching back to Audible so I can get a reliable service with a good range of high quality recent releases.

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Not happy!. Dear Scribd, Do you A/B test your cancellation process to see how you can maximize your user confusion? You have done a great job and definitely fool me. Although you got me to pay one extra month, you have now lost a customer forever. To new user, Before subscribing, please read the WikiHow page on 13-step Scribd cancellation process. However, be careful, Scribd may have added more trickeries by the time you need to cancel your subscription.

Doesn’t play in the background anymore. Whatever happened with this new update, not my audiobooks pause as soon as Everand isn’t on my screen anymore. App is still open but the book won’t play. Extremely frustrating.

Not worth the money. This app was great when I first started but now it greatly limits what books I can access. One week into the month most books are not available until my next billing cycle. So frustrating! They say “there are lots of titles available” but none of them are something I want to read. Done with it. That is NOT unlimited.

Not Unlimited. I joined Scribd for audiobooks. I was led to believe this was unlimited. I would start a series just to be blocked from accessing and completing after the first couple. I am cancelling. Not worth it for me.

False marketing. This is not access to unlimited books. As soon as you come close to finishing a book in a series, all the other title of the series become unavailable until the next billing cycle. Plus it does the same to the majority of the same type of books. This is false marketing!

magic trackpad not work. I cannot turn a page by apple magic trackpad. Apple books and other apps work well with apple magic trackpad.

I hate this APP. In the middle of reading a book and it drops it saying it can no longer be read in Canada. I just want to get RID of this app but it isn’t easy.

Crashes constantly. This app crashes every single time I try to use it. I’ve spent the last 10 minutes waiting for the audiobook I was listening to to start working, and it just keeps buffering no matter how many time I refresh it or close the app.

Not good. They put a monthly limit on the books I listen to. Not unlimited. Gonna try kindle because Scribd is a bulls$&@ service.

NOT unlimited audiobooks. After listening to a couple audiobooks other titles become locked and “available soon”. Over 3/4s of my saved library are locked and i have to wait a month to listen to a couple and then have them be locked again. Also I didn’t receive a response back to my help ticket. Not worth the pricey subscription cost.

Rip off. This app and program is a rip off. You literally get a handful of days less than a week of audiobook selection then nothing is available, except for bottom of the barrel selection. Even an audiobook that I had downloaded on my phone is no longer available after a five day time. After my subscription renewal. At this rate you’re paying for maybe one or two books if you’re lucky. Outrageous. In the past, I could at least have a book or two, downloaded and get to listen to them, now I have downloads on my phone that are being held prisoner, and I can’t listen to until the end of the month 25 days from now. I don’t even think I will re-subscribe. I’ve had this program for a few years and this new update is the absolute worst.

Hit Limit too fast. So far I’ve only finished 1 audiobook and started a second and have a notification that many titles are unavailable until next billing cycle. I don’t understand how the limit is set and reached. Is just opening an audio book automatically counts towards this limit?

Frequent crashes. I love this app and i hate it. Im in the midst of a great audio book and all of a sudden when I close it and then open it again there is nothing! It is frozen and it says i have nothing saved (even though i have a lot saved, and the app works in my laptop)! Sometimes when I am at home with wifi it is fine and the if i move to a room with a wifi dead zone it is blank. Nothing. And it says nothing saved! It needs to be more consistent!

Narration speed. Aside from the limit issues other reviews have mentioned, I find it annoying that we have preset speeds to choose from for the narration speed. I often vary anywhere from 1.2x to 2.2x depending on the narrator’s voice, but here my only options within that range are 1.2x, 1.5x, 1.8x and 2x. Other apps provide a range bar instead of fixed choices, which is way better.

Wonderful. Hello, When I connect by mobile with my workplace wifi , this app doesn’t work. I have to turn cellular data. Is it possible to change some settings to make it work on wifi

Scribd Turns Everand. Blah. Even downloaded books have an unforeseen amount of time in which they buffer. I never had that problem with Scribd. So disappointed. Stick with what works! Everand does not.

Mickey Mouse designed this. This app must do a lot of tracking as to your location. I drive. When I go into a no cell are the downloaded book plays for 10 minutes, then it stops. The app says on the phone it is trying to connect. For what? The phone is basically idle, except for the book playing. The app looking for a McDonald’s?

Beware. This is a monthly subscription, and you do not have access to anything you have downloaded if you pause or cancel. Also, if you pause or cancel your subscription, it stops immediately instead of giving you the time you paid for. Better to subscribe to audible where you own the titles you pay for and can listen even if you cancel.

Improve the app!. It’s great but margins.. margins! Folks. Okay, there’s no tts for the differently abled that’s whatever, but the margins! The margins. Add some.

App keeps crashing. Hi. I really enjoy your service, but the last couple of weeks this app keeps crashing. I hope this problem can be fixed, because I don’t want to have to cancel my subscription, but of course if I can’t use it, I would be forced to cancel. When reading or listening to a book, it’s very inconvenient when it just shuts down on you. Thank you.

Love the app hate the new Color!. I love this app! It’s the best for audiobooks! I wanted to let the developer know the new yellow logo and time tracker color is grating on the eyes I hope they change it,

Not unlimited. This app is NOT unlimited. After you have listened to a certain amount of audiobooks they limit basically every audiobook that is related to what you normally listen to and don’t allow you to listen to anymore until your next billing cycle. They say “title not available until ___”. Not satisfied with this app.

False advertising by company. This is not a review of the app, but rather the company itself as ‘unlimited’ does not mean ‘unlimited’, which constitutes false advertising. Once a subscriber has reached a certain limit each month, the availability of books, etc. drops dramatically (e.g., saved list dropped from 279 to 29 and the search return of a certain term dropped from 20375 titles to 151 titles) until the next billing cycle.

So Glitchy Since the Update. Please fix the update!! There are so many bugs and glitches since you’ve changed things around, used to be a great app.

Rate limited….. They show a ton of new new content on day 1, and by day 3, remove 90% of the content that was available on day 1!!!! And by day 5, it is down to only a handful of books. Service and content is great - as long as you are a slow reader and only read a few books a month. If you are a fast reader, get ready to be disappointed as they rip away your titles within 48 hours of receiving access

Not unlimited. If you listen to more then 2 books buy the same author in the same month, for the rest of that month that author becomes unavailable. And all you get from support is bull-plop. Beware NOT unlimited.

Netflix for books. Why don't more people know about this app?? It's a must for any book lover, and such a bargain-priced subscription. Their customer service reps are always so quick to answer and very friendly!

