70
BU Score
Strong
BookPlayer
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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BookPlayer is an iOS app from Gianni Carlo in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.8★ across 16,620 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Our BU Score puts it at 70 — Strong (healthy traction). For a Food & Drink app, that means healthy traction.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (16,620 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (9y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (24 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| annoying adsREVIEW | −$1,100 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 85 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v5.20.0🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 AR, CA, CS, DA, NL +19📂 Food & Drink💰 Free🚀 Launched 2016 (9y old)
📝 About this app
A wonderful player for your M4B/M4A/MP3/FLAC based audiobooks.
Import
– Using AirDrop from your Mac or iOS device
– From Files and other apps on your device
– Via File Sharing in iTunes on your Mac or PC
– From your own AudibookShelf or Jellyfin server
– Zip files with your folders and books
Manage
– Maintain and see progress of your books
– Mark books as finished
– Drag & Drop to sort your library
– Create playlists
– Automatically play items in turn
– Play the first unfinished file by tapping on the playlist artwork
– Move files to playlists from the library or import them directly
– Edit your book details (title, author, artwork)
– Connect to your Hardcover.app account, and track your library progress
Listen
– Control audio playback from the lock screen, control center or from the companion app on the Apple Watch
– Play and navigate books with Chapters
– Jump to start of the current book
– Change playback speed
– Smart rewind
– Volume Boost
– Support for remote events from headset buttons and the lock screen
– Sleep timer with adjustable duration
– CarPlay support
– VoiceOver support
– Dolby Atmos support
– Dark mode for night owls
– Continue listening across your devices with Cloud Sync, including stand alone playback on your Apple Watch
Supported
M4B/M4A/MP3
BookPlayer is licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0. The source code and a list of all its contributors can be found on the GitHub page of this project at www.github.com/TortugaPower/BookPlayer
You can see our Privacy policy and terms of use in the following links:
– https://github.com/TortugaPower/BookPlayer/blob/main/PRIVACY_POLICY.md
– https://github.com/TortugaPower/BookPlayer/blob/main/TERMS_CONDITIONS.md
For help and ways to contribute to the project see the support section in the Settings screen of BookPlayer or visit www.bookplayer.app
If you enjoy BookPlayer, we would be glad if you consider writing a review.
Import
– Using AirDrop from your Mac or iOS device
– From Files and other apps on your device
– Via File Sharing in iTunes on your Mac or PC
– From your own AudibookShelf or Jellyfin server
– Zip files with your folders and books
Manage
– Maintain and see progress of your books
– Mark books as finished
– Drag & Drop to sort your library
– Create playlists
– Automatically play items in turn
– Play the first unfinished file by tapping on the playlist artwork
– Move files to playlists from the library or import them directly
– Edit your book details (title, author, artwork)
– Connect to your Hardcover.app account, and track your library progress
Listen
– Control audio playback from the lock screen, control center or from the companion app on the Apple Watch
– Play and navigate books with Chapters
– Jump to start of the current book
– Change playback speed
– Smart rewind
– Volume Boost
– Support for remote events from headset buttons and the lock screen
– Sleep timer with adjustable duration
– CarPlay support
– VoiceOver support
– Dolby Atmos support
– Dark mode for night owls
– Continue listening across your devices with Cloud Sync, including stand alone playback on your Apple Watch
Supported
M4B/M4A/MP3
BookPlayer is licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0. The source code and a list of all its contributors can be found on the GitHub page of this project at www.github.com/TortugaPower/BookPlayer
You can see our Privacy policy and terms of use in the following links:
– https://github.com/TortugaPower/BookPlayer/blob/main/PRIVACY_POLICY.md
– https://github.com/TortugaPower/BookPlayer/blob/main/TERMS_CONDITIONS.md
For help and ways to contribute to the project see the support section in the Settings screen of BookPlayer or visit www.bookplayer.app
If you enjoy BookPlayer, we would be glad if you consider writing a review.
🆕 What's New · v5.20.0
Improvements
– Add sticky sort support for the library
– Add library display options (see original file name instead of title, and see progress in numbers instead of a wheel)
– Allow importing and selecting from within the internal Processed folder in BookPlayer's internal Documents folder, and rework how the 'fix' button works in the storage screen
– Add support for custom HTTP headers for Jellyfin and AudiobookShelf
– Under the hood improvements to migrate identifying an item from a path to a unique identifier
Bugfixes
– Fix dismissing Jellyfin and AudiobookShelf after downloading a folder
– Fix end-of-chapter sleep timer not working properly for streamed books
– Fix name suggestion for folder and volumes
– Fix theming not working properly on first launch if using dark mode in phone
– Fix Mac crash when sharing debug file information
– Fix import flow being dismissed randomly on app launch
– Fix removing shared files from shared container
Special thanks to:
– @klikh (sponsor)
If you'd like to contribute with translations to other languages, please reach us at support@bookplayer.app
– Add sticky sort support for the library
– Add library display options (see original file name instead of title, and see progress in numbers instead of a wheel)
– Allow importing and selecting from within the internal Processed folder in BookPlayer's internal Documents folder, and rework how the 'fix' button works in the storage screen
– Add support for custom HTTP headers for Jellyfin and AudiobookShelf
– Under the hood improvements to migrate identifying an item from a path to a unique identifier
Bugfixes
– Fix dismissing Jellyfin and AudiobookShelf after downloading a folder
– Fix end-of-chapter sleep timer not working properly for streamed books
– Fix name suggestion for folder and volumes
– Fix theming not working properly on first launch if using dark mode in phone
– Fix Mac crash when sharing debug file information
– Fix import flow being dismissed randomly on app launch
– Fix removing shared files from shared container
Special thanks to:
– @klikh (sponsor)
If you'd like to contribute with translations to other languages, please reach us at support@bookplayer.app
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- BookPlayer
- Developer
- Gianni Carlo
- Bundle ID
- com.tortugapower.audiobookplayer
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, CA, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HU, IT, JA, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TR, UK
Company
- Website
- www.bookplayer.app
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $18.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- Not found
- Not found
- GitHub
- https://github.com/TortugaPower/BookPlayer
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- github
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- Not found
📈Ratings growth16,620 ratings+33% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (52 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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