Name: Libro.fm Audiobooks
Rating: 4.90151 (13331 reviews)

User Reviews for Libro.fm Audiobooks

4.9 out of 5

13.3K Ratings

1 year ago, irenadawn

Love this new App! It is great to help my local Bookstore!

I have enjoyed the app so far. I am anxious to see how they will succeed! I want local businesses to profit from booksellers too! The local businesses feature the authors and that increases sales too! They need to get some credit for all of the extra expenses they put out for promotions. I certainly appreciate all my local bookstore does in our community! They help our local community so much and they help literacy too! We need audiobooks to help with learning difficulties and other issues. So audiobooks are not just for lazy readers! They help with reading comprehension and memory issues. They also can assist with sight loss. They are helpful with Dyslexia and attention deficit disorder problems. I like them for relaxing and stress reduction. Mental health issues are often reduced while reading entertaining books and laughing is always great medicine! So audiobooks are great ways to pass the time when you have to wait in lines or in traffic. Don’t waste your time or your mind, READ!

7 months ago, Jan in RVA

While You Were Out

I have just finished this remarkable memoir of life in the Irish Catholic Kissinger family, read by author Meg Kissinger. This is the first audio book experience for me and I am absolutely going to continue this format for enjoying the great stories that are available. Listening to Meg’s compilation of her family’s trials, tribulations, tragedies as well as love, care, compassion and loyalty in her own Milwaukee- accented voice was especially meaningful for me. There is humor mixed with horror as a mom and dad struggle with their own mental illness while raising 8 children. Throughout their lives, love and loyalty allow 6 of the children to survive the traumas/illness that they endured growing up. I highly recommend this well written book with its many lessons and information about mental illness. Great read (listen) for someone who falls asleep with paper copies! Janice Julius

3 years ago, Jacqueline-a11y

Only the mission is worth it

Love the mission and I’ll continue using the app just to support local bookstores alone. However, the app doesn’t offer much functionality for searching or accessing your account, and often leaves me confused. The FAQ instructions say you can pick a specific bookstore to support ‘at anytime by going to your account’ but I still cannot figure out how to do that from ‘my account’ on the app. It might only be an option from a computer, but either way the instructions are not clear, not helpful, and frustrating. The search function also needs to be improved. I cannot seem to search within the app for available books, regardless of if you can purchase through the app. For example, even just a search of ‘p’ returns zero results with the app, which I find hard to believe is accurate (do no you have no authors with a name starting with P? No titles starting with P?). This makes it a lot harder to recommend and actually get other people to switch over, who might not be as altruistic.

3 years ago, R138

Feels good to support my local bookstore

As much as I like physical books, most of the reading I do is actually audiobooks on my commute and I finally asked my local bookstore (Volumes in Chicago!) if I could somehow buy audiobooks from them. They directed me to this app and I’m so happy that (most of) my book-buying now supports them instead of the online giant. The app update is great and you can now buy audiobooks directly in the app. My only complaint is that sometimes it seems like too many clicks to continue listening to a book I’ve been listening to. But if I’m using Bluetooth headphones it starts playing automatically as soon as I put them in, so it’s not really a big deal.

8 months ago, GerardPate

Many Books I Want to Listen to is Unavailable

Wish i could give the app a higher rating, because from a mission perspective it’s great. That said, i frequently find that books i want to read are not available on on the app. Reasons are either the app just doesn’t have the audiobook or there is some stated licensing issue that prohibits the purchase of the book with membership credits…yes i’m paying a subscription to support local bookstores, but i’m primarily doing it to listen to audiobooks that i’m interested in. stopped my subscription because of this. kind of disappointing. also, i’ve found that the audio mastering on some audiobooks isn’t great. like i have to turn my volume all the way up to barely hear the audio (eg guns germs and steel). not sure if that’s an app specific issue but still stinks.

2 years ago, JenCopper

5 Stars Local Bookstore Support

4 stars for inability to find how to manage my account on the app and no simple click to website from any page. 3 stars that the site itself will not accept my credit card and there’s no chat feature. I have spent too many hours trying to sign up!!! And am still not signed up. If it wasn’t for supporting my local store, I would have deleted the app and continued audible. I specifically want options that support local businesses. And take from corporate wealth. So, I will trudge on until this is set up and I’ve downloaded the next Dresden File book by Jim Butcher!

