It would be nice if it worked with Car Play so I can listen to the audiobooks while driving. I would also like it if I can browse my library as the book is playing. I purchased Laura Burton and Jessie Cal’s Fairy Tales Reimagined series, and since the books are meant to be read in a specific order, I would really like if the number in the series was included in the title, or better yet, the cover art. I’m also a little disappointed that the books cannot be sent to other listening apps such as Audible (which is accessible on Car Play, hence my attempt) despite it showing “Send to Another App” as an option on the book’s main screen.
Downloaded the app to read an extended epilogue download for a book I’d just finished, and the experience was truly horrible. The content library worked fine but beyond that functionality totally fell apart. The display type was very small - smaller than 8pt type I’m sure - and controls to zoom to page width or fit to screen did nothing. Zooming using iPadOS reverse-pinch motion did zoom but then it was impossible to scroll up or down to the next page and pinching back to the original resolution didn’t fix that issue - in fact it went too far and switched into page thumbnail view. Then the display froze entirely. Tried closing the app and restarting - and same thing happened. Ridiculous waste of time. The last one of these I downloaded had the option of opening the PDF download in Kindle. Not sure why that option went away, but a save yourself the hassle and just open and read the PDF on its own. This app isn’t worth the effort to download it.
I like it just fine, but I wanted to provide a minor bug report and I can’t figure out how else to communicate with the developer. After listening for a while the entire background gets overlayed with what looks like a small, fairly random pattern that is tiled over everything. When you interact with the controls then that section of the screen is updated and the pattern disappears there. If you leave the screen and come back it’s gone completely but it will come back after a while. It doesn’t stop you from listening to the book or anything and the visuals on a audio book app aren’t all that important but I thought you might want to know. I’ll happily up my rating to 5 stars if you fix it, as otherwise I’m pretty happy with the app. A personal preference, though certainly not a bug, would be that the book I’m listening to doesn’t pause when I’m browsing the library until I click on a different book to play. Anyway, thank you very much!
The app has had its share of some bugs and issues in its initial rollout. But they're constantly pushing through updates. And when you email them about a bug, they respond very quickly and usually have an update rolling out within the next day or so. So it’s not as polished as Audible yet but I think the future is quite bright.
The app functions as well as Audible, less some features and not quite as polished, but it is extremely inefficient when it comes to battery. I listened for 4 hours 8 mins to a book that was downloaded, 11 minutes of that was with the app up on the screen, the remaining 4 hours 3 minutes the app was in the background (maybe 15 mins while I did other things on my phone) or my phone was locked (vast majority). In that time BookFunnel used 44% of my phone’s (iPhone 12 Pro Max) battery!! It wasn’t streaming the book, it only used 7MBs data total. That’s the only issue I have with the app. I work 10 hour shifts and don’t have access to a charger, which makes this nearly unusable.
I love using this to read books, it let’s you select not only font size but also various fonts, line spacing, set bookmarks, etc. it automatically syncs between your devices, so anytime you add a book it will be on which ever device you decide to use, and will take you to the last page you were reading, even if you change devices. The other really important feature is that their support is FANTASTIC. They do not give up until your problem is solved.
Incredibly difficult app. I got the ones I paid for. Had to use Apple. Guess my two free ones are in your app some where. You say you sent a password. I never got it. You say I marked you as spam or junk some time so you can’t email me, but you keep emailing me but not with the password I need. I can’t get into my library without it. You won’t be getting anymore of my business. I don’t think your programmers know what they’re doing. After many emails to your Jamie, I still don’t have my books. The last email offered the same convoluted solution as before. No thanks. Keep my money and your damned books!
Great sub book, great research on locations and weapons plus sub language. Really enjoyed this book and 7 of 7 book. Will now read all of them in order. Like the idea of XO being a lady with ties to Commander. Glad you did not back away from descriptive language. Being retired Army CID commander telling it almost like it is makes for amusing reading. Keep up the great books. Tex
I was really enjoying this little app. I bought a whole series of books (the first was free and the rest were ridiculously inexpensive so I bought the whole series. I was totally hooked, and I tried to open the app this morning, and it was totally blank. Nothing was there. I tried to redownload the App. Didn’t work. I could have downloaded these books to several apps, including my Applebooks, Nook, etc. Why did I select this disappearing app? Beware!
I've been using this app for books for several years without any problems. Had some trouble with my first audio book and I reached out for support. Jamie responded quickly and fixed the bug and now it is working perfectly.
The reasons this doesn’t get 5 stars from me right now are as follows: 1) When a phone call comes in or when a navigation app gives instructions playback will not automatically resume once the call is ended or when the navigation app is done. 2) The app doesn’t support/isn’t supported by Apple Car Play. 3) The app doesn’t have the ability to create collections/playlists so that books of the same series can be put together and played in order without having to manually select the next book.
This app is simple and easy to use. There are no complicated buttons or instructions. Just download the book and start reading. I really like the different fonts you can use. Some fonts are a lot harder to read and this app gives you lots of options.
The critical thing this app is missing is to allow readers to browse books from the authors using the app. As a reader I have no use for this app unless an author I know forces me to use this to download their book. That doesn’t help an author to grow their readership. Add this functionality and you would be a strong app
I had major issues with the audio after closing the app for the first time. It appears the download got corrupted and i had to redownload. the app does not work as well as audible but seems to work well enough if you don'tmind some troubleshooting.
The fonts and font size cannot be changed. Makes it hard to read. It’s a pain to download the books. On top of that, there’s no way to see before downloading the size of the “book” or if it just a sample. If I don’t see a change for the better, I’m deleting this app.
I downloaded the app and added to the books already there. Then I closed the tablet and went to bed. The next morning the app was gone, vanished completely. I have no idea what happened. I have no access to the books I bought.
A little touch of worthless. Feel bad about the book I paid for and pre-ordered but plan to delete it all. It’s not an app that you can actually read a book on. Good Lord, who wants to go through this much work to try to read something everything else you just download and use save your money please.
Every time I am listening with my AirPods and I have to pause my book when I hit play again it sounds like they are in a tin can. Then no matter what I do it stays this way until the end of the book. If I don’t pause at all it sounds great with my AirPods and if I listen without AirPods it sounds great! PLEASE FIX THIS IT DRIVES ME CRAZY :)
This app shows good promise. I gave it two stars because it is still buggy on iPados 14.7.1.. it sometimes needs to be deleted, and also do a power off reset. My wife has been fighting it for over an hour. Software testing is almost harder than the coding. I await a very classy app.
The first few times I used it was extremely complex to use, but now even tho I download a book cannot open in kindle or books. Now i just have to skip the free first books.
I tried and tried to get the book to download. The directions told me to click the share button, then send to Kindle. After several attempts I was forced to give up. It just doesn’t work. 😡
They keep saying that they sent me an “instant password”. Checked my inbox, my spam folder, me promotions folder, my deleted folder, never received any kind of “instant password”. Not worth the space on my mobile devices!
After it lost my spot 3x on the first book I’m giving up. I’m requesting a refund for the books but I don’t expect it. Wont purchase books that use this app going forward
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