Is there a good app for listen to audiobooks?
Apps exist but miss features users keep asking for. Enter with the missing feature.
65
Opportunity /100
76
Demand /100
87
Competition /100
65
Execution gap /100
11
Apps serving it
14
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to listen to audiobooks, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| limited audiobook library, requires separate app | missing-feature | 1 | The audiobook library is limited... you need to use a separate app to have a better experience |
| audiobook selection too small | missing-feature | 1 | the # of audiobooks needs to be expanded |
| can't use own audiobooks instead of provided stories | missing-feature | 1 | if there would be anyway to listen to the persons own audio books instead of the horrible stories they provide |
| $200-300 to finish a story vs audiobook | price | 1 | It cost $200-300 to finish listening to a story. Much much more expensive than audiobook |
| hard to buy audiobook without Prime upsell | ux | 1 | make it painfully difficult to navigate to simply buy an audiobook without Prime |
| can only listen to scanned or in-library books | missing-feature | 1 | you can only listen to books you either scan or they have in their library |
| no audiobooks for paid service | missing-feature | 1 | there should be be some kind of audio book available to choose from since I'm paying |
| no Listen & Read combined option for most books | missing-feature | 1 | why most book don’t have an option to Listen & Read |
| hard to reach audiobooks screen after updates | ux | 1 | seems like after every major update it takes more effort to get there |
| limited audiobook selection, no level filter in search | missing-feature | 1 | selection is very limited and you just have to scroll through all the titles... (no filter in search ) |
| no immersive read (audiobook + text sync) | missing-feature | 1 | I hate I can't listen to the audio book and read at the same time on the kindle device |
| audiobook loses/rewinds position | bug | 1 | Starting a book entirely over when I'm over halfway |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audible: Audiobooks & Podcasts | 4.9★ | 5,523,961 | Free |
| Galatea: Books & Audiobooks | 4.6★ | 268,255 | Free |
| Libby, the library app | 4.9★ | 4,289,764 | Free |
| Apple Podcasts | 4.9★ | 2,071,522 | Free |
| Amazon Music: Songs & Podcasts | 4.7★ | 3,261,036 | Free |
| Audiomack - Play Music Offline | 4.8★ | 1,970,161 | Free |
| Podcast App & Player - Castbox | 4.9★ | 196,768 | Free |
| iHeart: Radio, Music, Podcasts | 4.8★ | 634,978 | Free |
Should you build it?
Apps exist but miss features users keep asking for. Enter with the missing feature. Opportunity here scores 65 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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