Audiobook Player SmartBook Reviews

Importing is good, but the audiobook player skips and cuts out

alexsparty243

Using AirPods and an iPhone 8+. Pausing it from the notification widget works only sometimes, and there are skips in my book pretty often.

Not great

Antonio of Flea Bottom

The free version only allows you to have 2 books when many other apps allow you to have as many as you want. Not a huge deal. I usually download all my books from all over the web. Not from Audible,Kindle, or any the normal pay to play audiobook apps. I transferred a book into this app and it didn’t generate any of the art or identify the chapters. It was essentially a long mp3 file. A 25 hour song that I could listen to. I was looking for an app that I could listen to audio books I’ve downloaded from the internet without having to plug into my computer and transfer the books into the Ibooks app. This isn’t that app. If you download files directly to your phone and want them to be organized by chapter, this app doesn’t work.

No crashes, but missing desired features

DEJ-II

The free version only allows two book on a device, so I paid the $4.99 for “pro mode”. As such, I’m reviewing this app as a paid app; I’m generally more forgiving of flaws in free apps. Here’s what’s good: 1) After 8 hours of use, the app has not crashed once. That may sound like weak praise, but I’m serious about being pleased by that. An app I’d previously used for audiobooks now crashes constantly and is virtually unusable. Kudos for a stable app! 2) While the web wifi import does generate confusing and apparently meaningless “error” messages, it does work. In particular, I really do like that a book broken up into multiple parts can be zipped into a single file and imported at one time. Be sure though, to name the files 01-20 not 1-20 or the sort will be out of order! 3) Books are separated into their own folders. Seems obvious as an important feature, but I found another audiobook app that doesn’t do that. Here’s what disappoints me: 1) I can’t figure out how to put a book image on the folders. Since the included sample book displays an image it must be possible, but it’s very unintuitive and I gave up. 2) I like M4B format with chapters. Unfortunately, SmartBook does not recognize the chapter breaks and the book is all one long file. 3) I like making bookmarks to remind myself of things for a review, and to later return to spots to relisten. Not possible with SmartBook which is VERY disappointing.

It works mostly

Sonata7245

Occasionally when trying to pause from the lock screen the book will skip back several minutes and keep playing. Frustrating to find where I was in the book. Otherwise it works well and I like the ability to load books from my computer by simply putting in the IP address for my phone when connected to WIFI.

Unstable speed

Phredrum

Narration kept speeding up, nothing major - 1x to 1.2x and back, enuf to be annoying as hell.

Worthless

Pab Sungenis

Cannot access your iTunes books, and forces you to “upgrade” to listen to anything longer than two hours (in other words, almost everything),

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