Bound - Audiobook Player App Reviews

Fantastic!. I will start by saying in the entire time I’ve owned apple products (more than 10 years) I have actually paid for less than 5 apps and have reviewed about the same amount. So safe to say I only download free apps, and I don’t leave reviews. I had been using the book player free app for a couple years to play my downloaded audiobooks but that app is beyond frustrating. Books would never load into the app after restarting, reinstalling etc. my daughter was having the same issues with it. So I gave in and started looking around for other options. There were no free ones that seemed good at all so I FINALLY (after literally days of considering) decided to buy the Bound app. I’m as stingy with money as can be (yep, I’m poor 🤷🏻‍♀️) but I am so glad I got this app. It works flawlessly and is so crazy easy to use. My daughter now uses it as well and neither of us has had any issues (knock on wood 😬). I love that I can speed up the audiobooks and it always keeps my place when I close it. Books download into the app quickly as well. I prefer to either download my files from google drive or do the web upload where I upload my files to a specific address and it automatically downloads them to my phone. I literally have no complaints about this app. This is my favorite app of at least 100 I have on my phone. Listen to it probably 5+ hours every day. I hope this app always works as well as it has for the past 6 months because of it breaks, I will riot 🔥

An otherwise great app with one glaring flaw. I was excited when I found this app. I used it for quite a while before I ultimately decided to abandon it and stick with the stock iBooks app. It has a great design, and its super simple to import audio from a number of cloud storage providers. I had to give up on it because of one glaring flaw. I would be listening to an audiobook on my morning commute. When I arrive I would pause the track, then bookmark where I was. When I left work 8 hours and went to resume the audiobook from my bookmark, it wouldn't be anywhere near where I had left off. It would be as much as 10 minutes ahead or behind where I had bookmarked. This is less of a problem in a book with shorter tracks, but a lot of mine have 10-20 minute tracks Until this is fixed, I would recommend against using it. Pros: -Easy to import audio -Easy to edit media -Simple, clean design Cons: -Audio drift

Best Audiobook App On Any Platfrorm. Bound is undeniably the best audiobook app on any platform (and there’s really no viable competition) for listening to your personal audiobook collection. Sure, Audible is great but it’s strictly for paid audiobooks from Audible. Bound reads nearly every audio format in a full featured, beautifullly rendered app that accesses your unlimited personal collection of audiobooks from any of the major cloud storage providers: Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, etc. Book covers are included, adjust speeds, dark mode. The developers just keep making it better. Love you guys, love this app from its early days! Thanks.

Very solid app. I’ve been using Bound for a few years now and it feels like a close trusty friend. It fills the niche perfectly that I need it to. My only issue is that recently it does not accept books that I download that are larger in size. It’s rejected three books with no warning message or any sign of where they went. It says that it downloaded successfully and just does not appear in my library. Aside from this quite frustrating bug, I think this app is great.

Issue with most recent version. I love this app. By far the best audio book player I’ve found. Worth the purchase. However in the most recent version it doesn’t seem to properly advance to the next chapter file. Once one chapter file ends stops playing even though the play pause indicator shows as playing. To get it to play the next chapter you have to select a different chapter file from the one that is supposedly playing and then go back. It didn’t do this before so something must be off…. Even with this inconvenience it is still a great audio book app and worth every penny.

Love this app. I love this app. It makes it so easy to download audiobooks from my Google cloud. I love how it saves the place of my audiobooks as well. On to the feedback: I wish that there was a way to add a title to the bookmarks. This would help to take notes at certain sections of the book that you want to come back to instead of having to look through your bookmarks and guess based on the timestamp.

The audiobook app I have been looking for. With the Windows version of iTunes becoming more and more problematic to use under modern operating systems and the latest versions of iOS, I found myself very frustrated trying to continue to use it in order to manage the audiobooks on my iPhone 13. Most of the time it would fail to finish syncing and was just a general pain to use. With Bound, all I do is copy my audiobooks into OneDrive, where I have plenty of storage available in the cloud, configure the app to connect to OneDrive, which only takes a couple of seconds if OneDrive is already set up on your device, and within a few seconds, I can copy the audiobook down into the Bound application. So far the app has played everything I’ve thrown at it, and I find it very much worth whatever it was that I paid for it months ago when I purchased it. Highly recommended.

This is the one!. Bound is now my go-to app for audiobooks. It has a simple but lovely and intuitive interface, and the ability to easily add books from the cloud (and later change title, add artwork, etc) is a killer feature. Other apps make this pretty clunky and difficult to do, if at all. The price is more than fair. Feature requests: add the excellent pCloud to online drive providers, and consider a landscape view like the iBooks app. Otherwise, this is a perfect, straightforward app that does exactly what I need it to do.

Web Uploader is great. I tried a couple other audiobook players but was having issues importing large files from iCloud. I didn’t want to have to keep uploading to a cloud service then download again on my phone anyway. The Web Uploader worked without a hassle. The player is basic, but it has all the features I need (dark mode, saving my place, time skip, audio speed). I appreciate not being asked to pay a subscription when all I need is simple functionality.

Perfect Little App — Tremendous Value. It’s a real pain to import downloaded audiobooks into the default Apple Books app, you have to plug your iPhone into your Mac and manually import them. Well not anymore. This beautiful little app default links to iCloud and downloading them is just one touch, voila. So worth the money. 10/10 would buy again.

Usually love the app, but no longer saving location when removing Airpods. This but used to be rare but it’s happening a lot more frequently now. When I remove my Airpods, the iPhone automatically pauses what you’re listening to. Cool feature. Most apps just pick up where it paused when you put them back in. Not Bound, not reliably at least. Most of the time, I jumped back to where you originally started in that listening session. For me, that can be HOURS. Very frustrating and time-wasting having to scrub through and find my location.

No Shared Drive option. This is exactly what I’m looking for! but I am bummed that it doesn’t support “Shared Drive” originally “Team Drive” from google. I give it 4 stars because it’s exactly what I want but lacking a certain feature. Will gladly pay again for that option but I will probably not use this till then. If it seems like it’s not a big deal it’s probably not but I have over a TB of audiobooks and it would be a pain to go into google drive to make a copy from the shared drive to my regular drive then open the app and download it. I go through about 1-2 books a week depending on the length.

Great but wishing for some features. Bound has been my go-to app for quite a while now. It’s simple, I can add files easily, and the option to edit book data or cover art in-app is super nice. I’m finding myself wanting a way to add shelves or collections as time goes on though. I’ve added emojis to titles to quickly find books I want to group together but this isn’t ideal. Also I’d love to have Bound on my iPad too and be able to sync playback but I don’t think that’ll be happening.