Unavailable titles. I was loving this app so much. I used to listen up to 8-9 audiobooks a month. Then it will show “unavailable item” until i renew the payment. Now! I can only enjoy 3 audiobooks!!! What !! ?? It hasn’t been a hot minute since I renewed it!!

Audiobook replay. There is a problem when we finish an audiobook we are not able not replay again…

Transparency please. This app is not unlimited.. I love the concept of this app. But it is not “unlimited”. My subscription renewed on the 22nd of October, I’ve listened to two audiobooks in that time and my options are limited to next to nothing. While I appreciate the couple newer release books I’m able to listen to, I think Scribd should be more transparent in how their app works and how much you will be limited once you’ve reached their very inconsistent limit. Scribd responded to me by saying the limitations are put in place so all scribd authors have a chance to be reimbursed. This would be the equivalent of a bookstore only having their worst selling books available for 3/4 of the month so all authors are able to earn an income. That makes ZERO sense. So unfortunately I will be cancelling my subscription until the many problems with this app are addressed.

Good selection but never available. Good selection of books, but a week before the next bill date, all my saved books become “unavailable” until the day after the next billing date. So the “unlimited” option is a bit of a misnomer since they randomly switch books to unavailable until you pay for their service again. Definitely a bit frustrating since it’s not just new books they do this with, and all the books I had saved but not read yet are currently unavailable for a week. Two days before the next billing date, and every book I search is “unavailable” that is not a rotating library

Best audio book app. I have used this app for 4 year. I absolutely love it and it’s was cheaper than audible

Can Unsubscribe. Signed up for the free month and now that I want to unsubscribe I cannot. I followed direction for both the app and iTunes methods and neither gave me an option to cancel. Also don’t like that they won’t give a discount to Canadian students. I’m in grad school but since I am not in the U.S. I don’t qualify. 👎👎👎 Get me off this app and don’t charge my damn credit card. Ffs

Usability is poor, support almost non-existent. While the book selection is fairly reasonable the usability on iOS is not good. Trying to select more than one word at a time (eg. to highlight, copy, etc.) is incredibly difficult and often not possible at all. More often than not, when I return to the app to continue reading a book, it's on the wrong page. Sometimes when reading a book I've saved, I'm repeatedly asked if I want to save the book. The app will randomly switch from vertical scroll to horizontal. I could go on... If support was good maybe these issues could be excusable but when I have been frustrated enough to submit a ticket, it has taken over a week to get any kind of reply. I keep hoping that these issues will get resolved but hope is wearing razor thin. Disappointed.

Buffering. Ever book I try to listen to comes on and says buffering 15 minutes and still buffering. I’m not happy.

Where is the selection?. Other reviews have highlighted the audio dropping inexplicably, so please be aware before downloading. I listen to sci-fi and high fantasy and the selection just isn’t there. Be it from well known writers (GRRM, Robert Jordan, Goodkind…) to newbies like C.L Clark. When Scribd gets a deeper library, I’ll be back. Until then, I can’t recommend this to anyone.

Amazing!. Why is everyone complaining about this app? I’ve used it for almost a year now and I’ve had no problems, also it’s pretty cheap considering you get to read pretty much any book in existence! I recommend :)

Breaking what already worked. I’ve generally enjoyed the service but the new logo is a huge downgrade. The older one for Scribd was clean and classic; the new one looks like something doodled on a yellow legal pad and I’ve already caught myself 2 or 3 times actively avoiding the app because of it.

It’s just taking up space (no free books). I downloaded this with the expectations of yeah there will be some books needed to be payed for but all of the books require a monthly subscription the only reason it’s free is so they do the subscription for all the books so if you want to listen to audiobooks just go to Spotify or elsewhere as all these books aren’t available.

Cannot login using my Apple ID. I just got signed out of my account for no reason. And now I cannot log back in anymore! It won’t let me use my Apple ID to login anymore even though I have a paid subscription. And if I try to make a new account, it keeps saying that it already has an account under my name! Then why I tried to login from the website, an error popped up! I’m extremely mad as I was in the middle of a good book that I can no longer read. I want my money back since I cannot access my account anymore!

Customer service is abysmal. You have no way of reaching someone to help with your issue. I joined for a specific series of audiobooks, when they switched to everand the series is nowhere to be found. I’ll cancel my subscription if they can’t offer some kind of chat assistance or something. The one time I got an email back the customer service representative was clueless and said some generic sentence that had nothing to do with my query. So turns out THEY LIMIT HOW MUCH YOU CAN LISTEN TO WHICH MEANS MAYBE 2 or 3 audiobooks a month

Keeps crashing. I like the app but now it keeps crashing please fix it

Not unlimited anymore. Scribd was awesome and unlimited in downloads. Since switching their audiobooks to Everand, downloads are now limited with no warning. I drive for a living and listen to audiobooks. I am “bookless” for 3 weeks due to no warning that this new policy now exists. poop

Extremely difficult to unsubscribe from and they don’t have a lot of titles. Don’t waste your money.. I have never had a service that is more difficult to unsubscribe from. The creators decided to require you to login on a computer through a browser in order to unsubscribe from a service that, to my knowledge, it’s just used as an app. Unsubscribing is not as simple as logging in via a web browser, though. There are all of these hoops and steps and it’s not easy to find. It’s a money grab and it’s ridiculous. They also don’t have a lot of the newer audio books. Don’t waste your money.

Meh. Don’t get me wrong. I love this app and having so much stuff at my fingertips. Except right now it’s been frozen for over a week and I can’t get past the main page. I have to use the site which won’t work when I don’t have network coverage. Also their customer service is the slowest I’ve ever encountered. Literally sometimes a month to respond to me with a semi-useless resolution. Ticket number is 3101230

Great service, terrible app. I am grateful for the general idea behind Scribd, as a voracious reader who loves to read more books than he has the budget for, and listens to a lot of audiobooks. At the recommendation of a mentor, I gave Scribd a shot. In order to listen to some of the audiobooks I saved of books she recommended I read or listen to, I downloaded the iPhone app. And boy, let’s just say I’m quite surprised at how useless it is. In the first few hours of listening to the first audiobook I downloaded, the app turned itself off randomly at least 3 times. I know I didn’t accidentally hit any buttons, I had the screen turned off while in my pocket, so this is definitely an app thing. Then, each time I turned the app back on, I’d have to wait at least 15-20 seconds before my titles would show up again, and another 10 seconds or so before the play button would appear for the audiobook I was listening to, and when I’d turn it on, I’d find it not to be anywhere near the spot I had left off before Scribd decided to turn itself off. Other times I turn the screen off to put the phone in my pocket and the audio for whatever book I’m listening to immediately disappears and the book pauses. I guess years of listening to books on Audible with sleep timer turned on has spoiled me into thinking I’d be able to do the same thing with other apps like this. So, I’m not normally one to go and leave a negative review for an app I’m having problems with. I just delete them and stop using them usually but I felt like this time I needed to throw my experience in here just in case you guys want to fix these glaring issues. I would love to keep using your app if it ran much more smoothly than this. Thanks for reading.