11 months ago, z7n/k2

Incredible app. Exactly what I needed

I recommend this app to people regularly. I love reading and I love bookstores and the fact that I can support my favorite bookstore while doing something I was already planning on doing (listening to audio books) is incredible. I’ve tried a few audiobook apps and this is the most intuitive one to me. My favorite feature is that you can bookmark multiple places and give the bookmarks names so you can distinguish them. The team is also incredibly responsive, which is not always true of apps! Super helpful. All in all: good product, good people, good cause.

2 years ago, DrewGuy10

New here. Like it so far.

Just recently made the switch to this app (because of local bookstore support) and it works just as well as Audible. The only difference I see is the chapters are broken down into small segments and aren’t labeled as chapters. I wish that would change so I could jump to a specific chapter if necessary. Also the ability to purchase books directly in the app would be a nice convenience. And finally purchasing additional credits would be nice too if possible.

4 months ago, mizmeliss87

Amazing Service but Average App

Love being able to support my local bookstore and while the app does have some functionality issues (as you may see a lot of the books have only a track listing and no chapter titles) I’ve heard from their customer support this is something they are working on. Also their customer support team is great and helpful with any questions you may have. Also you can chose to support any bookstore you want - which is a great feature. It’s also easy to change bookstores if a new one pops up in your area. The app itself has some growth but the purpose behind it is worth it in my opinion.

10 months ago, Ictcugirl

Support Local

I love that this app allows me to support my local bookstore through their partnership. It feels really good to give my money to an independent bookstore than the Amazon/Audible machine. The user experience is good and has even improved since they added the ability to purchase books in the app (use to have to purchase on their website and listen on the app). I also love the book recommendations the app makes and that I can gift people book credits. Try this app out and support local.

6 years ago, kbwm

Doesn’t Sync Across Devices

I love this app because I love supporting my local bookstore. However, I listen to my audiobooks on different devices throughout the day. Sometimes I’m on my phone and other times I’m on my iPad. Unfortunately, the current version of this app doesn’t update from my previous place on one device when I switch to the other. Or if it has this capability, I cannot find where to turn it on. I still would recommend this app and company over others, purely to support local bookstores.

1 year ago, PhHammz

Love the mission but why aren’t there chapters???

This seems like one of the most basic features an audiobook app should have. I waste so much time clicking through tracks trying to find the chapter I’m looking for when I lose my place or want to re-listen to a certain one. I’m going to keep using it but I hope they fix this like they said they would 3yrs ago on other reviews here. Please please please. For those of us who get easily distracted while listening or confused by opaque lists of numbers it really is an accessibility issue.

3 days ago, Bailey Q.

Great playback experience!

I love this app! The playback experience is designed very intuitively. When pressing play again after pausing the book, it automatically rewinds a second or two before the point where you stopped. Not too much, just the perfect amount to give you better context when jumping back in. It’s a feature I didn’t know I needed, but now annoys me when I don’t have it on other apps!

4 years ago, Oliioxenfree

Cryostorage needed

By the time this book downloads, humans will have invented the cold storage I would have needed to stay alive long enough to read it. Half an hour and we’ve made it to 6% downloaded. Moreover, I don’t even need the whole book- just the last third. There was a hold in l library me after me with the library audiobook app and I can’t wait 4 weeks to read the ending! A feature (such as Overdrive has) where you can download individual parts of the book (files) would have been doubly handy in this case.

1 year ago, shenkdabank

But disappointed

Honestly, its as expensive as any major huge platform apple music netflix audible and beyond. Whats worse is that titles are ranging from $20-30 for audio books about as much as the hard cover!!!!? How is that possible or make sense? This is highly unreasonable and unsustainable. *** you cant make purchases in app!!? Yet you can redeem credit there and sesrch browse titles there? Very confused as to why the failure? Again $15 per month for audio book recordings on top of a la carte high $ purchases is just way too high. $5 a month + $30 for a new bestseller maybe. But still to high. In fact An audio file that costs more than $15-20 is just insane!!, why? Its not cuttimg trees or printing anything! Its just copying 1 file that was made once? Read once! Unlike a book where cost to print cut trees process put graphics ln and scale 1,000 copies is way higher, than a 1 file copied with a click.

