Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to LibriVox

Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain.

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. LibriVox launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Textual Poachers▲61

   A canonical text of media studies

   2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →

2. 2
   The Unsplash Book▲107

   The world's first 'fully' open source book

   2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   LibriVox▲10

   Free public domain audiobooks

   2019 · librivox.org · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Code▲76

   The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

   2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Lisen▲109

   Free Read Aloud with Cartesia Voices

   29d ago · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Understanding Media▲70

   The Extensions of Man

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   The Dark Net▲62

   A revelatory examination of the internet

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Public Parts▲83

   How sharing in the digital age improves the way we work

   2015 · audible.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Tubes▲54

   A Journey to the Center of the Internet

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    The Typewriter Revolution▲65

    A typist's companion for the 21st century

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Naked Statistics▲66

    Stripping the dread from the data

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Kadaxis▲61

    Machine learning technology to increase visibility of books

    2016 · kadaxis.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Librify▲76

    Reading with friends

    2014 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Sapiens▲185

    A brief history of humankind

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Hamlet on the Holodeck▲67

    The future of narrative in cyberspace

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Addr▲98

    A collective and annotation-focus ePub reader

    2014 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Obfuscation▲53

    A user's guide for privacy and protest

    2015 · mitpress.mit.edu · its alternatives →

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    We Need Diverse Books▲87

    Advocating and supporting non-majority narratives

    2014 · indiegogo.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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    Booktrope▲81

    Reinventing the way books are published

    2015 · booktrope.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Collecting Words▲60

    (Very) short (visual) stories

    2016 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    The Sovereign Individual▲77

    Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Essentialism▲80

    The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Wikinomics▲59

    How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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