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24 alternatives to Audiobooks & Podcast Custom Web Player
Distribute your podcast and audibooks without intermediaries
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier. Audiobooks & Podcast Custom Web Player launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Audiorista▲87No code app builder for audio, podcasts, ebooks & video
2023 · audiorista.com · its alternatives →
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HearIt▲81Create your own audio books from any file for free.
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Outtloud▲208Create unlimited audiobooks & podcasts from your documents!
2025 · outtloud.com · its alternatives →
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Listen to any web article in your podcast player
2021 · audioread.com · its alternatives →
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Soundwise▲185Sell audio directly to listeners with secure mobile delivery
2021 · mysoundwise.com · its alternatives →
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Promoly▲114Easiest way to market your podcast, audio or music
2022 · promoly.com · its alternatives →
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ElevenLabs & Spotify make audiobook publishing effortless
2025 · findawayvoices.com · its alternatives →
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I noticed that many websites offering free audiobooks tend to have clunky search functionality, making it harder to find what you're looking for. To address this, I’ve created a site that aggregates audiobooks from multiple platforms—complete with book reviews and ratings—making it easier to discover and explore new titles. At the moment, I've included audiobooks from popular sources like Librivox, Project Gutenberg, and Lit2Go. I'm open to suggestions on additional free audiobook sources I could integrate into the site to expand the collection!
2025 · booksearch.party · its alternatives →
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Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooksfree tier, from $4.99/mo▲174Hi HN, I wanted to get back on track with the current machine learning literature. When I found the free book "Understanding Deep Learning," I had the idea to listen to the book instead of reading it on a screen. So I've built a tool to turn PDFs into MP3s so I can listen to it. I'm now almost done with the book; I listen to the audio chapters every day on my commute to work. For regular text, you can simply use any text-to-speech API, but for technical text containing formulas, it's more contrived. I'm using ChatGPT to simplify the text for a better audio experience. Listening to formulas…
15d ago · pdftomp3.com · its alternatives →
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Roads Audio▲161After college, my friends scattered across time zones. We tried starting a podcast to stay in touch, everyone would record updates, uploads them to Google Drive, and we planned to eventually publish episodes. We never published one. Turns out we didn't want a public podcast, but "the podcast" gave us a reason to keep in touch and share stories/thoughts. Google Drive was terrible for our needs. Record in one app, then upload. No notifications, bad organization. The worst part was when responding to something specific, I'd have to manually timestamp it and repeat their point before…
2024 · roadsaudio.com · its alternatives →
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Simplecast▲187The modern podcast management and metrics platform
2019 · simplecast.com · its alternatives →
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Eary▲79The easiest way to listen to audiobooks on Spotify.
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Podcraftr▲264Turn text content into Podcasts + monetize & distribute
2024 · podcraftr.com · its alternatives →
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Now anyone can host a podcast on SoundCloud
2015 · community.soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speechfree tier, from $15/mo▲140Hey HN. I’m Ivan, hacker from Ukraine. For about a year, I was working on Listenly — an app to listen to text content with OpenAI's natural-sounding text-to-speech model. At some moment, I realized that it would be cool to take all the public domain e-books and create audio versions for them. So I did it... kind-of. It would cost an immense amount of money to generate all the audio right away (OpenAI TTS costs approximately $0.84/hour of audio; 11labs, for comparison, is 10 times more expensive). So, I took a more gradual approach. I took all the metadata from the Project Gutenberg…
2024 · listenly.io · its alternatives →
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Podcast to video▲245Create animated audio visuals online in one click
2019 · veed.io · its alternatives →
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Listening.io▲243Turn articles into audio and listen in your podcast app
2022 · listening.com · its alternatives →
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I worked on early podcast software in 2004 (iPodder/Juice) and have been a heavy podcast consumer ever since. I wanted a podcast app that respects your privacy and embraces the open web—and to explore what's possible in the browser. The result is wherever.audio, which you can try right now at the link above. How it works: It's a progressive web app that stores all your subscriptions and data locally in your browser using IndexedDB. Add it to your home screen and it feels native. Works offline with downloaded episodes. No central server storing your data—just some Cloudflare/AWS…
2025 · wherever.audio · its alternatives →
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GoodBook▲134A large selection of free ebooks and audio books 📚
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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