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Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 504 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.

LibriVox Audiobooks

BookDesign LLC

45,000 unlimited audiobooks

4.8 ★32,895 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
43 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases

About this app

Enjoy unlimited access to over 45,000 free audiobooks—stream or download classics anytime. Discover bestsellers, rare treasures, and more in 30+ languages.

Why You’ll Love It

Browse by author, narrator, or genre Stream unlimited novels, history, poetry, and more Download for offline listening anywhere CarPlay support, sleep timer, and bookmarks Build and explore cozy book collections

A World of Free Listening Powered by passionate volunteers, LibriVox Audiobooks brings you fresh releases daily—fiction, non-fiction, and out-of-print gems, all at no cost. Start listening now, pause anytime, and pick up right where you left off.

Preview

Real screenshots from the store listing.

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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.

Automated analysis in progress

Which version this describes

When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.

This analysis describes version 10.2.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 10.2.0, updated 2026-08-01.

What we measured

Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.

How these are measured

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 fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say 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
80–89% 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

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.

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.

Methodology

One source only — shown, not confirmed 2

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.

From the store listing: Usable without an account
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is the store privacy disclosure.view evidence
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (5 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 15 distinct reviewers (3.0% of 504 reviews scanned)

Highlighted reviews

Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.

Aggressive ad load
“Totally recommend — It’s a great app. They have tons of very good classics and good narrators and there all free which is even better. Most free apps will bombard you with so many adds or try to get you to buy the premium version or…”
4★ · App Store · 2026-03-26
Aggressive ad load
“Fool-old-people pop-up ads — The fool-old-people full screen pop-up ads in this app are pretty disappointing. YOUR PHONE IS INFECTED”
1★ · App Store · 2026-02-01
Aggressive ad load
“Too many Ads — I have loved this app, but recently the number of ad has about made it unusable. The worst of it is the ads often lock up the ap requiring a restart.”
2★ · App Store · 2025-06-20

Assessment & version history

App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.

Store listing updated to version 10.2.0.

What this app sells

Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.

Business modelFree

Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.