Top 10 Audiobook players

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.

Android audiobook player that simply works well (though with some limitations in the free version) and has several unique and interesting features. While playing an audiobook, you can increase or decrease the speed with a single tap and thanks to the app's widget, you can do it directly from the home screen. Visual book classification lets you see at a glance which books you've read and which are new. Uploading a cover from the internet brings the book to life compared to a plain, blank cover. Bookmarks let you mark interesting moments in the book. You can manually create a character list to help you follow the plot. And of course, there's an automatic pause feature if you fall asleep.

Wonderful open-source iOS player for audiobooks in M4B/M4A/MP3/FLAC formats. Allows to control audio playback from the lock screen, Control Center or the companion app on Apple Watch. Books can be imported via AirDrop, iTunes or from AudibookShelf or Jellyfin's own server. You can mark books as read, sort books by drag and drop, edit book details (title, author, cover), change playback speed, enable a sleep timer. Remote events are supported from headset buttons, the lock screen, CarPlay.

AlfaReader is a lightweight and fast ebook reader, ideal for reading electronic magazines, student textbooks, medical, scientific, technical books, illustrated books for kids. Allows to make bookmarks, save knowledge blocks, add comments. Includers built-in audiobook player. Intergates with popular ebook organizer Alfa Ebooks Manager.

Cozy is a modern, free and open-source audio player for Linux. It lets you import your audiobooks by simply dragging folders and browse them in a user-friendly interface. You can search and sort audiobooks by author, narrator and title, remember playback position. It features a sleep timer, adjustable playback speed for each book separately. Offline mode allows you to store audiobook in the internal memory (if you store your audiobooks on an external or network drive) - it's ideal for listening on the go. Cozy supports mp3, m4b, m4a (aac, ALAC, etc.), flac, ogg, and DRM-free wav. It intedrates with multimedia keys and playback information for the desktop environment.

ListenBook is a convenient iOS audio player for listening to books in MP3, M4B, M4A, AWB, FLAC, OPUS, and OGG formats. It features a beautiful, user-friendly interface, smooth playback speed control (for each book), an 8-band user equalizer, a sleep timer (with smooth audio fading and the ability to add time by shaking). There's also a volume booster for low-volume audiobooks. It can import audio tracks from YouTube videos and download audiobooks from cloud services, including LibriVox.org. It integrates with CarPlay. The free version limits the length of audiobooks, but this limit can be increased with in-app purchases (IAPs).

Android app for reading e-books and audiobooks with free text-to-speech functionality (but heavily ad-supported). The premium version removes ads. It supports multiple e-book formats and languages, and the speech quality is relatively good. You can easily select where to start playback. The developers say the app is suitable for professionals reading specialized and technical literature, language learners listening to translated foreign texts, students listening to textbooks and research papers while exercising, and users with disabilities who require audio content.

This player is designed to play content provided by the user. You can get DRM free books from sites such as Librivox, Overdrive, Downpour, Loyalbooks or any place that provides DRM free audio.

Listen to your favorite DRM-free audiobooks with Bound. 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

Audibly is a user-friendly, open-source desktop audiobook player for Windows 10/11, offering comprehensive library management, powerful search, versatile playback options, and support for popular formats like .M4B and .MP3.

MP3 Audiobook Player is a convenient app for listening MP3, M4B, M4A, AWB, FLAC, OPUS & OGG format books on any Apple gadget. No need to waste your time for books converting anymore!

The Voice Audiobook Player is the ultimate app for anyone who loves audiobooks. With support for a wide range of audio formats, including MP3, M4A, OGG, and others, this intuitive and easy-to-use player makes it simple to navigate your audiobook library and customize your listening experience.