Audiobooks won’t play. Ever since Scribd became Everand, many of the children’s audio books have stopped playing. When I open the book it shows a length of 0:00. Extremely frustrating when I’m still paying the full price. I’ll be cancelling my subscription soon if this isn’t fixed.

So far great besides one problem. When I am listening to an audio book it will sometimes just completely stop this has happened so far 8 times in 3 hrs. Very inconvenient as I do not have time at work to continue pulling out my phone

Bug. Everand doesn't play while phone is on lock screen.

Bad For Fantasy. Terrible fantasy selection, lots of books not available in English. App is nicely designed however.

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The App has changed. I’ve had this app for probably over a year and it used to be my favorite app for audiobooks bc I had such a large selection at my disposal and could read anything on the app. I don’t know why, but this has changed. Now I can only read about 2 books before it tells me that the other books I’ve saved to read later aren’t available until after the next billing payment...so books that weren’t supposed to be available on July 30 are now not available until August 30, which is when I’m billed again. I used to be able to read or listen to as many books as I wanted, but it’s only the second day of the month and already all the books I saved that were available yesterday are not available for another month. This change is going to lose my subscription to the app. I am not paying $10 a month just to be conned. This app would be 5 stars if it hadn’t changed. Please change it back, this is not fair.

Skim. Couldn’t live without Scribd. I used to just borrow books from the library but got tired of waiting on hold for books I wanted to read. Occasionally I will still find books that are not available but that is rare. The selection has been amazing ranging from some of my favorite historical fiction or fantasy to non-fiction and reference material. I was surprised to find a great selection of SQL SAS books that have helped me develop some more technical skills. I am able to download and read books offline and to date I’ve never had any issues with syncing. I can pickup where I left off in an audiobook or ebook on different devices. The subscription has been worth the cost. I will happily give up a few Starbucks coffees a month to access the amazing selection of books that are offered.

Trying this again... I’m giving this app another go. My main issue with it my first go around is what everyone else seems to have an issue with.. the fact that the app is advertising as unlimited access to books, when that isn’t in fact 100% true. They have a wide selection of books.. but you have a limit on how many of each genre you can read per month, and then they make the rest of that type of book unavailable until the next month. I didn’t have a problem with that concept as much as I had an issue with the way this app is advertised. I get why they have to do it the way they do - but the blatantly disregard that when they’re advertising their app. It’s all a marketing plot.. but it’s definitely aggravating to not know that going in. Giving it another shot, because I figure if I spread my reading around by genre I shouldn’t have an issue. We’ll see.

App crashes. I previously wrote a review about how the audio book selection suddenly became “unavailable” on the same day of every month until a certain day of the next month (I’m assuming it’s based on individual billing cycles) unless you’ve downloaded the books. I don’t want to download a bunch of books at one time and take up a ton of space on my phone. I received a generic phony answer about blah blah blah. Whatever. Before cs suggests this, YES I updated to the newest IOS. Like many recent reviews, the app has been crashing. Without fail, it’ll crash at 3 minutes. Once I reload it, it’s fine for about an hour and crashes again. This is getting ridiculous. You’re going to lose a lot of customers if this isn’t resolved ASAP. I don’t want a generic apology from cs that offers “help,” unless you can actually help, ideally with both complaints. It has the possibility of being the best service available, but the effort isn’t there. I’m about ready to start using the public library again; at least I know there the waiting list is valid.

The messiest app ever.. First of all, Scribd says you get unlimited access to books which is not true. If you save books, all of a sudden nothing will be available to you until a specific date and you will not be allowed to read anything else, which they do not tell you. Interestingly, the date these other books will be available is ALWAYS after you’ve paid for another month. Second, this app is a big mess on apple phones. It doesn’t allow you to speed beyond 2.0, which thankfully you can bypass by using a laptop. But it’s just ridiculous for something you’re paying a subscription for. THIRD WHICH IS THE MOST INFURIATING THING EVER is the fact that this app is a big mess when it comes to skipping around on your audiobook. For example one moment I’m reading at 45 minutes and i’m hearing one thing and the next all of a sudden it skips to an entirely different section and i have to keep buffering and go back and clear the app OVER AND OVER AGAIN until it resets. Anytime I leave my house it takes me 5 tries to be where I actually am. Like, why is chapter 30 playing at 15 minutes when I am on chapter 1? For something I’m paying for I don’t think I should be experiencing this. If you have a library PLEASE just wait. I don’t recommend scribd at all. The app is so annoying for something you’re paying so much for. $10 might not be a lot of money to most but for an app that’s behaving this way, it’s ridiculous to have to experience this. What a mess.

Misleading bordering on fraud. Like every other bad review here, I fell for the unlimited bit. I am an avid audiobook listener during commutes, workouts, and household chores. I discovered quickly that unlimited is a lie. My queue is available for a few days at the start of the billing cycle and quickly disappears once I finish a book. It doesn’t even have to be a recently published book. Any book it seems, no matter how obscure, will trigger their new algorithm designed to rip off their customers. And they compound the lie with lame support, like explaining away the bait and switch tactics with links that don’t work, and canned responses to reviews instead of honesty and fixing their product. For the final insult, according to other reviews I’ve read it sounds like I am going to have to jump through hoops to cancel my account because they want to keep billing people indefinitely. The crazy thing is if they just admitted they screwed up and made some minor changes, I’d still consider remaining a customer for the price. But after what I’ve seen of Scribd, I can’t imagine them scraping up enough integrity to pull that off.

If It Sounds To Good To Be True…. ….it probably is. Scribd seems to draw you in with their “unlimited” library but hiding in the fine print is the fact that they essentially blacklist their most avid readers and restrict them from viewing a large portion of the library if they read too many titles a month. I’ve been literally in the middle of a book only to have it disappear from my library with no explanation. Books I’ve saved are suddenly no longer in my saved section (even under the “available soon” list). If this is how they need to operate their business, fine, I get it, they have a bottom line to think of. But the fact that they aren’t up front about how it works is what really irks me. Don’t try to pull a bait and switch. Disappointing. Back to Audible and Kindle where I can count on my titles to stay in my library. Sadly, I won’t be back unless they change this.

