How to Listen

Every recording here is a single M4B file. That is an MP4 container holding AAC audio, a chapter table, and the cover art, which is what audiobook players read to show chapters and to remember where you stopped.

Download a book from its page, then open it in any of these. Nothing here needs an account, and the file is yours once it lands.

iPhone and iPad

  • Apple Books Already installed. Holds your place across every device signed in to the same account.
  • BookPlayer Free and open source. Speed control, silence trimming, and sleep timer.

Android

  • Voice Free and open source, with no account and no network access.
  • Smart AudioBook Player Chapter list, sleep timer, and per-book playback speed.

macOS

  • Apple Books Drag the file onto the app. It picks up where your phone left off.
  • VLC Plays the file without importing it anywhere. Reads the chapter table.

Windows

  • VLC Opens an M4B directly, with chapters under the Playback menu.
  • foobar2000 Light on resources, and remembers a position per file.

Linux

  • Cozy A proper audiobook shelf for the desktop, on Flathub.
  • VLC In every distribution's repository, and reads the chapter table.

Your own server

  • Audiobookshelf Self-hosted library with apps for iOS and Android. Progress follows you between them.