Bound Downloads & RevenueBound - Audiobook Player · App Store
Bound - Audiobook Player is #1 in Books Paid in United States and charting in 17 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026Bound - Audiobook Player update history & changes
Last change · 32 events since 16 Dec 2015Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 31 events in the last 12 months
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player charting in a new countryTurkey
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player entered the top 100Top Grossing · Books · IT
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player new best rank in the overall chart: #56Top Paid · All Apps · ZA
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player hit #1Top Paid · Books · AE
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player entered the top 10Top Paid · Books · CN
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · ZA
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player charting in a new countrySouth Africa
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player charting in a new countryPoland
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player entered the top 10Top Paid · Books · IT
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player charting in a new countryVietnam
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player hit #1Top Paid · Books · IN
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player new best rank in the overall chart: #75Top Paid · All Apps · PH
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · PH
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player charting in a new countryPhilippines
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player entered the top 10Top Paid · Books · AE
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player new best rank in the overall chart: #101Top Paid · All Apps · AE
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player entered the top 10Top Paid · Books · JP
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player charting in a new countryNetherlands
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player charting in a new countrySweden
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player hit #1Top Paid · Books · AU
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player new best rank in the overall chart: #120Top Paid · All Apps · CA
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player new best rank in the overall chart: #103Top Paid · All Apps · ES
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player charting in a new countrySpain
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player hit #1Top Paid · Books · CA
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player entered the top 10Top Paid · Books · FR
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player hit #1Top Paid · Books · GB
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player entered the top 10 in 3 chartsTop Paid · Books · AU · Top Paid · Books · IN · Top Paid · Books · KR
- 📈Bound - Audiobook Player entered the top 100Top Grossing · Books · IN
- 🆕Bound - Audiobook Player first spotted by AppInsider#1 in Top Paid · Books · United States
- 🆕Bound - Audiobook Player: its developer released another app: Leaf: EPUB Library
- 🆕Bound - Audiobook Player released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Books PaidBound - Audiobook Player at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Bound is a premium audiobook player for iOS that enables users to import and manage DRM-free audio files from cloud services or local devices, offering advanced playback features like variable speed, chapter support, and CarPlay integration. The app currently holds the #1 position in the US Books Paid chart and ranks within the top three in Australia and India, indicating strong traction in key English-speaking markets and emerging regions.
Similar apps: BookPlayer, Smart AudioBook Player, Voice Audiobook Player
Bound - Audiobook Player on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Bound - Audiobook Player’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 3 linked to your identity and 0 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Bound - Audiobook Player downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Bound - Audiobook Player's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | BooksPaid | #1 |
 Australia | BooksPaid | #1 |
 United Kingdom | BooksPaid | #3 |
 Japan | BooksPaid | #21 |
 India | BooksPaid | #7 |
 Germany | BooksPaid | #15 |
 China | BooksPaid | #66 |
 France | BooksPaid | #25 |
 Italy | BooksPaid | #21 |
 Canada | BooksPaid | #28 |
 South Korea | BooksPaid | #44 |
 United Arab Emirates | BooksPaid | #14 |
| India | BooksGrossing | #81 |
 Brazil | BooksPaid | #43 |
 Russia | BooksPaid | #37 |
 Saudi Arabia | BooksPaid | #32 |
| India | All AppsPaid | #184 |
 Indonesia | BooksPaid | #48 |
 South Africa | All AppsPaid | #124 |
Apps near Bound - Audiobook Player on the chart
Books Paid, around #1.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings by country (2)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2.5 | 71% | steady |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 29% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Bound - Audiobook Player
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users appreciate the app's simplicity, clean interface, and effective handling of local audiobook files without subscription models. However, significant complaints focus on data loss bugs, lack of folder organization, missing search functionality, and poor support responsiveness.
Mixed but leaning positive (70% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being easy to use. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and crashes and bugs. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “Love the customizations options”
- Ease of use: “Efficient, easy to use audiobook player”
- Useful: “A must have app for sure!”
- Price & subscription: “One-time purchase instead of subscription”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Because this is a waste of money”
- Crashes & bugs: “No support and doesn’t work properly”
About Bound - Audiobook Player
Bound allows you to import audio files from various cloud services and play them back in a beautiful modern interface. Bound will automatically save your listening position so that you never lose your place.
Supported Audio File Types (DRM-free only): .mp3, .m4a, .m4b, .aac
Download
- Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive.
- Apple Files.
- Web Uploader for importing from your computer via WiFi.
Manage
- Move audio files between books.
- Change cover art.
- Sort based on author, title, recently added, and recently played.
- Rename title and author.
- Choose between a number of fun themes.
- Dark mode support.
Play
- Automatically saves playback location as you progress through the book.
- Independently configure seek forward and seek backward times.
- Chapter support for audio files with embedded chapters (.m4a / .m4b / OverDrive .mp3).
- Change playback speed from 0.5X to 3.0X.
- Smart Rewind when returning to your book after a while.
- Sleep Timer with configurable time or at the end of a chapter.
- Manually bookmark locations that you want to return to.
- CarPlay support.
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