BORK Audiobooks vs ONE Audiobooks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BORK Audiobooks
Access over 20,000 free public domain audiobooks, including classics, poetry, and history. Enjoy uninterrupted listening with the ability to skip introductory announcements and download content for offline playback. Sync your progress and favorites across all your Apple devices.
- 20,000+ free public domain audiobooks
- Skip LibriVox chapter announcements
- Download for offline listening
- Continue listening progress sync
- iCloud sync for stars and settings
- Search by title, author, genre
- Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch
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BORK Audiobooks plays more than 20,000 free public domain audiobooks, read by LibriVox volunteers and streamed from the Internet Archive. Classic novels, poetry, plays, history, philosophy and children's stories, from Austen and Dickens to Shakespeare and Twain. SKIP THE ANNOUNCEMENTS Every LibriVox chapter opens and closes with a short spoken notice. BORK can skip it, so the story starts right away. Choose None, Some or Max. If a cut ever falls in the wrong place, you can still play the whole chapter. LISTEN YOUR WAY • Download chapters to listen without a connection • Pick up where you left off with Continue Listening • Skip back or forward 15 seconds • Lock Screen and Control Center controls • Star the books and chapters you love; stars, your place and your settings sync through iCloud FIND SOMETHING TO HEAR • Newly Added, Popular and genre shelves • Search by title or author • Pages for every author and every reader ON ALL YOUR APPLE DEVICES BORK runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro, and the Apple Watch. FREE AND PRIVATE The books are in the public domain and free for everyone.
ONE Audiobooks
Access audiobook deals purchased on the website and free audiobooks from partners. Create a free account to add books to your library. No credit card is required to start enjoying new deals.
- Access audiobook deals
- Free audiobooks from partners
- Add books to app library
- Free account creation
- Email confirmation required
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The ONE Audiobooks app allows access to audiobook deals purchased on the oneaudiobooks.app site and free audiobooks provided by ONE and its partners. Books can be added to your app library by going to the oneaudiobooks.app site. All you need to get started is a FREE account and to confirm your email address. No credit card is required and new deals are offered all the time!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BORK Audiobooks at 5.0 against ONE Audiobooks's 3.7. ONE Audiobooks's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 56 months) and ratings volume (10 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BORK Audiobooks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ONE Audiobooks has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
BORK Audiobooks ships an update every 56 months, ONE Audiobooks every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | BORK Audiobooks | ONE Audiobooks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.7 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 56 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Modular Dreams Inc | ONE Audiobooks |
Customer experience
BORK Audiobooks
ONE Audiobooks
In-app purchases
BORK Audiobooks
No in-app purchases
ONE Audiobooks
No in-app purchases
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