Works well for what it does – Audiobook and Podcast Player Review

My main requirement was an audiobook player with adjustable playback speed over 2X. That requirement was totally met as you can adjust playback in increments all the way up to 4X. Increments are in tenths so you can really fine tune a playback speed you are comfortable with. I have had problems with other apps of not bookmarking correctly so that it looses your place in the book, no problem here in that regard.. So based on that alone I am happy with this app and will continue using it since I listen to a lot of audiobooks and have particular requirements. Now as to the reason this is not a five star rating. 1. There is only one way to get content into the app, synching it to iTunes. No option for Dropbox or other forms of synching wirelessly and you can’t even upload to the app directly via iTunes. 2. The UI provides plenty of options, but graphically is rather odd in it’s conventions. Was not sure what one of the buttons even did. 3. There are some interesting settings available. The one I wanted most was to be able to fast seek in increments. The option seemed available, but I could not use back/forward on bluetooth headset to skip. if I enabled “Skip instead of fast seek” it would move between chapters. You could enable the volume button to act as fast seek and that worked. So I would like to see improvements in this area and the ability to create your own bookmark. Still its playback speed controls are better than all the other apps I tried.
Review by The Curt Jester on Audiobook and Podcast Player.