Frustrating Frequent Crashes. I love what Scribd offers and have enjoyed hundreds of hours of listening pleasure, but over the last year it’s provided pleasure peppered with total AGGRAVATION! I listen to audio books while commuting 2+ hours each day, and the app crashes repeatedly every trip. I don’t want to fiddle with my phone 3-6 times while driving - or end up road raging at someone honking at me while I do. I’ve listened to books at home as well, hoping the problem was maybe caused by me driving through a cellular dead zone, weak signal or interference from something nearby. Nope. Still crashes repeatedly while I lay here in bed. Between that and the “not unlimited” selection mentioned by others, I’ve gone and reactivated my Audible account. And oh how nice it’s been. I’m seriously thinking about canceling my Scribd account... as soon as I finish this book - if I can just get it to play all the way through. I’d call customer support- but from the reviews, there apparently isn’t any.

Amazing product, but so annoying to be a customer.. I have had more issues with login information and billing and portals not going through, etc, than any other app I’ve ever subscribed to, and I am so fed up with the experience of being a customer of this app. It genuinely prevents me from using it most of the time, and I feel like every time I come back to the app I have another logistical issue, trying to get into it or use it. Customer service is a nightmare to work with, and it took me months to resolve a billing issue where I was getting billed for two subscriptions at the same time. I feel like they made a great product and did all of the user onboarding as a second thought with 0% effort. It would undeniably be my most used app and very enriching part of my life if it wasn’t such a pain in the @. I’ve really giving it a try many, many times, and I’ve had no improvement, but there is really no other app or service on the market with as good of a deal and so I keep coming back. Please fix the Scribed.

Bad bug makes it hard to use. I’ve been using this app for close to a month and the issue hasn’t been resolved. Since I have been using the app, Regardless of the audiobook I am listening to, most of the time the book will open and start to play but will be on the previous chapter AND will just sit there and say just a moment, loading which prevents me from pausing or adjusting anything. Sometimes it will start to play the correct chapter but do the same just a moment loading thing. And very rarely, it will play from the correct spot and just play... until after a chapter or two when it stops playing altogether, stuck on the just a moment loading screen. Closing the app out and reopening it does not fix it right away. Usually when it gets stuck on the loading screen, I can’t close the audiobook, so when I reopen the app, it immediately opens the audiobook... and is still stuck on the loading screen... I have to open and close it a few times to get it to work and even then it’s usually only works for a chapter or two before the cycle repeats.

Just not good. Saying this service is unlimited is false advertising. After listening to a few, audiobooks become “unavailable” until you’re billed the next month unless the are in the public domain or from a small selection based on the genres you’ve read that month. The last bit wouldn’t necessarily be a problem, but in my case, the books recommended were all part of a series except for the first novel. In addition to the sneaky advertising, the app just doesn’t function. Compared to other apps on my phone it’s slow. But the main problem is with listening to audiobooks. I’ve had random bits of dead air in the middle of books, skipping entire sections. And in another, every time I would go back to listen it wouldn’t start where I left off. I even tried to circumvent this by placing a bookmark where I was before I closed the app. But when I came back to it, the bookmark was in the wrong place too. If the app functioned and actually gave what was advertised, it would be a great deal. But since it does neither of those things, I can’t recommend this too anyone.

SO GLITCHY. This app regularly shuts itself off and/or needs to buffer for minutes at a time while I’m listening to an audiobook, after which it starts playing again…but has backtracked several chapters. Sometimes it predictably happens after I’ve paused the audiobook, other times it’s random. I know it’s not an issue with my iPhone data plan, wifi, or a matter of needing to update the app, because I also have Audible and Libby and never have these issues with those apps. It’s unique solely to Scribd. Also, like everyone else, I’m growing tired of the limited “unlimited” content. I’ll listen to two audiobooks only to have others in my Saved queue suddenly become unavailable until my subscription renews. Then when I look at recommended books, it’s the same basic titles over and over again. I usually end up just buying books on Audible. It’s much more expensive, but at least the app is reliable and the content available to me is never restricted.

There’s a limit on how many books you can read. While scribd does give you access to “unlimited” books, they may not be the ones you are looking for. If you’re reading a series it will show that all the books are available, however, once the algorithm knows you’re reading those, it will make certain books in the series NOT available until the next months billing cycle basically forcing you to continue your membership to read these certain books. The search function for certain books is also not reliable. Some books aren’t available through the search, however if google search them, scribd comes up as a place you can read it...little sketchy if you ask me. A lot of the books I want to read also only come as audiobooks which is frustrating. I’ve enjoyed reading the books that are available on this site, however, the frustrations I’ve faced with them membership have led me to not recommend this service to anyone. Please fix these issues scribd—stop limiting the amount of books from a certain author, that is just ridiculous.

Not unlimited, app needs improvement. They limit audiobooks to 5. Seems that if you listen to more popular books, the selection for following books decreases. It is too easy to click on an audiobook accidentally and it will start playing, this immediately counting against your limit of 5. For that reason, they should change it so that we have to confirm we want to play/read a book. Also, for that reason, there should be a way to ‘return’ a book if we’ve barely started it and don’t like it, so it doesn’t count against our 5 limit. I like that you can see what titles will be available upon your next billing payment. I really wish that the app had a way to access books in progress in a much better way, rather than being in your saved list. I wish it displayed the amount left in the entire book in a way that didn’t make me leave playback and go back to the list. It doesn’t always remove books from the saved list even after no longer saved.

Great App!. I love this app so much. My daughter and I compared several reading apps before trying this one. I am quite happy with it so far, and so is she. It uses very little battery life, and with the different screen color settings, I can read easily at night without hurting my eyes or disturbing my husband. The price is fairly reasonable for the amount of books you get per month, but I do wish I could either trade my audiobook credit for another book credit or gift my audiobook credit to my daughter, since I doubt I’ll use them and she wishes she had more. Haha. Other than that, I’m very happy with our choice. I can find just about any author that I search for. Oh, and the unlimited sheet music is just an added bonus for me! I’ve found music that I used to play when I was younger, and newer music as well. I’m sure that this app is one that I’m going to keep a subscription on for a long while.

Soooo much better than Audible or any other book subscription service. I don’t like to take the time to write review for apps until now. Scribd is a great service. I would like to recommend to anyone, which I have already done to all my friends. It offer great selection and a lot of new audiobooks are almost available as soon as it comes out, which is fantastic! There are a few books that are missing, but it is OK. It offers other alternatives that are able to satisfy your interest to some extent. I learned a lot by listening to the audiobooks, it definitely improved my understanding of the economics and helped my career so much that no other book service has been able to match. Right now I am listening to Bob Woodward’s “Fear” the week after it was initially released. Hopefully, my cheerful spirit can be maintained after the book.

