Buggy...playback skips back 15-30 mins sometimes.. – Audiobook Player SmartBook Review

I tried the free version of this app with the two book limit. This was one of the only audiobook players that went up to 3x speed and still sounded good. After a couple of books I bit the bullet and decided spend the $9 to upgrade to the “pro” version so that I could add more books. (It still shows “upgrade to pro” even after you have upgraded it) After using the app for a couple of weeks I started to notice the bugs. For one, there would be times where I would pause the book and when I came back to it sometimes it’s would jump back to 15, 20 even 30 mins or more from where I left off. So then I had skip, skip, skip forward to find where I left off. It got to the point that I was taking screenshots of my place so that if it jumped back I would at least know where I had left off. On other problem with the app is that you have to load books either through WiFi via your computer browser or from a cloud service like your google drive. And, you had to zip up your books if you want to upload more than one book at a time. Additionally, you don’t get any book cover (minor annoyance, but still), you can’t arrange your books and there is only one view so you end up with big no picture book icons in the order that you upload them. For $9 this should have all the features of the other players that are either free or priced less. The only reason I resorted to this player is that it played a decent sounding 3x playback. If you don’t listen to anything above 2.5x, I would not recommend getting this App. There are better free or lower cost apps that do a much better job.
Review by Frehley666 on Audiobook Player SmartBook.