Bookshare Reader

Name: Bookshare Reader
Rating: 3.3 (62 reviews)
Author: Benetech

By: Benetech

Read and listen to books

Features & Capabilities

Bookshare Reader is the official app to access millions of ebooks from Bookshare, the world's largest library designed for readers with dyslexia, blindness, low vision, and other barriers. It lets you listen to books and read along, supporting diverse learning needs and helping users customize their reading experience.

Key features include high-quality audio, adjustable reading speed, font size and color customization, highlighted text to follow along, easy navigation by page or chapter, the ability to resume from where you left off, and offline downloads for reading anywhere. Membership with Bookshare is required to use the app.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Accessibility Education Content

By:

Benetech

Rating:

3.30

(62)

Version:

1.38.0 Last updated: 2026-05-20

Version code:

885884935

Creation date:

2023-01-05

Compatible devices:

Size:

57.27MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-05

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 204,281 ▼ 152

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Developed by:

Benetech

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bookshare-reader/id1605201737

Website:

https://www.bookshare.org/cms/get-started/bookshare-reader

User Reviews

Users praise Bookshare Reader for easy listening and strong accessibility, especially on VoiceOver and Braille displays, plus cross-device continuity. However, recurring problems include stability crashes, login/accessibility hurdles, incomplete navigation with partial chapter loading, and unreliable audio features. The app shows clear improvements since launch, but stability and robust accessibility/navigation improvements remain top requests.

Pros

Background audio playback works well, making it easier to listen to books.
The app provides a dedicated, easy-to-use reading/listening experience for Bookshare, including a strong interface for school use.
Excellent accessibility support for visually impaired users (VoiceOver and braille displays) with cross-device continuity.
Improvements since launch and generally user-friendly interface.

Cons

Frequent crashes and instability across many actions (opening books, searching, tapping), sometimes causing loss of work or content not loading.
Accessibility/login friction: login fields and controls can be unresponsive to VoiceOver, making sign-in difficult for visually impaired users.
Navigation and content loading issues: incomplete table of contents, only some chapters load, white screens, and intermittent download errors.
Audio features unreliable: adjusting speech rate/voice can cause issues, and playback can stop when the app is backgrounded or when switching tasks.

Recent reviews

I love what Benetech is doing here. It’s an awesome opportunity for people like myself with documented disabilities! This rating has nothing to do with that. The app itself is so bad. The website is awesome, with many different formats and accessible audio readers, like AvaMultilingual on Edge. However, this app has so many issues. Whenever I try reading, a glitch will happen which will cause the pages to disappear. So I have to exit the book to read again. And this happens quite frequently, every time I use the reading app, multiple times a session. I also occasionally have trouble downloading books that I already have access to. Besides that, I love Bookshare, and it’s just a great movement for disability rights and access!

by As*****, 2026-05-21

PLEASE make highlighting available for textbooks!!! When it comes time to find something for a paper or quiz, I need access to highlights. Also, PLEASE make it easier to navigate the Contents menu! I have to scroll all the way down every single time. Where I am in the text should be highlighted in the contents and the menu should automatically be scrolled to my location. Also some of my textbooks in Bookshare are missing essential video content. Thanks!

by St*****, 2026-05-11

I still can’t read a book from the app even newly downloaded books and I’m using the exact same password from the password I use on my Chromebook at school and I need to know if that’s what might be causing it not to work.