Customer Service lacks. I’ve used the site for a while and it’s pretty cool, there’s a lot of cool stuff available and different ways to interact with the content. But when I had to cancel my subscription to save myself some money amid the hubbub of covid-19, scribd continued to charge me, I’ve canceled my subscription twice now and sent a message in and have not gotten a reply. They don’t even send an email or anything when you cancel by the way, just put a small banner at the top of the screen that will be gone as soon as the page refreshes, then they ask for proof of it having been canceled when sending them a message. It’s cost me over $20 to not have been on the site once in the past two months and their customer service doesn’t seem to be on top of fixing anything, so as many good points as the site does have, I don’t think any place that charges you money automatically for something should not have customer service available to work out issues that computers can’t right themselves.

Love the service but buggy app. Look I LOVE scribd. The service itself is an easy 5 stars and I use it constantly. But the app goes through phases where it bugs constantly and it’s really frustrating. I’ll be listening to an audiobook and it will just stop, the app says it’s still playing but there’s no audio. I can rewind, but it’ll stop at the same place over and over again until I restart the app completely. And sometimes it will just restart the book on its own during this process, which is so frustrating when I wasn’t paying attention to my exact chapter. This happens on and off wifi, both with books I’ve downloaded and streaming. And I’ll go days with no issue and then it’ll happen near constantly for a while. And I’ve gotten a new phone recently without any improvement! This has been going on for at least the past year of using the app and I really hope it can be worked out. I’ll keep using it but it’s such a hindrance to the experience.

Great Subscription Service!!. I just had to leave a review after reading so many negative ones. I tried out scribd because I got a free trial and signed up for more. It is awesome! It is like a paid library subscription. They have tons of books, many that are hard to find elsewhere and are constantly adding new things. I love being able to read and explore without the pressure of committing to buying a book. Also love the free pandora plus subscription that comes with my scribd subscription. I would think this would be a homeschool mom’s dream come true!! As far as the critics go I would say do your due diligence and research before committing to scribd so you know what it is and is not. Also if you are a series reader probably scribd is not the best fit for a long series. It will not be for everyone but I love it and it is a better fit for me than Audible and Librofm.

Good Selection. Most of the books I’ve looked for I’ve found on this app. I mostly listen to books now and I’ve found it has a great selection. My main issue is it’s lack of remembering bookmarks. I often bookmark something that intrigues me. I go back to re-listen and can’t find it. I’ve also noticed that often times this app doesn’t remember when I paused or closed the app. Most of the time I reopen and find myself listening to a chapter I’ve already heard and often it skips major portions which leaves me trying to find where I’ve left off. To solve this I’ve started taking a screen shot so I can see the time place marker. Lastly I’ve noticed at least one audio book this app doesn’t play the chapters in correct sequence. Hopefully these issues get resolved. Other than that it’s a great app. I was with audible for over 5 years and am considering canceling my subscription and keeping this one.

Great service, app could be improved a bit. I’ve known Scribd for years as a document management service but didn’t know until recently they were also a commercial media service. After looking at their offering I canceled Audible and Kindle Unlimited and bought an annual subscription. So far, I’m loving it! Some app feedback though. First, please develop a CarPlay-enabled app! Second, the latest version of the app no longer shows the audiobook currently being played. Every time I get in my vehicle now I have to bring up the app and find my audiobook to continue listening. At least move it to the top of the saved list, but it should really be at the very top (or bottom) of the app as the current title like the Audible and Chirp apps do. And with a CarPlay enabled app it would make browsing and switching media from my vehicle touchscreen much easier and safer.

Unlimited* (with no transparent explanation). As many other reviews state, Scrib’d advertises itself as an audiobook app that provides unlimited access to titles. This is simply not true. They even write unlimited (with an asterisk!) in the app description, but have no clear transparent information about how many titles you will have access to once paying. I really enjoyed this app until I listened to two books, and had two more downloaded for long holiday drives out of state, only to find out on starting my third book that they deleted all of my saved books and my access was cut off until the next pay period. Really lovely to find that out after already paying for the monthly membership, with no clear understanding of this from the app itself. Don’t call yourself unlimited if you’re going to take away my books and access after I’ve only read two books! Advertise your app properly, and then I wouldn’t be as upset. But based on what you tell the consumer, I’m left feeling scammed and that Scrib’d operates on shady business practices tricking the consumer into something they aren’t receiving.

Love the Mobility But Missing Key Features. I love the ability to download and listen to audiobooks on the run without using my data, but the app is missing some critical features my library has that makes it my secondary choice for material. I would love more options between 1.0 and 1.5x listening speed. In Libby, I often listen at 1.35 or 1.45x, depending on the narrator. If I pause the audio on my lock screen, when I hit pay, nothing happens. I always have to unlock it to listen again, which gets tiresome throughout the day. And there is nothing to tell you which items fall into the “only one per month” category. You don’t realize it until you go to pick your next listen and its unavailable. Fixing these issues would get me to keep my subscription active instead of only using it one month in a blue moon to catch up on what the library doesn’t offer.

Cheaper but such a hassle. So you get “unlimited” books which really means like one book out of a series every month. Sometimes I’ve read like 7 books with it in one month and sometimes I read one and can’t find anything else it’ll let me read. That’s fine, I can work with it because it’s still cheaper than buying all the books I read, but I can’t work with how GLITCHY they are. I’ll get halfway through a book and it jumps to the end and ruins it or loses my place and I have to spend so long trying to figure out where I was because the audiobook chapters don’t have titles and don’t line up with the book. I’m currently trying to listen to one but every 3-5 minutes, it just stops working and says “just a moment” but as soon as I FINALLY get it playing again it does it again, and my data and phone are working perfectly, so it’s definitely the app. It’s getting increasingly worse.

Poor Choice for Avid Listeners. I listen to audiobooks on Audible, Scribd, and listen for free using my library card using the app Libby or Overdrive. I was attracted to Scribd after reading a positive review however have been disappointed. Scribd enacts limits on paying subscribers based on what you listen to and we are provided with no indication of how a title may influence the availability of other titles we’ve added to our ‘saved’ list. For instance, after I just started listening to a short 3 hour popular title, more than five titles I had previously put on a saved list became unavailable to me for about a month, probably until my subscription is supposed to renew. I later decided I wasn’t interested in the 3 hour book I started listening to, but the damage has been done and I cannot listen to a large portion of titles despite paying for Scribd. It’s like paying for a gym membership that tells you you can only use the treadmills for two hours a month. Sure they assure you you’re still allowed to use the other equipment for now, but would you be happy?

