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24 alternatives to Full Audiobooks with Instaread

Over 50,000 audiobooks in one tap

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. Full Audiobooks with Instaread launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Instaread▲299
Read or hear key takeaways of any book in minutes
2016 · instaread.co · its alternatives →
2
Instaread▲6
Key Insights from Bestsellers
2018 · instaread.co · its alternatives →
3
LeapAhead▲186
Master any book in 15 min audio summary
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Readinshort▲119
Read the key insights from your favourite books in minutes.
2021 · its alternatives →
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Spotify Audiobooks ▲216
You can purchase and listen to audiobooks on Spotify
2022 · newsroom.spotify.com · its alternatives →
6
Myreader AI▲164
Let an AI read books for you
2023 · myreader.ai · its alternatives →
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Bookstash▲512
Get the essentials of top books in under 3 minutes
2021 · bookstash.io · its alternatives →
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From Zero to 1,000 Customers & Beyond▲236
Free audiobook by Steli from Close.io
2018 · close.com · its alternatives →
9
12min Reading▲179
Your free habit builder for reading
2018 · 12min.com · its alternatives →
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Hibooks▲88
A new way to enjoy the best audiobooks 📚👂
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Sipreads▲193
Takeaways from the best books, for free 📕⚡
2019 · sipreads.com · its alternatives →
12
Fragment AI▲126
The fastest way to know more
2025 · bubble.io · its alternatives →
13
Audible Plus▲91
1000s of audiobooks, podcasts, Audible Originals, and more
2020 · its alternatives →
14
ReadBit▲122
Read wisely & save time with text-to-speech audiobook reader
2021 · readbit.app · its alternatives →
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Bloombit: 15 Min Audiobooks▲13
Daily Ideas For Entrepreneurs
Oct 2025 · getbloombit.com · its alternatives →
16
Readaway 2.0▲97
Let your ears do the reading.
2019 · its alternatives →
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InstaPage▲11
Ask any book anything. It talks back.
2025 · insta.page · its alternatives →
18
Gready▲74
Read books via text
2018 · its alternatives →
19
Bookasto▲24
Podcast-Style Book Summaries in 20 Minutes
2025 · bookasto.com · its alternatives →
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4books▲74
Learn the key ideas of the best business books
2020 · 4books.com · its alternatives →
21
Briefly▲6
Learn from top books in 10 minutes of audio
2025 · getbrieflyapp.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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Wordex▲136
Read a book per day with speed reading
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Booktime▲78
Simple audiobook player with several great features
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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