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24 alternatives to Booksonic

Server and app for streaming audiobooks

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 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Booksonic launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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LIbby▲30
An app for library ebooks and audiobooks
2017 · overdrive.com · its alternatives →
2
Rightspeed▲146
Listen to audiobooks at ridiculously fast speeds
2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →
3
Book Playlist▲63
Collaborative music playlists for your favorite books
2016 · bookplaylist.com · its alternatives →
4
Wattpad v6.0 (iOS)▲99
Read books and stories you can't find anywhere else.
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
5
Bookup▲76
Hookups for books!
2017 · bookupapp.com · its alternatives →
6
Elevenreader by ElevenLabs▲226
Elevate your listening experience
2025 · elevenreader.io · its alternatives →
7
Outtloud▲208
Create unlimited audiobooks & podcasts from your documents!
2025 · outtloud.com · its alternatives →
8
Readmill▲69
A beautiful e-book reader for iPhone, iPad and Android
2013 · readmill.com · its alternatives →
9
Book Series Recommendations App▲61
Looking for new book series to read?
2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speechfree tier, from $15/mo▲140
Hey 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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Tablo▲86
Apple Music for books
2015 · tablo.io · its alternatives →
12
Audiorista▲87
No code app builder for audio, podcasts, ebooks & video
2023 · audiorista.com · its alternatives →
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Audible.com▲75
The best way to listen to Audiobooks on your iPhone
2015 · audible.com · its alternatives →
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Safari ▲97
Spotify for Ebooks
2014 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →
15
Booklights▲169
Make America Read Again 📖
2017 · its alternatives →
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Booktime▲78
Simple audiobook player with several great features
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
17
Howl 2.0▲109
The Netflix for podcasts
2015 · howl.fm · its alternatives →
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Mus + Audiobooks 3.0▲66
Listen to your audiobooks with music simultaneously
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Tablo▲115
Medium for ebooks.
2014 · tablo.io · its alternatives →
20
Readr▲113
A free reader that answers your questions and reads aloud
Sep 2026 · readr-ai.github.io · its alternatives →
21
Blinkist for Android▲86
Hacking the way we read books.
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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BeeLine Reader App▲88
Speed reading for mobile
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
23
Marvin▲63
eBook reader for iOS. Your books, everywhere.
2014 · appstafarian.com · its alternatives →
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Inkshares▲101
Crowdfunded Book Publishing
2014 · inkshares.com · its alternatives →

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