Both Wonderful & Frustrating. As a pastor, I read a *lot*, and over the last couple of years, Scribd has occupied an increasingly large chunk of that study time, and I am grateful for it. It allows me to read with a much larger breadth than I would otherwise be able to afford. So thank you! That being said, as an everyday user, there are issues that make it downright painful to use at times, in particular highlighting text. It’s absurdly difficult to select what you want on the first time—so much so that I find myself defaulting to a two-step process. Highlight once to select at least most of the desired, and secondly to correct the selection one or both ends. And if the sentence happens to be at the end of a paragraph, all bets are off—invariably the highlight the first letter of the next one as well. Again, I truly appreciate the vast library Scribd provides, but a little UX love would go a loooong way for everyday users fans for life.

RIP OFF. Downloaded to listen to a trilogy. When I first made an account it showed all 3 books available. But as soon as I finished the first book the next book is suddenly not available until, yup, you guessed it, the next billing cycle. I had to wait a month, showing that both of the next books would be available, but as soon as I finished the next book.... the third was no longer available until, surprise surprise, the next billing cycle. RIP OFF!!!! Response to developers: Yes, my mistake for not reading your Agreement in full. The thing is, they were all available, but two days later the next one was no longer available. Then again, a month later, when I finally got to read number 2, the 3rd was “available”. But two days later, as soon as I am about to finish the book the 3rd mysteriously is no longer available. If it was a week, 2 weeks or even 2 years that I had to wait for the next book to become available again, I might believe it was a “rotate”. But as both books were to become available the day my next payment cleared the bank..... nope, not a coincidence. Y’all are scamming us.

Two accounts with different available books.... Good selection BUT not happy with the way the content works... I had made a list of saved books in the first account and started listening to the free trial. Suddenly some of them were disappearing from availability as time went on and I kept listening. I was on a roadtrip and wanted to access as many as possible. Well after three books and nearly all my saved titles in the ‘available soon’ section (which happened to be available again when the new billing period opened, hmmm), I opened another trial under another email. What do you know? Those ‘available soon’ books from the other email were suddenly available in the new email address! And just so you know, these are not commonly read books, so it wouldn’t be because there are too many people listening to them. I don’t like when companies play games like this. They are clearly manipulating which titles are available for each account, under the false guise of being ‘unlimited’.

technical issues/not really unlimited!. I love listening to books throughout the day - much better than TV. I have been long time subscriber to Scribd, but the technical problems - such as shutting down randomly,and losing my place when signing back in (just to name a few), made me a minimal user of the audiobooks. However, when I saw that Scribd became unlimited - I was excited and started listening again. Oi!!! For someone that likes audiobooks, this app leaves a lot to be desired. It randomly shuts down still, and since I have been listening more with this app - it has become almost intolerable! After shutting down over and over and over today - I just gave up and went back to other audiobook app. In addition - after listening to a several books, I went to look for the next book in a series, and found that I have to wait until my month renews to be able to select the next one. I thought this was an anomaly, until it happened again this month. That is when I realized that I am barred from selecting most audiobooks now - until my month renews. Deceptive practices? Should be called - “Unlimited - Not”.

I wish I knew what I was getting into. I got scribd when everyone else did, around the time they announced their extended free trial. I love audiobooks, but audible is too expensive and a service like overdrive doesn’t have what I’m looking for 8/10 times. Primarily I want to use the audiobook feature and I see the ebooks as a fun bonus as they aren’t really my thing. I was severely disappointed when I saw what other commentators pointed out, that audiobooks slowly start disappearing from your library the more you read until your next pay period. (This doesn’t apply to ebooks from what I’ve seen, but that isn’t what I joined the service for.) It would be one thing if that’s what was advertised to me, as I still will regularly use it as it’s the only subscription of its kind with a cost I can afford and I understand the issue with expensive licensing. I only wish it was made clear to me from the beginning that books disappear the more you read and what exactly my limit is.

I dropped your name to a competitor. Everyone thinks that, because something came from Apple, that it’s superior. Us smart ones know, it’s not. So when Apple had an add for “Blinkest” I read the reviews, and well, decided to leave a comment. Letting people know they get a way better deal at Scribd. I love that you truly let users check it out for 30 whole days and the cost at the end is so fair. The selection of reading material has been impressive. I will search some bizarre topics, and you will have it. Even if you don’t you have scholarly articles that are awesome and make up for it. So I told everyone on the blinkest add to use Scribd. Thanks for being awesome. I love your app. Hope my review brings in more happy fans, and keeps your app staying in the lead. 😁

Favorite paid subscription until now. I have been a loyal paying customer for several years. These past few months have been very frustrating though. I use this app mainly for the audiobook selection and that selection has dwindling to something almost none existent in the last few months. If you don’t download the books you want to listen to on the day they become available you have to wait a whole other month. I would rather pay more have a set number of books I can download each month than have only have one day to make my choice before my options are taken from me. I’m assuming their contract with publishers is set up like a library where they have rights to only so many copies. If that is the case than marketing your services as unlimited isn’t factual, it’s misleading. It’s very frustrating esp now that you have over 1 million subscribers. Maybe a solution could be that you allow subscribers to put titles on hold during the month. Not sure but the current model is flawed.

Read the other negative reviews...... UPDATE: With version 8.5.0, it seems the problem has been fixed. There are still some bugs but I can easily live with them. I love the problem this app solves: it allows me to explore new ideas, new worlds, and to emerge a bigger person. Listening to audiobooks this way is life changing. That said, the app consistently crashes during audiobook playback. I’ve tried everything I can to make it work (changing things in settings, clearing caches, airplane mode, downloading content to offline, and more) but the app almost always crashes after a few minutes and then upon resuming sometimes loses its place. What’s more perplexing is that on occasion it will work without crashing. I’ve reached out via email with “Attention James” with no response whatsoever. It seems like they post that at the end of every negative review as PR. I can not recommend this app until they let us know what is going on and that they are aware that more paying customers than just myself are unable to enjoy their service because of this issue. Look at the other 1 star reviews and then imagine how many others who haven’t reviewed the app have the same issue. Please fix this, Scribd!! And despite the issue, thanks for working on this life changing idea.