Love it!. This app is perfect for my needs! Great-looking interface, has rewind/fast-forward buttons and bookmark capabilities. Here’s a pro-tip: if you import a multi-file book and it shows up in the app as two books, check the metadata (i.e., album, author, year, etc.). Make sure each track on your computer matches the others (except for title and track number; those should be unique). Then, re-upload files to your cloud service, wait for them to sync, and re-import them into the app :)

So long, BookPlayer. I’ve been happily using BookPlayer for years. Sadly, they’ve recently started pushing a subscription service every time I open the app which requires me to close and reopen the app each time. I decided it was time to shop around for another way to play my books. This app does not have all of the features of BookPlayer; I especially miss being able to organize my books into folders. However, it functions very smoothly. It’s simple and does everything you’d want a book player to do, including a sleep timer, a rudimentary but functional bookmarking feature, and the ability to adjust the playback speed of the book. Best of all, I was able to buy the app outright (which I’m very willing to do!) without having to pay a subscription fee (which I am not willing to do). Thank you, Bound!

Bound. I managed to get several audio books into my iPhone 14. I used iTunes once and drop box one time. Both were hard. Not user friendly and one audio book app found one and a completely different audiobook found the other. Neither found both. To make matters worse I couldn’t remember exactly how I did it. It seemed like I got lucky. I was dreading having to do it again. Neither had the book cover. so I was trying different audiobook apps and came across bound. One review said it works solidly every time. So I paid four dollars and gave it a try. Wow! I can now bypass iTunes completely. All I have to do is use the web uploading page. So I open that page on my computer and I open that same page in the Bound app and suddenly it’s so simple for me to get books into my phone! I was pleasantly surprised that the book covers magically appear. I’m not sure that will always happen but so far I put about 10 books into my iPhone and the cover came with each one. I don’t usually rave about apps but this one is really extra helpful. I love this app highly recommend.

Missing one key feature.. This is an amazing app. I love it. But it’s missing one key feature and that’s the ability to set a global speed for books. I listen to all books at 1.5 speed and don’t want to have to change it with every book. I ended up starting a new book in the car today and couldn’t listen to it because it was slow and I couldn’t change the speed up to where it was for the last book. Add a default speed setting and this is the perfect app.

Amazing app but there’s a chance for improvement. This app has everything I need! The best thing is its ability to merge separate mp3 or m4b files manually into a big one. It deserves the five stars! To developer: I have a lot of audiobooks and I wish if there was a better way to organize them like with folders. Also, It would be amazing if I can add notes to my bookmarks.

Finally! Can import audio files. I purchased some mp3 audio files to help study for my medical boards. They would load into iTunes but only as music. This is not ideal - can’t skip forward/backward easily, also total mood-killer on music shuffle. Trying to use iBooks or podcast app was challenging- changing genre (to podcast or to audiobook) was time consuming and the files were not easy to work with. This app worked seamlessly! I imported files into iCloud Drive, separate from iTunes. Each folder there could be added to this app as a chapter. All of the files came over. Quick and painless. I am very grateful for this app.

Losing downloaded content on device restart. Updated both my app and apple device recently. Twice since then when I restart my phone all of my downloaded books were gone from the app library. The first time, I restarted the phone again and I could see the book titles but there was no content. The second time nothing at all. Very frustrating.

Thank goodness there is a good app for Apple devices. I own various audiobooks that did not come from Audible or another book service, and it has not been easy finding a good app for them. Everything I have tried has had a variety of bugs and problems. I found this app by mistake, and I am glad that I did. Although its user interface is simple, (which I happen to like), I am not noticing any of the bugs that the others had. My one suggestion would be to implement an option that allows the books to be grouped by folders as well as tags, but even though I have had the app for just a day, I am very pleased.

Love It. This is the app I’ve been looking for for years. It has all the features of a good audiobook player, easily imports files from Dropbox, and allows the user to organize them afterwards. It even has a dandy tool for finding cover art for books that lack it. I wish I’d paid more for it.

Love it, but….. Love this player - but my library is now using ID3v2.4 for downloaded MP3s, and Bound seems to get confused - it doesn’t get all the file parts sorted correctly. I have to use Mp3tag to downgrade the files to ID3v2.3 and that makes Bound work perfectly. If the developer could please update this app to support ID3v2.4 I’m sure there are other users besides myself that would appreciate it very much.

The best audiobook player app. It plays beautifully, handles album art beautifully, and it’s cloud integration between all platforms is perfect. Stuff i have to dispute from other reviews: I’ve never had any cloud download issues, always been able to download the full books no problem (if something happens based on your connection you can back out and go back and download what didn’t get downloaded). 2. Never had any gap in playback, that’s either your files or settings. To developer: Please add DARK MODE. Also add options to change UI color.

Best Audiobook App For iOS. This is easily the best audiobook app on iOS. The interface is simple and clean. Uploading files to the app is super simple with numerous options to add files. I personally always uses the web uploader and have no issues as long as I keep my phone awake while it transfers the files. The price of the app is very cheap and a one time purchase. Highly recommended for anyone who has a personal library of audiobooks.

You can re-order files that make up a book!. This app is working quite well through the Files app. It will automatically group similarly named files or metadata together as a book which is good. But if that file name and metadata information is not completely accurate, it will play files on the wrong order. I'm happy to report that you can indeed sort the files that make up a book. Tap the … beside the book and at the bottom you can rearrange the order of the individual files.

Love the player, hate the bugs. I love that this app plays audiobooks from my cloud account. I’ve used Bound to totally get away from audible. But I’ve had my entire downloaded library totally wipe twice now. One time I closed the app and reopened it and all my audiobooks were gone, and I was logged out of my cloud service. This is super inconvenient when you don’t have good cell service to re-download your books. I also lost my place in the book I was listening to. I’m on the latest iOS and the latest version of this app. I don’t know what it’s happening, but it makes me uneasy to rely on Bound while traveling.

Love it!. I have been using this app for years and my favorite feature is that it does not distort the narrator’s voice when you speed up the playback. One thing I hope to see in the future is a widget, like the ones I use for Libby and Audible. But that would just be a cherry on an already delicious cake. Keep up the great work!

Great to use but not great to add content.. I love using the app. It has all the features I want. It is a pain to get the audiobooks on. I have had errors using the web browser transfer. Several files were skipped and I was unable to add them. When using onedrive bound app says there are no audio files when there are. You are unable to transfer books through iTunes. They only successful way I have been able to transfer books is using Dropbox. It’s unfortunate because the app itself is awesome, but it’s really sucky uploading books.

Loses library data on restart. I purchased Bound 2 years ago and I recall it working pretty well. I recently tried using it again and haven’t had a good experience. I’m able to import audiobooks successfully via iCloud, local file import, and via the web uploader but each time I close and reopen the app, my books and location are lost and I have to reimport them. I emailed the developer 4 weeks ago about the issue and haven’t heard anything back. It’s a shame. The UI and support for importing from a bunch of different sources are both great. But constantly losing track of my library and location makes the app pretty unusable.

