Top 10 Audiobook apps
Updated: January 30, 2026 | Editor: Maria Lin
Audiobook apps allow users to buy and listen to books narrated by professional actors or authors.
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Amazon Kindle enable users to shop for, download, browse, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines. It provides over 1 million books in the Kindle Store. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you can pick up your book where you left off on another device. Provides apps for Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Mac, PC and the family of ereading devices
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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.
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Spotify is originally a music streaming service, that added audiobooks as an optional extra, but has become de facto one of the most popular platforms for audiobooks. Over 250,000 audiobooks are available to subscribers in the Spotify catalog, ranging from science fiction to steamy romances and everything in between. Audiobooks are available only to Premium subscribers, who are entitled to a certain number of audiobook hours per month (i.e. 15). You can also subscribe to the Audiobooks+ add-on, which increases this number of hours. One-time top-ups are also available.
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Online service and iOS and Android app for purchasing and listening audiobooks. It offers books in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and many other languages. Books can be purchased without a subscription (there are also seasonal sales with significant discounts). You can listen to a book on multiple devices, picking up where you left off. Streaming is available, eliminating the need to download books. You can leave reviews and read reviews from other users.
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Kobo is Amazon's Kindle's main competitor in the ebook market. It's a Canadian company that sells ebooks, audiobooks and e-readers. Kobo offers free reading apps for Windows and Mac computers, as well as Android and iOS smartphones - all apps can sync seamlessly. You can subscribe to the Kobo Plus or Kobo Plus Listening service for unlimited access to audiobooks and ebooks, or purchase books individually. Kobo's library offers 3 million ebooks, including new releases, bestsellers, and free classics.
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iOS app for audiobook listening and collection management (for Plex Media Server). Allows to stream your audiobook collection from anywhere. Remembers playback position across all your audiobooks, synced via iCloud.
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Audiobook platform that allows to support local book stores.Every time a customer makes a purchase or pays the membership fee, Libro.fm shares profits with the selected bookshop. So, instead of customers giving money to a large service like Audible, they are providing necessary revenue to their local bookstores.
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Digitalbook allows to listen on the go to thousands of public-domain audiobooks or read ebooks. Find a narrator you like, change the playback speed, and adjust the volume to create the perfect listening experience.
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Storytel is an international audiobook streaming service (over 800,000 stories in 40 languages) that also offers access to 2,500,000 ebooks. It operates on an all-inclusive model: for a monthly fee of €9.99 per month, users gain unlimited access to the entire library. A family plan allows up to three users to listen simultaneously with a single subscription. Kids' mode containes only children's books and allows content restrictions. You can download audiobooks and ebooks for offline reading on your favorite devices in the app. You can subscribe to your favorite author, narrator or series and receive personalized recommendations based on your previous listening habits. In addition to classic and popular books, the app offers exclusive audio series and podcasts (Storytel Originals).
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Libby is a free app and web service (from OverDrive) for renting digital books from local libraries. Over 90% of public libraries in North America have OverDrive, and Libby can be found in 78 countries worldwide. You sign in using the library card you get from your local library. Books aren't freely available - you have to join a queue and wait for other users to make a book available before you can borrow it (as the library has a license for a limited number of copies). Libby has no paid subscriptions or in-app purchases. The app includes a book reader and audiobook player, and syncs your reading progress across devices.
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Hoopla is a web and mobile library media streaming platform for audio books, comics, e-books. hoopla syncs across all your devices, so you can stream titles immediately or whenever you're in the mood.
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Downpour.com offers a constantly growing selection of tens of thousands of audiobook titles, real value for your money, and DRM-free audiobook downloads. Experience our low everyday prices on every audiobook you download, and get even better deals on all our downloads when you become a member of the Downpour Audiobook Club. Welcome to audio books made easy.
Latest news about Audiobook apps
02.01.26. Spotify Wrapped includes audiobooks for the first time
Audiobooks have appeared for the first time in the main Spotify Wrapped section - a report in the Spotify app that is formed at the end of the year. It shows what you've listened to most over the past 12 months. Wrapped features a vibrant and interactive design easy to share with friends. Audiobooks such as Rebecca Yarros's The Fourth Wing and Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses made the overall rankings. Spotify also notes that "The biggest trends were undoubtedly racy romances and romantic fantasies, which continue to dominate book culture. We're also seeing a real surge in music memoirs, as readers love these behind-the-scenes glimpses into creative life. And film adaptations of books continue to be incredibly popular, with hits like Stephen King's The Summer I Was Beautiful and The Long Walk fueling interest in older works."
2025. Storytel allows to buy audiobooks without subscription
Storytel now allows you to purchase audiobooks and ebooks individually in the app or on storytel.com (regardless of whether you have a subscription). These are primarily books from major publishers like Penguin Random House and Hachette. Examples of ebooks and audiobooks available for purchase in the app include Harry's memoir "Spare," Dan Brown's "The Secret of Secrets," James Clear's "Atomic," Habits, Schuyler Bailar's "He/She/They," and Erica Ridley's "My Rogue to Ruin." These books are only available in a few countries, such as Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands.