It is what it is!. Ok so I never write reviews on apps. Just isn’t my thing. Scribd is amazing. I actually love it. I know your asking why did I give it 3 stars then. Well first I took a star away because I hate that they limit brooks each month. It will be available one month and the next it’s not or even available one day and the next it isn’t. Very frustrating. I started a series finished up book 5 and I have to wait 2 weeks to start book 6. Not cool! Now why I deducted the second star. So I was finishing up a book and I started looking to see what I wanted to start next, I found a three book series went ahead and downloaded them. Came back the next day to start and they were available. Even after I downloaded them. So if you can handle all that it’s not bad. But like I said it will get frustrating at times. Although still worth the money.

Flaky, not unlimited. Not truly unlimited. When I had too many audiobooks going at once they started removing books I was already listening to from my account. They don’t tell you how many books is the limit even when asked. I’ve seen some customers say 2, others say 4, etc. It seems arbitrary. They don’t warn you. (No, pop up that says if you start this book we will take a book away, so you can make a decision).They don’t let you choose which book they’ll take away. When you contact them they just say, sorry... you can have it back next month. Frustrating! Especially if you use the app for school and personal reading. Add to that the app is flaky. Some books would not play on my app but would on my laptop. Some audiobooks skip. It often looses my place in the books. Etc. yes this is a great price so I gave it 2 stars. It definitely has issues. I would pay a couple of bucks more to avoid having my audiobooks revoked unexpectedly.

Great if you can find the book you like. I’m not sure if I am doing something wrong but I rarely every find a book that I am looking using the search bar so I have to test my luck with the books the app suggests me. Looking in the top recommended list of all of the books doesn’t help much either. I’m not really sure why but the list never shows the whole catalogue of books which Is frustrating when you want to find something specific to read. When I listen to audiobooks it occasionally crashes for some reason. Despite saying all of this if you are lucky as progressively save many different titles you may like in your list you will have a decent time with this app. I just wish it was easier to navigate as to me it is very strange as to why it is so hard to look at the whole selection scribed has to offer.

All my books are gone. I used to love this app, I’ve recommended it to all my friends and it’s the only thing I actually pay a subscription for except music. However, all my books are now unavailable. I would have understood if it was a few of them, but it’s pretty much everything in my library and anything else on the app I’d want to read. All that’s left is self-published books, porn, and old books you can get for free on everywhere. Apparently they’re all coming back by the end of the month, but why am I paying for something I’m not able to use? Also, I don’t trust that they will come back or won’t disappear again. Yesterday I had more books than I did today, and yesterday my pickings were already slim. I even started a book that specifically said it wasn’t expiring until the 30th and then today it was unavailable. Totally destroyed my faith in this app and my enjoyment in using it. If books are going to disappear the user should at least be warned that it might expire, so they can choose not to get invested in it.

I’m very frustrated. This started out okay. My trial went well; I saved a lot of book and downloaded the ones I wanted to listen to. And it was great! But then my free trial ended, and problems began to occur. The books that I had saved, and even downloaded, went “unavailable” until the next month, after I paid for another month’s worth. And I thought, well maybe it’s because I saved too many books or something. So I waited until the next month to get the books I wanted to listen to, and literally the next day, after I started to listening to one of the books I wanted to listen to, the rest went unavailable again(ones that just became “available,” too). Even the books with the same narrator went unavailable until the next month. Taking away the next book in a series I was listening to and many more, leaving me with little to none to listen to (ones I was looking forward to listening to). I tried only downloading one book to listen to, to see if that helped. It didn’t. All the rest of the book by the author and narrative are now “unavailable.” I’m very frustrated.

Best audiobook app. I was hugely missing out. I had a subscription because I was using sheet music collection, but when I discovered their audiobooks, my jaw literally dropped. I am able to find most of the books my book club is reading. So much better than audible, where I only get one book a month, or Libby, where I have to wait for weeks. I did run into the limit a few times, but then I just find a different book. I currently have 12 books lined up in my to-listen, and all of them were discussed on my book club and all of them scribd recommended to me, so I didn’t even have to search for them. Love this app so much. I’m not even gonna start with their incredible sheet music collection. Best money I’m spending every month.

Good but could be better. Overall I have enjoyed this app. The materials available suit my tastes, and there is a wide array of types of media available. However, there are a couple of things that could be improved. Currently, you can have only one form of media open at a time, but I would like to be able to listen to the audiobook and have the corresponding ebook open simultaneously. Secondly, while they do have a selection of podcasts, there are only few available and you cannot subscribe to them. You can only save individual episodes which is just not how podcasts are intended to be consumed. Obviously there are many other apps you could use to listen to podcasts, and this app is clearly focused on providing ebooks and audiobooks more than anything else. I think it is worth it to download and utilize the free trial to see if the available titles suit you.

What a hidden gem. This is an absolutely fantastic app. I love reading and I read mostly non fiction. Also, I read books in a ver niche section of theology and others. I only read ebooks first convenience and because I need to be able to adjust font size. This app has many, many titles that my library will never stock and you get them all at the cost of one Kindle book a month. You can save them, create lists, etc. On top of that all the audiobooks, and user uploaded documents. Then a cherry on top: you get subscriptions included to things like CuriosityStream, Paek, Pandora and others. It has all the functionalities of Kindle (except the cute page turn effect). However, one request for future updates: please improve the highlighting feature. It’s a bit cumbersome and limited right now. But really, even with that a 5+ service

Deceitful. It says unlimited, but they will limit access to audiobooks capacity per month. I’ve been waiting on my saved TBR list since May of this year to be available. The “available on 17th” sign will change to “available” for a couple of days, and then after they charge you monthly subscription fee (mine’s on the 15th) they will make those SAME books from your saved list (that you’ve been waiting patiently to listen) unavailable until the 17th of next month, and it goes on and on. So you get 2-3 days or less to listen to your saved audiobooks. It’s been going on for a few months now and I’ve addressed this to them, but nothing has changed, they just said sorry for your frustration but here are some other books you can listen to per our unlimited offer even though they don’t interest you. Plus downloading issues are constant, along with app freezing, getting kicked off, losing bookmarks. Guess you get what you pay for, with an extra large side of frustration!

Best selection & service ever!. I tried Scribd after finding the link on a blog about good audio books for kids. It was the beginning of summer and I was looking for good audio books to listen to with the kids in the car. We do a lot of road trips. We had just finished the Happy Potter series on CD and we sort of at a loss. I tried this and to my delight any and every title I searched for either family, the classics, adult, funny , political etc was there ! It completely beats audible (whom I’ve used) but always felt ripped off that I was paying by the month and then again for each book . The free books the offer are the kind that are in the “free box” outside the bookstore- AKA no one wants to read them. The service works seamlessly with my phone - everything & anything downloads easily for listening off line and you can still get your GPS directions in the car. It’s also easy to remove books so as not to take up your storage space. We listened to countless books over the summer and will continue now even though I’ve to pay - cause you can’t beat the price! I’m impressed with the service & I also like the model that if someone signs uk on your link you both get a free month. All in all Great !