Playlists please. I do love this app and use it all the time for my audiobooks. It is an excellent app and I very much recommend it. The only thing that I would like to see is some sort of playlist or category management. I often am listening to several types of audiobooks -listening to what my kids are reading, listening to a fiction book on my own, listening to a non-fiction book. If I could create playlist or manage the organization in someway that it would be easy for me to I have a subset of books to look at when I need a new nonfiction or fiction or young adult book.

The best, but needs improvement. This app is carefully designed to satisfy Audiobook listeners’ needs. Few suggestions/comments: 1) at higher speeds (>1.1), the reader’s becomes somehow computerized and unnatural. I have compared thus with iBook app, and I confirmed that the sound quality drops significantly in Bound, and not in other apps. 2) for some audiobooks there is an annoying short noise played between the tracks, as the player transitions. 3) I wish I could add notes to my bookmarks and clippings.

Best audiobook app I've used. Almost perfect, except.... I love that it plays so many audiobook formats and integrates with my cloud storage apps. I was getting tired of converting and uploading to my phone, but if I still want to do that, there's even a built-in upload server! The interface is clean and functional allowing me to quickly get to an audiobook, but I can also drill down to see details about them. But where's the CarPlay integration?

Perfect App. I have tried a couple of "so called" audiobook players on iPhone over last two years. This player is hands down, the best. Very elegant and simple user interface. Every feature is working as expected for me. Suggestion - it would be very useful if this app can stream audio files from Dropbox instead of downloading them all. This way, I can select as many folders from Dropbox without running out of memory space on my phone.

Almost Perfect. iBooks has become a disaster, and I got this since it supports CarPlay. It works, but some notes: * Cover Art appears in the app but not on the car’s CarPlay screen, instead it shows a default icon for the “currently playing” book. It seems much MUCH more stable than iBooks, but why use CarPlay if you’re not going to use the screen and show the cover art? * Downloading from a network drive is wonderful, but after I download a book it drops me back out to the main directory listing, at the top. This makes me have to scroll all the way down to find where I was at again. * When downloading from a network drive I wish I didn’t have to select all the files and could just select a directory. Whether it’s “yes, download Prisoner of Azkahban” or it’s “yes, download the entire “Harry Potter series, even if that means multiple subdirectories below this one”, being able to choose a directory instead of a file (or set of files) would make life much much easier

The best audiobook app on iPhone. Edit: I have switched to BookPlayer, despite it’s objectively worse interface, because it offers an Apple Watch app. If you don’t need that functionality, this is still the one to go with. Original review: I’ve been using this app for about three years now. Prior to this app I tried everything under the sun, from syncing books over via iTunes to a variety of other apps. This is the only app that lets me use the standard iOS document interface to load files, while offering a great audiobook listening experience. I also appreciate the tasteful design and nice features for managing things like cover images. If you have a reason to listen to any audio files in an audiobook style interface this is the app to use. (Don’t forget that your public library probably has tons of great audiobooks on CD! It’s easy to rip them and add them to this app!)

Great player. This is a pretty good, no frills audiobook player. It has a super clean UI and works really well. I consider it my backup book player at this point. The problem is that there’s already a free book player on the market that has the major features that I never really knew I needed until I tried out this app. 1. The sleep timer works as intended, but one feature that would be nice is to have a “reset sleep timer when play button is hit” feature. If you’re listening to a book and haven’t fallen asleep by the time the book stops, then you’re forced to go back into the app and reset the timer. 2. A control panel widget to resume playing the last boom where you left off. Having a 1 click solution to playing your audiobooks is SUPER handy and something I feel gets overlooked.

Easy-upload is the highlight of this app. The perfect player. Does all the standard stuff players do but also cleverly gets around the annoying itunes file upload requirement with a local web server. Turn it on, drag and drop from your web browser. On wifi. Awesome.

Fantastic app!!!! No brained to buy!. I gotta day I was hesitant to buy this app. Are used to bind all of my audiobooks through a different app and then bring them into iBooks. It was very time-consuming and difficult at times. The apps never really worked quite right. Then I found this app! It’s super easy to sync with dropbox. All you do is download from dropbox and the app does the rest. Even if it doesn’t find a picture for the book you can put a picture in manually, extremely easily. I can’t recommend this book any higher!

Works great. This app works great. Multiple files as one book is seamless with bookmarks, skip/rewind, and even CarPlay/Lock Screen media controls work perfectly. This app is one of the few ones that let you add the media and then just works and gets out of your way without annoying dialog ui popups when you’re trying to listen to something.

Just what I was looking for!!. This app is perfect for the functionality I was looking for. I find it tedious and annoying to have to sync audiobooks to my iPhone using iTunes. I was looking for a quick way to upload audiobooks to my phone directly from my mac or cloud location. This app does both seamlessly. New to using and not a lot of mikes on this app yet, but so far, loving it!! Thanks!

Near-Perfect Audiobook Player!!. I’m a new user and I love the app! Works great for me and was exactly what I was looking for. All the playback features are perfect! The interface and file management are top-notch and flawless, but the real killer feature is the amazing cloud drive support! This is superb! Wonderful app that has replaced both the Audible app and the Apple Books app on my phone for listening to my audiobooks! One thing I would really appreciate would be if there was support for a small Home Screen widget that would open the app and begin directly playing the current book/file. This would be awesome and make Bound the best book player out there. Thanks for considering!

This the one you want. It’s $4 because it’s the best one. Basically instant access from your cloud storage of choice, with a simple download all option to grab the entire book at once, or pick and choose yourself. Does a great job of parsing and organizing with zero input from me. This is the best app for your drm-less audiobook needs.

I love Bound!. I’ve been using Bound for 5 years now almost daily. It’s super simple to attach to my files and even easier to listen to my books. I just started accessing my data off a shared drive. It’s almost as good as downloading my books from my iCloud Drive. So, now I don’t have to transfer them to iCloud and then wait for my books to sync. Even faster.

Good for downloaded podcasts too. You wouldn’t believe how many hours I probably have logged using this app. I fall asleep to podcasts, listen to them on breaks, and use it for audiobooks too of course. The only thing I can kind of knock against it is that google drive used to be integrated, but I understand their API pricing changed or something. Also, I occasionally have to finagle with the ordering of the files in a group because they’re not ordered correctly. If this app would show metrics of how often I used it, people would think I’m insane.

The Best. I’ve tried most of the alternatives to apple books which I still don’t like and Bound is by far the best. I never lose my place, it doesn’t do weird things like apple books and it’s incredibly easy to load onto with many different options for loading. Loading via browser is just brilliant and works flawlessly. The support is non existent and I wish the developer would make it apple watch compatible but it is controllable via my watch unless apple messes that up again which they did with the previous update but its working again with the latest. Definitely superb!

