Audiobook Librarian is a fully skinnable, cross-platform audiobook player for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux. Bring your own books by connecting to a self-hosted server, Audiobookshelf, Plex, Google Drive, or Dropbox — download them to your phone for offline listening, and pick up exactly where you left off on every device you own.
The app is the product. The backend is just where your books live.
Install Audiobook Librarian on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, or Linux. Open it up and start listening right away with the free, built-in LibriVox catalog — no account or setup required.
Connect to whatever already holds your audiobooks — a self-hosted Ablibrarian Server, Audiobookshelf, Plex, or a Google Drive or Dropbox folder. Scan a QR code or enter a URL. Connect more than one at a time if you want.
Change the player's entire look with the built-in skin editor and live preview, or browse and fork designs from the community gallery. Your position, bookmarks, and stats sync across every device automatically.
The client app is the core product — backends are just the plumbing behind it.
Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux from a single shared codebase, so the experience — and your library — feels the same no matter which device you pick up.
Variable speed from 0.5x to 3x (up to 5x in precise mode) with independent pitch control, a sleep timer with fade-out or end-of-chapter stop, chapter navigation, configurable skip intervals, bookmarks, and smart rewind when you resume. Built for long-form audio, not music.
A full visual editor with live preview lets you reposition, recolor, and restyle every element of the player — buttons, progress bars, backgrounds, fonts, and animations. Set up skins that switch automatically by book, time of day, or battery level.
Start on your phone during your commute, pick up on your desktop at home. Position, bookmarks, and listening history sync automatically, with an offline queue and conflict resolution so a dead connection never costs you your place.
Connect to a self-hosted Ablibrarian Server, Ablibrarian Lite, Audiobookshelf, Plex, Google Drive, or Dropbox — even several at once — all from the same app. The client doesn't lock you into one way of hosting your books.
Pull books from any connected backend straight onto your device before you lose signal — on a flight, a hike, or a subway commute. Progress keeps recording locally and syncs the moment you're back online.
A large-button overlay with play/pause and skip controls that works on top of any skin, plus a hold-to-unlock lock screen. Bright and dark variants for day or night driving — fiddling with tiny buttons at 60 mph is a terrible idea.
Track your listening habits with daily, weekly, and yearly trends. See your top books, streaks, badges, and time spent listening — all synced across every device you use.
Want full control over your library? Run the open-source Ablibrarian Server on your own hardware. It serves M4B, M4A, MP3, AAC, WAV, and FLAC directly from your storage, with AI-powered metadata imports and multi-library support — no monthly fees, no one else deciding what you can listen to.
Browse and stream thousands of public-domain audiobooks from LibriVox right out of the box, hosted for you — no server setup, no account, nothing to configure.
No advertising networks, no analytics dashboards, no selling your listening habits. Self-host your backend and your data never leaves your infrastructure. The code is open source so you can verify it yourself.
The client apps, the self-hosted server, and this website are all open source. Audit it, modify it, or contribute to it. No vendor lock-in, no disappearing features behind a paywall.
Audiobook Librarian doesn't ship its own book store, and it doesn't force you into one hosting arrangement. The client connects to whatever already holds your audiobooks, so you decide how — and where — your library lives.
LibriVox is a volunteer project that produces free public-domain audiobook recordings. Audiobook Librarian gives every client app access to their entire catalog without setting up your own server or account.
All LibriVox recordings are released into the public domain worldwide — free to use, forever. Stream it, download it for offline listening, and it syncs just like the rest of your library.
Skinning isn't a side feature bolted onto the player — it's built into the core of the app. Browse community designs, build your own with the in-app editor, or fork and remix someone else's work.
The built-in designer is a visual, drag-and-drop editor with live preview — reposition buttons, tweak backgrounds, colors, fonts, and progress-bar styles, and see the change instantly on the player itself.
Built-in skins ship with every client and can be forked into fully customizable user skins with one tap.
Connect to your backend of choice or browse LibriVox — on any device.
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