What are the best audiobook apps on Android?

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Best audiobook apps on Android	Price	Last Updated
-- Listen Audiobook Player	$1.99	Jan 3, 2020
-- CastBox	-	Jan 25, 2020
-- Voice Audiobook Player	Free	Jul 18, 2019
-- LibriVox Audio Books	Free	Nov 11, 2017
-- Smart Audiobook Player	$2	Jun 19, 2019

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CastBox

Top Pro

Award Winning Interface

Optimized to help you hear what you want to hear See More

Top Pro

Pro Subscription available

Remove ads, "customize home page" feature, and more for total productivity. See More

Top Pro

Adjustable playback speed

Slow down until 0.50x and speed up as fast as 3x. See More

Top Pro

Weekly updates & improvements.

The developers try to keep the app updated from bugs and to make it a world-class app. With ever-growing features and improvements, it even competes with the best podcast apps out there. See More

Top Pro

"Trim Silence" feature

Skip the silence and listen more to words See More

Top Pro

Wide coverage

This is a must-have podcast app if you're living in another country apart from the US. CastBox supports and shows podcasts from more than 70 countries. See More

Top Pro

Vast library of podcasts and audiobooks

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Voice Audiobook Player

Top Pro

Responsive UI

Top Con

UI is a bit outdated and small

Top Pro

Open source

Top Con

Basic featureset

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LibriVox Audio Books

Top Con

Not all readers are high quality

All the readers are volunteers - people who clearly love the books, but unfortunately some recordings are very low-quality, jump around in volume, or are difficult to understand. Some books offer different readers, but often a book has only been read by a single volunteer. For books with multiple options, you may have to jump between them to finally find who works for you. See More

Top Pro

Lots of free books

The app offers content released to the Public Domain. The library consists of 15,000 free audio books available globally and another 50,000 books available to US. See More

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Smart Audiobook Player

Top Pro

Very good at saving your position

Especially if you pay for Pro which gives you cloud sync for your position - so it's easy to restore and pick up listening even if you switch phones. Even if you don't pay, your position is stored in a file inside the book folder which you can easily copy. See More

Top Pro

Auto rewind after a long pause

Goes back up to 30 seconds depending on how long the last pause was. See More

Top Pro

Auto-theme app from cover art

Top Pro

Completely customizable

So many customization features: playback position format, equalizer, playback speed, headset button actions, sleep length, skip lenghts, and more. See More

Top Pro

Auto-find cover art for local books

If your book doesn't have cover art, the app can search for it for you. See More

Top Pro

Reset the sleep timer with the accelerometer

Just leave the sleep timer set to 20 minutes and leave it on all the time. If you are walking or driving, it stays playing, but if you are listening in bed, it turns off on its own. If you are still listening, just give your phone a shake when you hear it start to fade and it will keep going for 20 more minutes. See More

Top Pro

No official store

The author only profits from a better listening experience, not from user lockin due to no other place to get books. See More

Top Pro

Supports notetaking

Written notes with a timestamp in the file, organized according to book (i.e., folder). See More

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Reads your own audio files

Copy your audio files into a folder, and this will assemble them into books based on the folder they're in. See More

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Audible

Top Pro

Easily go back 30 seconds

You have the ability to go 30 seconds back in your listening with only the push of a button. Very convenient when listening to podcasts or audiobooks. See More

Top Pro

Can set up family sharing

By linking Amazon and Audible accounts, the Amazon Family sharing can be used to sync an Audible library across Android devices, PCs, and computers. Everyone on the Amazon Family group can see audiobooks, and the owner of the Audible account can pick and choose which individual audiobooks are shared and which aren't, if desired. See More

Top Pro

Simplified UI for in-car use

Users can tap the "car" option in Audible to get a simplified user interface which makes playing, pausing, and rewinding audiobooks easier while driving. See More

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NOOK Audiobooks

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Audio Books by Audiobooks

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Easy Spotify Music Converter

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My Recommendation for Listen Audiobook Player

My Recommendation for Listen Audiobook Player

Very responsive UI

Costs $2

Developer is very responsive to emails

My Recommendation for CastBox

My Recommendation for CastBox

Award Winning Interface

Pro Subscription available

Adjustable playback speed

Weekly updates & improvements.

"Trim Silence" feature

Wide coverage

Vast library of podcasts and audiobooks

My Recommendation for Voice Audiobook Player

My Recommendation for Voice Audiobook Player

Responsive UI

UI is a bit outdated and small

Open source

Basic featureset

My Recommendation for LibriVox Audio Books

My Recommendation for LibriVox Audio Books

Not all readers are high quality

Lots of free books

My Recommendation for Smart Audiobook Player

My Recommendation for Smart Audiobook Player

Very good at saving your position

Auto rewind after a long pause

Auto-theme app from cover art

Completely customizable

Auto-find cover art for local books

Reset the sleep timer with the accelerometer

No official store

Supports notetaking

Reads your own audio files

My Recommendation for Audible

My Recommendation for Audible

Easily go back 30 seconds

Can set up family sharing

Simplified UI for in-car use

My Recommendation for NOOK Audiobooks

My Recommendation for NOOK Audiobooks

My Recommendation for Audio Books by Audiobooks

My Recommendation for Audio Books by Audiobooks

My Recommendation for Easy Spotify Music Converter

My Recommendation for Easy Spotify Music Converter

My Recommendation for FullReader

My Recommendation for FullReader

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