Looks great, doesn’t work quite as well as it used to. I am on an audiobook award jury, so I listen to a lot of audiobooks. Bound has been my go-to app for most of this year. It works well with iCloud (where I keep the files that I’m sent for review) and it’s easy to use. The latest update looks great, and importing works a little better (fewer skipped files than before), but I’m unable to delete audiobooks from my library. I click the trash can icon and...nothing. It’s frustrating! I have a couple of audiobooks with missing files that I can’t delete and reimport because of this issue. I hope this bug will be fixed soon...I hate having to switch over to another app to listen to these problem titles!

Great!. I used to use another amazing audiobook app that stopped being updated and no longer works. This app just as amazing! My needs are very simple, and this has them covered: - Simple audiobook playback app (no audiobook store included, I like using my own MP3 files) - Simple/easy file transfer - Fine tuned audio controls (I love 1.1x playback speed, most apps only allow 1.25, 1.5, and 2x) I especially love the web interface for file transfer, but it isn't advertised (I don't believe.) It works GREAT! I didn't know it was included until after I bought the app. Oh, and it's def a plus that the app just looks great. And I love the credits to all the open source libraries and icons used. 🤓 This app has all this covered. Great job, Tim! 👍👍👍

Killer Feature: Cloud Storage Integration. This app ticks all of the standard boxes for an audiobook app, bookmarking, variable playback speed, sleep timer, but the cloud storage integration is it's killer feature. I can offload my huge library of audiobooks from my phone to Google Drive and still keep access to my entire library at any time. Also, playback speed is more granular than what's standard in Apple's app or other audiobook apps (I prefer 1.3x speed better than 1.25 or 1.5x). What's keeping it from being 5 stars? It really needs search & filtering capabilities in both the local audiobook library, but especially in the cloud storage. Trying to find the 3 files that make up a single book by scrolling through my entire library is less than ideal. I'd be happy to help write user stories, or join in UAT or external beta testing for these features.

I never review apps. This one is amazing.. I've been wanting to write an app that would store audiobooks locally on my phone, then keep track of where I am in each one of those books. This app has done that in the most elegant way. You can start an http server on your phone at a location where you're on the same network as a desktop machine and upload files from that machine to the phone. It's painless and wonderful. My only complaint would be the file editing features within the app. For instance, I have one book that has a random chapter that wasn't marked correctly, so it's floating out on its own. Otherwise a perfect app! Thank you!

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Great app - option for File sharing iTunes. I’m a truck driver and over the years listened to thousands of audio books. I used to use another app for about 3 years and was great except if I turned ignition on it would restart boom. Do I hunted for a new app and found bound. WOW it’s great dimple just get it and use it. Like I said 1000’s of books I know what to expect in a fair app and a fantastic app. This app is 100% great. One question to the author how come you can’t access the app in the list of avail apps in file sharing while using iTunes. In saying that you can install new books by a heap of other methods. Well done Tim Bruno I love it. Peter Parkinson

Why why why no native locations support?!. This is a great audiobook player - in fact probably the only decent one besides iBooks, with a lot better functionality. But I don't want to have to download my audiobook collection, I have it on my computer. Why doesn't this app, instead of bothering manually supporting file system apis, just implement the native file picker in iOS so we can use whatever storage apps we have installed? Or, simpler yet, use iTunes file sharing so I can simply drop my collection in. It's beyond me why this wasn't added first. I still give it four stars because I'm not one to hold stars for ransom - but I feel like it's a great app that is sorely missing a fairly obvious feature. It'd be five stars if I could just get my audiobooks in it!

Worth every cent!. Such a great app for listening to audio books from my Google Drive! Love it

Excellent. The best downloaded audio book player I have used by far.

Awesome! Really simplified my life. It used to be such a complicated process to change the audiobooks my me and my wife’s phones. It’s amazing to have every single one of our audiobooks available at the tap of a button. Just one issue and one feature request. The download process seems a bit buggy; I can’t leave the app while downloading audiobooks, the download fails and I have to force quit the app to try the download again. And it would be good if you could start listening to the file during the download process, so you don’t have to wait for the download to complete before staring.

Great!. Sync with cloud based management systems, full library control and management including grouping for unabridged tracks. Exactly what I needed to listen to my audiobook collection!

Good when it works. Good when it works but I use web upload to upload from my computer to bound and 1/2 the time the uploads show as “completed” yet the file isn’t in my library. It is happening more frequently lately. I’m going to look for an alternative player. It would also be better if you could organise your books eg if you have a series they can be grouped together.

Great app. Really happy with Bound, it does what is says on the box and it is regularly updated with fixes and features.

Initial audiobook loading is frustrating. I have some audiobooks in Dropbox and some on my phone that I downloaded directly from the web. As there’s no iOS 11 Files.app or Document Provider support, I need to upload the books from my phone to Dropbox, then use the app to download them from Dropbox to my phone. 🤔 Also The settings menu only has a couple of options but is quite lengthy with various acknowledgements; it’d be better if these were in a sub-menu to keep things a bit tidier.

Needs iPadOS Support!. Great app. Switched over from Audible and was able to send through web upload my audiobooks to my phone with ease. Great for iPhone, however I would like to see it come with proper iPad Pro support eventually (specifically multi-window support).

Seriously awesome. Powerful app for podcasts and audio books

Best audiobook app. Very clean and beautiful UI, responsive and fluid. Best audiobook app available on app store for listening borrowed books from library.

Great. I tried many audiobook apps before risking my money on this one. Am very impressed, I can access all my stuff in Google drive without the iTunes torture. Minimalist, solid, attractive. I’d like to be able to put a label on bookmarks but can do without that for a simple interface. Highly recommended.

Was working well. Have been using this for a while now as CarPlay seemed to work well. Now randomly my books go blank and when I try and play one it just crashes the app. The only way I’ve found to resolve this is either re upload the book then fast forward to find my spot again. Really annoying bug.

This WAS great app. I have been using this app for years and to start with I use to put my audiobooks on google drive and download them to this app as it was supported. Then they said that wasn’t supported anymore so I switched over to OneDrive as that was still supported by this app (I should also mention I paid for cloud service on both of these providers so it’s been annoying and expensive to change over) but now even though I can still go into my files on one drive through this app is always says there are no files in the folders even though I can see the audio files when I look on my computer or through the one drive app. What the heck is going on, it’s super frustrating and until they can say this bug has been fixed I would not bother buying this app, I am now going to have switch another app and pay for it. Which is super frustrating

Great speed adjustment options!. This is absolutely my go-to for listening to audiobooks outside of Libby. I tried a bunch and none compared! If you like to fine-tune the speed your audio plays at without sacrificing clarity then this app is the right choice!

