App Profile: Pastime for podcasts

Solecize

Rating: 3/5

This is the best stand-alone player for audiobooks. It is easy to use, but has one major flaw- no way to skip to the next or previous chapters. It has a jump to time feature which is fine if you actually know which minute and hour you are on (almost never). It also has a pretty useless forward 15 sec/ backward 15 sec feature. All of this make for a frustrating experience if the app crashes and you lose your place, causing you to re-open the book and guess the exact time where left off then skip around 15 seconds at a time until you hear something familiar. Still after all these flaws it is better than any other audiobook player out there.

Limberfoot

Rating: 3/5

But won't be my last. Afraid u have to seek out another because I just discovered it doesn't start reading where I left last when I close the app. Seems like a no brained in an audio book app, but there's not even a bookmark feature. Simplicity is great, but it needs one more feature.

Emilyjf

Rating: 5/5

My grandma has always been an avid reader. Unfortunately at 88 years old she can no longer see well enough to read without assistance. She started listening to audio books on the iPad two years ago and it completely revitalized her life. Unfortunately, however, she is not tech-savvy and she always pressed the wrong buttons and lost her place in the books. This app is perfect for her. Since it is fool-proof it saves her from listening to hours and hours of the wrong section of books.