Bound - Audiobook Player 4+

This app really is amazing. It has tons of features and has never crashed once even after 100s of hours of use. I keep discovering new and cool things like the ability to add custom Siri commands to play an audiobook or I can easily transfer audiobooks ftp style wirelessly from my pc to my phone and the app sorts all the files out and orders everything correctly. Absolutely worth the money.

Well, it’s not good. The interface is lovely and player features are great for a free app. But trying to get audiobooks onto this is torture. It finds the dedicated Dropbox folder (one of the recommended methods of uploaded to the app) then uploads only ever second chapter (for some mysterious reason) then stalls and there’s nothing I can do to get it going again. The Web Upload page is worse: when I go to the associated url on my network, it lets me upload the 8th chapter of a book (not even the first) then stops and requires a restart of my computer browser after which a new url variant appears, forcing me to upload even chapter 8 again, which works for a bit then stops again. Just a waste of time, I’m sorry to say. It would be so much easier to have direct, wired upload (drag and drop) or even wireless, from a (physically connected) computer, but bizarrely that’s not an option. I wanted to love this but it’s just too fiddly and undependable (maybe it needs some updating and general TLC). How a developer can do all that without charging a few coins is a question that affects lots of app with great ideas behind them. Charge something, you deserve it, then fix the issues with it. That’s the only way to go.

I have many audiobooks saved and I appreciate that it keeps a track of each book individually, the interface is really beautiful. Everything is as you expect, have had no errors, helped me importing my books from Google Drive really easy! Totally worth the money. 5 stars.