Do NOT recommend. On iPhone, new tracks won’t start automatically within a book, so you have to unlock your phone, hard-close the app, reopen, and manually select the next track (becomes very annoying to do, especially when there are a lot of short tracks in a book). Additionally, the rewind button (key feature of the app) fails to work quite often. I shared my feedback with the developers, but they never replied to my messages or fixed the issues. I have moved to BookPlayer, which has been working much better.

Bound is rad!. I listen to a lot of audiobooks & Bound is not only an excellent player, but makes the task of adding new audiobooks to it’s library simple & straightforward. Hurrah!

Much better than native app for multi track audiobooks - works flawlessly. Fantastic app. Really enjoy using it. Keep track of every position of each audiobook. Organises audiobooks that have multiple tracks into one audiobook. Much better than just using the native audiobook management in music app. Would highly recommend if you download audiobooks online and want to easily transfer them to your phone and listen to them.

Highly recommended. Wonderful app, and with its Dropbox connection it makes life very easy. I've had no problems with it at all

Awesome audiobook player!. Love everything about this app. The only thing that would improve it for me would be the ability to put the audiobooks in series or genre folders.

Excellent Layout. The app is so pleasing on the eye. Also it’s pretty snappy and a very good option for drm free audiobooks. Wifi transfer is easy and fast. Highly recommended.....

Woeful app. Lost all my audiobooks in the latest update. App has become flakier and flakier lately with the app crashing and some books not visible. Make sure you keep a backup of all your audiobooks beyond this app. Stupidly I put the majority of my books on this app with no backup. Be warned

Love this app. Can’t live without this app!! Only thing better would be a way to download more parts at once.

Web uploaded doesn’t work. Seems good but the web uploader doesn’t give an IP on iPhone 12 Mini

Really well put-together!. I’ve been using Bound for quite a long time now, and there were a few niggles in the earlier stages, but now it’s really a quite well-rounded Audiobook player, and I’m really really happy with it!! The only thing I would wish for now is for a watch app, in particular one that works independent of the iPhone. This way one could load the current book that you’re listening to on to the watch, and go out for a walk with just the watch and some Bluetooth headphones and still listen to your audiobook :)

Disappointing. Lacks so many basic features that other free apps have, UI is weird, don’t recommend.

Lack google drive support. I purchased this app for sole reason that I could link to google drive and within a month, support has been dropped. The workaround works only some of the time. I understand the reasons but hard not to feel a tad ripped off

Perfect Audiobook Solution. Thank you for making this great app! Loading books in is seamless and it is easy to use. Could I suggest adding a timer whilst reading to see how much time is remaining in the chapter?

Excellent app. No subscription. So good to find an app to buy that works! Great app so far, does exactly what you would hope. Thank you very much for this great work!! Update: about a year later I still love this app ❤️

THE best audiobook player. ***dear devs, please add the ability to play from Apple Watch*** I have a large personal library of audiobooks. Apps that I have used: Audible, Apple Books, Kindle, Bookmobile and multiple others. Bound is the best, by far. No searching through rubbish ex-copyright stuff, no problems re-authorising your purchases (I’m looking at you Bookmobile!)... upload to your Google drive and you are good to go. I LOVE it.

Does what it says. Good audiobook app. I Ike how easy it is to load my audiobooks from my cloud storage.

Crashes randomly when connected to CarPlay. Crashes randomly when connected to CarPlay. The app cannot be controlled by the CarPlay controls if mobile app is not open , while driving! Super annoying when it randomly stops working. Not worth the hassle.

Great Audiobook App with an obvious UI. The UI is intuitive and through, the feature set is what you would want, and nothing more. Bound does exactly what is says on the box: plays AudioBooks.

Love it. Great Audiobook reader. The ability to pull books from your cloud storage is the best part. I recommend and send links to me friends I like it so much.

Just simply the best audiobook player. Title says it all. Simple, easy to use, but extremely well thought and works like a charm. I love it.

Great app!. The is a very well laid out and easy to use app! Opens up the ability to get audiobooks on to your iDevice without iTunes! Would be great if you could add Siri Shortcuts support to resume playing from the last point.

Constantly crash. App constantly crash, and most of the time load an empty library. Duration of audiobook is inconsistent, and can change between imports. When incorrect, I am unable to skip section, as it reverts to where it thinks the duration of the audiobook is.

Excellent alternative to Apple’s Books. Really great app. I love the way you can import and make audiobooks so easily. Only two improvements I can really think of: 1. allow sharing of books 2. Allow download from URL; I have an online online library of zipped audiobook files which I really wish I could download directly into the app, rather than having to download them via Safari or another browser.

Excellent. The web uploader is brilliant, so simple to use. I highly recommend this app.

Best Audio Book App. Great App, plays everything and has an easy to use interface.

Great App. This app is awesome!! Although, since the new update I’m unable to delete Audiobooks... hope this gets fixed soon.

Does what it needs to do.. Needed a subscription free service that would let me play some of my own audiobooks. This does the job. The only thing I would like added is a function to be able to organise the library. Have different collections etc.

Superb!. Easily the best audiobook app for iOS. The new look is excellent and the ability to sideload any audio you like from storage services is

Audio stops working every few mins. Nice app, but audio stops working every few mins and only working and restarting the app fixes it.

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Often need to restart the app. This app was pretty much perfect, but starting in iOS 17 a bug started where the app, having been backgrounded, will get into a weird state where it either won’t start playing at all or it will start playing and then stop once the app is backgrounded (starting again when you foreground the app). The solution is just to restart the app and clear whatever in memory value is not being set correctly, but it is getting more and more annoying over time.

Lacks Siri integration.... I listen to audiobooks daily via CarPlay. Bound is a nice looking app, but lacks Siri integration. Without being able to pause playback via Siri, it makes controlling playback hands-free impossible. Unfortunately, because of that, I have to give it 1-star (otherwise, I’d give it a 5-star rating) and will have to go back to Apple’s lacklustre Books/Audiobooks weirdness.

Love the app. Does exactly what I need it to. Plays my audio books. Isn’t choosy about format or source. Did I buy it or make it. Wish it had an applewatch sister app. So I could leave the phone at home while out exercising.

Simple yet Proficient. Fastest review ever

Outstanding app, essential. Great. Better than every other option by far. Well designed, works great, what more could you ask for? I essentially think it’s about as ideal as it can get. I’m Very happy this exists.

Audio Stops. I too have run into an issue with audiobooks stopping after each chapter. It seems to work when iPhone screen is on but when it’s off the audio stops. This is a great app however this isn’t a minor issue to me. I’d be glad to adjust my rating upon a fix.

Merging audiobooks. I can put 30 different parts of an audiobook that I downloaded, and it’ll automatically sort them into chapters

App stopped working correctly after the latest update. I can no longer see audio files using one drive. Google drive works fine but all my stuff is on one drive. I emailed the developer but got no response. Still hoping for a fix.

