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Audiobookshelf

Your own audiobook and podcast server that remembers where you stopped.

Visit Audiobookshelf4.7

  • Rating

    4.7 / 5

  • Pricing

    Free

  • Difficulty

    Intermediate

  • Works on

    Web, iOS, Android

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What is Audiobookshelf?

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted server for your audiobooks and podcasts that you can listen to in the browser or in its mobile apps. It tracks each person's progress across devices, supports multiple users, searches for podcast episodes and can download them automatically. It also has basic support for ebooks such as EPUB and PDF.

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Pros: what Audiobookshelf does well

  • Progress syncs between your devices
  • Several users can share one server
  • Handles podcasts and audiobooks together

Cons: where it falls short

  • You must host the server yourself
  • The mobile apps are still in beta

Who Audiobookshelf is for

Listeners who want to learn on the move from their own audiobook and podcast library.

Who can skip it

People who are happy with a paid audiobook subscription.

Audiobookshelf alternatives

Not sold on Audiobookshelf? These do a similar job, and each card says what it has in common.

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Komga

Focus: comics, manga and ebooks. Shares self-hosted and open source with Audiobookshelf. Rated 4.6 (Audiobookshelf: 4.7).

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Miniflux

Focus: rss reader and news. Shares self-hosted and open source with Audiobookshelf. Rated 4.6 (Audiobookshelf: 4.7).

Web AppFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
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Kavita

Focus: ebooks and reading server. Shares self-hosted and open source with Audiobookshelf. Rated 4.5 (Audiobookshelf: 4.7).

Web AppFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
4.5Visit

Open Notebook

Focus: notebooklm alternative, research and ai chat. Shares podcasts and self-hosted with Audiobookshelf. An AI tool, not a web app. Rated 4.6 (Audiobookshelf: 4.7).

AI ToolFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
4.6Visit

Calibre-Web

Focus: ebooks, calibre and reading. Shares open source and github with Audiobookshelf. Rated 4.5 (Audiobookshelf: 4.7).

Web AppFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
4.5Visit

Free alternatives to Audiobookshelf

Want to spend nothing? These free picks cover similar ground.

Glance

Focus: dashboard, start page and rss. Shares self-hosted and open source with Audiobookshelf. Same 4.7 rating.

Web AppFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
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KOReader

Focus: ebook reader, e-ink and pdf reader. Shares open source and github with Audiobookshelf. A mobile app, not a web app. Adds Linux and Offline. Same 4.7 rating.

Mobile AppFreeAndroid, Linux
4.7Visit

Linkwarden

Focus: bookmarks, read it later and web archive. Shares self-hosted and open source with Audiobookshelf. Adds Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Same 4.7 rating.

Web AppFreeWeb, iOS
4.7Visit

mpv

Focus: video player, media and subtitles. Shares open source and github with Audiobookshelf. A desktop app, not a web app. Adds macOS, Windows and Linux. Same 4.7 rating.

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows
4.7Visit

Paperless-ngx

Focus: documents and ocr. Shares self-hosted and open source with Audiobookshelf. Adds Linux. Same 4.7 rating.

Web AppFreeWeb, Linux
4.7Visit
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