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4books: Audiobooks & Podcasts

4books Srl · 5,145 ratings · ★ 4.0

4.0
★★★★★
5,145 ratings
5 ★
3,234 (63%)
4 ★
294 (6%)
3 ★
588 (11%)
2 ★
294 (6%)
1 ★
735 (14%)
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Top complaints - extracted from 31 negative reviews

Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.

1
"free"
8 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The app is a good idea, the content, and the way the content is actually put together, is valuable. I tried the free trial and I left quickly out of the inability to listen to 50% of the audio content in full. The app keeps stopping and the…" - Alessandro Proverbio
2
"audio"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The app is a good idea, the content, and the way the content is actually put together, is valuable. I tried the free trial and I left quickly out of the inability to listen to 50% of the audio content in full. The app keeps stopping and the…" - Alessandro Proverbio
3
"start"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The app is a good idea, the content, and the way the content is actually put together, is valuable. I tried the free trial and I left quickly out of the inability to listen to 50% of the audio content in full. The app keeps stopping and the…" - Alessandro Proverbio

📋 All 31 negative reviews

Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").

★★★★ Luigi Neri 1/6/2026 v3.7.6
books are old, and Italian is the main language!!!!! this is bad!!!! I want to listen in English not Italian
★★★★ Andy 8/6/2024 v2.1.2
Could not even login with my Google account
★★★★ mamta rani 11/10/2022
I hate this app
★★★★ Utkarsha Dhanwate 2/21/2021 v1.19.17
App doesn't open beyond the blue screen au the start. Waste of time and money.
★★★★ Giacomo Bottarelli 2/2/2021 v1.19.17
When you try to subscribe from web paying with card it gives you a week free. Subscribing from google play it won't, that's because from Google play it's easier to unsubscribe. That's a really cheeky marketing strategy. Also I've read a thing in the website and subscribed without paying care on the phone but I didn't wanted to pay for a month. Or, better: I'd like to try It first, at least seeing how the app works. I'll unsubscribe asap. Edit: app won't start: WOW, I got 10€ stolen for nothing
★★★★ Bhavya Goel 1/31/2021 v1.19.17
Fully paid 8000 per year
★★★★ mílind Surve 1/25/2021 v1.19.10
good experience
★★★★ Chaitanya Swaroop Puvvada 9/6/2020 v1.17.3
Cunning rats
★★★★ Nina CM 9/5/2020 v1.16.1
First the app didn t open after log in. Changed device, successfully log in, but then it doesn't always start the audio book. Sorry, to much stress not worth it..
★★★★ Sweeth Sundhar 9/3/2020 v1.17.0
I hate this...it's chargeable
★★★★ Kiran Vellanki 9/3/2020
Not working properly
★★★★ zambokid89 “MZambo89” 8/26/2020 v1.17.0
The audio book does not start the once this was played once already. It's so annoying. Pleas resolve it otherwise no ways I am gonna buy the premium.
★★★★ Jinoy Joshy 8/13/2020 v1.16.1
Even before using app they ask u to pay, that's quiet surprising
★★★★ Zvashe Makonese 8/9/2020 v1.16.1
Lmao y'all don't know what free means
★★★★ TECHNO LIFE 8/3/2020
Didn't get what you think
★★★★ dierikho cubacub 8/1/2020
I didnt see my course managerial economics
★★★★ Stay Healthy 7/28/2020
This app is not good at all even it won't open
★★★★ Ehtisham Sartaj 7/25/2020 v1.15.16
Stop making people fool, there isn't a single page for free...stop wasting your time while downloading it.
★★★★ Syed Qasim Sohail 7/19/2020
Application is not Free, plus false advertising on insta that this app is free. They just givr trial period of 7 days and wants you to share email id. So that they can follow up and sell your info. Period!
★★★★ Akhil Draksharapu 7/11/2020
Too costly.
★★★★ Ujjwal Shrestha 7/7/2020 v1.15.8
Asks to pay even before staring And email is also in foreign language Change it to English
★★★★ Israr Khan 7/2/2020
Expensive app.
★★★★ Marko Marić 6/29/2020 v1.15.8
Knowledge should be free in this case because u dont get certification saying you finished a book so there is no point in paying for something that you cant confirm you did. INFORMATION SHOULD BE FREE!
★★★★ Vlady Benítez 6/1/2020
It's not free ✋🏾the knowledge access must be free, in this case to the lecture.
★★★★ A Google user 10/15/2019 v1.3.0
Te cobra mucho dinero
★★★★ A Google user 2/26/2019 v1.0.7
nothing free... a 💩
★★★★★ Syl Bakers 5/1/2024
A large offering but the quality of both the summaries and the readers is not worth the price. I will not renew next yeae.
★★★★★ Alessandro Proverbio 5/5/2023
The app is a good idea, the content, and the way the content is actually put together, is valuable. I tried the free trial and I left quickly out of the inability to listen to 50% of the audio content in full. The app keeps stopping and the content restarts from zero with no way to resume from where it stopped. I also think the number of books available is not massive. Ultimately I ended up reverting back to TED, even if it's not the same thing. I would have stayed if it worked.
★★★★★ Luca Rossi 3/2/2023 v1.31.9
Lagging, bugged, weird. Not good but decent idea
★★★★★ A Google user 4/26/2020 v1.10.1
No english? Or spanish?
★★★★★ A Google user 11/22/2018 v1.0.0
buona ma si potrebbe far di meglio, non si riesce a sottolineare alcune parti del testo, ne a mandar veloce l'audio, e l'app non tiene il segno nel momento in cui viene chiusa.

Sentiment summary

69%
Positive (4-5★)
11%
Neutral (3★)
20%
Negative (1-2★)

⚠ Mostly positive but real complaints exist - opportunity if you fix the top 2-3 issues.