Great app!. Great price. Does what I need it for. Am able to easily move items from my files in iPhone into here. Like that I can bundle the separate files to go into one audiobook here. Like that it is easy to add a book cover. Would love some additional features like an “unread” option and an option for sorting the books into categories. But overall very pleased with the app; satisfied with my purchase.

Great. I mostly use this for language learning (audio from the program I’m using), but I’ve listened to a few audiobooks as well and I’m really happy with it. The web uploader works great. Only thing I’d add is a dark mode!

Problem with playing audiobooks with multiple parts. This app is really great. I love the smart rewind function in it to jog your memory when you have to pause for some reason. My only problem with it, and it isn’t a small one, is that whenever I play a book with multiple parts/chapters, as soon as it is done playing one part the app refuses to play the next one. I’m only met with silence. What’s stranger still is that the scrub bar continues to progress as though it IS playing, but there’s not sound. To fix the issue, I have to close the app, reopen, and press play again and then it resumes. This is obviously not feasible when you have a book with 200 parts at 3 or 4 minutes a piece. I’ve tried contacting the devs, but have been met with no reply. I may need to switch apps if there isn’t a solution available which is shame considering the price tag on this one.

CarPlay compatibility made it five stars!. I’ve loved this app since I got it, but was disappointed to find out it wasn’t CarPlay compatible when I got my new car. It’s interface is clean and I love that the voice doesn’t distort when you listen at a higher speed. It’s so easy to grab my books from the cloud. This was always a great app, but adding CarPlay compatibility just brought it up to the next level! Thank you for making Bound even more amazing!

Ok but could be better. This is a decent audio book player that I was ok paying for. But there is a really great free one out there that has more features that I’ve now switched back to

Can only select individual files from apple files app. The apple files integration doesn’t support importing more than one file at a time. This is not practical if you have a large folder in iCloud you’d like to use.

Perfect but needs iCloud Syncing. Almost perfect. If you have multiple devices (iPad and iPhone) you won’t be able to sync up over the cloud.. it’s the only thing missing imo…. Please add this and it’s a 5/5 app

Good design but buggy. Great potential but had issues simply adding mp3s to it, so cannot recommend as is

Broken app; Doesn’t work. Crashes when importing. Doesn’t save audiobooks

Where was this app all my life. Fabulous app. Simple and efficient. I have wanted a good audiobook reader ever since the first iPod came along. Bound solves the problem I always had of getting my audiobooks onto my iPhone. It is reliable and unfussy. I absolutely love it.

It just works!. It does what it says it does and does it well. And it has CarPlay!

Excellent App. Works flawlessly.

Nice App. I love the app. It makes listening to self ripped audiobooks much more enjoyable than otherwise. My only suggestion for its improvement to the developer is about the Web Uploader feature. Apparently it only works when a phone is connected to WiFi so it’d be nice if the user can be reminded when they try to use the feature while the phone is not connected to WiFi.

Best audiobook player on iOS hands down !. Keep it up guys !

This is the best app ever written. Thank you is all I have to say

Solid local media player. Does everything it says it will and looks good too. Glad I found this player. Happy with it for about a year now and no plans to look for another one. Well worth the money

Finally perfect audiobook player. This is finally a player that syncs with google drive and Dropbox so you can import files from pc or Mac and has a sleep timer ! Goodbye forever audible !

Excellent Player. Well designed. Easy to use and understand. Robust and fast. Keep it going guys. Thanks!

Continuous play locked behind subscription. Continuous play feature is locked behind a subscription, don’t pay for it. Worthless without ongoing paid subscription.

No support - can’t upload lectures. I bought this app as a workaround to get lectures onto my iPhone and be able to play them in double speed. Although it had some hiccups, it mostly did its job. I haven’t used it in a while and now I can’t add new lectures. I tried reaching out and haven’t heard back from anyone. If I hear back and get things working I’ll change my rating. Otherwise, the app is a waste.

Not for iPad. I paid for this app believing its iPad compatible because its on the IPad App Store. It shows up as an iPhone sized screen and expanding it doesn't help. It doesn't rotate with the iPad either.

Issues Persist. After years of owning this app and contacting the developer about issues, almost all the original problems persist. - Sometimes M4B files just freeze when trying to resume them with Shortcuts. When the app is force closed the book returns to 0. - You can't bring folders of audiobooks in. You have to navigate into each folder and select the files you need. Very impractical for series. - You can't export a book once it's been imported. - For the last two issues I suggested this a while ago: "import and export books via the Files app. (Add Bound as a source. Maybe have an inbox that you can drop files into, that will then get organized into the format the app expects.)" On the plus side, they did introduce dark mode pretty quickly after iOS 13 shipped. So that's something! Things that have been fixed since initial review: - You cannot add Audiobooks while disconnected from the internet. Tapping the Files option just brings up an error telling you that you're disconnected.

Great app. Great app, no sign-up required. Not cloud based, local to the phone 👍🏼

Needs read/unread ability. The blue read/unread dots are pointless. When you accidentally play a book or preview it, it marks it as unread. The UX is poorly thought out. Look at how Apple Books treats a book you truly ‘finished’ reading vs ‘previewed’. If not that, then at the very least give us the ability to mark us unread and put that blue dot back—as simply as swiping right (just as you swipe left to delete).

Great. I’ve tried some other Audiobook readers but this is the best. It just works!

The best audiobook app I’ve tried. There are some apps that really change how you feel about developers, and this is one of them. Not only does this app does everything what you expected to do it does it effectively and flawlessly. Adding new books is a breeze, and it’s as enjoyable (if not more so) than other apps including Audible’s.

Great alternative. It has come a long way, almost like audible app.

5 stars. Best app ever!!!

Has trouble playing multiple files. I really want to like this app, but if your audiobook is cut into multiple files, there doesn’t seem to be an option to continue playing. App freezes and there is no support to speak of.

THIS APP DOES EVERYTHING YOU NEED. Probably the best app I’ve downloaded from the app store. Just the fact that you can directly upload tracks over wi-fi is like changing

This is the one.. This is it guys. This is the audiobook app that we’ve been waiting for. I’ve tried (and paid) for most of them out there and this the best one. If you are using DRM free audiobooks through a cloud service — this app cannot be beat.

Doesn’t support OneDrive Business. Overall this is a great app. Fantastic design and implementation. Unfortunately it doesn’t perform as advertised. It only supports OneDrive Personal account, if you are using OneDrive Business you are out of luck! Hope the developer can fix this in a future release.

Great!. Awesome audio book app. But one critical feature is missing. Car play. But other then that it’s number 1 in audio book.

Great App. As an alternative to Audible when you already have audiobooks downloaded locally and just want to move them to your phone, there’s nothing better!

Best app for playing your own books. Beat alternative to the default books app.

