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24 alternatives to Eary – the easiest way to listen to audiobooks on Spotify

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. Eary – the easiest way to listen to audiobooks on Spotify launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Eary▲79
The easiest way to listen to audiobooks on Spotify.
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
2
Rightspeed▲146
Listen to audiobooks at ridiculously fast speeds
2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →
3
Spotify Connect▲94
A better way to listen at home
2014 · connect.spotify.com · its alternatives →
4
Spotify Audiobooks ▲216
You can purchase and listen to audiobooks on Spotify
2022 · newsroom.spotify.com · its alternatives →
5
Earbud.fm by NPR▲96
Your friendly guide to great podcasts
2015 · earbud.fm · its alternatives →
6
Safari ▲97
Spotify for Ebooks
2014 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →
7
Mus + Audiobooks 3.0▲66
Listen to your audiobooks with music simultaneously
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
8
Bound▲84
Listen to your favorite audiobooks. Download from Dropbox
2016 · its alternatives →
9
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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Audible.com▲75
The best way to listen to Audiobooks on your iPhone
2015 · audible.com · its alternatives →
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Findaway Voices by Spotify▲180
ElevenLabs & Spotify make audiobook publishing effortless
2025 · findawayvoices.com · its alternatives →
12
Spotify▲142
Any song. One tap away.
2014 · open.spotify.com · its alternatives →
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Readbug 2.0▲101
Spotify for indie magazines
2016 · readbug.com · its alternatives →
14
Listenable▲138
Listen to 5-minute audio lessons while doing something else
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
15
PortAura▲69
See what’s listening on your Mac
Sep 2026 · portaura.pages.dev · its alternatives →
16
Audioknot▲114
A curated audio feed for entrepreneurs
2015 · its alternatives →
17AR
A Reddit+Wiki-like site for finding and sharing audiobooks▲9
2018 · audiobookreviews.com · its alternatives →
18
Auxy 2.0▲98
A music studio in your pocket
2016 · auxy.co · its alternatives →
19
Knowable Memberships▲135
Spotify for learning
2020 · knowable.fyi · its alternatives →
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Readbug▲79
Spotify for indie magazines
2015 · readbug.com · its alternatives →
21
BookBeats▲12
Custom playlists for your book | enhance reading experience
2025 · bookbeats.lovable.app · its alternatives →
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HearIt▲81
Create your own audio books from any file for free.
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Vertigo▲99
Listen to music with friends in real time
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
24AL
A lovechild of Spotify and Reddit to share your favourite song snippets▲8
2021 · go.www.humit.app · its alternatives →

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