Penguin Random House Audio

Name: Penguin Random House Audio
Rating: 3 (43 reviews)
Author: Penguin Random House LLC NY

By: Penguin Random House LLC NY

A B2B Audiobook Reviewer Tool

Features & Capabilities

Listen to full-length audiobooks from the Penguin Random House Audio catalog, including thousands of adult, children’s, and young adult titles. Book reviewers, booksellers, librarians, and other publishing industry professionals can create an account to download audiobooks for review or promotion. Accounts are subject to verification and approval.

• Listen to audiobook samples and access review copies of new and past releases. • Offline listening with downloaded content. • Simple and easy to navigate audio player. • Sleep timer and variable narration speed. • Add favorites for easy retrieval. • Bookmark your favorite passages. • Easy-to-use chapter navigation. • Share recommendations through email or messaging apps.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Penguin Random House LLC NY

Rating:

3.00

(43)

Version:

2.7 Last updated: 2026-05-27

Version code:

886196657

Creation date:

2022-04-12

Compatible devices:

Size:

33.88MB

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-04

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Penguin Random House LLC NY

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/penguin-random-house-audio/id1585442326

User Reviews

Reviews praise the app’s large catalog and easy UI, but repeatedly call out reliability problems: 2x speed cap, frequent logouts, lag/crashes during playback, and lost progress after pauses. Some improvements noted, yet core pain points remain.

Pros

Large catalog of audiobooks with quality narration.
Easy-to-navigate user interface with standard playback controls (sleep timer, rewind/skip).
Playback speed adjustment is available and useful for listening at faster speeds.
Overall audio quality and narration are positively perceived in several reviews.

Cons

Playback speed is capped at 2x; many users want higher speeds (2.5x–3x).
Frequent sign-in/sign-out issues and login security problems disrupt usage.
Laggy, slow, and glitchy performance, especially when seeking/rewinding, with occasional crashes.
Playback position often resets or doesn’t remember where you left off after pausing or closing the app.

Recent reviews

I love the amount of books on here and appreciate that I have access to so many books months in advance but the fact that I can’t properly use my headphones to control the audiobooks makes this app basically unusable for me. I can start the audiobook again with my earbuds but I can’t stop the audiobook. Also the fact that it logs me out constantly is just frustrating. I want to be able to use this app but every single time I go back to it, I get so frustrated I have to DNF whatever audiobook I am listening to.

by ge*****, 2026-05-28

It is hard to open an audiobook when it keeps taking a long to load one. This keeps happening with many books I’m trying to open.

by ne*****, 2026-02-15

I'm a bookseller that uses the app for ALC's. While I really appreciate the the accessibility something really needs to be done about the UI and the battery drain. Not only is it laggy and freezes if you fast forward or rewind. It pretty much crashes after you do that. I have also had issues where the narration slows down mid listen no matter what speed at. The most egregious thing is the battery drain though. I listen to ALCs while working and noticed my phone overheating. And the battery drains from 99% to 27% in less than 6 hrs. Checked battery usage and sure enough it was PRH Audio at 73% for 3.5 hrs which is wild when the next app that used the most battery percentage is Spotify at 18% for the same time. Please please fix it.