Solid App. Solid app and works well with all my audiobooks. Clean interface. Would really like to see a progress bar on the audiobook list so I know how far along im on each audibook

Just works!. This app is still the best non-audible audiobook player I’ve found. And the various ways to upload your audio books mean that it will work however you normally store your audio book files. Highly recommended!

Buggy mess. Riddled with bugs. Constantly keeps deleting/not showing books.

Disappointed!. So just purchased Bound and it does not show all of the audiobooks in my Onedrive. You can’t even refresh the folders. This is extremely frustrating since all of my authors have several books in a series. One author has nineteen books in his series all are displayed in my other cloud app, but only seven in Bound. Please fix this asap or provide a refund. As this is unacceptable.

Very good. The web upload has saved me a few times.

The Best. Changed my life

Great. Very convenient ways to upload your audiobooks to the app.

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Best by far. There is no better Audiobook player in the App Store. I’ve tried them all. The latest additions added October 2019 make this app even better. I use this app daily and have never once had any problems with it. It’s like Apple once was - It just works. And it works very well.

A hidden software GEM*!. Stop searching fancy, magic aaps resulting in broken promises: take advantage of a GREAT, CLEAN and FUNCTIONAL Resource for your portable audio needs. Once you try Bound, it becomes in a forced habit. GO FOR IT, you won’t regret; I hardly write reviews, but in this case…I couldn’t avoid to!

Better than desired. Easy to use, solid performance, and useful features. Not only does this app let you download audiobooks from the most popular cloud services it also allows you to transfer from your computer via Wi-Fi. Such a useful feature.

Best audiobook app. This app is rock solid, and I love being able to load & unload audiobooks straight from my collection on a google drive. Feature request: I’d love the option to allow other audio to continue playing so I can keep some lofi or jazz playing as a backdrop.

This is the one you want. Stop looking at comparative reviews and get this one it’ll do what you want perfectly every time, metadata, covers everything, any cloud file service it gets it done. Essential app.

Perfect for audiobooks. I listen to books every night before bed. This app handled them nearly flawlessly. Love the extra feature of adding a new cover photo of my files didnt originally have one. Good sleep settings so I don’t fall asleep and miss to much story

Love this app, but…. I love the interface and it’s user friendly, but wish there were a few additions. For example, when you increase the narration speed I wish there was an updated time remaining. Also, a search bar would be helpful too.

Great audiobook app. I love Bound. It's my go-to app for audiobooks. I upload my mp3 file to Google Drive and Bound does the rest. You can also use Drop Box or One Drive. Very easy to add books. Easy interface to listen to books. I've never had a glitch or a crash with Bound. Great app.

OneDrive doesn’t show full list of available audiobooks in Bound. Was excited to find this app from Reddit recommendation. When first set up, this worked great. Suddenly it shows a fraction of files in OneDrive. I have no downloaded files, these are options to choose for download to listen to using the app. Downloaded one audiobook, listened, removed download then went to choose my next listen and only part of my file list shows! Makes this a waste of my $ to buy.

My go to for audiobooks. This app is already solid and yet the author keeps adding great features to it. It is my go to app for listening to audiobooks because of the excellent features; there is nothing I “need” that is missing.

Wish I could get my money back. It got good reviews so I tried it. Doesn’t have enough functions and the ones it has don’t have much of an ability to be adjusted. I keep trying to like it because I spent money on it. I have loaded several books with no problem with web browser. The last book would only download parts 1-13 and then gave me errors with 14-20. With good is a book without the last third past.

Great potential, needs to mature. Great app, super design. Please see bow feedback: Add search function on the top of page; Add iOS share extensions, to be able to send and AirDrop files; Add a local folder accessible in Files under “On My iPhone” folder, so we can just put files there from Files app; Add option to create list or folders; Custom list sorting; Better sleep timer panel, the current one looks like it does not fit into iOS system design; There are some issues with importing files, some audio files just don’t get imported at all; Full iPad support is needed; Add support for Ebooks.

Flawless audiobook app. If you own your own audiobooks this app is truly 5-stars. Only wish i could recover my audiobooks from this app via files api or the hosting function similar to the upload.

Such a relief.. Tired of the store directories I’m just so relieved to have discovered Bound. I’ve got all my personal audiobooks prepped and sitting in my ICloud Drive and have had absolutely no problems. Could use a few more playback controls in CarPlay. Small quibbles for a great app that solves a concern!

Worth every Penny. Love the UI and the fact that the developer has it optimized for iphone X already. My favorite part is you dont need dropbox or to sync via Itunes. Click on the web upload button in the app and it’ll give u a safari link to upload your audiobooks directly to your library. Well done! Love the app

Among my favorite apps. I love this app and use it daily. It has everything it needs - particularly a number of ways of adding books - and nothing it doesn’t. I honestly wish the developer would add a ‘tip’ option to the app because I’d like to pass along more money out of gratitude.

Great App Awful Color. I know color shouldn’t matter because this app functions perfectly but the color of the app really bothers my eyes. Wish I could switch the color to something a little more neutral! Besides that though I love this app and recommend it to everyone!

Better then audible. I’ve been an audible subscriber for 4 years and own countless books. This is a much more stable and better product for listening to audiobooks. Easy to recommend

Great app. This app fits a niche that I’ve been looking years to find. I have tons of audiobooks on my desktop but no easy way to transfer them to my phone. I also have a 1TB onedrive account. This app bridges the gap between my computer and my app in a seamless way. Wish I had this app years ago, what a time saver!

Life saving. Ok maybe not life saving but much easier than the awful system I had before of playing files in google drive and taking screenshots of my progress because that app rarely saved my place. Truly a clever solution for a previously cumbersome process.

Easier then iTunes. Great app it's so much simpler for me to use since almost everything i have is "in the cloud" I'm hardly am at my computer any way. My only thought to improve it for would be to have folders since I tend to get whole series and is somewhat of a pain to have to scroll so much

Great app. This app has every convenience I could want, glad that I purchased it. There’s only one feature that I would want added, and that’s being able to make folder to put my books in, that way I’m not looking at a list of books from multiple series all mixed together. Regardless I love the app

Excellent. Done with ephemeral streaming. I will own a copy of the media I want to play one way or the other. Thank you Bound for making an app for this. Please consider archival and completion (delete source but keep metadata to track listens). Thanks!

