Is there a good app for sync audiobook progress across devices?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
78
Opportunity /100
85
Demand /100
90
Competition /100
91
Execution gap /100
13
Apps serving it
20
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to sync audiobook progress across devices, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| no progress sync across devices | reliability | 1 | I got a new phone and all my progress was lost |
| no reading-position sync across devices | missing-feature | 1 | I was hoping that the page I’m reading in a document would resume on the other |
| hard to reach audiobooks screen after updates | ux | 1 | seems like after every major update it takes more effort to get there |
| progress does not sync across devices | bug | 1 | if I log into my account on a different device, I shouldn’t need to start from scratch |
| 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 playback speed resets to 1x | bug | 1 | my audio books keep going back to 1x every time the app is closed or paused |
| hard to sync notes across platforms | ux | 1 | they’ve made it so difficult to just want to take some good note and sync them to use across platforms |
| progress not saved across devices | reliability | 1 | progress isn’t saved on the app, so anytime you switch a device, your progress isn’t there |
| sync between iPad and laptop loses progress | reliability | 1 | they get deleted because of lagging sync between the two devices |
| loses podcasts and listened progress on iOS update | reliability | 1 | it no longer shows what episodes I’ve already listened to but as a new podcast |
| forgets podcast position across devices | bug | 1 | Constantly forgets where I left off on podcasts when I change mediums |
| does not save playback spot across same or different devices | bug | 1 | my shows are infrequently saved to the right spot and I have to watch several commercials trying to figure out where I am |
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 |
| Audiomack - Play Music Offline | 4.8★ | 1,970,161 | Free |
| Amazon Kindle: Reading App | 4.9★ | 5,656,461 | Free |
| Speechify – Text to Speech PDF | 4.7★ | 478,228 | Free |
| The Roku App (Official) | 4.7★ | 5,644,505 | Free |
| Translate Now - AI Translator | 4.7★ | 349,552 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 78 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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