Description of App
Listen to your favorite DRM-free audiobooks with Bound.
Bound allows you to import audio files from various cloud services and play them back in a beautiful modern interface. Bound will automatically save your listening position so that you never lose your place.
Supported Audio File Types (DRM-free only): .mp3, .m4a, .m4b, .aac
Download
- Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive.
- Apple Files.
- Web Uploader for importing from your computer via WiFi.
Manage
- Move audio files between books.
- Change cover art.
- Sort based on author, title, recently added, and recently played.
- Rename title and author.
- Choose between a number of fun themes.
- Dark mode support.
Play
- Automatically saves playback location as you progress through the book.
- Independently configure seek forward and seek backward times.
- Chapter support for audio files with embedded chapters (.m4a / .m4b / OverDrive .mp3).
- Change playback speed from 0.5X to 3.0X.
- Smart Rewind when returning to your book after a while.
- Sleep Timer with configurable time or at the end of a chapter.
- Manually bookmark locations that you want to return to.
- CarPlay support.
Comments
Comparison to BookPlayer, zip support
I currently use BookPlayer which is a very popular app for this use case. It seems the main difference is lack of cloud downloads. BookPlayer lets you import from the Files app or by entering a URL directly (this could technically be a Dropbox link if you know how to format it). Since Dropbox, OneDrive, and other such services show up as locations in the files app, this isn't too much of a big problem. The BookPlayer interface is fully accessible and very clean. One of the other nice things about BookPlayer is that it can take a zip folder (or even an ordinary directory) of audio files, and turn it into a book. I wonder whether this app can do any of that. I'd be especially interested to know how they respond to a request to fix the popup menu. As far as I am aware, with that kind of popup, you just need to expose the remainder of the screen as a VoiceOver element and enable the back gesture. Or, yaknow, just use the native iOS popup.
Have you submitted the issue to them?
Have you reached out to the devs? What has their response been?
Contacted the Dev
Yes I emailed the Dev about the sleep timer dialog box but they have not replied yet. And yes this handles Zip files
Please keep us posted
Please keep us posted. Hopefully they reply soon.