Features & Capabilities

Thousands of details have been considered in pursuit of a single goal: make getting, playing, and managing audiobooks a delightful experience.

Precise Control: Sliders are difficult with long audio. If you mis-slide, you can't get back to where you were, making it very easy to lose your place. For this reason, Book Mower has no position scrubber. Instead, the app provides customizable skip buttons: jump by specific amounts in either direction.

A Driving Mode makes listening to audiobooks in the car safer. The screen becomes tap-to-play/pause and swipe-to-skip.

Book Mower continues playing in the background after leaving the app, and automatically transitions between parts of books.

Automatic Bookmarks: Book Mower will keep track of your progress with automatically created bookmarks. Events, such as chapter transitions, interruptions (like phone calls), and app suspensions, get bookmarked. Just tapping Pause will create a bookmark also, so you don't have to do anything special to create one. Then, if you customize any bookmarks -- change their name, color, position or notes, -- they become permanent, and you can export them as HTML/CSV/Text.

The Sleep Timer has features like shake-to-add-time, auto screen dimming, and it bookmarks when the timer started and ended, so you can easily pick up where you dozed off.

Playback Speed Controls offer fine-grained adjustment, with non-linear increments: from slightly faster to double speed.

Book Mower works great with remote controls, like Bluetooth or Apple headphones. With any audio, you can play/pause remotely. If you listen to DRM-free audiobooks, you can also skip +/- 30 seconds, and create bookmarks even while the app is backgrounded.

Complete control over audio files:

  • Reorder parts/chapters.
  • Rename audiobooks and parts/chapters.
  • Cover artwork can be added or replaced -- just a simple copy-and-paste of any image from web or photo library. Use hi-res images for Retina display devices.
  • Download/delete/re-download audio files whenever you want.

Redirect audio output with AirPlay support.

Get, play and manage audio content from a wide variety of sources -- iTunes, Audible.com, Librivox.org, CDs, public library downloads, ... .

Free Audiobooks included: Search or Browse through thousands of titles available from Librivox.org directly in the app. Browse and add to your Bookshelf, then download when you are ready to listen.

iTunes Audiobook Store is built right in: browse the most popular titles and search the entire catalog.

Audio File Types Supported:

  • DRM-enabled content (from Audible.com or iTunes Store)
  • non-DRM content (from web downloads, CDs, etc.)
  • M4B audiobooks, including chapters, artwork
  • MP3 audio files, including artwork, ID3 tags
  • import individual audio files or Zip archives (including artwork image files)

Audio Import Options (for mp3, m4b, or zip files):

  • add from on-device iTunes Library (required for DRM-enabled audio, like from Audible)
  • use iTunes File Sharing (no syncing required)
  • Open in... Book Mower from Dropbox, and most other cloud storage systems
  • use a web browser on your computer to transfer files.

Try it for free! Try it as a FREE TRIAL with 5 audiobooks for up to 60 days, then only $3.99 for unlimited audiobooks.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Freshmowed Software
Rating:
4.10
(52)
Version:
3.7.6 Last updated: 2018-09-03
Version code:
841461369
Creation date:
2014-05-29
Compatible devices:
Size:
76.31MB
URLs:
Website
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-04
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Developed by:
Freshmowed Software
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/book-mower-audiobook-player/id880696382
Website:
http://freshmowed.com/bookmower.html

User Reviews

The app was good but the went down hill fast. Even worse, the creator lashed out at me when I tried to ask for support. They were cranky that more people wouldn't buy and use their app... lashed out at me, one of the ones that did buy and did use. They demanded I give them more money to help make the changes but were hazy on when those changes would appear. Seems like it's become a scam.
by wa*****, 2023-01-13

This app hasn’t been updated for 4 years, and it looks like a recent iOS update, broke the functionality to import an audiobook using your computers web browser over the local Network.
by an*****, 2023-01-02

I love the app and have gotten a ton of friends to buy and download as well. I know it’s been a while, and time / priorities change; just asking for a basic update to modernize the app please.
by Ca*****, 2021-01-13
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