Smart Audiobook Player vs CastBox

Option to shorten dead space between words. (Allows for faster playback without it sounding like chipmunks.)

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Optimized to help you hear what you want to hear.

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

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.

Skip the silence and listen more to words.

Create tags to organize your podcasts.

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