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France

4.73★ from 75,284 ratings · version 4.77.1 · 22 of the last 50 written reviews are one or two stars

Not enough negative reviews here to group anything honestly. There are 22, and the threshold is twelve.

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 22 most recent negative ones. Newest review 5 days ago (04.09.2026), last collected yesterday.

United States

4.85★ from 5,584,939 ratings · version 4.77 · 22 of the last 87 written reviews are one or two stars

App crashes when accessing bookmarks or notes

3of the 22 read14%

App crashes when viewing bookmarks, frequently resets playback position to the beginning, and causes other stability issues.

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“The App Itself — You can’t see your book mark without it crashing. Also constantly resets where you are in the book to the beginning. Not a good combo if you think about it.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Love books but this app sucks — Skips, randomly doesn’t work, doesn’t keep my preferences in place, so books slow back down to 1. Awful app. Especially considering Amazon is an insanely huge company with literally all the money.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Lacking Updates, Wonderful App! — My favorite most utilized app provides incomplete and horrible updates but only over the last few months. For example, every other time I open the app I have to readjust the player controls that frequently revert to default order. While this is a minor irritant, these small failure to provide thorough updates feels like the tip of an iceberg. Please make the effort to thoroughly…” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English

Playback speed resets to slow default

3of the 22 read14%

App defaults to 0.5x playback speed and player controls frequently revert to default settings without user action.

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“Love books but this app sucks — Skips, randomly doesn’t work, doesn’t keep my preferences in place, so books slow back down to 1. Awful app. Especially considering Amazon is an insanely huge company with literally all the money.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Starts at .5 speed :( — Fix this please.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Lacking Updates, Wonderful App! — My favorite most utilized app provides incomplete and horrible updates but only over the last few months. For example, every other time I open the app I have to readjust the player controls that frequently revert to default order. While this is a minor irritant, these small failure to provide thorough updates feels like the tip of an iceberg. Please make the effort to thoroughly…” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English

Britain

4.80★ from 754,096 ratings · version 4.77.1 · 13 of the last 50 written reviews are one or two stars

Not enough negative reviews here to group anything honestly. There are 13, and the threshold is twelve.

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 13 most recent negative ones. Newest review 3 days ago (06.09.2026), last collected 2 days ago.

Germany

4.73★ from 444,940 ratings · version 4.77.1

We have not read this app's reviews yet. Apple rations that feed to about one page per address every ten minutes and refuses datacentre addresses, so the reading is done by hand — the rating above is live, the complaints are not there yet.

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 0 most recent negative ones. Newest review never, last collected never.

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