Loyal Books

We are very thankful for this app. Over the past few years my 14 year old has listened to many many classics while washing the dishes. In fact, all my children have used this app. The 4 stars only are because after I change the font size for my younger reader, the font size does not stay changed when I scroll to another section of the book and come back.

This is the first audiobook or podcast player I know that gets the sleep timer right. Others are like the sleep timers in bedside radios. Set it for 15 minutes, and the sound goes off after 15 minutes—period. To listen more, you have to reset the sleep timer and restart the playing manually. Not so with the Loyal Books app. At my suggestion, the sleep timeout pauses play. Press the play button on your earphones, and it resumes play instantly with the sleep timer reset. You can keep resetting until you fall asleep. That matters because other sleep timers either time out before we fall asleep, forcing a restart that wakes us up, or time out long after we go to sleep. The latter means that the next day we have to manually scroll back some unknown length of time until we reach the last part of a book or podcast that we remember; That’s a nuisance. So many thanks for Loyal Books for being the first to get the sleep timer right. Perhaps others will follow and make that sleep timeout an easily reset pause.

I love this app. I love to read but being busy it is hard to find time to sit down and read. With this app I can power through books while I drive, walk, do housework, whatever. Most of the narrations so far have been excellent--not bad for free. And I've experienced books I might never have known about thanks to the "discover" option. Excellent for students or anyone who wants to improve their mind and increase their knowledge of history and literature. Highly recommend. I have had no technical problems with it.

I cannot express how grateful I am that this app exists! I used to sit around moaning about trying to get stuff on my phone from the library until I found the website this app is based on, and ever since I've found it, I never need to feel like I have nothing to read again! The app isn't flashy but it does it's job just fine! I love the sleep timer and the discover section-- lovely added bonuses to having so much literature at one's fingertips! Love love love this app 😍

I like this app because I cannot afford Audible or Kindle books. It is great that people volunteer their time and effort to read ! Some of the reading is very good, some not so good; but I am thankful for their efforts! I like that I can do other things and listen. You won't find new books here, but that is fine. I have found books by authors like Grace Livingston-Hill, Jules Verne, etc. and some were books that I had never read or heard of! It is an adventure and I am so glad this app is available and is improving all the time. I do recommend it.