3 years ago, BC Mystery

Frustrating Bug

I’m all for supporting local indies, so this is my preferred audiobook app. But it’s also the most frustrating. To wit, it will randomly backtrack to earlier in the book between listening sessions. This doesn’t always happen, but just often enough to be maddening. Sometimes the jump is hours long, and it’s difficult to find my way back to where I actually was in the narration. Though random, it’s most likely to happen in one of two circumstances: after a long break, say overnight, or when I switch the way I listen such as from earbuds to CarPlay. Having to spend time figuring out which track I was on, and where, is hard enough when I’m home, but impossible when I’m driving. It’s very frustrating when I have a long drive but can’t continue where I left off because the app randomly decided to backtrack a couple of hours in the story.

4 weeks ago, ApostolicSister7

Made the switch!

I cancelled my Audible subscription so that I could start using Libro to support my local bookstore. I love being able to have the same access all the while supporting a small business. Libro also has great sales comparable and even better than Audible. Make the switch today! Especially if you have a local bookstore that will be supported in the process. “A New Chapter” is who I support 💙

3 years ago, Teri9999

Recent update needs work

Play stops when the iPhone goes to sleep or when you open another app. You have to continually wake up the phone to keep it playing. I often listen to a book while working on another app but I can’t do that any more. Also when using the sleep timer it stops abruptly, even in the middle of a word. Better to fade out gently like the A app.

3 years ago, Sillyspot

Ditch Audible and support local bookstores!

The app functionality is overall pretty great. I love the curated list from different bookstore employees and the recommendations are always on point. I love that I can now see my wish list in the app and, if I have credits, purchase most books right in the app. What would shift this from a four star review to a five star review would be if I could purchase books that don’t accept a book credit for purchase. Most do, but some don’t.

3 years ago, Tscully

App stops when phone sleeps

I’ve had a good experience so far with customer service (I bought a book in Spanish by accident and they refunded me) and for the usability of the app. Except for one big issue, that unfortunately will be a game changer if I can’t get it fixed- the app stops playing when my phone screen turns off. If I can’t listen without constantly have to turn my screen back on, I will have to get rid of the service. It’s hard to relax and listen when it’s cutting off every 3 minutes.

3 years ago, manducasexta

Generally great, hard to scrub

I love supporting local bookstores, and I like this app better than Audible’s. However, I have trouble scrubbing forward or back. The circle indicating the current position on a track can sometimes be dragged forward or back to change position, but it often doesn’t respond. Sometimes it improves if I use the skip forward button a couple times first. I tried to contact app support, but the link for support from the App Store leads to what is apparently a read-only site.

10 months ago, 232Thorium

Best audiobook app

This app is far better than Audible. It doesn’t have the annoying restrictions that Audible has. You can pause your membership at any time while still retaining access to all of the books you’ve purchased. And, their customer service is outstanding. They also share their profits with a local bookstore of your choice. A really good company!

3 years ago, Sornson

This is the only audiobook app you should have!

I love this app. I love the selection of books available! I look books but am not a big reader as I am very busy during the day and if I read at night I fall asleep after two pages. Having this app I listen when I am driving, walking cleaning the house. Best of all it benefits local book stores and help the community. Oh yeah it is really easy to use!

12 months ago, MeganIsAwesomer

Wowzers!

Not only does this app help support your favorite local bookstore, they provide customer support on the weekend. As I like to do I’ve logged myself out of my account, am uncertain as to which email address I used to create my account, AND forgot my password. Friday I sent out an email and I woke up Saturday morning to a response, from the CEO. 10/10 impressed and looking forward to get back to ADD reading 👍📚

5 years ago, Gale444

Can’t without a mentor

I have tried to delete books and add books to listen to, but I can’t do it unless I go to the bookstore and have the person help me. Only one person out of three knows how to do this at the bookstore I work with. I have emailed Libro and each time Merc says to go to the website to learn, however it is a circular situation because nothing happens. I will try one more moment

3 weeks ago, misha winters

Slider bar broken

The time bar or slider bar is nearly unusable. No matter how I try to drag my finger and pull the audiobook position backwards or forwards, it works less than 10% of the time. It just won’t move under my finger. It’s incredibly frustrating because I listen to audiobooks while going to sleep but trying to find my place again the next day is a nightmare with just the skip forward/backward buttons. I haven’t had this problem with any other audiobook app.

1 month ago, BriSummer

I am in love with this app 💖🌟

I love this app because it supports local bookstores. I love that you can listen on a iPhone and switch to Apple Watch or iPad. I purchased some audiobooks on this for cheaper then audible. I really enjoyed this. I love that you can purchase extra credits. You can also purchase books without credits. Very cool! 😎 everyone should check this app out.

