ElevenReader vs Kobo Books & Audiobooks

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R3] ElevenReader 3/5 · US Love it, but don’t: Love the scan to read option, but all the books are expensive just to buy for one lesson so if you have a book and you don’t feel like reading it scan it and listen to it
2. [R22] ElevenReader 1/5 · US NOT FREE!: Has a horrible selection of books and cost money. It practically can’t function without payment.
3. [R62] Kobo Books & Audiobooks 4/5 · US Great app but confusing payment system: The app is great! Runs nicely, dark mode, nice UI, and also has a dictionary option to look up unknown words! The only thing is the payment system. From what I can tell, a subscription only covers some books, and not all in its collection. Some ebooks and audiobooks you just have to purchase.
4. [R70] Kobo Books & Audiobooks 2/5 · US Buggy and unpleasant to use: I really want to like this app. I strongly support kobo’s storefront model as opposed to their… competitor. I have a Kobo Libra that I use about half the time. However, this app is a very notable step behind its main competitor from a reliability and stability standpoint. The main issues are: highlights flash on and off and disappear entirely; search works *maybe* half
5. [R10] ElevenReader 2/5 · US Buggy AF: Nearly unusable due to bugs. The app delays 10+ seconds on buttons, sometimes just hangs indefinitely: Confusing UI, changes to voice do not take effect for several minutes, if ever. Imported content is just stuck on whatever first voice was used. Mispronounces obvious words like “the”. Pretty disappointing.
6. [R34] ElevenReader 1/5 · US It can randomly stop working: This app is absolutely terrible. There are much more better options but that’s not even my main reason. For no reason, it suddenly stopped working. No, it won’t work even on a new account, it won’t work even on a different device, so i resorted to trying a vpn. Nothing works. It became entirely unusable on all devices for absolutely no reason, so if you have a lot of
7. [R72] Kobo Books & Audiobooks 3/5 · US App not ready for prime time: It would be good if the phone app synced seamlessly with my Kobo, or vice versa. It currently doesn’t without multiple restarts of the Kobo, and forget the app syncing regularly.
8. [R119] Kobo Books & Audiobooks 4/5 · US Good for reading, but: The reading experience with this app is good. You can sideload books as well as read books from Kobo. You can read with offline. The dictionary works well. I like that you can look up a word in the dictionary and also Wikipedia and Google if you are online. The Library management could use some work. You cannot sort you books by author, title or category. Kobo seems t
9. [R8] ElevenReader 5/5 · US Wonderfully realistic speech makes everything more enjoyable: I love the new features that are added, but it does seem like each update introduces weird new bugs that make using it hard at times. Latest issue is fast forwarding sometimes randomly jumps playback to some random point far earlier.
10. [R64] Kobo Books & Audiobooks 1/5 · US Book Doesn’t Open: Your ebook app fails to open books that have been purchased, and downloaded. I cannot justify to myself the use of something whose purported utility is gravely wanting.
11. [R1] ElevenReader 2/5 · US Not Free as Advertised: I didn’t think I had to pay for this product and yet there is a few days trial and then bam, $99 annual fee. You all need to be honest with your advertising!
12. [R16] ElevenReader 1/5 · US Beware Scam: Signed up for the free trial to see if it liked the app. It was ok, but didn’t like it enough to continue beyond the free trial. Guess what? There’s no way to cancel the subscription. Then bam, charged for a full year. After the charge hit, I can now cancel. Scammers. Guess I should have known.
13. [R65] Kobo Books & Audiobooks 4/5 · US Kobo audiobooks: I like just paying a flat monthly fee and listen to as much as I’d like. The type of books I like are limited but still worth price compared to others. Wouldn’t pay more than current fee but I will continue to use for now.
14. [R25] ElevenReader 1/5 · US If you recommend this to others: Your free tier access might be banned. I made the great mistake of recommending this app within my household and now NONE of us have free tier access because it’s “suspicious.” Really? There are just three people here. It’s not like 30 people were using this app from the same IP address. EVEN AFTER CONTACTING SUPPORT (at which point presumably they could’ve checked
15. [R58] ElevenReader 2/5 · US Unusual activity: I don’t know if it’s because I’m using my VPN or what but the fact that you just canceled my account access to the free service and are saying I need to pay is rather screwed up. The fact that I don’t even know why and I just get some stupid ominous message about activity being suspicious is literally unhelpful. I didn’t think I was going to be accused of something when trying t
16. [R108] Kobo Books & Audiobooks 3/5 · GB Helpful and speedy support but …: I had an initial problem with purchases showing up on my iPad but not on my iPhone. However, I got a response from Kobo support by return which fixed it. However, I find the inaccurate synching between tablet and phone infuriating.
17. [R114] Kobo Books & Audiobooks 3/5 · GB Impossible to log in: I have spent 4 days trying to log in. It says to log in with FNAC but won't accept the FNAC password and won't let me log in as a new user either. Going round in circles. Poor experience. Update: they reached out to me and even they can't understand it. So they have now escalated to a developer. I've upped my rating to 3 stars because their chat service was open and very h