BookFunnel 4+

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.