9 months ago, Essgeearr

Great app

My lone gripe, which is minor, is that there is no streaming option from a browser on pc. You have to download the files and then play them through a media player. This is only inconvenient because I listen to a lot of audiobooks while at work and it would be easier to just stream from the site.

5 years ago, Foraker

Needs Chapters

I love everything about this service, except the tracks. I’m usually switching back and forth between audiobook and physical book and it’s impossible to find your progress with the current setup with tracks. 5 stars and I’ll give up my other audiobook subscription once chapters are added to this app. Love supporting my local bookstore!

12 months ago, And who can speak of all?

Great cause, great books, horrible redesign

I love Libro, and use it constantly. However, a recent redesign was so incredibly user unfriendly – it’s downright hostile to anyone with non-20 year old eyes or imperfect vision. No one wants, or needs, tiny tiny type on a sea of blank space, where once we had clean and clear book covers. I love the idea and believe in the work they do to support local bookstores, but make it so people can actually see.

4 years ago, TxChick

Love this app

I love this app and how I’m supporting my local book store. My only issue is I can’t download my audio books to my Apple iWatch and/or listen on my home audio devices. I can understand the home devices would be a problem but downloading to my iWatch would be great so I don’t always have to carry my iPhone too. Otherwise I love this app!! Thanks so much!!

4 years ago, 20 minutes of ads

Great app...just one small thing...

I love supporting my local bookstore and so far the app has been great, but having the ability to get new books within the app would make it perfect! I don’t always have my computer, so full functionality In the app (wishlist, purchase new books, etc) would make it that much better. Thank you for providing a alternative!

3 years ago, upset book lover calif

Doooooode!

I have been a member for over four years. I have used credits, paid my monthly dues, and purchased 5 Harry Potter books and other books “not available for credit usage.” But today, I ask for a book and the mission seems impossible! I have over 8 credits available. One star rating if there ever was. !!!!!!!! ☀️

3 years ago, JWA-AK

Superlative !

Excellent service & selection. Instant access to every book I’ve sought during my 2 year subscription … especially handy when I’m waiting for hardcopy to arrive for a course. Now I find myself doing audio simultaneously with hardcopy for complicated non-fiction (esp history). AND, this fine company supports our local Indy bookstore!

3 years ago, KTCABEL

Pretty good!

I’d prefer an actual book purchased at my local bookstore, but now that I have a kiddo, I use this app to listen to books while I walk with said kiddo in the stroller! I’m so glad I can still continue to support my local place (Bookbar in Denver!). The app is easy enough to use. My only complaint is that it doesn’t work great on the rare occasions I want to listen via Apple Car play in my car.

3 years ago, theRealSirshannon

The audiobook app I’ve been waiting for.

Great selection. Zero guilt because part of my purchase price goes to my favorite local brick & mortar book store. The app has been steadily updated over the last couple years and is now at the point where I don’t have anything to complain about. That’s rare for me ;)

4 years ago, jcooper50

Best gift a mother could get!

Received a 3-month subscription as a gift from my daughter for Mother’s Day. I always felt like I didn’t have the concentration to listen to books since I’m an avid reader. Wrong! Best way to accompany my daily walks. Found myself getting lost in the narratives and the next thing I knew, three miles had passed and I was home! And I’m supporting my favorite bookstore!

1 year ago, H34dreamer

Love Libro FM - have 1 ask for future update

I love the service Libro Fm provides! Love audiobooks and being able to get them from literally anywhere but audible. That being said, would love to see a future update that enables users to see the actual chapter titles rather than just “Track 1” to “Track [n]”

3 years ago, ghgfgfdfdsasdfg

Better than you know who….

I love not having to have an active membership to listen to my books. I sometimes get busy and credits stack up (and don’t expire). I pause my membership until I can catch up and I can still listen while my membership is paused! I also support my local store!

2 years ago, Simon Leftie

My Favorite Audiobook App

I thoroughly enjoy the design and UI of this app. I’m about halfway through my third book on this app and am loving the playback options. There’s a super wide selection and it truly feels like this whole company is run by good people. I look forward to visiting the local bookstore I have chosen to support with my subscription.

3 years ago, Omnomtomtom

Loving the 5.0 updates

I’ve had this app for a while now after switching from Audible, but y’all nailed it on this last update. I was so glad to see the updates in the tutorial and now can have a closer experience to the web app on my phone. Great job, delightful experience.