Incredible.. I couldn’t have made it better if I tried. This is the perfect audiobook player. Thank you for making this. Download this immediately if you hate apples audiobook player. This auto-files and sorta tracks for you. Plus adding cover art IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANT. A++++

Good reader- when it works. Currently the app stops playing whenever you close the screen When they fix that bug which just started happening I’d say purchase it Still stop working when the iPhone screen shuts off. Insanely frustrating. Im looking for another player

Fantastic. Best audiobook app out there. Use it almost everyday. The only thing I could wish for is to directly transfer books in my library to another bound user via airdrop or Bluetooth. But that doesn’t take anything away from the app. Thanks

A few disappointments. 1. No iPad app - I should have checked first. 2. I was under the impression this could steam from cloud storage, so I could update there and keep my library all in one place. The app can only download. 3. Because of 1 & 2 organizing a large library on my phone is a pain. The app UI is really not designed for organization. 4. The real feature I’ve been looking for is a way to listen to my files on multiple devices and sync the progress. This was a major bummer. I read online that Bound could do this, but I guess not :( This app has real potential, but I don’t think it’s going to fit my needs right now.

Worth every penny & more.. Has worked flawlessly since the second I bought it. I rarely buy apps like these but I’d been having some issues with the previous app I was using and now I have no plans on looking back.

Does what it says, well.. Works well. Making a web server to upload from a computer is handy. Would like some features like a voice boost or smart playback speed adjuster in the future if possible.

I used to love this app. This was my go to app for audiobooks but after the last update it’s unusable. The app crashes when I try and listen to old audiobooks that I had imported into the Bound app. So for example, I import an audiobook to my Bound library, I click that audiobook and it plays like normal; however, if I want to listen to any other audiobooks in my Bound library, I click the audiobook cover and the app crashes. So the app only plays audiobooks that have been newly imported into Bound.

Great app. I enjoy listening to my free audiobooks while driving. Quite painless experience to add or remove books. It does need one feature... it needs to stop when other apps “speak”. I use Waze all the time and when it gives me indications, I have to rewind... frequently. Also when answering the phone.

Best audiobook app. If you are looking for an audiobook app that is not tied to existing distribution channels ( Apple Books, audible etc. ) this is the one you need to pick. For developer : if you can implement resume on cloud download I will give your app 10 stars.

Problem but still maybe the best?. I find this app will just stop playing from time to time and requires a restart before it will play again. I think it will stop when it reaches the end of a file. Almost as if the sleep timer was turned on. Doesn't seem to happen every time.

Great app!. This is my main audiobook app. The developer continues to develop and improve the app and adding features. Thanks for fixing the play/pause bug, google artwork search and adding Siri support! Please keep up the great work and I will be happy to pay a patronage to continue supporting your app.

Would be a five star app except…. Today marks the second time this app randomly deletes my entire library and forcing me to import/download it all again. It seems to have to do with when I turn my phone off while the Bound app is active. When I turn back in everything is gone. Otherwise this is a great app but it’s a very concerning and frustrating bug. 5 star if it didn’t delete my library!

Needs "clips" section. This is an awesome app, BUT it needs the ability to set an end to the "bookmarked" section. This is like "slicing" a start point and end point for each bookmark rather than just a starting point. Audible has this feature and it is killer. Please copy from Audible 🙂

One of my favourite top 5 apps!. It is rare for me to actually write a review for an app but this app is fantastic! I listen to all my audiobooks via my google drive and it never fails. I can also listen to old CD books and it organises all the tracks into one listening experience. It is one of my top 5 apps and I use it almost daily.

A good competitor for iBooks but could be better.. I've been using Bound as an alternative to iBooks player for about 3 weeks now. There are lots of things I really like (downloading from the cloud) the UI is slick and pretty easy to navigate. A few things I wish they could add are 1) a dark theme 2) time left in chapter instead of overall book 3) sync between iPad and iPhone.

I Love This App. Adding more to this because I cannot explain how freaking well this app works. It does everything I need and does it with no fuss. I review audiobooks for my blog and I get a lot of books sent to me. This is by far the easiest app to use to add the books. I love the web upload and use it weekly.

Can’t see Shared Google Drive Folders. I keep all my audiobooks in a Team Drive on Google Drive since my school give me Google drive storage. When I connect my Google Drive it can see the audio files in my personal Google Drive (which is limited to 15GB) but not my Team Drive where I put all my files (much higher limit). Would love if I could add files directly from a Shared Drive on Google Drive.

Frustrating. Dropbox connectivity is great and all, but I ran into a couple glaring issues with this app: First, when I tried grabbing a 30 hour long audiobook, Bound only grabbed the first 9 hours of audio. Second, it doesn't pause properly! When you pause a book for a few minutes and then try to resume, the app skips at least 10 minutes, every time! Unacceptable for a paid app.

Bound. When it works, great! However, the web uploader option frequently fails. Often, thee designated web site will not load. I closed and reopened the app as well as the browser many times without success. I contacted the developer but received no help. I would love to see the malfunction resolved!!!

Only thing missing is a Watch app. This is my favorite audiobook player, and the only one I’ve found with such seamless support for cloud imports and built-in support for Overdrive chapters (a must-have if you listen to audiobooks from your public library). I just wish it had a Watch app so I could take my books with me on walks/runs!

I love this but but... bugs. I used this app for a whole year with no problem and I really think its terrific. Recently however, it has been crashing whenever I try to add something to my library. Don't know if this a problem with my phone or the app but if it is the app I would really appreciate it being fixed because at the moment its pretty unusable for me

One of the better ones out there, still buggy. This is probably my favorite audiobook app as far as features go, especially the cloud storage integration. Its updates are sometimes pretty buggy, though, so I haven't been able to completely abandon my other 3rd party audiobook apps just yet. This most recent iteration isn't letting me play/pause from my BT earbuds, which is annoying, but not a dealbreaker.

Unreal. I’ve been suffering through different methods of playing audiobooks for years. This app is a no-brainer. The player itself, the SIMPLE audiobook import process and integrated book cover search… I’m actually stunned at the value I got for so little. Well done, dev. Top notch.

Great App! Could move to indispensable with a few tweaks. I love this app and use it every day. I have a large audiobook collection and this works seamlessly with my cloud storage. There are a few features that could take this app to the next level. I love how over cast allows you to swipe the cover art to the side one way to reveal the about section of the podcast and the other direction for the audio settings. It would be amazing to have dust jacket info and audio settings easily accessible like this. Also a landscape mode would make this app much more usable in the car. The other opportunity is to be able to sort the titles based on author and genre. Please continue to work to improve this amazing app!

Thank you for providing the solution to my problems.. I couldn't figure out why it was so hard to take my audiobook files from Dropbox and get them onto an audiobook player on my phone, but it was next to impossible. Then I found Bound, You have made my life so much better. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Great app but with a flaw. Overall a decent app, but it has a serious bug: the play / pause state gets out of sync from the lock screen vs the app's state. This makes taking an AirPod out of your ear sometimes not pause the app. It requires a second pause. This becomes supremely annoying and happens most days I use the app. I reported this bug in the last version but the latest update did not address it.

Go-to offline audio player. Bound is great. The web uploaded feature makes it incredibly convenient to load up audio files. Playback controls and UI are clean, reliable and intuitive. No subscription nonsense. I highly recommend this app.