“I signed up to listen to audio books with my wife. I signed up for the free 30 day trial with a "plus" subscription. I unfortunately unlocked and downloaded the book version of the book instead of the audio book version. Apparently I…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 472 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
Everand: Audiobooks & Ebooks
Scribd, Inc.Everand is a reading subscription offering access to millions of audiobooks a…
3.5 ★614,527 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Everand is a reading subscription offering access to millions of audiobooks and ebooks. Listen or read anytime, anywhere across devices, online and offline. Your subscription also includes Fable Plus at no extra cost — our sister app for tracking your reading, building streaks, and connecting with other readers. Starting at $11.99/month, discover stories that fit your mood and your lifestyle, including The New York Times® Best Sellers from every genre, including:
• Romance • Mystery, Thriller & Crime Fiction • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Young Adult • Religion and Spirituality • Fiction • Health and Wellness • Self-Improvement • Biography & Memoir • Science & Mathematics • Business • History • Career & Growth • Classics • Short Stories & Anthologies • Politics • Home & Garden • Philosophy • Cooking, Food & Wine • Poetry…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 16.22 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 16.24, updated 2026-09-25.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
From the package we downloaded and read — version 16.22, scanned 2026-09-13.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
1–2 requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
3 or more found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
None found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 2
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
No advertising SDKs
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
What we saw: No advertising or mediation SDK among the 8 SDKs detected in the package
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
In the app's own text: Tracking and data collection concerns
The app ships session-recording or a wide tracking stack, holds permissions that read personal data, or is reported by users to sell, leak or over-collect it. The evidence line says which of those was observed.
What we saw: Ships session-recording SDK (FullStory) that can replay on-screen activity
In the app's own text: A plan is pre-picked as 'recommended'
The purchase screen arrives with one plan already framed as the recommended or most popular choice, so the default is the app's preference rather than the user's. We do not compare the plans' prices, and only the app's own text evidences this, so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
What we saw: Purchase screen steers the choice: "Best value"
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 472 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“terrible app, limited options for audiobooks, and they make it unnecessarily difficult to cancel a subscription. typically greedy Devs, I would not recommend this app”
“Scribd was great; the update to Everand is complicates, expensive, and a pain to manage. Difficult to navigate and seemingly impossible to cancel. Probably gonna have to contact my bank to suspend payments.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 16.24.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.