1 year ago, For the love of Pets

I love that benefits local book store, but…

It’s a wonderful concept, I find the app not as easy to use as the other famous one. For example where can I find when my next credit is. Maybe I just don’t know where to look but I don’t find the app as intuitive as some.

4 years ago, Caknudsen10

Make the switch!

I absolutely adore this audiobook platform and am grateful to have an alternative to the Evil Empire and destroyer of bookstores everywhere. This app allows me to keep myself in audiobooks and feel good about supporting my local bookstore in the process. They are constantly doing promotions to get even more money into the hands of bookstores. Make the switch!

2 years ago, reconbot

Great service, App about as glitchy as competitors

Lots of books, easy to use, nice credit system. However the app crashes my phone from time to time, the watch and car apps can’t sync randomly but go right back to working, and when using media controls (CarPlay, AirPods etc) it’s 50/50 if the book will keep playing.

10 months ago, Lyle Troxell

Great App, wonderful local service

It is such a joy to be able to get audio books and also support my local book store. The app is really good. Integrates well with the os. Has spend options. Seems to always keep track where I last was. I’m very happy with it.

9 months ago, Violinknitter

Small company, but keeps working to make the app better!

I love being able to support my local bookstore, and I appreciate the user interface in comparison to the big competitor. Hello, easy access to chapters, bookmarks, and sleep timer!!! Their customer support is also super responsive and helpful!

2 years ago, The Panda Extraordinaire

Please let us sort Authors and Narrators!

I enjoy this app but for the love of Pete, can we PLEASE have a sorting feature added for Authors and Narrators? Publication date, title, length, and series are all well and good but this first world problem drives me crazy. I understand that we can use the Search feature for this but being able to sort by Author of Narrator is a standard sorting feature in every other audiobook reading app.

4 years ago, KetianaO

Audiobooks not working

Starting to believe these ratings and positive reviews are paid. Wanted to use other audiobook apps other than audible but when I tried the free credit, it had difficulty even downloading an audiobook. I had so many problems like the download stopping at 33%, going over 100%, etc. My phone has more than enough storage, I restarted the phone, reinstalled the app and nothing works. If i’m having problems this early on, I’m sure I’ll have more problems in the future. I guess I’m on the hunt for a different audiobook app.

6 years ago, DelanyS

Close to Converting Completely

I love this app for what it offers booksellers and book lovers. When I’ve been pining for a book but have commutes to worry about, this app has my back. Fantastic platform, I recommend it to all of my friends and family, and customers who are afraid they don’t have time to read!

1 year ago, Hi amp

Tracks dont have titles, no bookmark in car mode

I love the app overall and love the mission to OWN what you buy and to support bookstores. However, I wish the tracks had titles like on Audible. Also, in car mode, you can tap to bookmark something, but you can tap to do other things. Otherwise, 5 stars.

Description

Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. Choose from more than 375,000 audiobooks on Libro.fm, including bestsellers and bookseller picks, and your audiobook purchases are synced with the app immediately so you can start listening right away. If you ever have questions, feedback, or just want a good audiobook recommendation, you can reach out to us at [email protected], and a real, audiobook-loving human will get back to you. GET STARTED 1. Download the free Libro.fm app and sign into your Libro.fm account. 2. Explore the catalog to find your next listen. 3. Use your Libro.fm credits to get audiobooks in the app. 4. Download your audiobook(s) and start listening. APP FEATURES - Explore audiobooks: Explore Libro.fm’s catalog of 375,000+ audiobooks. - Use credits: Use your Libro.fm audiobook credits to get and gift audiobooks from the app. - Apple Watch: Listen on the go with Apple Watch. - Automatic sync: Audiobooks automatically sync from your Libro.fm account as well as across devices. - Bookmarks: Easily bookmark content so you can return to it later (bookmarks are synced across devices). - Playback speed: Like to listen at a faster pace? Just use our variable-speed narration feature. - Sleep Timer: Feeling sleepy? Set the timer to stop your audiobook after a few minutes or at the end of the track. - Tags: Organize your library in a way that works for you with customizable tags. - Sharing: Share the Libro.fm experience with friends! - DRM-free downloads: Every audiobook on Libro.fm is DRM-free, so you can listen on any device. Our privacy policy can be found at https://libro.fm/privacy Our terms of use can be found at https://libro.fm/terms