NOT “Unlimited”!. My local library is still building its audiobook offerings; and at $30+/book, Audible isn’t really an option for my budget. So when I heard about Scribd, I was ecstatic. I looked through their content library and saw enough of my TBR list that I signed up for the annual billing plan. Sadly, they’ve GROSSLY oversold the “unlimited” aspect of the subscription. Six months in, I’ve only made it through about 8 books, because halfway through the month they remove the VAST majority of their catalog (including anything you’ve downloaded to your device to listen to offline!), and it’s inaccessible until the start of the next billing cycle. (I asked their Customer Service why this was, and was told that it is due to their licensing agreements; which makes no sense if the exact same titles are available again a few weeks later.) Overall, I’m unimpressed. It’s likely more hassle than it’s worth to get my money back; but unless they seriously up their game, I won’t be renewing.

Usually ok if limited, but…. Recently I got stuck in a major glitch where the app kept trying to open my last audiobook only to crash. I reset my phone and it still kept doing it. I couldn’t open it long enough to clear the data. I tried listening to the book on the mobile browser but it kept skipping nearly every second. I had to delete the app and then I accidentally signed in to the wrong account, creating a new one. At least I could delete it soon after. It’s annoying when the app skips and not every new title is always available. It’s weird when certain titles are suddenly unavailable and there’s a new availability date, especially if you’ve only read one book in several months. Having a nice selection of books is great until you hit that arbitrary cap. Sometimes I forget to use this, because sometimes it’s just easier using Audible.

Think of it as a book rental. A lot of these reviews are people who are upset that their saved books are listed as “Available Soon” after they listen to a couple of books a month. I don’t think Scribd should market it as unlimited, but rather people should think of it like you’re borrowing an audiobook for $3 and when you hit $9 you’ve spent your subscription fee. Audiobook publishers charge different amounts for books, so Scribd is paying different amounts to loan them to you. (As a librarian, let me confirm that this is true for Hoopla as well. Libby/Overdrive works on a licensing system and is slightly different.) I use Scribd to fill in where my library’s selection has gaps. If you go in expecting Unlimited books you’re going to be disappointed. But unless you want to own these books, it’s a pretty good deal if you think of it as a rental for $3 rather than a purchase for $12-$15/credit at Audible. Now that search function... that’s Not Good. They need to make a filter so you can see what’s been released most recently, not what they’ve added most recently. If I want to see what they have out of the latest YA releases, I have to find a list somewhere else and then search one by one... at the beginning of my pay period before I read anything else. Because then the selection “rotated out” and they hide anything they can’t afford for you to borrow. Be more transparent, Scribd. You’ll have higher customer satisfaction and I promise you’ll still get subscribers.

Some disappointing and frustrating issues. Honestly my rating more or less reflects some utter disappointment. I was excited with the options of books available and 5 days after I joined, most of my saved selection got rotated out. That’s fine. The next month, the selection came back and 5 days later, a lot of the same books that were rotated out the first month were rotated out AGAIN! So I had exactly 5 days to read some books I’ve been waiting on. It was frustrating and I ended up buying 2 of the books. In addition to that frustration, there is an issue when I try and increase the text size, the words disappear off the bottom of the page instead of transferring to the next page. I really can’t read the small text when my eyes are tired. I would also be very appreciative if you added in the dyslexic font option that other ebook apps like Kindle and Hoopla use. That last past is a suggestion, but the top part of my review reflects major problems. Please fix your issues and I’ll update my rating.

Great resource, Dishonest Description of Service. I have used Scribd for an entire year, and just renewed my subscription. I use it almost daily. It is one of my top five online services and apps. So, why only three stars? Scribd deserves five stars for it’s performance and usefulness. It gives me access to many great research resources, as well as gives me a solid offering of books to satisfy a fairly significant addiction to reading - for about the first 15 days or so each month. At that point, it’s claim to be “unlimited” proves to be shamelessly false. Saved books become unavailable, and massive numbers of books are removed from access. They don’t even show up in my searches, though they will still be available to more casual readers. I have learned to accept that, but that doesn’t excuse Scribd for its dishonest description of service. Unlimited should be ditched. So, one star for its continuing misrepresentation of what it offers. It unnecessarily creates an expectation that it knows, for many of its users, it will disappoint.

Saved books unavailable. I’ve been a subscriber for a while now and recently (yesterday) I noticed that over half of my saved books are unavailable. Usually there is a warning and they give you a month or so to finish a book, but there was no warning. Books that were available are suddenly not. I have lists of different books saved and most of them are unavailable as of yesterday. Some of my saved books are parts of series, which is strange because out of a series of 5, the 3rd book will be unavailable. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it, and some of the books I had saved and read for years are suddenly gone. I love the service, and I understand that many books are rotated, but the “Explore” page is very limited and often does not have the authors I am reading (because they just became unavailable). It is not unlimited if you take away access to most of the books immediately.

Buyer Beware. I have been a member since April/2020 and a paid member since June. This app started out good, but then the more I read I discovered a pattern. I didn’t start off making lists and saving books because I do use 2 other reading apps, one library and the other paid. As I learned the app and added books to my saved list every month a patter emerges where those books are suddenly unavailable until after the next billing date. I tried to reach customer about this with no luck. In December I wanted to see all the books I read for the year and it said like 43 when I know I read more than that and some specific titles are missing. I have sent an email about this and I’m waiting for a reply. I would continue with app because the value is good, but it would be more honest if they simply said you have a limit each month. I’m sure I could find other things to read, but why search for hours looking for new titles and genres just because they have made everything related to what I’m interested in unavailable? I researched how to cancel and they said you would keep access for your billing cycle, but when I actually hit the button it said I would loose access. That would be , I paid for the month and would loose 20 days with no refund. So as of today I am still a member In 20 days, I won’t be. Najeebah

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Price Free
Adult Rating 12+ years and older
Current Version 14.3.2
Play Store com.scribd.iscribd
Compatibility iOS 14.0 or later

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The application Everand: Ebooks and audiobooks was published in the category Books on 07 August 2012, Tuesday and was developed by Scribd [Developer ID: 332135353]. This program file size is 153.34 MB. This app has been rated by 25,254 users and has a rating of 4.5 out of 5. Everand: Ebooks and audiobooks - Books app posted on 12 February 2024, Monday current version is 14.3.2 and works well on iOS 14.0 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.scribd.iscribd. Languages supported by the app:

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