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+ Scans your device for potential audiobooks on first launch Only for audiobooks locally stored on your device. Image Credit: Monika Wisniewska via Shutterstock.Now with widget, sleep timer and m4b chapter support! Interested in more apps for iPhone? Take a look at our list of iPhone RSS readers for getting your content. You might also want to know how to free up your DRM-protected music and how to remove DRM for your eBooks. It makes checking out eBooks and audiobooks much easier, it's available worldwide, and it's free. OverDrive: If you're a member of a local library that allows you to check out digital audiobooks, you can use OverDrive to do so provided your library supports the service. LibriVox: LibriVox is a simple app for downloading and listening to public domain audiobooks from the LibriVox organization.

Here you can browse a collection of free books, download them and start playing them without ever thinking about an iTunes sync (which is always a good thing). Here are some alternatives that still stay in the free audiobooks category.Īudiobooks: If you want to play free and out of copyright audiobooks and want to do it without any fuss, download the simply named Audiobooks app. But those are the not the only kind of audiobook apps out there. If you're dead set on using a third party app for this, I would recommend you pay up and go for Bound, it's a much nicer experience. I would recommend you start with iBooks as it's free and probably already on your iPhone. The best apps make it really easy to import an audiobook from a PC, Mac, Dropbox or the internet in general. You can explore audiobooks based on chapters, set a sleep timer, add bookmarks and take notes. Every time you come back to resume an audiobook, you'll need to scrub manually.ĭedicated audiobook apps solve this problem and add some extra useful features. If you play them using a Music app, it will play just fine, but the app won't bookmark your progress. Audiobooks are usually hours long and are sometimes split into 30-minute tracks. It's just an MP3 file, how bad can it be right? Pretty bad. Your first instinct might be to just play an audiobook using the default Music app or something like VLC. Instead try downloading DRM-free and out-of-copyright audiobooks, then transfer them to the apps listed below and you're good to go. It's a great service but at around $15 a book, it can be a bit expensive. When many of us think about audiobooks, the first thing that springs to mind is Audible. You can also do it anywhere: walking the dog, washing the dishes, working out, or when you're commuting to work. You can read, learn, consume knowledge, without actually reading anything at all. I love audiobooks because they're such a great life hack.