Apple Books vs Audible
January 26, 2026 | Author: Maria Lin
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Default app for reading and listening to audiobooks on iOS that also features a bookstore with top bestsellers, free classics, hand-curated selections from experts and personalized recommendations. You can add your own ePub and m4b books via iTunes or the cloud. Apple CarPlay lets you listen to audiobooks while driving. Books sync across all your Apple devices. The app lets you track what you've read and what you want to read, and set your own reading goals. The reader features an "Automatic Night Theme" mode and adjustable screen brightness for a more comfortable reading experience.
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Audible is Amazon-owned online audiobook service that allows users to purchase and listen to audiobooks through its iPhone and Android apps. Books cannot be purchased individually - they are available through a subscription (starting at $15/month), which provides users with "credits" that can be redeemed for content monthly. The library includes over 200,000 audiobooks across all genres, including exclusive works. Once purchased, a book remains in the user's library and can be downloaded or listened to at any time. The app allows offline listening, adjustable playback speed, and sleep timers. Car mode is also supported.
Apple Books vs Audible in our news:
2025. Audible developed advanced AI tools for audiobook publishers
Audible has unveiled a new set of tools for publishers to create AI-narrated audiobooks. They include 100 AI-generated voices across English, Spanish, French and Italian with multiple accents and dialect options and they will be able to access voice upgrades for their titles. Audible handles the entire audiobook production process for selected titles, managing every step from initial text ingestion to published audiobook, but publishers can access the same underlying technology while directing their production process, independently producing high-quality audiobooks. Publishers can also opt for human review from professional linguists to ensure translation accuracy and cultural nuance and will be able to review the translations themselves in our text editor.
2015. Apple iBooks improves listening audiobooks
Apple has just released iOS 9.2 with updated iBooks app. iBooks now includes support for 3D Touch, allowing users to peek and pop into pages from the table of contents, notes and bookmarks, or search results with force press gestures. iBooks also includes support for listening to an audiobook while browsing a library, reading other books, or viewing the iBooks Store.
